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ANDREW’S LINKS: Super Hanger!

ANDREW’S LINKS: Super Hanger!

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  • September 18, 2007

 

Now you have no excuse not to hang up your super-suit…

Comics Links

Eddie Campbell writes about speech balloons (including his differences of opinion with Bryan Talbot).

Yann Martel, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Life of Pi, has been sending a book and cover letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper every week for the past three months. This week, the book he sent and wrote about was Art Spiegelman’s Maus.

Viper Comics, not content with making comics I’ve never heard of, is branching out into clothes I won’t wear.

Comic Book Resources talks to Andy Smith, artist of Stormwatch PHD.

Fantagraphics Books has a regular Shoot-Out party, in which they run out into the woods, dump a pile of old monitors, lawn mowers, and TVs, and then blow them to pieces with assorted firearms. Apparently, this is not precisely legal. Wow, if you’d told me there was a comics publisher that shot up electronics regularly, Fantagraphics would not be the one I guessed…

Comics Worth Reading isn’t sure if there’s any market for comics mini-series any more.

Associated Content interviews Desert Peach creator Donna Barr.

Comic Snob pulls together various bestseller charts to make a grand unified field theory of popular manga.

Dick Hates Your Blog tries to work up some hate for Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly.

Living Between Wednesdays likes that new magazine Comics Foundry.

Comics Reviews

Inside Pulse reviews the usual stack of comics, starting with Daredevil #100.

Sequential Tart reviews the newest Minx books, Clubbing and Good As Lily.

Comics Reporter reviews Will Eisner’s Life, in Pictures.

The Axis reviews Confessions of a Blabbermouth.

Warren Peace Sings the Blues reviews the Groo 25th Anniversary Special.

From The Savage Critics:

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ANDREW’S LINKS: Lactose Intolerant

ANDREW’S LINKS: Lactose Intolerant

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  • September 15, 2007

As I type this, it’s still Friday, which was New Comics Day back in my own misspent youth.  Very vaguely in honor of that, enjoy this picture of a Milk & Cheese magnet.

Comics Links

Jonathan Ross, British TV personality and famous snogger of Neil Gaiman, has an article in the Guardian about why he loved Steve Ditko. It also serves as a teaser for Ross’s documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko, appearing on BBC4 Sunday night at 9.

Comic Book Resources reprints Diamond’s charts for market share and sales for August in the direct market.

CBR interviews Andrea Offerman.

And CBR also interviews Billy Tucci.

The Small Press Expo has announced the nominees for this year’s Ignatz Awards.

Newsarama interviews Garth Ennis.

Cracked.com lists the ten funniest webcomics.

Omar Karindu, at Comics Should Be Good, argues that it was always stupid when comic-book superheroes fought real-world dictators, terrorists, and the like.

Mike Sterling ponders the state of Spider-Man’s marriage, and whether anyone but Joe Quesada was every strongly against it.

Nerds with Kids interviews Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer about their work on the kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba.

The Washington Post looks at comics designed to be viewed on cellphones.

Comics Reviews

The Joplin Independent checks out the New Look Betty & Veronica.

PopMatters reviews the last ten issues of Strangers in Paradise.

The Onion’s A.V. Club reviews a bunch of comics.

The Christian Science Monitor reviews the new graphic novel biography of Ronald Reagan.

Warren Peace Sings the Blues reviews Osamu Tezuka’s bizarrely brilliant Apollo’s Song.

Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog covers this week’s comics, starting with B.P.R.D.: Killing Ground #2.

Jog of The Savage Critics reviews two old Vertigo comics: Kill Your Boyfriend and Girl.

Occasional Superheroine really likes the new Thor series.

Yes But No But Yes has its eyes on this week’s comics.

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ANDREW’S LINKS: Isn’t He A Little Short…?

ANDREW’S LINKS: Isn’t He A Little Short…?

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  • September 13, 2007

(See the continuation for an explanation of our "Bob & Godzilla" photo today.)

Comics Links

Publishers Weekly Comics Week talks to Matt Fraction, writer of Casanova.

