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Raven Daegmorgan
02 August 2009 @ 12:02 pm

I like the idea of buying indie comics, and I would if it were easy to find good indie comics.

Unfortunately, the only place I know of (IndyPlanet) has one of the absolute worst systems for finding or even browsing comics: their "genres" aren't even remotely sorted (there are fairy tales in the sci-fi section for gods sakes, and that's the LEAST of the sorting errors...basically, trying to sort-by-genre is pointless), half (literally HALF) of their thumbnails are broken or simply missing (with no backup text links for anything, so you don't even know WHAT'S missing), they don't sort by series but by individual issues with no decent option to browse by series, there's a wishlist option with no easy way back to it once you've added something, and series don't have pages where you can read about them (again, only individual issues).

It is literally one of the worst sites for usability I've ever come across, and clearly doesn't understand the needs or habits of its audience. Hell, the webmaster has clearly never even looked at another comics sales site.

 
 
Raven Daegmorgan
23 August 2008 @ 01:17 am
Your result for The Supervillain Archetype Test...

The Megalomaniac

Ambitious, Intelligent, Calculating

The Megalomaniac is the most prestigious of super-villain classes. If anyone is ever going to rule the world, it will probably be you.

Your main goal in life is power and domination, you have the tools to do it, and you know it. Megalomaniacs are intelligent and forceful, and they tend not to let their emotions cloud their judgment. Most of the time. They are usually found, or not found, working at the top of a huge structured organization, though many prefer to work by themselves.

The Megalomaniac has but one flaw, but its an invariably fatal one; arrogance. He knows that he can take over the world, and he isn't afraid to let you know, often elaborately and in great detail. They often do not foresee the fly in their ointment, because they do not want to admit that such a fly could exist.

Sample Megalomaniacs: Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor, Ras al'Ghul, Kang the Conqueror, Emperor Palpatine, Brain

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That's right, biatches! PH33R M3! You're just lucky that I'm also fuckin' MOTHRA! MOTHRA! It is awesome! I am a giant, flying, fury, insect with weird-ass powers, wicked-cool blue eyes, and the sweet love of two tiny, singing Japanese chicks. Plus I can't f'n die and am possibly a god. What's not to like? Seriously!

(Hrm...does this mean I am the fly -- or moth, as it were -- in my own ointment?)

Your result for The Godzilla Personality Test!...

Mothra: The Divine Moth

The goody-two shoes....Mothra.

Bad news: You look really lame. I mean, you're a giant moth for crying out loud! You also tend to be in the shadow of Godzilla alot. Oh and you've got two annoying little fairies always chanting your name and singing when they want to talk to you. *sigh*

Good News: Looks are deceiving. You're actually pretty tough and you've got some cool powers. Aside from the whole silly string and poison dust powers, you've got some major psychic and flying abilities. Oh and at least humanity isn't always trying to shoot you out of the sky like some other people. Plus you've got your own cult, I'd say that's pretty cool.

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Ok, now I'm going to bed like I thought I was a couple hours ago, before I get any more goofy.

 
 
Raven Daegmorgan
01 May 2008 @ 09:58 pm

[info]memento_mori said it, so I did it:

Frank Castle was a chess-playing prodigy and son of billionaire parents until his gambling father mad a bad bet against him with the Mafia, and ran instead of paying up. After years of searching, the mob family he stiffed found the Castles thanks to Frank's insatiable need to play in competitive chess matches. They burned his family alive in their home.

Only Frank survived, physically crippled and nearly blinded, and spent years in recovery, learning to compensate for his physical disabilities with a mastery of his mental state and all things electronic, all the while planning his revenge.

Now, he is the Punisher: a shadowy enigma that haunts the black alleys and shadowed markets of the underworld as well as the seedy digital networks which bind society together, watching, planning, moving, forcing the corrupt and wicked to fight and destroy themselves in a grand game of pawn against pawn and machine against man, few ever suspecting how or by whom they have been set-up, manipulated and destroyed.

Checkmate.

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Raven Daegmorgan
18 August 2006 @ 01:23 am
There is something wrong when I can order a comic on-line and have it in my hot little hands in days, and yet ordering the same comic through my local shop requires me to wait weeks, or even months to recieve the requested issues.

So, a short, open letter to the comics industry that they will almost certainly never see:

Dear Diamond Distribution (or whatever you are called): please stop screwing over my local comics shop by taking two to three months or longer to send them the comics I have ordered or failing to send them the most recent issues at all. You are driving me away from purchasing comics.

Dear Comic Book Publishers: please get on Diamond's case about taking two to three months or longer to send my local comic shop the comics I have ordered or failing to send them the most recent issues at all. This is driving me away from caring about and purchasing your products.
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