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Valiant Comic Book Alphabet of Cool - Y
Friday, May 16th
Here’s a tricky one, but it’s for a good book.
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What I bought - 14 May 2008
Thursday, May 15th
Today, I will reveal some righteous anger against someone right here on the Internet. Someone who often reads this blog, in fact! You don’t want to be the target of my wrath, let me tell you! So who has earned my ire! Find out below the fold!
Oh, and I review some comics. You know, like I do. Continue Reading »
This “Comic” Is Good - Super Martian Robot Girl
Thursday, May 15th
Super Martian Robot Girl is a frequent segment on the popular children’s television series, Yo Gabba Gabba.
Originally designed as a live action segment, it was reworked as a short animated story with artwork by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer.
A sample story has the young hero called to help a group of people on the street when a monster approaches them. Super Martian Robot Girl figures out that the monster is only trying to ask them a question (about whether they like his haircut), and saves the day by letting them know that you shouldn’t judge people solely on their appearance!
It’s a fun, cool-looking introduction to comics for kids, and we’re lucky that creators as cool as Dorkin and Dyer are behind it. Here is a neat interview with the creators at Nerds With Kids.
A Look at the New DC Japanese Heroes
Thursday, May 15th
Mangablog has a page up from DC’s Final Crisis sketchbook, featuring some designs of the new Japanese heroes Morrison and JG Jones are debuting in the series.
Looks pretty darn fun!!
Valiant Comic Book Alphabet of Cool - X
Wednesday, May 14th
I could be tricky, but why mess with a good thing?
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Everybody’s Somebody’s Baby Redux
Wednesday, May 14th
Okay, so I guess we’ll do it for the Top 100 Runs, too!
I have a couple already (and I have one for a run that I forgot to use, so I guess I’ll post that one, too), but if your top pick did not make the Top 158 runs, please feel free to e-mail me a bit on why you picked your run #1. Starting Monday, I’ll run (one a day) however many essays people send me! So if you Quasar fans really want to explain to people the greatness of Gruenwald’s run, here is your chance!
Help Gene Colan Out!!
Wednesday, May 14th
Comic legend Gene Colan has been having some health issues, and he is without health insurance, so Clifford Meth is helping out in the following way:
Aardwolf Publishing will be publishing Meth, Colan & Other Theologians, the proceeds of which will go directly and immediately to Gene and Adrienne Colan. The new book will include everything that was in Perverts, Pedophiles & Other Theologians (the short-fiction collection that Gene and I did together for Aardwolf in 1997) plus two never-before-published stories illustrated by Gene. This will be a limited edition (aprox. 100 pages) of only 500 copies, all signed and numbered. You can order it NOW by sending (via PayPal) $20 plus $3 shipping to: sales@aardwolfpublishing.com
Meanwhile, Daniel at 20th Century Danny Boy suggests sending postcards and Get Well cards to Gene at the following address:
Gene Colan
2 Sea Cliff Avenue
Sea Cliff, NY 11579
USA
He’s also collecting a great deal of Colan tributes at his blog here.
Top 158 Comic Book Runs #107-103
Wednesday, May 14th
Here are the final six runs!
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Valiant Comic Book Alphabet of Cool - W
Tuesday, May 13th
I’ll admit, this is more of a symbolic one, sort of like J!
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John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Monster of Frankenstein
Tuesday, May 13th
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented.
Storytelling Engines: Monster of Frankenstein (or “Changing Your Source Mid-Stream”) So let’s say you’re Marvel comics in the mid-1970s. (Probably a heck of a career change for you, depending on who’s reading this, but just go with me for a minute here.) Recent revisions to the Comics Code have made it viable to publish horror comics again for the first time in a couple of decades, and you’ve got a popular Dracula comic and a popular werewolf comic. What comes next? Frankenstein’s monster, of course! Gary Friedrich started writing ‘Monster of Frankenstein’ by drawing from the original novel by Mary Shelley. He picked up the story pretty much where Shelley had left it off, in fact, by having the Monster discovered in the Arctic ice where it had gone off to die, perfectly frozen for a century or so of inactivity. Naturally, a series of events unfreezes the monster (after a few issues that retell the origin for people who’ve never read the novel), and off we go! Friedrich’s ‘Frankenstein’ makes a few very interesting choices in the way it sets up its storytelling engine. Continue Reading »
I’m genuinely curious
Tuesday, May 13th
If people will buy a 16-page comics single for two dollars (i.e., Fell), would they buy an 8-page comics single (with backmatter, let’s say) for one dollar?
Snark Free Corner for 5/12
Monday, May 12th
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
In honor of the finale of the Valiant Comic Book Alphabet of Cool this week, this is an All-Valiant edition!
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Valiant Comic Book Alphabet of Cool - V
Monday, May 12th
The character find of 1997!
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Top 158 Comic Book Runs #118-109
Monday, May 12th
Here are the next ten runs!
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JMS Knows Team-Ups
Monday, May 12th
Check out some of the team-ups he says he has in the works for his run on Brave and the Bold:
Batman and the Spectre, Lex Luthor and Swamp Thing, Deadman and Wonder Woman, Constantine and Eclipso, Superman and Sgt. Rock, Challengers of the Unknown and the Metal Men, and the Legion of Substitute Heroes with the Inferior Five.
That’s some impressive team-upping right there.
