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Even with such an overmined theme as the zombie apocalypse, webcomic dead.winter proves a cut above through good pacing, a focus on character over gore, and a likable heroine (an optimistic young waitress in a miserable lot careerwise). The artist, though, is little too eager to embrace cliche - a particular problem in a genre that's nearly nothing but cliche at this point - and certain scenes trend toward the thin and cartoonish as a result. (Skip every panel that deals with the Matrix knockoff in the red sunglasses.) That didn't stop me from mainlining the entire archive within the past couple days, however. (Random thought: it's a pity the artist doesn't work with night scenes more, as the comic's style and palette lend them a certain intimacy - cf. the early hospital trip.)

An entire semester of lectures on Tolkien. I can't vouch for the quality - laptop sound problems - but will sure to hit up the Silmarillion ones once my laptop gets repaired.
ETA: I'm on a computer with sound now, and in the very first lecture, the eponymous professor a) leads off with an obnoxious pitch to get on The Colbert Report and b) spends five minutes defining the word "thrall." So never mind.

Fruit Shop is Bejeweled with missions (you have to complete groups of a certain color to proceed from stage to stage) and, thanks to a merciless timer that's impossible to refill meaningfully, shorter play sessions.

For all your inexpensive ocarina needs. Also, for your even-more-portable ocarina needs.

Given its topography, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Australia has come up with a surprisingly comprehensive suicide prevention campaign.

You'd be hard-pressed to find more sumptuous LotR movie art than the work of Bohemian Weasel, whose paintings, pencils, and pastels populate much of the Topps Masterpieces trading card line. Go for the character art, stay for the landscapes. Be sure to click through that LiveJournal link to her private site as well.

My, I didn't know there was an actual anime based on Kate Beaton et al.'s Strong Female Characters.

Fangamer at first seems like Threadless for the Chrono Trigger set: Lavos hoodies! Gate Key keychains! Magus silhouette pins, aggravatingly packaged with a not-great T-shirt! But goddamn is the site design atrocious. (ProTIP: The properly magnified images are waaaaay at the bottom of the page.) Also, the lack of proper licensing leads to some frustrating compromises: "Dark" Omen, indeed.
But this SMB pipe mug is unreservedly lovely.
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