Promethea, again

Late last night, I was reading some more of the Promethea comics... There's an issue where the snakes in the caduceus (Mike and Mack, appropriately) are showing her the Tarot trumps (overlaid with the history of the world and Crowley's imaginary mongoose joke), all of which are crazily illustrated and accompanied by a set of Scrabble tiles spelling out an anagram of 'Promethea' which is more or less appropriate to the trump. I'm going through this and thinking "Wow! These guys really put some thought into this, it's fantastically clever and well-worked."

And, then, I turn the page to The Aeon. The Aeon is represented by Harpocrates, as portrayed by Harpo Marx, above a field of souls rising. He's wearing his traditional baggy jacket and jaunty hat, both of which are covered in ankhs. He is raising his horn, and the sound produced is rendered as "ANKH ANKH". I nearly pissed myself laughing. I have totally envisioned Harpocrates as Harpo Marx before in my work -- it's the sort of thing my brain does. Apparently, I'm not the only one.

So I hauled my ass out of bed and went upstairs to share this bit of wild amusement with someone, which turned out to be triadruid, who was working on a website. He sort of looked at me blankly, and said "I'm glad you're enjoying that, but I don't get it." And lo, I was crushed. But only for a second. Then, it was funny again.

I've also been enjoying particularly seeing Barbara, a female lead character who isn't wildly thin and attractive (even though in many of the books where she appears, some other character will make fun of her appearance -- she doesn't much care). You just don't get a lot of that in any media, especially not graphic formats.

I mean, here's a comic book character that I could dress as and pull it off. That doesn't just come along every day. It even made me think about doing a Promethea costume for DragonCon, for about half a second. I suppose I could, except that it would break nearly all of my rules for costuming -- let's see... requires hand props, shows a lot of skin, few buy-able components, no pants.... yeah. Would be cute, but waaay too much trouble. That's cool though. Our costume plans are largely made for this year anyway.

Promethea, again

Late last night, I was reading some more of the Promethea comics... There's an issue where the snakes in the caduceus (Mike and Mack, appropriately) are showing her the Tarot trumps (overlaid with the history of the world and Crowley's imaginary mongoose joke), all of which are crazily illustrated and accompanied by a set of Scrabble tiles spelling out an anagram of 'Promethea' which is more or less appropriate to the trump. I'm going through this and thinking "Wow! These guys really put some thought into this, it's fantastically clever and well-worked."

And, then, I turn the page to The Aeon. The Aeon is represented by Harpocrates, as portrayed by Harpo Marx, above a field of souls rising. He's wearing his traditional baggy jacket and jaunty hat, both of which are covered in ankhs. He is raising his horn, and the sound produced is rendered as "ANKH ANKH". I nearly pissed myself laughing. I have totally envisioned Harpocrates as Harpo Marx before in my work -- it's the sort of thing my brain does. Apparently, I'm not the only one.

So I hauled my ass out of bed and went upstairs to share this bit of wild amusement with someone, which turned out to be triadruid, who was working on a website. He sort of looked at me blankly, and said "I'm glad you're enjoying that, but I don't get it." And lo, I was crushed. But only for a second. Then, it was funny again.

I've also been enjoying particularly seeing Barbara, a female lead character who isn't wildly thin and attractive (even though in many of the books where she appears, some other character will make fun of her appearance -- she doesn't much care). You just don't get a lot of that in any media, especially not graphic formats.

I mean, here's a comic book character that I could dress as and pull it off. That doesn't just come along every day. It even made me think about doing a Promethea costume for DragonCon, for about half a second. I suppose I could, except that it would break nearly all of my rules for costuming -- let's see... requires hand props, shows a lot of skin, few buy-able components, no pants.... yeah. Would be cute, but waaay too much trouble. That's cool though. Our costume plans are largely made for this year anyway.

The Search Continues

Here at the EHQ laboratory, we have yet to produce a drink worthy of the name Pan Indo-European Gargleblaster, but we did manage to come up with a number of other tasty alcoholic beverages in our search. We have, of course, applied our own names to these concoctions. It is possible that they are already standard drinks out there somewhere, with other, less entertaining names, but hey. It's our house, and it's our bar, and we'll call the things what we like.

Anyway, here is a sampling of drinks mixed at EHQ of late. Many of them involve Barenjager. Comments are sought.

( Brigid's Milk )

( Mauled by a Bear )

( The Dixie Belle )

( Lunch with the Dagda )

The Search Continues

Here at the EHQ laboratory, we have yet to produce a drink worthy of the name Pan Indo-European Gargleblaster, but we did manage to come up with a number of other tasty alcoholic beverages in our search. We have, of course, applied our own names to these concoctions. It is possible that they are already standard drinks out there somewhere, with other, less entertaining names, but hey. It's our house, and it's our bar, and we'll call the things what we like.

Anyway, here is a sampling of drinks mixed at EHQ of late. Many of them involve Barenjager. Comments are sought.

( Brigid's Milk )

( Mauled by a Bear )

( The Dixie Belle )

( Lunch with the Dagda )