ComicMix Quick Picks – February 19, 2009
Today’s list of quick items that don’t fill a full post on their own:
- If you haven’t read it yet, you simply must: about DIGITAL COMICS by ~Balak01 on deviantART. Now this is the way to think about digital comics, none of this clutch cargo animation going around. Marvel, take note.
- Matt Smith locked into Doctor Who role with £600,000 deal. And most importantly, it’s a five year deal.
- Missed this one: Two more actors reported to be in line for The Flash — and one of them is Neil Patrick Harris, who already voiced the Flash in New Frontier.
- And speaking of Neil Patrick Harris, Trinity College in Connecticut is running live performances of Dr. Horrible. Everybody, sing along!
- “Spider-Man” Arrested In Israel:
“Cops were called to the scene after receiving a flurry of calls from gridlocked commuters near the Rosh Ha’ayin intersection who reported a man in a Spiderman costume throwing ropes at cars, the improvised lassos presumably meant to substitute for the web-crawler’s famous mechanical web-shooters.”
When the individual woke up in the hospital, he said that he had no idea where the costume came from.
Clearly, this is going to be the evil costume’s fault. Via Haaretz
- My favorite non-comics story of the day: Police: TV exec beheads wife who filed for divorce.
- Joss Whedon to receive SFWA Bradbury Award. Created in 1992 by then-President Ben Bova and named after famed author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury, the Bradbury Award is a special president’s award presented for outstanding genre-themed work in a dramatic medium. "Like everyone who picks up a pen, I was a rabid Bradbury fan and as greatly influenced by him as any other writer I read," Whedon said. "To receive the award named for him is an honor I’d not dreamed of. In my defense, it didn’t exist back then. What did exist were the very lovely, very twisted and very human stories that warped my impressionable mind, and that I have tried, in whatever medium they will let me, to measure up to." Whedon will be honored during the Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles, California, April 24-26, 2009.
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
I'd vote for Scott Porter as Wally West.TV exec beheading his wife is your favorite story of the day? You missed your calling. I hear there's an opening at your neighborhood morgue.
I love the digital comic. To some extent it reminds me of what Bob Tinnell and Adrian Salmon were doing a few years ago on Terry Sharp – the only difference is the control over time given to the reader. And that makes ALL the difference. I'll keep this in mind.
"Spider-Man" Arrested In Israel:If I could remember the clinical term for people who go all biblcal after a trip to the Holy Land and start wearing robes and stuff, I could make a very funny and intelligent-sounding joke.