Power Man and Iron Fist comics

Originally uploaded by kms007

Power Man and Iron Fist was probably one of Marvel’s most underrated titles back in the late ’70s – mid-80′s. The series featured a salt-n-pepper super-hero team, comprised of street-wise Lucas Cage aka Power Man and his philosophical kung-fu partner Iron Fist. Both Power Man and Iron Fist had their own comic series. Luke Cage, Power Man was Marvel’s attempt to capitalize on the Blacksploitation craze, while Iron Fist was created around the height of the martial arts craze during the 70′s. Iron Fist lasted 15 issues before it received the axe.

Chris Claremont and John Byrne (those X-Men guys) were responsible for teaming Cage with the ‘Fist. With issue #50, the moniker “Power Man and Iron Fist” stuck, and the series lasted for an impressive 75 issue run. The last 10 or so issues of the series was written by Jim Owsley (now Christopher Priest) and drawn by M.D. Bright, and represent the highlight of the book, aside from the Jo Duffy / Kerry Gammill and Chris Clarement / John Byrne runs the series had.

I scored the last 25 issues from a gentleman on eBay. It was one of those freak auctions I happened to chance upon. Anyway, I’m pleased at punch with receiving these books in excellent condition and look forward to taking a lazy Sunday afternoon to read them…

-Krishna

Sketch for Jan 08 wallpaper

Originally uploaded by kms007

Here’s the sketch behind one of the desktop wallpapers I created in the Goodies section for this month. All my comics and art appear in a very rough form when I’m penciling. All the clean-up work is done digitally. Each sketch is scanned into the computer and digitally inked using Corel Painter.

Any chance you could add fuel to the fire and digg up the PCW.net relaunch? Danka!

This evening my stalwart Powerbook (Pismo 400MHz) died. (What is with these rash strings of hardware failures I’m having as of late?)

This one could have been prevented. It was my fault – I should have not precariously positioned the power cord of the Pismo near the entrance door of my office.

Silly me.

I was upgrading the OS on the Pismo from 10.4.9 to 10.4.11 and a quarter of the way through, Aarti came into my office, and accidentally tripped over the cable, knocking the laptop from the table to the floor. The hard drive never came back up after that. Surprisingly, the machine boots and the display is fine. There was no damage on the case of the unit itself, a remarkable testament to the Pismo’s durability. (It landed on the carpet from a nearly 3 feet drop!)

A new hard drive may bring this machine back from the dead, but at this point, it’s not financially viable for me to explore that option. So, it really is the end of the road for this laptop. Going out with a “thud”, so to speak.

R.I.P. Pismo.

-Krishna

I’ve had my Plantronics 650 headset for about 2 weeks now. I’ve been pretty happy with it except for one minor niggle: in order to use it, I would need to make a trip to the Sound Preference under System Preferences to select the headset as my primary audio input and audio output.

No big deal, right?

I also have a pair of Logitech speakers that I like to use when I’m working. Again, in order to toggle the audio output, I would go back into the Sound Preference in System Preferences to make the change.

That is, until earlier this week – when I came across Sound Menu. This little Menulet allows you to switch your audio input and outputs in just two clicks. You can also mute all audio sources, and even choose which audio source you’d like to pipe your system alert sounds into. Sound Menu works on Mac OS X 10.4 on up. It runs like a champ on Leopard. Best of all, this program is FREE. Check it out.

-Krishna