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Sunday Brunch: 8/16/09
Sunday Brunch limps back, clearly not at full force. Nothing’s so much as breathed heavy on the internet lately, let alone broken it in half. Let’s see what links I can scrounge up.
ITEM! Hey, did you hear there’s gonna be a Walking Dead show on AMC? Oh, you did? From everybody? And they all used the world “shambling” in their headline? Darn.
ITEM! Professor Fury at PrettyFakes takes a look at two of my favorite underrated DC series, both from Joe Simon: Brother Power, the Geek, and Prez! Since the good professor was kind enough to link to me, I shall link back in return! Link your neighbor as yourself, and all that.
ITEM! Dan Nadel gives the internet’s only negative review of Darwyn Cooke’s Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter at Comics Comics.
ITEM! Bloodwulf explains grammar. Does what it says on the tin.
ITEM! I’ve been enjoying the recent rounds of Lester-on-McMillan podcasts. Maybe it’s for the insightful commentary, or the funny, or maybe it’s just because of the lovely lilting tones of Graeme’s Scottish brogue. Whichever. Here’s a link to the whole run so far.
ITEM! This week’s Terminus was even more awesome than usual.
ITEM! Since we last checked in, Abhay Khosla’s gone and put up a couple more chapters of his game-changing Dracula adaptation! Here’s chapter three and here’s chapter four. And here’s some enticement to click on the links:
ITEM! It’s Chris Sims’ birthday week (and I’m sure Brad Curran plots to pop out of a cake somewhere), but that hasn’t stopped him from posting the concluding chapter of his latest explosive comics adventure, Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N.! Guest starring David Tennant and Stephen Fry. Really. But don’t forget Gustav, the world’s happiest henchman:
THE LAST REMAKE/REMODEL until September, that is. This time it’s Captain Future, with the unique weakness of “strong blows to the head.” Here’s Neil Struthers‘ version:
And that’s all I got this week. What do you got?
6 Comments
Alan Coil
August 16, 2009 at 9:00 am
Heavy breathing.
Chad Nevett
August 16, 2009 at 9:20 am
I’ve also been digging the “Wait, What?” podcasts. They’ve got a good dynamic going on — and are coming at the material from a different perspective than I usually approach things, which is always good (in the sense that if I want to see material approached the way I would approach it, I’ll just read my own stuff…).
sgt pepper
August 16, 2009 at 10:27 am
Let the cows get there own Jesus.
I think I can say without hyperbole that Abay’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the best webcomic ever.
bad trotsky
August 16, 2009 at 11:32 am
Heh someone should do a book about a henchmen. Give Bob Agent of Hydra his own book….or something like that. Play it for laughs and would be gold. Sure would only last 12 issues but the lolz think of the lolz.
Cass
August 16, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I’m also really loving the Wait What? podcasts on TheSavageCritic. The Geoff Johns one is pretty spot-on and most definitely worth a listen. I agree with its final analysis, which is basically that Johns is a fairly smart guy who takes a lot of flak on the Web (ahem, Mr. Burgas), but mainly because he sabotages himself in his presentation.
I also found The Hunter to be a bit of a letdown, not for Cooke’s adaptation though, despite the art being a bit muddy and confused in certain places. The story is just really trite. Almost every scene works to the sole aim of inciting a “Woah, badass!” response from the reader – he fucks his girlfriend HARD, he smokes cigarette with the filter OFF, etc etc – it just gets really tiresome, and as a result, I don’t care one lick for the character by the end of the book.
Note: Praising (feintly) the work of Geoff Johns and panning a Darwyn Cooke release all in one post, what Internet taboos will I break next? Will Justice League International come under fire? Will Rulk be declared the character find of 2008? Stay tuned!
Greg Burgas
August 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Cass: Whenever I read a Johns book that doesn’t feature dismemberments, beheadings, or buckets of blood, I can tell he’s a pretty good writer. I just wish he wouldn’t lean toward the gore so much.