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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Monster Pulse

Monster Pulse is a supernatural horror adventure story written for young adults, with expressive black-and-white art and truly cool and original subject matter. A couple kids in the Pacific Northwest stumble on a secret government experiment to create life from life, which pulls an organ from their bodies and turns it into a powerful and…

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Doctor Who Novelization Review

This week, BBC America released three books in relation to the Eleventh Doctor during his break.  Plague of the Cybermen by Justin Richards was the first, The Dalek Generation by Nicholas Briggs was second and Shroud of Sorrow by Tommy Donbavand (which also featured newest companion Clara) was third. These books are being released as canon to the…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Bucko

The comic Bucko begins with Rich Richardson, dubbed Bucko by the woman whose couch he’s passed out on, rushing through the streets of Portland on his bicycle as he tries to get to his job interview. Remembering he almost had a threesome with the woman, Gyp, and her roommate before he passed out destroys just…

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iThing of the Week: The 4 Things that Helped Me Survive Boston

Recently, I was in Boston for PAX East. This was my second PAX East, so Boston was still strange to me, but with the help of three apps and a device for my iPhone, the trip went smoother this year than it did last year.   Guidebook At PAX East this year I picked up…

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The Walking Dead Will End In Blood

If you’ve been watching The Walking Dead this season you’re bound to be aware that everything has been leading up to tonight’s episode.  Tonight Rick and the prison crew will be forced to confront the Governor and his Woodbury crew.  Fans have to realize that this confrontation will not end well.  This is a fact…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Bite Me

If you’ve been reading this column for a bit, perhaps you’ve been wondering, “Gee whiz, Jeanette, how did you get so hooked on webcomics?” (You probably haven’t but I’m going to tell you anyway.) Well,  I got bitten by Bite Me! by Dylan Meconis. It wasn’t the first webcomic I had seen, but it was…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: A Girl and Her Fed

A Girl and her Fed is an exciting, complex and romantic thriller.  It has conspiracies, civil rights abuses,  science and Big Government gone wrong, and a lot of dick jokes. It begins when a Girl discovers she’s been put on a Terrorism Watch-list by a shadowy government organization and decides to track down the culprits with…

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Do Phone’s Really Need to get Bigger?

Samsung recently announced the details for the Samsung Galaxy S4 and one of the big feature changes from the previous model was an update to a 5 inch display. This is a prime example of how over the last few years phone screens have been getting bigger and bigger. This is happening so often that…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Worsted for Wear

I’ve been anxious to recommend Worsted for Wear since I began writing Wednesday’s Webcomic. Worsted for Wear is a bright, expressive webcomic comedy about a knitting group, their yarn, and their lives. Once Cam, a new and obsessed knitter, gets her friends started knitting and they get involved in an established knitting group; the comic…

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Why the Facebook Apps Irritate Me…

As you may know I now regularly use both iOS and Android and one thing that irritates me is no matter how big the company is their apps always seem to offer different experiences – even Facebook. What really bugs me is that Facebook itself operates so differently between Android vs iOS that the actual…

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