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Sun May 11, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Weekend Window-Closing Wrap-Up
The Mother's Day edition
Once again, a bunch of things that haven't quite generated a post of their own, but deserve some sort of mention...
- The must-have costumes for San Diego: your own powered exoskeleton, rentable for only $1000 a month-- and it'll make hauling boxes a lot easier too. But if you're on a budget, you can always go as the Bat-Signal.
- Now where have we heard this before?
- What makes a superhero comic? What, is this like Scott Adams's checklist on what makes a joke?
- The creatures in Andrew Bell's head.
- Some Hong Kong "entrepenuer" grabbed all the images from Darren Di Lieto's The Little Chimp Society website and published it into a 350-page book being sold online for $100. You can read more on this post in Darren’s blog. (Via Stuart Immonen.)
- Tom Brevoort was a teenaged moron. It's true, he was. And he's just showing the stuff from 1988-- you should have seen the stuff from 1983. On the other hand, I wasn't much better. But while Tom and I have gotten better, Laura Hudson is still evil.
- A story of love in the letter columns.
- The Flash is back... at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? This wasn't the Flash Museum I remembered... Now with extra photos of the gala event.
And before I forget... hi, Mom!
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Comments (3)
Russ Rogers (9:05 AM on Mon May 12, 2008)
Wow! Reading this is like follow a trail of breadcrumbs left across the Internet. It's like taking a tiny peek into the twisted machinations of Glenn Hauman's transom. This was fun. Thanks.
BTW, I went to Pulp 2.0 (formerly DISContent)
http://d2dvd.blogspot.com/2008/04/that-sound-you-hear-is-...
I gushed about ComicMix like the fanboy-geek that I am!
Bill Cunningham (6:02 PM on Mon May 12, 2008)
Hi Glenn, Russ, et al ...
I am getting a couple of hits from you and I wanted to let you know I think your site is great. I like the idea of reading comics on the web and as I point out in my post - it is the future. I even write for the web myself courtesy of Astonishing Adventures Magazine.
But enough about me...
My one major criticism of you, and of web comics companies in general, is that I wish you guys had a spectacular publicist (or a good college student who needs journalism credit) who would get your stuff out there in the more mainstream (comics) media. In an era where EW does semi-weekly comic reviews and we have sooo many comic book movies at the box office - there's no reason for you guys not to get some of that love. Especially when it's this quality and especially when it's free. There's all sorts of stories you can pitch about your business model and content that would catch a journalist's attention.
Keep up the good work - I'll be checking in more often. It's been awhile since I've read Jon Sable Freelance and I need to catch up.
Bill Cunningham
http://d2dvd.blogspot.com
Glenn Hauman (1:50 PM on Wed May 14, 2008)
We keep trying to spread the word-- but there's a lot of noise out there to cut through. We do have a good publicity person in Martha Thomases, who was DC's PR goddess during the Death of Superman. And considering we've started from October, we're not unhappy with our growth curve.