Fridays…with Greg Hatcher
Friday at lightspeed
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, May 9th, 2008 at 8:29 AM EST
I’m endlessly fascinated with the various controversies that erupt in our little pop-culture backwater. I admit it. Especially since they seems so… inconsistent.
Last week, there was this giant freak-out over DC Universe #0. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that if you are reading a CBR comics column, you know what […]
Almost Live-Blogging
- by Greg Hatcher
- Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 10:35 PM EST
Well, these pictures are only a few hours old, anyway.
Friday Convention Prep and Graduate Studies (…and various and sundry other things)
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 PM EST
Tomorrow I am off to the Puyallup library to teach a workshop as part of Free Comic Book Day, and then next week is all convention prep for the big Emerald City show. (That was actually a lot of this week, too.) So today you get another bits-and-pieces column of various things that have been […]
Saturday on the Fence
- by Greg Hatcher
- Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 4:10 PM EST
Various and sundry news items, and a couple of purchases, got me thinking about the basic split-personality so many of us modern comics readers have going in our heads. This one wanders around a little, but we’ll get there, I promise.
Saturday On the Cusp of a New Age
- by Greg Hatcher
- Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 6:47 PM EST
I hear a lot, the last couple of weeks, about how Secret Invasion is just a rehash of DC’s Millennium.
Friday at Riverside Elementary
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, April 11th, 2008 at 8:59 PM EST
One of the things you learn when you’re teaching is that, often, you get huge mileage in class out of things that are mostly just happy accidents.
Case in point…
Saturday’s Literary License
- by Greg Hatcher
- Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 9:34 PM EST
Okay, so here’s another parlor game for you.
A Weekend On The (re)Construction Site
- by Greg Hatcher
- Sunday, March 30th, 2008 at 9:36 AM EST
It’s a game all superhero fans play, especially at conventions or other gatherings of the faithful: “How would you fix __________ ?”
Saturday in the Box Canyon
- by Greg Hatcher
- Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 PM EST
I spend way too much time, probably, thinking about superheroes and pop culture and so on. Tracing the arc of how things have gotten to where they are today and this weird cul-de-sac Marvel and DC seem to be trapped in: I mean that state of arrested adolescence between juvenile entertainment and actual adult literature, […]
Thursday Drive-By Linkage
- by Greg Hatcher
- Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 12:01 AM EST
Column’s probably going to be delayed this week, but in the meantime, here’s a few amazing things I found on YouTube. These are clips so rare and weird that I’ve never even seen this stuff bootlegged at a convention.
Put it this way: my alternate title was See? See? I’m NOT MAKING IT UP!
Another Friday Rooting Through the Bargain Bin
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 8:48 PM EST
Around here, we call it “Amazon Roulette.”
Bridwell Appreciation Day
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 9:57 PM EST
Seeing as how we recently had a mention of Superman’s 70th birthday, at least as defined by E. Nelson Bridwell, I thought it might be nice to talk a little bit about the man himself — Bridwell, that is, not Superman.
Hard-Boiled Friday
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 11:59 PM EST
The funny thing was, it all started for me because of a bad review.
Party Tonight!
- by Greg Hatcher
- Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 10:03 AM EST
…at least, if you’re anywhere in or around the Seattle area. Ellen Forney sent us this invite and even though Julie and I can’t make it, I thought I’d at least pass it along. If you missed Comixtravaganza, here’s your chance to see the adult version. Here you go:
Friday bits and pieces
- by Greg Hatcher
- Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 AM EST
This was another one of those weeks where there wasn’t any ONE thing to write about. So you get a lot of little things instead. Were this week’s column a Jeopardy category, it would be “Potpourri.”
