Hi Xyliacs!
I’m just going to stop apologizing for not getting these up by midnight. How’s that? It’s up now.
Today’s page shows those crazy faerie girls getting freaking out our hero some more. And just what is that sprite thing? I’m sure the speculation will run rampant.
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I really enjoyed hearing about everyone’s favorite sky- it’s neat how many different types of sky you all like.
Question for today: TV. Go.
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July 24th, 2008 at 7:36 am
great page Barb! “see you all tall”??? Meaning in a former life Claude has been a wee-little-sprite? or perhaps she is a nanny sprite and only gets to see him when he is a baby? I love Glykeria’s daisy hat, very cool.
TV – favorite show (right now) Project Runway 5, (in a couple of months) HEROES!!! (In a month or so after that) probably Criminal Minds
July 24th, 2008 at 7:40 am
One question though Barb. Since Livy and Claudius can talk in Think Speak Bubbles, is he able to listen in on Adora’s and Katheros’s think speak bubbles?
July 24th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Great page – finally get a close-up on Adora when she isn’t looking like a completely ice-queen. Glykeria is an adorable wee thing ….. Heh.
TV … don’t have it, generally don’t miss it. Have other ways to amuse myself – like this, reading, playing with my critters … There are days when I do wish I had TV, though, when my mood gets so low it would be nice to be able to vegetate in front of one …
July 24th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Lots of questions about the bubbles. Sorry for the confusion. The color bubbles are telepathic communication. The girls don’t know that Claude can communicate that way, but he can. That’s why they are talking to him when they address him.
Gly is a funny thing, isn’t she? ^_^
oh and TV- yeah, that’s why I’ve waited so long to post that question- I don’t watch much TV. But a little. I wouldnt own a TV but for my kids.
Thank you for the nice comments!
July 24th, 2008 at 9:45 am
hmm… i own several tv’s, but I don’t really watch much broadcast stuff… I used to when I was little and living with my parents, but now i don’t even use the good old bunny ears, let alone cable — though my parents never had cable either. someday i might. i’m just waiting for the right thing for me.
anyway, for now, i own a lot of movies and a big screen hdtv, so i have some stuff on blu-ray.
I also like to get older tv shows by the seasons and just own them and watch them.
favorites? Lois and Clark the new adventures of superman, Quantum Leap, House, Nero Wolfe Mysteries (i think the newer version — er, the one where the cast is recycled regularly in the various episodes), and House (because i have an undying passion for the comedian that is Hugh Laurie. I own some of his British stuff too. Lots of BBC series’ in general.
I really liked Grey’s Anatomy for a couple of years, but i lost the ability to have it broadcast to me, and they changed the time from sunday evening *which was perfect for me* to i think thursday, and for some reason, even with stuff broadcast twice during the week, i just never caught up, and now the storyline has completely lost me and i’m not really interested anymore, unfortunately. i do own the first season though.
I also like to watch anime, though i honestly prefer reading manga. But where there is a manga, there is live-action somewhere usually… and well, i just can’t help myself. DearS is my all-time favorite manga. why? dunno. guess i’m just a chubby girl that really likes the idea of cute sexy aliens that go chibi from time to time just like me!
Kanon was one of my first animes, though. I can’t wait to see all of the remake.
July 24th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Heh. He seems very confused. ^_^”
Kind’a facinating about everyone. It’s like I almost know who everyone is but not quite (perhaps because of all the dialogue (if you can call it that) that tells little things about them). Well… the two girls, I have to assume are either sisters, cousins, or daughters… or something…
Hmm… TV? I used to watch more than I do… I guess ever since I discovered forums, I ran out of TV and reading time – except on the computer. Although, my brother records stuff from adultswim to show me. I kind’a fell in love with anime the first time I saw one. ^_^” Fullmetal Alchemist is my current fave, I guess. Yu-Gi-Oh! was my favorite for awhile, but then my brother showed me FMA, and I loved it from the first one or two episodes (that’s how I did Yu-Gi-Oh! and Sailor Moon, too. Although those two, I just happened to see it on a station and went “what was that?”)
