‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’: Opening Battle
In the future, Kitty Pryde, Iceman, Colossus, Bishop, and many more mutants face off against… well, watch and see.
Category: ComicMix Quick Picks
ComicMix Quick Picks: April 2, 2014
A Wednesday Window Closing Wrap-Up™ for y’all. Here we go:
- So, what did we miss yesterday in Internet April Fool wackiness? Bleeding Cool has a roundup.
- How does Seth Meyers really spend his late nights? Reading comics on Comixology, apparently.
- Coming soon to BBC America: The Real History of Science Fiction. I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Speaking of science fiction history, The Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game from Infocom has found its way online. You still have: no tea. But don’t panic.
- With con season starting up again, Allison Types has compiled a list of Comic Book Industry Pro Tips. Recommended.
- If you’re a parent, here are 8 Reasons To Let Your Kids Read Comics. Take that, Dr. Wertham!
- Mystery novelists are now doing crossovers. Just wait till Nick Fury shows up at the end to recruit them.
- And finally, Lorenzo Semple Jr., creator of the 60′s Batman TV series and writer of such films as Never Say Never Again, King Kong (1976), Papillion, Three Days of the Condor, and The Parallax View, passed away in his home in Los Angeles Friday of natural causes, a day after turning 91. Without him, Batman may not have even had a 30th anniversary and here we are now at 75 and counting. The New York Times has his obituary. Our condolences to his family and friends.
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
(Poster art by Tom Whalen)
Gone Fishing
C’mon… you weren’t going to believe anything we posted today anyway. Go vote in the Mix March Madness webcomics tournament, even though it’s now April.
Monday Mix-Up: “How I Met Your Mother” meets “Star Wars”
In honor of the series finale, not because JJ Abrams is planning this. We think.
Wolverine: The Musical!
You knew that, sooner or later, Hugh Jackman was going to do this:
This just in: Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi is the sweetest man ever
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to ask a child dressed as a Dalek if he can be The Doctor.
There’s lots of cool moments in this video of Doctor Who filming at Mermaid Quay, like the first scenes by new recurring castmember Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink.
But right at the end, there’s is a moment of new Doctor Peter Capaldi talking with a little girl who came all the way from Aberdeen to see the shoot. While security tried to get him to keep moving, he took the time (along with signing endless autographs) to make her feel better about what is surely her first case of New Doctor Angst.
I’m not crying; I’m smiling so hard the corners of my mouth are squeezing my tear ducts…
In Memoriam: Bill Hicks
[[[Bill Hicks]]] died twenty years ago today, February 26, 1994. Most comic book fans know him from his appearance in Preacher #31, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon:
Here’s the man at work, in a segment that David Letterman removed from his show:
This was his final statement:
February 7, 1994 –
I was born William Melvin Hicks on December 16, 1961 in Valdosta, Georgia. Ugh. Melvin Hicks from Georgia. Yee Har! I already had gotten off to life on the wrong foot. I was always “awake,” I guess you’d say. Some part of me clamoring for new insights and new ways to make the world a better place.
All of this came out years down the line, in my multitude of creative interests that are the tools I now bring to the Party. Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who’ve helped me. I’d read these words and off I went – dreaming my own imaginative dreams. Exercising them at will, eventually to form bands, comedy, more bands, movies, anything creative. This is the coin of the realm I use in my words – Vision.
On June 16, 1993 I was diagnosed with having “liver cancer that had spread from the pancreas.” One of life’s weirdest and worst jokes imaginable. I’d been making such progress recently in my attitude, my career and realizing my dreams that it just stood me on my head for a while. “Why me!?” I would cry out, and “Why now!?”
Well, I know now there may never be any answers to those particular questions, but maybe in telling a little about myself, we can find some other answers to other questions. That might help our way down our own particular paths, towards realizing my dream of New Hope and New Happiness.
Amen
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
More power to you, buddy. Hope you enjoyed the ride.
Will Arnett Reads School Closings… as Batman!
If there’s one good thing about a very very VERY long winter, and yet another snow day, it’s this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdI5cWix_G0
