Hey! I'm not totally 100% sure that this is actually on the stands yet, but there's a new Wulf and Merl comic in the May issue of Disney Adventures! So feel free to browse through in the grocery aisle. This one's just a one-pager - here's the first panel:
Remember when I mentioned the McCloud clan rolling through Athens some weeks back? Well, a Winterview has finally surfaced - you can check it out here! Sky and Winter are so unreserved and charming that Eleanor and I pretty much felt like big lumps in comparison. Anyway, you can watch the interview see how boring we are for yourself. Our cat Momo pretty much steals the show. There are some shots of some of the nice crafty stuff Eleanor's made recently.
And one last bit of "news:" A couple of our comics (Blar, The Beast Mother, Bugbear) got reviewed in the current issue of the Comics Journal. The review was basically positive, but maybe a little condescending. Oh well!
We had a fun weekend. On Friday we caught a midnight showing of Tears of the Black Tiger at "Ciné," the arthouse theater that recently opened in downtown Athens. "Tears" is a Thai movie - a sort of post-modern cowboy/romance comedy/tragedy. It has some beautiful visuals - the whole movie is filmed in classic 60s over-saturated Technicolor, with deliberate movie artifices sprinkled throughout - painted backdrops, glued-on mustaches, etc. Highly recommended! The theater was nice too, though aesthetically problematic and a bit pretentious - big turquoise velour nightclub couch-thing in the bar area, Radiohead on the speakers, so forth. I can't really pick nits with a theater within walking distance that lets you take beer into the auditorium, though.
On Saturday we went up to Atlanta with Devlin (the Bizarro Wuxtry guy) to see The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3-D, with a pre-movie Spook Show. Man, they really went all out! Big "Amazon Jungle" plywood standees, paper mache monsters, makeup, the whole nine yards. The house was completely packed and in a good mood; everyone gamely shrieking whenever the "Gill-Man" showed up onscreen.Labels: athens, eleanor, movies, wulf and merl
The story so far...We've had some exciting adventures the last couple days. Yesterday we ventured down a ravine on the north side of town, finding all sorts of lovely glades and nooks. All sorts of debris had washed down along the sides of the little creek - plenty of bricks, pipes, and bits of old buildings. We even found a muddy backpack, with somebody's pulped-up books and personal knick-knacks. At one point, there was a very short drain tunnel big enough to fit us, so we crawled through and popped up in the middle of a field behind a school. At the end of the ravine there were a couple of railroad bridges, with some pretty excellent graffiti underneath. Some artiste-type had even executed a mosaic out of bits of broken mirror and spraypainted plywood. For dinner that night I made a sort of black bean stew, cornbread, and we tried frying up some plantain slices.
Today we took a long walk and enjoyed the hell out of some spring flowers and ended up at a Mexican restaurant called "La Estrella," where we had a pretty excellent "7 Mares" soup and a whole grilled fish.
Tomorrow's bottling day for the porter! Did I say the Kolsch came out excellent? Cause it did. I don't know how "authentic" these beers are turning out, but they are very tasty to drink.
Labels: athens, beer, dinner, eleanor, set to sea
