Imago Dei

Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon

"...Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things. You can imagine. It's the power of concretizing a metaphor. Taking something and making it real and making it happen and seeing where it goes. It's a special kind of magic." -Gaiman

Jones Madrid

I need an excuse to put up this animated gif from Envoy Magazine, so I'm also linking to the short written debate between Douglas Jones and Patrick Madrid on the relationship between Scripture and the Church.

Protestant Link

Catholic Link

Librarian Humor

Unshelved is not a great comic, but it does, at its best, capture the essence of what's funny (or should be taken more lightly) about librarianship.

Booktalking
(I have to do a booktalk for my YA class)

Two Web Comics

1) Peter Conrad's Lou's Garage

Peter Conrad's strip, Stymied, morphed into Lou's Garage. I still very much enjoy the strip, but the focus on garage shop humor isn't something that I would normally be interested in if I hadn't already become a Conrad fan through Stymied.

We Don't Talk Anymore


2) Nicholas Gurewitch's Perry Bible Fellowship

PBF is not strictly a web comic, since it has a print counterpart, but I am not fortunate enough to have access to the print version. My favorite example of Gurewitch's dazzling control of the medium of comics is Lord Gloom. It is a perfect strip.

Lord Gloom

Chicken Bus

Doug Savage's Savage Chickens is enjoyable. I'm not sure why it took me so long to link to. Perhaps soon I'll post links to all of my favorite webcomics (there aren't many).

Waiting is Over

The New York Times Funny Pages

RP, Part II

"In regard to the Lord's Supper, I confess that it is an evidence of our union with Christ, since he not only died once and rose again for us, but also truly feeds and nourishes as by his own flesh and blood, so that we are one with him, and his life is common to us. For though he is in heaven for a short while till he come to judge the world, I believe that he, through the secret and incomprehensible agency of his Spirit, gives life to our souls by the substance of his body and blood."

John Calvin, from Brief Form of a Confession of Faith

Real Presence

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

-Philip K. Dick, from I Hope I shall Arrive Soon

Icy Eye




I have never laughed at Flash Gordon before, but the, "RRRRAH...?" of the cyclops today gave me the giggles.

No Music Lover

Shel Silverstein was a bigger Johnny Cash fan than I am, and that's saying a lot.

Listen to "A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing"