Odd: Google Photos actually increased saturation on this. Half the time the auto-awesome…

Odd: Google Photos actually increased saturation on this. Half the time the auto-awesome (or whatever they’re calling it these days) takes a photo with bright, interesting colors and makes it a dull black and white (it hardly ever picks the shots that actually look good in B&W).

Golden Age Flash vs. the Measles

In “Play of the Year” (March 1943), a theater producer sabotages a rival’s production by faking a measles outbreak among the cast. The boarding house where they’re all staying is immediately quarantined.

Of course, this is a Jay Garrick Flash story, so there’s a madcap solution: the Flash will perform every part in the play at once!

Golden Age Flash vs. the Measles

As someone who grew up after the measles vaccine, I tended to think of it as not a big deal, just one of those childhood diseases that previous generations had to deal with. So back in the mid-2000s when I was tracking down every Golden Age Flash story I could find, I was surprised to see that Flash Comics #39 treated it as serious business (which, of course, it is).

Back to my Les Miserables commentary!

Back to my Les Miserables commentary!

After 250 pages only seeing them from Marius’ POV, we meet Valjean, Cosette and their home in the Rue Plumet…and see their side of Marius & Cosette’s stealth courtship. Let’s just say Valjean is a lot more perceptive than Marius.

Back to the Rue Plumet

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Darrin Matteson: saw the musical and I’ve TRIED reading the book. I got about 60 pages into it and was bored to tears by the Bishop of Digne. I’ve read that the book was originally published in serial form in the Paris newspaper over a 20+ year span which explains why the book is so long and detailed.

Me: It picks up eventually, but even in the middle there are long stretches that leave you wondering just why on earth they were included. As for publishing, I don’t think it was serialized over that much time. It may have been published in several volumes, but I think they all hit in 1862.

Intense stress, doing the impossible, meeting artists…

Intense stress, doing the impossible, meeting artists, keeping a toddler entertained, chaos good and bad, and a genuine medical emergency.

All this, and I still managed to finish my convention write-up on time. (How did that happen?)

I Survived Comic-Con 2013!

And this year, that’s saying something. (I’ll get into that later.)

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