2007 July
Comic Book Questions Answered #7
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 9:45 PM EST
If you have a nagging comic book question that you’d like to know the answer (or at least AN answer) to, just ask me, and I’ll see if I can’t answer it (and if I can’t, then hopefully I can find an expert on the subject who CAN). Sounds cool, right? Remember my e-mail contact […]
365 Reasons to Love Comics #212
- by Bill Reed
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 6:13 PM EST
It happens to be my birthday today (please, no, don’t send me your firstborn), and so to be completely indulgent, I will take a break from my vendetta against Wal-Mart and continue Bill Week with a look at my favorite Bill of them all, a brilliant writer who gave us a ridiculous amount of good […]
David Campbell’s Top Ten Suicide Squad Lines, Part Two
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 2:22 PM EST
Check out part two here, at Dave’s great blog, Dave’s Long Box.
So, I just read Persepolis over the weekend…
- by Brad Curran
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 1:47 PM EST
Making me perhaps the last comics reader on Earth to do so.*
Help me buy my comics this week!
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 9:22 AM EST
I’m back! Did you miss me? I am furiously working on my epic post about Friday at the convention. You know you’re dying to read it! But first … comics!
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Uncanny X-Men, Part Two
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, July 31st, 2007 at 7:55 AM EST
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: Uncanny X-Men, Part Two
(or “When It Didn’t Work”)
As briefly mentioned at the end of the previous column, the Uncanny X-Men underwent some major […]
Snark Free Corner for 7/30
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 9:33 PM EST
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Enjoy!
365 Reasons to Love Comics #211
- by Bill Reed
- Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 6:28 PM EST
Bill Week: Day Two! There’s quite a few fellows with my first name in comics– and these are the coolest. Stay current (or really out of date as well, if you’d like) with the archive!
Today: Another classic Golden Age creator with a prominent creation or two under his belt (and pen).
David Campbell’s Top Ten Suicide Squad Lines
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 4:36 PM EST
Because Cronin’s such a stand-up guy he allowed me to do a little guest spot here at Comics Should Be Good, where I can spread the gospel of Suicide Squad to the masses.
This week (and I use the term “week” loosely) on my blog Dave’s Long Box I am focusing on Suicide Squad, the […]
YouTube Can Be Good - 7/30
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, July 30th, 2007 at 5:10 AM EST
Can it really be anything but the Iron Man trailer from ComicCon?
How awesome does that look?!?
Seven Standards for Comics
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 11:53 PM EST
After I recently named a CBR thread “Seven Standards,” everyone’s pal, Alex, posted what he felt (off the top of his head) were the
SEVEN STANDARDS for comics
Alex’s seven were:
1. art that has an evident level of craft.
2. stories that move in meaningful arcs, linear or not.
3. characterizations that are not contrived (unless that is part […]
Comics Should Be Good @ Comic Con International - Day Four
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 10:02 PM EST
Here’s Kelson, with his experiences at the last day of Comic Con International in San Diego! For his first day’s report, click here. For his report on the second day, click here. For day three, click here.
365 Reasons to Love Comics #210
- by Bill Reed
- Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 6:22 PM EST
Lots of great posts from the past few days. Not all of ‘em are swimming with Comicon news, either! Check ‘em out! And then come back here and read this one.
Looking through the archive, you’ll see that we’ve had Mike Week and Bob Week. Lo, there shall now come… a Bill Week! It’s totally better […]
Did They Get Through the Loophole?
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 10:16 AM EST
Hot on the tails of 20th Century Fox getting in trouble for their Silver Surfer marketing (placing Silver Surfer pics on the back of quarters), Warner Bros. followed it up with their own currency marketing at Comic Con, placing Joker faces on numerous one dollar bills along with the phrase “Why so serious?” (Here is […]
Still More Responses to CCI News
- by Brian Cronin
- Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 10:07 AM EST
Unsurprisingly, more cool news for us to discuss!
Including the announcement of the Amazing Spider-Man (almost) weekly creative team!
