Comic « Albino Kraken. Click to enlarge So here’s the annual kraken, this time celebrating the site’s fifth birthday.
Obviously this marks a break from previous birthday kraken illustrations, which usually depict actual birthday shenanigans, but who knows—maybe invading desolate moonscapes is a cephalopod space-birthday tradition in its own right. (click to expand) So J Sherer and I just launched a new comics section at Timeslingers.com, and the above is just the first of this new breed of stories. There will be more to follow sooner or later, depending on how much time we have to spare between putting the first season’s ebook together and getting ready for season two.
Jelly Beans. HijiNKS ENSUE – A Geek Webcomic - A soul as black as eyeliner. Chain Bear - Not Affiliated with Bear-Baiters. A Guy Walks Into a Bar. Sigurd the Trustslayer. Many myths (the ones about heroes and demigods, specifically) seem to have a grain of truth to them.
One can imagine the legends of Hercules, Sigurd, Huang Di, and others like them as simple humans who did something relatively interesting that ended up with so many embellishments that they became demigods. It’s sort of like the big fish story you hear old fishermen tell. That fish gets bigger with every retelling. I’m sure Sigurd just killed a rogue crocodile or something. What was it doing in Scandinavia? The Appocalypse. Hark, a vagrant archive. About. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. 03/01/2010. Three Word Phrase, by Ryan Pequin.