Poor JB. Dead modems are a pain. Been there, blew $100+ getting it replaced. Ah well, just means more suspense and hopefully no more speculators (yeah, I 've been a bad one but no more - I've learned my lesson...hopefully).
Looks like a lot of pencil work filling in the dark areas - IIRC from past pencils I've seen normally pencilers just put an x there or something to indicate to the inker to fill those in right? But given no inks here or color there is a need to do more.
JB: And the BAD news is, that power outage last night seems to have actually KILLED my modem. Several attempts to get online have failed. (I’m on my iPhone now.)
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Since your iPhone is working, just turn on "Personal Hotspot" in settings and you can connect your computer to the internet through that.
Hmmm… have we reached the 500th page of Elsewhen as of the first page of this very issue? (unless that 500 in the background is just Sentinel base 500, and/or I’m just losing my mind…)
JB: "Hafta say, it was a heckuva storm! I actually pulled up a chair in front of the floor to ceiling windows in the bedroom and sat watching the show. Sheet lightning filling up the whole sky!
Welcome to the Future.
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When I went to Las Vegas to see you at the Star Trek convention, there was a huge dry lightning storm the night I arrived. I had never seen anything like it, and I ultimately switched off the TV and watched the show outside the hotel windows. It was really spectacular, but so unsettling to see so much lightning without rain.
And then on the drive back to Los Angeles, there was a wildfire that caused a freeway closure. I missed getting blocked home by just a few hours! Those dry lightning storms are beautiful, but the fires they create are currently redrawing how we live in the western US. How long before the lush northwest is as barren as the southwest? The size and intensity of the Dixie Fire is not encouraging.
My favorite Watching-the-Storm moment was at the Chicago Con in 1980. My room had a huge bay window that faced the Lake, and a half dozen of us grouped our chairs so we could watch the massive, endless lightning paint the sky to the east.
Then came the rain. It swept in from the north as a literal wall of water. I mean, there was a hard edge to it, and people were running down the street ahead of the rain.
(My father had told me of times in England when it had rained on only one side of the street. I’d thought he was pulling my leg until I saw this.)
The most spectacular part of the show was when the onrushing wall would pass over a street light. It was like an explosion!
(Service came back on all by itself. Canceled the appointment with the tech, but since they had it listed for today AND tomorrow, not sure how successful the cancelation is!)
My son is 16 and my daughter is days away from being 15. If they had the abilities do this to each other, we wouldn't have a house standing around us. A page worth waiting for, it hits so close to home! Glad you have power again, JB.
I don't know, I kind of always imagined Odin saying, "Here, have some magic lightning and thunder, that will be intimidating and impressive", whereas Storm always seemed more in tune with controlling the actual weather of the planet.
I can't see Thor defeating his enemies by lowering the temperature in a room to freeze everyone until they surrender or temporarily removing the oxygen so that they are in danger of suffocating. His power was an enchantment, and his use of it was always (to me) interpreted by some version of how his norse creators envisioned it, well, godly: big, grand displays of divinely derived power.
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