Andy Bartlett on July 27th, 2011

Cobra Civil War: Cobra #3 IDW Publishing Street Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Cover price: $3.99 Cover A: David Williams Cover B: Antonio Fuso Cover RI: David Williams Cover RIB: Jonboy Meyers Written by: Mike Costa Art: Antonio Fuso Colors: Arianna Florian Letters: Shawn Lee ROLL CALL G.I. Joe: Steeler, Breaker, Firewall Cobra: Tomax, Blacklight [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 24th, 2011

Lego Gaga: The One With the Feather Hat and Finger Claws, originally uploaded by AndyBartlett. I found this photo from a fan-made album cover for “Born This Way.” It was a pretty complex pose and most of the detail in the dress was hidden, so I decided to just try to capture the color scheme [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 21st, 2011

IDW Publishing held a forum today at ComiCon in San Diego, covering mainly their Transformers, G.I. Joe and Dungeons & Dragons properties. YoJoe.com liveblogged the presentation and culled out the G.I. Joe-related information; you can find that here: http://forums.yojoe.com/news/82170-san-diego-comic-con-idw-panel.html There’s another liveblog of the panel up at HISS Tank; they included information on the Transformers [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 21st, 2011

While explaining her occasional inability to sleep upstairs out of fear of shadows or boogymen: Megan: “Sometimes, in order to get to sleep, I have to remind myself that bad guys would have to come by your room in order to get to me, and that you would hear them and go punch them or [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 20th, 2011

Cobra Civil War: Snake Eyes #3 IDW Publishing Street Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Cover price: $3.99 Cover A: Robert Atkins, with colors by Simon Gough Cover B: Agustin Padilla, with colors by Simon Gough Cover RI: Robert Atkins Cover RB: Jonboy Meyers, with colors by Chuck Pires Written by: Chuck Dixon Pencils: Robert Atkins [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 19th, 2011

Last week, while I was in the middle of spending five consecutive days basically in bed recovering from some minor surgery, I relented to the crack dealers at Blizzard Entertainment who had emailed me an offer I couldn’t refuse – a free week of play time for World of Warcraft, just waiting for me to [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 18th, 2011

After dinner tonight, I spent quite a bit of time in the basement playing with and talking to Helen. It was pretty awesome. When I went to Kansas at the beginning of June to pick up Megan for the summer, my parents bestowed upon us an enormous plastic tub full of Legos they picked up [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 15th, 2011

“In chaos, there is opportunity.” Those were the words of Minnesota State University, Moorhead President Edna Szymanski earlier today in a press conference where the Dragons became the first school to pounce on this week’s college hockey apocalypse as an opportunity to make a name for itself (Moorhead’s official release is here). Moorhead first announced [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 14th, 2011

I’ve been pretty bad about posting new things here; I’m falling into outlet overload, I think. I follow Twitter and post there while I’m at work, but hardly ever when I’m at home; this is mostly because I monitor Twitter all day for work-related things and maintain the school’s official account @BSUNews. My personal use [...]

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Andy Bartlett on July 6th, 2011

This is the ninth entry in a “soundtrack of my life” project — one song that is representative of each year of my life since about 1977, when I was five years old and was approximately the time when I have specific memories of music. This song was huge at Wurzburg American High School, and [...]

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