Cool Comic Thing
Something fun and inconsequential
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 PM EST
My lovely wife, who apparently doesn't have enough to do at work, often sends me e-mails with various goofy attachments - if you've ever worked in an office, you know the kind. So the other day she sent me a bunch of those fake motivational posters, and one made me chuckle and is relevant [...]
You Can Always Count on Peter Tomasi...
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 5:31 PM EST
For a little cute gag every issue or so.
Whether it be working song lyrics into the dialogue or stuff like this, he always seems willing to not take it all too seriously, which I appreciate a lot.
Nice Comic Book Related Moment on Modern Family
- by Brian Cronin
- Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 6:42 AM EST
I understand that he has had a long career in the entertainment industry, all well before he was writing comics, but I still took a little bit of "comic book pride" when I saw that this week's episode of Modern Family (which continues to be a pretty funny show) was directed by former Black Panther [...]
This is Good - Eric Trautmann Continues to Get Gigs
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 3:37 AM EST
Early last year, I wrote a piece about Eric Trautmann, who, at the time, had just gotten passed over to be the new Checkmate writer (which would have made waaaay too much sense for it to actually happen).
At the time, I noted that Trautmann was looking for writing gigs and that I hoped that someone [...]
The initiation continues!
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 PM EST
I've written before about how I'm trying to indoctrinate my younger daughter into the world of comics. She used to paw through the Archie digests at the comics shoppe, she made me buy issue #1 of Marvel's Wizard of Oz series (granted, Eric Shanower and Skottie Young were the creators, so it's not like [...]
Bad comics vs. HILARIOUSLY bad comics
- by Greg Burgas
- Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 1:00 PM EST
Bad comics come and go and are usually forgotten by the next week, because there's another bad comic or two coming out soon enough. HILARIOUSLY bad comics, however, like a certain comic featuring Oliver Queen weirdly declaring his undying love for a guy who once destroyed the universe and then blamed an giant bug [...]
Crossing the Proton Streams, Kirby-Style
- by Brian Cronin
- Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:11 AM EST
Okay, now imagine if Jack Kirby was one proton stream.
Got it?
Now, imagine that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are ANOTHER proton stream.
K?
Well, here's what happens when you cross them...
Cool Comic Thing - New York Magazine's Comic Excerpts
- by Brian Cronin
- Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 9:03 AM EST
Check this out! New York Magazine is doing a series of weekly excerpts from a variety of graphic novels!
Isn't that a really neat idea?
This week's excerpt (linked above) is Doug Tennapel's Black Cherry.
Here is an archive of past excerpts.
