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By Ellie, March 16, 2010 10:08 am

Part 4 or how many other times I’ve failed to update… I can’t keep track.

Yep, it’s another week without my biting commentary on the Marvel Disney Afternoon comics. After looking through pages of confusing troubleshooting and threatening the two inanimate objects like the crazy homeless guy downtown who screams at the fire hydrants, I’ve managed to make the scanner and laptop communicate… just in time to take my laptop to get repaired.

No, I didn’t break my laptop. Again. See, back in November, I made the mindbogglingly stupid mistake of leaving my iPod earbuds on my laptop. I left the screen up, went away for a while, and returned, having completely forgotten what was resting on my laptop and set the screen down. Noticing that it wasn’t going down all the way, I stepped back. Then my husband, even less aware of the situation, tried his hand at it…

I’ve been able to work on the machine. It’s just that I’ve had to contend with a black blob in the left bottom corner, a series of horizontal gray bars taking up the bottom two inches of the screen, and a series of colorful lines cutting through in a vertical fashion. Turquoise “icicles” also make an appearance, much like that annoying character that pops up every few episodes in your favorite sitcom. You know the one.

Last month, I called “the computer guy” to order a new screen. And I’m happy to say that after a month of waiting on the damn thing, it’s finally come in. So I’m taking my broken baby in today to get it fixed, and with luck, I’ll have it back tomorrow. (It shouldn’t even take a month to replace a screen.)

So while I have no new installment of a TDA comic, I do have three scans from the superior and more engaging Disney Adventures magazine. I couldn’t help but be impressed with this comic. It’s so in-character, and it’s just so awesome and sweet to see Launchpad ponder about the intricacies of the universe.

Enjoy! And with luck, I’ll see you guys next week with some comic fuckery, and maybe even a new layout, ’cause I am just sick of all this green.

And I apologize for the slight crookedness of the scans. I did my best to get them as straight as possible. But at least you can read them.

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By Ellie, February 1, 2010 9:35 am

I’ll be updating on Tuesdays from now on.

Because I don’t like working on Mondays, that’s why.

Of course, due to the snowstorm we had Saturday and Sunday, I have to make up some of my hours today. Well, due to being out for my trip to Florida, I have to make up those hours, too. Twenty-four hours in total. Ugh.

But I have been reading the first issue of The Disney Afternoon, so I’m not slacking off. Just so you folks know, these types of posts will be mostly text. There’ll be a few scans of individual frames, not entire pages. Because I don’t need the Disney/Marvel legal team coming after me. And since I’m concerned with the length of posts, I’ll be writing these in two or three parts.

After reading all the issues I have, I think I prefer the Disney Adventures Comic Zone comics.

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By Ellie, January 26, 2010 12:39 pm

That was a mostly uneventful trip. But next time, we’re flying. I can’t handle another 13-hour road trip both ways; I’m too old and cranky to sit in a vehicle for that long.

Naturally, no post for this week. Turns out that I was wrong about our return day, which was actually yesterday. We stayed in Florida on Sunday and took advantage of the opportunity to check out Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. Holy shit, they really went all out for Islands. I could have spent all day there, just snapping pictures of the buildings. (No, not a lot of riding for me. The older I get, the less resistance I have for high-speed coasters. Though the Revenge of the Mummy ride was pretty cool… and I was trapped on the ride once it got started, so I really had no choice but to go through it.)

But getting back to business. There are only so many posts I can make about books and writing, and I know those aren’t nearly as interesting as, say, other things. So I’m going to write about other people’s writing. No, trust, me, this’ll be great! And I won’t be talking about just books, either.

Okay, people 20+ years or older: do you remember the Disney Afternoon? Do you remember all the crazy, cool toons? Do you remember envying Darkwing Duck’s fashion sense donning a purple towel and fedora? I sure do. I also remember the Disney Adventures magazine and all the great comics therein. I’ve spent weeks doing research on said publication and came across these:

And they’re mine, all mine! (Except for the last two issues.) Not only do I plan on embarrassing myself in trying to recapture my childhood, I plan on recapping these comics. Why the hell not? Someone had to write them, and I am trying to keep this as a writing blog.

Next week, I’ll recap Ish #1. And if you like Darkwing, you’re in luck, because these comics are about practically no one else. Goddamn, that’s too much purple. What fun!