'' AlpineBob ''

'' doesn't want to live forever - after a few hundred billion years I might get bored...

 

 

I love (many) webcomics.

Newest 'Top 'o the List': Galaxion by Tara Tallan
'Life, Love, Hyperspace'
Adventures of the crew of the survey ship 'Galaxion'

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 Gold 'Top 'o the List': Sunset Grill by 'katastrophe'.
'Guns, Gangsters, GoodBeer'
Life and times of the plebes of the Earth Commonwealth in 2426.

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Silver 'Top 'o the List': Supernatural Law by Batton Lash.
'Beware the Creatures of the Night -- They have Lawyers!'
Ghouls, ghosts, vampires, witches, wolfmen and more.

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Bronze 'Top 'o the List': Jungle Fire by Elfwoodian Foxeye
Elves and magic and gods, plus furries and ghosts and much more! She hasn't updated in ages, though. :(
Check it out anyway!!

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 And see below for a looong list of other favorite webcomics. :)

Anyway, I'm just another fantasy geek with no artistic talent of my own.  However, I do enjoy the creations of others.

I joined <strike>Elfquest</strike> Elfwood on Jul 11, 2008, in order to become a patron, though I have been wandering these woods for years. (Well, darn - <strike>...</strike> is supposed to be supported!)
I find talking about myself boring, so I'll stop now.

But Alan has a 5 line story on his profile with a great message.

 

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Interests
Animation, Art (Boris Vallejo & Michael Whelan were my favorite artists, but now my favorites number in the hundreds, if not thousands...), Sci Fi, Fantasy, Comics, Graphic Novels, gaming and other activities:
Dancing (ballroom, swing, Contra), reading (SF, fantasy, comics), rollerblading, hang-gliding (Mark IV), music-making (singing, mellophone)

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Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Movies and TV Shows
film:
The Princess Bride
Blade Runner, Silent Running, Stargate
Big Trouble in Little China, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, GalaxyQuest, Life of Brian, Shaun of the Dead
Back to the Future, The Mummy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harmageddon, Iron Giant,
Akira, Aladdin, The Incredibles, Nightmare Before Christmas, Princess Mononoke, Shrek, Spirited Away, Wallace & Gromit!
LotR, Alien et al
TV:
Batman The Animated Series, Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Angel, Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, The Questor Tapes, Red Dwarf, Sliders, Time Tunnel, and the original Star Trek
(Spock was my role model for years).

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Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Books
The Princess Bride by William Goldman, of course.
Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Coming of Age by Alexei Panshin
A spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony
The Hobbit by Tolkein
The Narnia novels by C.S. Lewis.
The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
Flinx series by Alan Dean Foster
Cenotaph Road series by Robert Vardeman
Repairman Jack novels by F. Paul Wilson
Odd Thomas novels by Dean Koontz
The Tales of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin
The Arrows of the Queen series by Mercedes Lackey
Niven & Pournelle's Inferno

Listing the rest of the thousands would be tiresome...

Instead, here are my favorite authors: Elizabeth Moon and Lois McMaster Bujold!
Robin Hobb might be number three. Or any of the one's mentioned above, or perhaps these:
Adams, Asimov, Asprin, Baum, Bradley, Brin, Brust, Clarke, Eisenstein, Farmer, Feist, Gilliland, Heinlein, (Diana Wynne) Jones, L'Engle, MacAvoy, (George RR) Martin, McCaffrey, Norton, Pierce, Pratchett, Rosenberg, Stephenson, Sturgeon, Zelazny

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Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Comics
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
Find The Curse of Brambly Hedge and read it! Read it! Read it! I tell you three times!
You'll love it! If you don't, I'll buy it from you and even pay for postage too!
Elfquest by Wendy Pini, A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran, Watchmen by Moore, Finder by Carla Speed McNeil.
Kurt Busiek's Arrowsmith
Kurt Busiek's Astro City
Strangehaven

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Favorite Fantasy/Scifi Webcomics
Ask Dr. Eldritch! - monster fighter retires to become an advice columnist, but his life is still a nexus of strange
Black Jack O'Breen - rogue has fey problems
Dicebox - Per SKG: "best comic ever about itinerant female miners in outer space. Who are married."
Digger by Ursula Vernon - a wombat finds herself in a strange land and tries to find a way home.
FreakAngels by Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield - young psychics destroy the world and squabble over the aftermath
Galaxion by Tara Tallan - "Life, Love, Hyperspace"
Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell - a girl finds herself in a strange boarding school.
Knowledge is Power - college students get superpowers based on their majors. (see SKG's pimpage.)
Kukuburi by Ramon Perez - Fantastic!
Magellan - Try to survive at a Superhero Academy without superpowers...
Roza - a young gypsy in a magical land gets into and hopefully out of trouble
Skin Deep by Kory Bingaman - see for yourself...
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey Wells - greatness in the Narbonic style
The Dreamland Chronicles - a young man travels to a strange land when he sleeps...
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan - new gods explore the universe, including Hell!
The Meek - girl wth green hair must meet her dead granpa at "The Center". If only she knew where it was!
The Sergeant and Professor Skeary Winslow - accidental dimension travelers
Wayfarer's Moon - high fantasy - young woman whose village is destroyed by monsters decides to become a warrior

Favorite Gaming SF/Fantasy Webcomics
Goblins - "Life through their eyes"
Looking For Group - WoW parody
Dungeon Crawl Inc guess...

Favorite Humor SF/Fantasy Webcomic Subsection
Ask Dr. Eldritch - features funny fae, rampaging robots, zany zombies, & now dino-chicken!
Dumnestor's Heroes daily funny fantasy strip
Get Medieval - alien visitors in olden days - HiJinks ensue!

Special Studio Foglio Area
Buck Godot - Zap Gun for Hire! unmatched SF humor
Girl Genius Steampunk genius (describes the main character or the creators!)
What's New Gaming Parodies - watch out for the Dragon!

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Favorite Music
I like pretty much everything except rap.

Actual Faves:
The Planets by Holst, In the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg, Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, & the
STAR WARS soundtrack by John Williams.
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - their 8-8-8 San Jose concert ruled!
Simon & Garfunkel, separately and together...
- also -
Abba, Alan Parsons Project, Austin Lounge Lizards, B-52's, Beatles, Billy Joel, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Danny Elfman, Dead Can Dance, Don McClain, Earth Wind & Fire, Elixir, Elliott Smith, ELO, Enigma, Enya, Eurythmics, Evanesence, Jean Michel Jarre, Latter Day Lizards, Leonard Cohen, Loreena McKennitt, Manheim Steamroller, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Police, Queen, Rush, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Styx, Supertramp, They Might Be Giants, Tom Lehrer, Tom Petty, TransSiberian Orchestra, Vienna Teng, Weird Al Yankovic, Wild Asparagus, Yello

more favorite songs:
Amazing Grace - This bagpipe version gave me chills! Here's one from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan!
Bobby Mcferrin - Don't worry, Be Happy
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
Des'ree - You Gotta Be
Elton John - I'm still standing
Gloria Gaynor - I will Survive
Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Katrina & the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling

Finally, anyone who fondly remembers The Muppet Show might be amused by THIS.

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'' AlpineBob ''

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