TRANSITION PREVIEW: I haven't discovered any fatal flaws to the new BETA site yet so towards the end of the month we'll be transitioning over to it permanently. How will this work? I'll warn everyone when but the comixpedia.com domain will "float" over to the new site leaving this site still reachable at comixpedia.net. That'll probably mean a few wacky days of DNS changes where your best bet will be to stick to altertainment.net for the new site and comixpedia.net for the current site.

LIBRARY UPDATE: I haven't found any showstoppers for the new library either. I made some improvements based on feedback although I could certainly use lots more. Be sure to check out the suggestion page to add entries or if you're a creator go to this forum post for some creator-specific guidance on how to get the most out of this new part of the site. One thing claiming your creator entry gives you is the ability to update news about you. The most recent updates will show up on the Comixpedia home page and the front page of the library.

FORUM TRANSITION: Speaking of forums right now the plan is to start over in the new forums -- which btw are open and available to use. I'll be looking for folks interested in being active moderators for the new forums (email me at xerexes AT comixpedia DOT com if you are interested) as well. The current forum install is pretty banged up with lots of virtual duck tape everywhere. I'll be keeping it up at comixpedia.net for at least awhile after the transition later this month but I'm not sure whether I can keep the current forums archived forever or not. In part that'll depend on what you all want (it'll also depend on what's technically feasible).

Life On Pause by Don Oskowski follows the lives of four mid-twenty friends, whom all have their lives on pause.

The creator, Don Oskowski is interested in feedback. So please give LOP the once over and let me now what you think and perhaps come on back if you like what you read and see.

We've been doing a weekly single-panel cartoon for just over a year. It's generally a pay on words thing, sometimes quite dark, sometimes not. It's been moderately successful. We've joked about everything from Jesus to Death to prostituting horses. However, our latest cartoon was a, what I considered, quite cuesy number about a young girl misunderstanding the lyrics of a famous hymn. Someone else, who claims to be a 'successful lawyer who specialises in Internet propagated hate incitment and race related matters', doesn't think so and has complained that the cartoon has anti-Zionist undertones. His explanation is thus:

'One could easily view this cartoon as a mockery of European Jews returning as settlers to Israel. I don't think this interpretation is beyond the realms of probability when you read the text of the cartoon and that's why I asked the question I did yesterday.

The Christmas tree in the corner which is after all a German invention(and we all know what that race inflicted on us during the Shoah), could also easily be viewed as a symbol of anti-Semitic and/or anti-Zionist oppression.'

Now I've explained to the best of my ability, and with about as much politeness as I could muster at the time, but I find it very difficult to hide my disdain for this sort of thing. The Christmas tree bit was particularly over the top.

Anyway, I just thought I'd throw it up for discussion because I personally believe this sort of thing is very dangerous.