bansidhewail

Name: Dana Sweeney




Hating Your Heroes: How the Sausage is Made

On Nov 17, 2008 11:10 AM

So far every creator I've gotten to interact with at a con has only made me an even bigger fan than I already was.  I do tend to ignore all the Twittering and such, but I ignore people I know when it comes to that nonsense too, 'cause who has time?  Meeting Wil Wheaton at a con led to my buying the book he had on him that day and then buying everything else he's ever written, ...

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Don't like "filler"? Then you probably don't like comics

On Oct 8, 2008 9:00 AM

I would never complain about a "filler issue;" if anything, I'd complain about the opposite, the issues in which nothing gets to happen organically but the scenes seems shoehorned in to force the plot forward and hit a predetermined action beat.  "Filler issues" are indeed what make comic book characters become real and beloved.  My favorite issue of Proof&nb...

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iFanboy - Episode #76: WANTED

On Jun 28, 2008 12:21 PM

I hated this book so deeply, I kind of wondered how the friend who'd given it to me imagined I'd find it remotely palatable, let alone enjoyable.  On the other hand, the utter revulsion I have toward the book was probably what made the movie so fun for me, because it just took that great opening and went somewhere inoffensively watchable with it.

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06.22.2008 - Episode #138 - Scalped #18

On Jun 22, 2008 12:13 PM

Hey--that was nifty hearing my review discussed on the podcast!  Thanks! The screenname is pronounced bansheewail...bansidhe is the Irish spelling of the word.  Also, I'm one of the rare and elusive fangirls!  Not that either of these things matter, but thought I'd say hello.

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How to Get Her to Read Comics

On Jun 11, 2008 12:00 PM

As a girl who has been working on the same sort of conversion (getting my boyfriend into comics), I found that Preacher was as good a gateway drug for him as it was for me back in the day.  Also, it kind of surprised me how ravenously he devoured Strangers in Paradise next (despite frequent comments as he was getting into the later trades about how the story was beginning to stretch c...

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New Comics for 05/29/08 are wilting in the heat... of their awesomeness!

On May 27, 2008 3:34 PM

Ultimate Spider-Man New Avengers Young Avengers Presents

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