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Wednesday’s Webcomic – Erstwhile

  If you’ve read original Grimm Fairy Tales you know that many of the endings are anything but happy, the justice tends to be biblical, and the logic tends to belong in Bedlam. Erstwhile is the beautifully drawn, true-to-the-source adaptation of the lesser-known Grimm fairy tales. The artists also don’t cut out any of the…

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The After-Con Report: Anime Milwaukee

Anime Milwaukee celebrated it’s 4th year recently and I was lucky enough to be in attendance.  For such a young convention, I was pleasantly surprised by the professionalism of the staff and how smooth the whole thing operated.  The Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee was a fantastic venue with helpful, friendly staff  and the Delta Center…

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Live and Let Brony

After its first season in 2010, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has become an almost unbelievable phenomenon. The show boasts one of the most diverse and active fanbases in recent memory.  Known as bronies (for the guys) and pegasisters (for the gals), MLP fans across the country craft immaculate pieces of fan artwork, stitch…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic – Digger

Digger  is nothing short of a true epic of mythology, gods, and a wombat. Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels, or Digger to her friends, becomes disoriented from noxious fumes and subsequently very lost underground. She ends up stranded far from home in a distant and strange country where the statues talk, the slugs are prophets,  and the squash thirst for the…

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I Want These Ghostbuster Legos

If you guys have followed any of my past articles you’ve probably seen that I have a love for Legos, that was most obvious when I told you all about the Back To The Future Lego sets last year. While Lego might be officially making Back to the Future Legos these Ghostbuster ones are fan…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: JL8

I’m going to take a chance that you haven’t heard about this week’s webcomic today, because if you haven’t there is a HUGE gaping hole in your life. That hole is in the shape of JL8.  Often fans of mainstream comics will get a little burned out from the intensity and the grandiosity of their…

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iThing of the Week: GoTasks: The App I Can’t Live Without

I used to be unorganized. I would start projects late, come close to missing due dates, and get overwhelmed because of all of things I needed to complete. My first step in getting organized was creating “To Do” lists. These lists helped a lot, but I ended up having many lists in different places. Items…

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Windows 8 after two months of use….

I’ve now been using Windows 8 on my primary desktop computer for close to two months and contrary to my initial reaction – I don’t regret it one bit. I admit that when I first downloaded the consumer preview I was convinced that I would never make the jump; however, their upgrade deal at the…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic – That Deaf Guy

This week’s webcomic is very simple, very funny, and that is also a big eye-opener about lives that maybe different from your own. Matt & Kay Daigle’s That Deaf Guy is a weekly newspaper style strip about a mixed deaf and hearing family. It’s sweet, funny, and heartwarming with straightforward and expressive art. The comic is…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: The Non-Adventures of Wonderella!

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella deftly skewers tropes both comic book and mundane in a weekly Saturday strip. Fighting for truth, justice, and product endorsements, Wonderella herself would much rather be at home with a Jack and Coke watching American Idol. Unfortunately for her, a girl has to make a living and her superpowers are the…

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