Category: ComicMix Quick Picks
Adam West Reflects on His ‘Tongue-in-Cheek’ Legacy as Batman
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/original-batman-adam-west-reflects-699804
Please, I would like you to know that I do not spend my days and nights running around in a cape and cowl fighting crime. But I used to. And even before that, it was a blue bath towel. As a kid on a farm near Walla Walla, Wash., I played Batman. You may have done the same.
Worth a read, particularly if you’re reading Batman ’66.
Slate Thinks Spider-Man Is Jewish
Spider-Mensch, Spider-Mensch, does whatever a spider can (but not on Shabbos…)
Pay-what-you-want Humble Image Bundle to benefit CBLDF
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2014/04/pay-what-you-want-humble-image-bundle-to-benefit-cbldf/
Humble Bundle has partnered with Image Comics to offer a collection of DRM-free digital titles for as little as a penny, with a portion of proceeds going to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The promotion enables you to name your price for the first volumes of East of West, Fatale, Lazarus and Morning…
LeVar Burton Promotes Free Comic Book Day!
Reading activist and host of the PBS Show Reading Rainbow, LeVar Burton encourages readers of all ages to check out Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May 3rd, 2014! For more information and to find a participating comic shop, go to www.freecomicbookday.com.
Happy Birthday, Phil Foglio!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/girlgenius/girl-genius-volume-13-agatha-heterodyne-and-the-sl
It’s time to print the next volume in the continuing adventures of Agatha Heterodyne – Girl Genius!
Why don’t you give him a birthday present by contributing to his crowdfunding campaign for Girl Genius Volume 13: Agatha Heterodyne & The Sleeping City, and he’ll give you a great read?
Hooray, Hooray, the First of May; Aragorn’s Ticked Off the MTA
http://gothamist.com/2014/04/30/mta_unamused_by_lord_of_the_rings_s.php
As you no doubt know, Lord Aragorn will at last be crowned King of Gondor tomorrow. However, the MTA of New York is unamused at the potential traffic disruption from giant eagles…
Thrillbent 3.0 and the return of Empire
http://thrillbent.com/blog/thrillbent-3-0/
Mark Waid, John Rogers, and the rest of the Thrillbent crew announce their upcoming plans– including the return of Waid and Barry Kitson’s Empire.