Babbling Point

Posted in the Alamat mailing list : "i got this idea that some of you might find interesting"-- ADAM i got this idea to put out a series of 'zine anthologies of stories (comic book and prose) on various topics, the first of which'll be two female names: APRIL AND MAY. a collection of stories connected only by the subjects (April and May). and the contributors can do ANYTHING with the subjects!! they can do them as lovers, or as sisters, or as mother and daughter, or as complete strangers, or as best of friends, or as transsexuals, whatever. you can do ANYTHING with the two. put them in any setting: in the moon, in the bathroom, in a girl scout jamboree, in a wrestling match, in a bar, wherever. now, the thing will come out as a 'zine, which means the book'll be a bunch of short bond paper folded into two, stapled at the middle. why? as it's easier and cheaper if we do it this way. and hey, i'm volunteering on doing the dirty job for y...

Cafe Creatives is now open! I've been ranting that someone should set-up something like this. Well, I guess it came to the point when I said... heck, I'LL SET IT UP! So, here you go. It's got some visitors already. Mostly lurkers. Maybe I should post something controversial. :)

Confession time... When I was in grade school, I had big crushes on comic book characters... female comic book characters, if I must qualify. Yup, I was that pathetic. I didn't know that real girls existed til late in high school. Anyway, one of my all-time big crushes was Felicia Hardy aka The Black Cat . I loved her platinum blonde hair. I loved that she caused Spider-Man so much trouble. I even bought this Black Cat poster painted by Jusko and it was mainstay in my room til we had to move to a smaller place. I guess Black Cat was supposed to be Spider-Man's Elektra... or she might have been intended to be Marvel's Catowman. They just made the big mistake of giving her super powers, changed her costume, and even gave her claws! Nope. Wrong way to go with her. Well, it seems like she's still got some of her nine lives left, because she's making a comeback with Kevin Smith as her writer. And with the sexy art of the Dodsons, it definitely looks l...