Besides anime, I like House, Heroes, Quantom Leap, Macgyver, and other shows. I’ve been recording Quantom Leap just to get every episode, and I haven’t seen the others in a while. (I’ve thought about buying Macgyver DVD’s from Wal-Mart, and I used to have three out of the four Lois and Clark DVD’s, but it just seems like a lot of money.)
July 24th, 2008 at 11:09 am
TV, huh? I don’t really watch much TV, because I haven’t had cable in the house since middle school until about a month ago. I honestly don’t miss it, and I’m kind of mad I have to pay for it now because my roommate wants it… But I have managed to catch some fantastic series over the last few years.
I-Man/The Invisible Man: A fantastic show about an invisible man, with a few modern scientific twists. The acting is amazing, there are enough giggles to keep anyone watching, and… it got cancelled second season. It’s coming out on DVD now though, after 7 years!
Push, Nevada: This was on, what, ABC? For not even a full season. The original idea was to hide a game show within a normal show; each episode there would be hidden clues, and whoever gathered them all and figured out what they meant got a million bucks. The show itself was great, involving some complicated behind-the-scenes backstabbing, government corruption, and a backstory that nobody ever quite understood. It’s going to be near-impossible to find now, though.
Battlestar Galactica: My boyfriend made me watch this earlier in the year, and it’ll tickle any scifi nerd’s buttons. Fortunately it’s popular enough that seasons 1-3 are on DVD already, and season 4′s airing… well, sort of right now. There’s a break in it until early next year… stupid writers’ strike.
I’m also a little in love with Discovery Channel, Science Channel, and Food Network; they’re all I watch on TV. Junkyard Wars is always interesting, I could watch How It’s Made all day long, and any show involving Alton Brown explaining the scientific properties of what’s being cooked is possibly the coolest thing ever. And these channels don’t have banal, mind-numbing soap opera crap; they’re actually educational!
July 24th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Burn Notice! Awesome show, it’s like a new version of the Equalizer.
Stargate Atlantis: as an avid SG1 fan, I’m really into this show. I just wish they’d get back to the big picture and away from pregnant Teyla. ><
Eureka, Monk and Psyche: OMG, funny! I love funny shows that still have a plot.
Psyche is my favorite.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Firefly. Oh, and Firefly. Did I mention Firefly? I don’t think I did . . .
Ok, just playing. But seriously. I don’t watch tv, so the only shows I watch are dead ones – Firefly and Arrested Development. But Firefly is actually one of the best things ever. EVAR. (It’s why I love the internet. There are so many rabid firefly fans, while there are so many fewer in real life.)
July 24th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for clearing the speech bubble business up Barb. What’s so special about Deimos’ belly hairs, since they swear by them?
I don’t watch much TV anymore since I discovered the entertainment value of the Internet. If ever I don’t have Internet access, I’ll watch a whole lot again. What I watch would be mostly unknown here as I live in Germany.
July 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
i hadn’t even noticed the speech bubbles thing – cool!
haven’t watched tv regularly in 20 years & don’t own one, but i watch ‘weeds’ on the internet bc the concept for this show floored me and after checking it out i was hooked with a captain hook hooky arm thing-a-ma-jig!
TODAY’S VOTE INCENTIVE IS POSSIBLY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VOTE INCENTIVE YOU’VE HAD UP SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TALISMAN – INSANELY AWESOME FAIRY GIRL – which leads me to ask have you seen fern gully with your kids?
July 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
LMAO!!!! Katharos is my new favorite character!
TV….Lost, 24, Heroes, old eps of Sliders and Buffy and Angel in sndication, Prison Break sometimes….Criminal Minds but just for the first season, and Sarah Connor Chronicles. As for prematurely cancelled series…..Clerks, Dilbert, The Critic, and The Invisible Man (scifi version, like aioke was talking about. So awesome.)
*rereads that post*
DVD? YES!!!!
