I decided to trash can the previous entry I had up here. No, not the one where I insulted Emu's manners and he insulted my maturity in the comments, but the one I had up after that. Most of it is just literary analysis run amock, and no one deserves that, espeically if you haven't had coffee yet. So I'll summarize the cogent points that I tried to get across (and don't require prior reading).

**Stories, including webcomics, can affect my mind and disposition in ways that television and movies rarely do. Perhaps because of the massive amount of editing and that no fewer than four minds (and usually quite a lot more) interpret any line utttered before a proper studio's camera, but those medium just do not often leave me scratching my head for weeks or months later that a written book can. Usually it's either a character making a choice that I cannot empathize with, or because the authro/artist made certain choices with the narrative that left a hole I demanded filling.

**"Boy Meets Boy" by K. Sandra Fuhr was the latest story to leave me squirming. It's a great read, for the msot part, and I gave up most of my sleep over the last few days to read not only all four years of that comic's archive, but the entirety of it's sequal, which ran for five years, and the sequal to that, which ahs been posted for almost a year now. Yes, I read a solid decade of one artists work. Her characters were that interesting. As was her choice of plots. I also found interesting that while, like a tv show, her characters didn't really change or grow much during any particular story, they changed markedly during the course of the comic as a whole.

**What killed me inside about Boy Meets Boy is that of the six I consider to be main characters, five get exactly what they want or need in life. And the last gets stuck holding the check. It's implied he might get a happy ending too, in fact the very last comic shows the first step in that, I did not feel it was enough. The previous version of this entry was a lengthy analysis of why I did not like this, but I'll spare you all that. I've slept more since I posted it, and am once again sane.

**After my analysis, which was partly just my way of thinking through what, exactly, bothered me, I wrote a short story attempting to cure myself of that itch. Said story shall hopefully be included in the upcoming Summer anthology. It is not an original interpretation of the theme, but it I think it's appropriate to the comic, the anthology, and the themes I like best.

Ten years of Sandra Delete (Ms Fuhr's online handle) has been only part of my two week long reading binge. I recieved about 5 books at once, including two I had shipped from Britain because I preferred their covers to the American ones. I know what you're thinking, but that was actually sanity talking. The original plan called for me to go to London and pick up copies in person later this month. I had my passport renewed in anticipation and everything. When the third book in the trilogy releases next year, nothing will stop me.

I bought yet another new book today, so I'll wander off to read it. Later.

Gabriel