Comic Book Resources

The ISB had a pretty good one too, but the site seems to be down at the moment. If it gets back up and running, the address is http://www.the-isb.com .

What was it? The site’s been down all day.

Honestly, I figured that was the joke.

I quite liked Look Out, Here Comes a Comic Blog today as well.

The ISB was up briefly last night, and unfortunately I only glanced at it since I figured I’d read it today.

Anyway, he announced he was doing yet another revamp, and gave the link to his new blog. Which was Chris’s Shortbox, a parody of Dave’s Longbox, and had numerous posts on the site, some with what looked like fake comments. It was pretty thorough.

Somebody will have to explain Kevin’s gag to me. I must be losing it. Talk about out of the loop.

Here it is -

http://chrissshortbox.blogspot.com/

I have successfully regained control of my site from the hackers that took it down. The page they set up still lives on at http://thorwithadickonhishead.blogspot.com, which is NSFW.

The only decent comics prank I saw this year was a Superman vs. Spider-Man film in 2012. It was ovious with the recent legal developments, but still more believable than the Oni prank.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/31/superman-vs-spider-man-film-announced/

The Oni Press one works great on the level of every Newsrama forum fanboy’s worst nightmare.

While the Oni Press one is a bit unbelievable. It is not because it was implausible, but because I suspect that Dynamite or Virgin would be the first ones to scoop up “Jerry Siegel’s Superman” should a license ever be offered up.

Some great goofs. My two favorites were the “Best Comic EVER!” McFarlane Spidey 1-6 retrospective on this very site, and something a friend of mine did on another site that had me cracking up from the headline onward. I mean, screw Watchmen. This is what we need on the big screen, right?:

http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=2455

Uh, yeah… As it turns out, the “Make Fun Of Dave Campbell” button and the “Destroy Website” button on my keyboard are right next to each other.

“Some great goofs. My two favorites were the “Best Comic EVER!” McFarlane Spidey 1-6 retrospective on this very site”

My favorite as well…never read them…and it didn’t seem like i missed much.

LOL
I meant my favorite April’s fool.

Oh yeah, you were clear on that, no worries. I have to admit, for a few paragraphs, I truly was drawn in by the dude’s argument- I mean, those high, thin panels as NY Skyscrapers? And here I was starting to believe I was a troglodyte merely for thinking that was some amazingly obtuse visual storytelling that gave you virtually no information nor compelling art alongside some downright tuuurrible prose that went nowhere, failed to elevate the material like he intended, and sucked the ever-loving fun out of the entire exercise. And then I came to “His Weblines Advantageous” and bingo, I remembered the date. Still, that’s about the smartest Fools Gag thrown my way this year and well worth remembering.

Fair’s fair though, I did start to see some clear improvement in MacFarlane’s writing skills as his run progressed (I think this was after all the guest writers on Spawn, so something rubbed off)- the Wendigo storyline was his best narrative and overall idea- he threw out all the damn meta-expositional junk and gave us a decent whodunit- my only complaint being a Wendigo that was now an albino bigfoot susceptible to bullets rather than a terrible, inexorable cursed thing roaming the land- but for the needs of the story it worked, and Pete got off some of his best one-liners that MacF ever gave him.

And he got Wolvie back in his yellow outfit for the first time in ages, though I did prefer the brown and tan. But at the time it was a nice little gimmick.