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Aug10

Webcomic Review: BarteNERDS

by tonyd on August 10, 2015 at 12:01 am

Webcomic: BarteNERDS

Creator: Joe Simonetti

Format: Color, three or four panel strip

Updates: Mondays

Genre: Comedy, slice of life, geek stuff

Themes: Geek stuff, bars, video games

Characters: Joe, redheaded girl

Archive: Begins October 1, 2012

BarteNERDS is a slice-of-life webcomic about the author and his job as a bartender and his nerdy life. Reading the About section, however, reveals that the comic is really more about the kind of life he’d actually like to have. I think it’s a mixture of both his mental fantasies and what actually happens.

Joe plays a lot of video games, watches movies and TV. His opinions come out in the comic and it’s not a bad take on nerd stuff. The art has certainly progressed. I guess I would like to see more of the bar job integrated in the comic more and I imagine if he did more than a semi-weekly post, the characters would progress more rapidly.

Overall, I’d say the comic is decent. The website could use a cast list and perhaps Joe could explore the idea of creating a fictional girlfriend for himself. So if you’d like to check out a webcomic with a long run, but not an overly huge archive, check out BarteNERDS. There’s also some animated shorts and one episode of a podcast about Rick & Morty.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Spying With Lana

Romantically Apocalyptic

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Aug09

Your Fratoscope: August 9, 2015

by tonyd on August 9, 2015 at 12:01 am

If your birthday is this week: Your ice cream birthday cake will be made from a unique flavor called chocolate-chip salmon.

Aries: Your portable pizza parlor business runs into a problem, as the patent office refuses to patent Italians.

Taurus: You will get a surprise prostate exam.

Gemini: The stars say, you should cut out some of the red meat you’ve been eating, starting by using bread instead of hamburgers for sandwiches.

Lemini: Your check book isn’t balanced since “Jello” is not a numerical answer.

Cancer: This week will be busy for you, as your mountain guide will finally abandon you for not tipping 15%.

Leo: You will discover a safety deposit box full of Jello.

Virgo: It’s okay to hit on 17, the next card is a three.

Scorpio: You will enjoy an incredibly sensual subway ride.

Sagittarius: You’ll prove that everyone in Dallas during the Kennedy assassination was born grainy.

Capricorn: You’ll genetically crossbreed asparagus with Ryan Seacrest.

Aquarius: This week, prepare to travel as you’ll fall asleep on a boogie board and start drifting out to sea.

Pisces: You’ll visit a winery and complain, turning it into a whinery.

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Aug08

Movies You Missed: Coherence

by tonyd on August 8, 2015 at 12:01 am

Coherence is a low budget sci-fi movie that maximizes its low budget in a great way. The premise is this: A comet is passing overhead during a dinner party with eight friends. The comet causes some kind of rip in reality. The street that the house containing the party is on, now contains nothing but copies of the same house and the friends, but alternate realities of those friends. Things quickly get mixed up and the friends become increasingly afraid and the copies of the various friends end up in the wrong realities.

The ending is a bit of a cop out, but everything up until that point is pretty stellar. The cast feels like they are doing improv in a lot of the scenes. Nicholas Brendon (of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame) is probably the only face you’re going to recognize, but it’s a great cast.

You can find Coherence (2013) on Netflix. You should see it.