This Week In Normality — Summer Entertainment

Hey there faithful Normalinauts. It’s been a while since we here at NR have produced content with any amount of consistency or energy. It became apparent to Gilgrim and I that, as an endeavor, Normality Restored was far lacking in what we had hoped it might one day become.

There are numerous reasons for why this occurred which I won’t go into here. What it came down to, really, is that between the two of us, we were not able to devote the amount of time to the site that we felt you, the faithful Normalinauts, deserved.

In an effort to give you more for your (proverbial) internetz buck we, as you may have noticed, enlisted reinforcements. Even after bringing on Jezmon, Tengu, Stoker and Mustardseed, we still felt that something was missing. It was, all agreed, not a problem to be solved over the electronical mail.

And so, last Sunday, at a secret underground location in the jungles of Southern California, did the Amalgamated Order of Normality convene for the first time. It was agreed that, rather than update the site all willy nilly whenever we (read: me) wanted, the collective group that is Normality Restored would thus commence to publishing weekly articles and a comic…on Friday mornings.

Each week, we at NR will present a variety of articles…and a comic…on a particular theme. It’s like This American Life…only without talking, and Ira Glass, and bumper music, and interruptions by NPR news. As it is now the first week of July it seemed obvious that in this initial installment of the new NR we focus on “The Summer.” In particular, summer entertainment.

To that end we present to you reviews on some recent comics by both Tengu and Stoker, a list of some summer reading suggestions by Mustardseed, a run down of all summer goings on in the Star Wars universe by Jezmon, and both a list of some favorite movies to watch in the summer and a deep dark confession about a true summer guilty pleasure by me, your humble Kilian. Lastly, you will notice (faithful Normalinauts will notice…new readers, maybe not so much) that the art of the comic is much changed from previous iterations. In that panel up there you are seeing the new and improved kilian…do I look fat? Seriously, I think I look fat. I said as much to Gilgrim but his response was something like “deal with it.”

PS:
In defense…

In all defense to myself on this I think I should provide the following:

Kilian: “Lastly, I think the new kilian icon makes [me] look fat…do you think I’m fat? Seriously?”

Gilgrim: “fat??? are you serious? did you see mine, I’m lumpy and shaped like a squashed apple…. deal wit’it :p”

So yes, I did say deal with it… but there was more to the conversation.

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