Marvel(ous) News

While I'm not a huge comic nerd (I'm not rushing down to my local comic book store every Wednesday), I still grew up knowing a fair amount about the more popular franchises due to their representation in other mediums: television, movies, and novels. This is how I discovered Batman, the Justice League, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and of course, the X-Men.

In fact, the X-Men are what eventually lead me to reading any comics at all. (That and later on Neil Gaiman's Sandman series.) My discovery of X-Men resulted not from the movies that came out out when I was in college, but rather the animated series that ran in the early 90's.

Man I loved that show.

Well, yesterday I discovered something that made me utterly ecstatic, and today I'm sharing it with all of you: all 63 episodes of X-Men (The Animated Series) are available to watch for free on the Marvel Website.

You're welcome.

For everyone who has ever played any sim related game...

...I about died laughing when I saw this. It's sick and twisted, I know, but if I'd ever played Roller Coaster Tycoon this is totally something I would have done at some point.



Thanks to Reddit for bringing this little bit of joy into my snowy life.

With any luck, Sammy and I will be home tonight, unless things have gone considerably wonky since last Thursday. Tomorrow I should hopefully be able to pick back up on blogging in real time, and be able to share with all of you our adventures.

Thank you to those of you who have checked in over the weekend. Especially that person in Russia who keeps visiting the site. You know who you are.

Any way, I thought I'd share a final couple of Christmas videos. (Yes, I'm copying off of will. I never claimed to be original.)






All I have to say is Chip and Dale have an uncanny knack for picking trees. Just saying....

Have a cold...

and thus all I want to do is lay around and watch cartoons. Therefore, I thought I'd share some of the better ones I've come across. Here's hoping you find them as entertaining as I have!




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Work from Michael Rianda on Vimeo.



The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo.



Les Dangereux from Daniel Klug on Vimeo.





I've decided that I really, really like French animation. Ah, the things that the internet reveals to us...