Comics Free from DC

This is very cool news, and shows how the comics industry is wising up to using, not ignoring, technology. DC comics is now allowing free downloads of the first issues of its classic graphic novels. So for a girl like me, who would like to read interesting comics but is too poor and doesn't know where to begin, this is a boon.

I've read three so far. Whitney recommended Y: The Last Man, and I can see why, it's well written and paced, and the drawing is pretty good. Am definitely going to read more. Sandman is interesting, very surreal but very gripping all the same. Fables is a brilliant concept, but the expositional writing, at least in the first volume, is very heavy-handed. Hopefully it gets better as the story goes on.

Story courtesy of Whitney from the Candy, of course. Oh, and she has podcasts now as well! The first one was short but excellent, and reconfirms what I've always believed: guard your story ideas as carefully as you would any tangible item of value, and you will never go wrong. TWIT's podcast was not up on iTunes this week, and am going through withdraw as we speak. Hope to hear them soon.

I will get an AB up this week or die in the attempt. And CafePress was still down as of yesterday. We will configure which items to put the stego on and get that up right away.