July 24th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
playing Adora — Minnie Driver or Rachel Weisz. Go.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I might be in the minority here but I like Adora. (Probably because I am somewhat reserved myself). As far as TV goes, we don’t own a set but I watch Lost, Ugly Betty and The Office online.
BTW, who is the pretty green girl in the vote incentive?
July 24th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I don’t watch much TV, but I enjoy Nova and am quite happy that Heroes returns on my birthday. That’s pretty much all I watch.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Aww, what an adorable page, Barb! ^^
TV? Don’t watch much, I like documentaries on history and archeology. The only fiction I watch right now is Doctor Who and British murder telemovie series. If you like socially inept psychologists and mentally deranged serial killers, you can’t go past Wire in the Blood
July 24th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Doctor Who for the win! Sad that the season is over… and it will be along time before it picks up in regular season format again…
I also love Eureka. That shall be starting soon.
Olysseus seems to -really- approve of Claude there, doesn’t he?
July 24th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
TV…well, we don’t own a TV at home, but I have my shows I like, and they fall into two categories: shows I watch online because I miss them THAT much, and show that I enjoy when I catch them at someone else’s house (or if they decide to watch it). In the former category would be Burn Notice (hi fellow fans!), Whose Line is It Anyway? (both versions, but I’m partial to the US version), and old MST3K episodes.
In the latter category, we’ve got The Unit, NCIS, Dr. Who, the Stargates, Magnum P.I., The Dresden Files (all one season of it, boo SciFi Channel!), Firefly, Eureka, and a couple others I just can’t rattle off the top of my head.
Aw, Glykeria is just so kewte, I could put her in my pocket. Well, actually, I probably could.
Olysseus seems like a pleasant sort.
How do you come up with your names anyway, Barb?
July 24th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
I have to agree with Kez on her shows. Those are about the only ones I watch now as well. I think I have to give Burn Notice a bit more of and edge than Pysch, but it is close.
The page is amazing Barb, great work. And is that vote incentive possibly a fall September or October picture?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
*watches as Claudius’s head explodes*
The only thing I make an effort to watch every day on TV now is Spongebob and The Colbert Report. *nods* I don’t like just sitting and watching TV anymore… although I end up doing it sometimes anyway.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Poor Claudius…he’s looking a wee bit bewildered. ^_^
I don’t watch as much TV as I used to…I could name all the shows I used to watch as a kid and have a loooong list. But shows I watch now? I could probably list them on one hand! I mostly watch the occasional movie and shows on DVD. (With long pauses in between.)
July 25th, 2008 at 6:43 am
YEAH! I am not alone! I don’t watch TV per se. I don’t like the rampant sex, foul language, nudity, and character assasination that seems to pass for entertainment in most shows. (Garbage in, garbage out, and all that jazz) I do however rent certain trustworthy shows from Netflix such as Star Trek: TNG, DS9, and Voyager; Quantum Leap, (recently) The 10th Kingdom (weird, fairytaleness incarnate), and we have MP’s Flying Circus coming up soon.
Another problem I have is watching TV too much. I would sit down to watch a certain show and find myself three hours later having done nothing useful and filled my head with a bunch of garbage. It is safer this way. *Clutches her teddy afraid that the TV will get her.*
July 25th, 2008 at 7:10 am
I don’t watch TV. At all. Ever. It’s just a distraction- I have so many other things I’d rather do! Not a single one of our televisions are tuned in; and we only own them so we can use them to watch movies and play video games. Personally, I detest television.
First off. The shows are inane (for the most part), mind-numbing, and made up of complete drivel; the characterisation is thinner than the make-up of the actresses, the plots are poorly thought out and are only substancial enough to keep the attention. Now, there ARE exceptions- buuut, I’ve seen too many shows who use nudity, or violance, or poor attempts at crude humour as their entertaining factor to even consider turning on the TV for the use most people get out of it. Sorry, but I don’t want to watch sex; and I don’t find flatulance funny.
The other thing is- have you ever noticed, so many people sit down to watch something- and just don’t get back up? It draws us in. The next thing we know, after sitting down to watch something decent, is that we’ve spent five hours that we intended to spend doing something productive watching some drivel designed to keep the masses quiet and off the streets. Once you sit down, your mind sort of switches off.
