All Points Bulletin: Lucy van Pelt, Dragon Spooker

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narutaki_icon_4040 Kate’s picks:

  • Magical Boy Charlie Brown
    A stupendous parody comic.
  • High Class LEGO Watches
    LEGO has put our watches in the past but only for children, now they are expanding. Some of these are quite nicely designed and to top it all off you can interchange pieces.
  • Dare2Draw
    An in-depth look at this event held at the Society of Illustrators in NYC that pushes artists to go outside their comfort zones.
  • Hyperbole and a Half is a Menace
    Back with a new comic featuring dressing up like a dinosaur and being drunk on POWER!

hisui_icon_4040 Alain’s picks:

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Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup: Classic Miss Blue vs. the New & Improved Aoko Aozaki

This Saturday post is the weekly Type-Moon news in addition to the regular APB post on Sunday. If you have any suggestions for what to highlight on the Type-Moon Weekly News Roundup drop me a line via email or Twitter.

Some Things I Loved About Castle Waiting

narutaki_icon_4040 I just finished reading the two-book stories of Castle Waiting about hodge podge family living in a remote castle on a cliff. Sometimes it is their daily lives and chores and sometimes it is tales woven of their pasts each bubbling with a sense of humor and a touch of adventure.

The world of Castle Waiting is a psuedo-Middle Ages Europe with a layer of minimal magic. But the setting of a non-past past doesn’t stop Castle Waiting from delivering perspectives on all kinds of serious business. Everything from women being property, to a few bad apples giving an entire race of people a tainted reputation, to using compassion when tackling mental illness, to gender roles, to spreading religion, and much more. All of it done with a wry smile.

There was a lot to love about the series, even though I wasn’t sure I was going to like Castle Waiting after the initial story, but I was wrong. I fell in love with it somewhere around the escaping from the circus part.

These are just a few of the things that stood out to me.

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