comic geekiness

Went out searching for a magazine to read on the train during tonights train trip out west for xmas eve dinner. Was tossing up between an issue of SFX and another magazine I'd never heard of called IDN (International Design Network) and ended up buying the IDN mag 'cause I couldn't resist the lovely, lovely Alex Ross artwork on the cover and in the article which has an interview with him. There's also interviews with Larry Hama, the Ghost World guy whose name I can't remember, Dave Mckean and some manga people. So yay! I have something to read on the train! And pretty Alex Ross artwork to look at...

this is the artwork on the cover of the magazine.

This is making me want to go back and get the 'The Science of Superheroes' book I saw the other day.

No, I want ( this; )

and for those who care, I did remember to backup my hard drive on Sunday night ;) (thanks sinbrat!)

in the true spirit of the season...

LET'S HAVE A PATRICK SWAYZE CHRISTMAS
(Michael J. Nelson)

Open up your heart and let the Patrick Swayze Christmas in.
We'll gather at the Roadhouse with our next of kin.
And Santa can be our regular Saturday night thing.
We'll decorate our barstools and gather round and sing.

Oh, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas this year!
Or we'll tear your throat out and kick you in the ear!

It's my way or the highway, this Christmas at my ba-ha-haar.
I'll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car!
I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till.
I think that that right jolly old elf better make out his will, ohh,

Oh, let's have a Patrick Swayze Christmas, one and all.
And this can be the haziest...
This can be the laziest...
This can be the Swayziest
Christmas of them aaallllllllll!