Final thing ties in to the last thing I said. When I was a child, my parents would come in, turn on the television- and watch it until they went to bed. When my mother went to make dinner, the television in the kitchen was instantly put on. They weren’t watching anything particular- they were just watching, because it was THERE. Pretty much the last point I made, I know- but it’s what I grew up with, and hated all my life. I’m just biased against television because of that.
Sooo, yeah, a little rambling there. Me. TV. Gone.
July 25th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I REALLY dig this page. Wonderful character depth achieved. B, I remain a huge fan.
I don’t watch TV, exactly. If there is a show I like, I download it, & watch it at my leaisure (normally while I work). I’ve been downloading a bunch of British shows recently. Burn Notice. Doctor Who. Torchwood. Primeval. Secret Diary of a Call Girl. House. Lost. Can’t wait for Whedon’s Dollhouse (if you haven’t, you gotta watch is Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog web show!). Fringe looks neat.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Oh! I love Olysseus. Grouchy and adorable.
And as for the TV debate, there’s only a small handful of shows I like to watch, I absolutely hate watching re-runs, but sometimes if I’m all by myself I’ll turn it on just to hear people talking.
I may not even be watching it, I might be reading or knitting or whatever. I like it better than the radio, because I can ignore the TV, the radio I dance around and don’t get anything done! *blush* Actually, come to think of it, I’m always doing SOMETHING, even if I’m watching tv. Puzzles, knitting, what have you. Hmm. Odd.
July 25th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Whoa….and who’s the lovely fairy in the vote incentive? When do we get to meet her in comic?
July 25th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Wow, Jade, if that’s how you grew up, I can’t blame you for your loathing of the boob tube!
My parents, sadly, have somewhat turned into the “watching just to watch” sort of viewers, and it drives me nuts. I’m very easily distracted, so if my mom (or anyone else) is trying to hold a conversation with me while the TV is on (especially with the sound at anything less than whisper-level), can you guess what’s going to keep drawing my attention?
Besides, I’m not a very good person to watch TV with anyway, because unless I hold my tongue, I’m going to be making a running snarky commentary throughout the ENTIRE show. (And I think we can all agree with certain shows, that’s not hard to accomplish.) Way too much MST3K, methinks.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Apologies for the double-post, but a thought just struck me. TV (like a lot of things) is a lot like fire, isn’t it? Good servant, but terrible master.
July 26th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Celidah–
That’s why shhows like Lost, 24, Heroes, and (occasionally) prison break are good — they keep you wondering about motivations, upcoming actions, and the like
July 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
TV? Yes, please, when I have NOTHING else to do….
I watch it online.
July 27th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Yes, I feel the same about TV. It’s there- I watch it when I have nothing to do- which is rare. My faves- which I only catch maybe one or two episodes a year- are House and The Office. I will watch bits of Saturday Night Live. But my true embarassing vice is that the one show I do watch American Idol. As someone who used to pretend she was holding a Grammy award when she was a kid, who played and sang for years in stinky bars with that fantasy of being a famous musician… American Idol is as close as I can get to seeing that dream of coming from no where and making it. I know a lot of it is prepackaged, commericalized, homogenized crap. I know Simon’s a jerk. But to see a twenty-four year old bartender who plays in cover bands stand up on a lit up stage and belt out a rock version of Eleanor Rigby to a nearly standing ovation, or some seventeen year old stand in a flat room and sing a capella with a goosebump voice- it just makes me happy.
July 27th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
i love your art! its so beautiful! =) well im more of a writer than an artist…i think? i dont watch much tv. but when i feel like it i watch csi, law & order, miami ink & la ink, myth busters, braniacs. resaon: because i like it XD
July 31st, 2008 at 1:27 am
I fell INSTANTLY in love with Olysseus when I read this page! It seems disgruntled midget bicorns may be even cuter than giant magical guardian corgis- if that’s even possible. ;D