Steven Grant, at Comic Book Resources, thinks about Jack Kirby and the art of comic book covers, then and now.

Brian Michael Bendis was interviewed by CBR about the various flavors of Avengers currently available in the marketplace.

CBR also interviews Ryan Dunlavey, artist of Action Philosophers!

The Beat casts its beady eye on Platinum Studios’ plans to go public.

The Baltimore City Paper (motto: “Eh, who needs a fancy name. It’s only Baltimore.”) visits Steve Geppi’s museum.

The Edmonton Journal interviews Peter Kuper, author of Keep Forgetting to Remember.

The New York Daily News profiles Meredith Gran, creator of the webcomic Octopus Pie.

Washington Post Express interviews the creators of Black Metal.

Comics Reviews

Publishers Weekly reviews Robert C. Harvey’s biography of Milton Caniff.

Warren Peace Sings the Blues reviews the October issue of Shojo Beat, and finds an unexpected obsession with breasts.

Brian Cronin of Comics Should Be Good looks at this week’s Thor and realizes that editors should say no to J. Michael Straczynski more often.

All of Comics Should Be Good gang-review the first issue of Potter’s Field.

From The Savage Critics:

Ain’t It Cool News reviews a pile of comics.

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COMICS LINKS: Play Ball!

COMICS LINKS: Play Ball!

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  • August 24, 2007

Comics Links

Newsarama has discovered the exisitence of Triple-A Baseball Heroes, in which Marvel superheroes apparently battle villainy in tandem with minor-league team mascots. (The cover is our illustration today.)

Comics Reviews

Ain’t It Cool News reviews a pile of recent comics, starting with the Booster Gold relaunch.

CHUD’s Thor’s Comic Column presents reviews of comics by several people, none of whom are actually named Thor.

Comic Book Resources’s Hannibal Tatu reviews a pile of this week’s comics.

Comics Reporter reviews Hurricane Season #1.

The Daily Cross Hatch reviews Fletcher Hanks’s I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets.

Comics Worth Reading reviews To Terra by Keiko Takemiya.

Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog covers this week’s comics.

Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good also reviews this week’s comics.

Comics Should Be Good’s Brian Cronin looks at the first issue of the second series of Mouse Guard.

SF/Fantasy Links

What is Star Wars were a musical? Let’s Blow This Thing! might just be the result. [via Extra Life]

Locus Online lists the new books that they saw in mid-August.

Jeff Somers’s new book The Electric Church now has its own website.

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BIG BROADCAST: Secrets of the Ultimates!

BIG BROADCAST: Secrets of the Ultimates!

Longer than the discussions about Thor Vs Hulk or Mighty Mouse vs Superman, collectors have been arguing about the condition of their collections. Just like comics, collectible toys now have a third party grading service and The Big ComicMix Broadcast gives you the details here.

AND – Marvel starts to reveal the Secrets Of The Ultimate Universe, Superman and his crew take on Kryptonite, and Irwin Allen gets his own night of Prime Time Television!

PRESS THE BUTTON, which you will notice is in Very Fine Plus Condition!

Do I Have To Say It?

Do I Have To Say It?

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  • August 13, 2007

Graeme McMillan of The Savage Critics discovers the single best panel of the week (see above) and reviews Batman #667. No, seriously – does anyone else think that looks like Halloween about three doors down from stately Wayne Manor?

Newsarama has two sets of pictures from Wizard World Chicago – mostly of people in costumes, natch.

Ain’t It Cool News reads the current script for the Thor movie, and likes it.

Your sign of the apocalypse of the day: bikini-clad stormtroopers. (Insert your own “Aren’t you too…to be a stormtrooper” joke here.)

Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing reviews the graphic novel Giant Robot Warriors by Stuart Moore and Ryan Kelly.

The Toronto Star reviews Warren Ellis’s novel Crooked Little Vein.

Movies Online interviews someone they called “Neil Gaimon” about the movie “StarDust.” I wonder if they asked him about his comics series Snadman, or his young readers novel Caroline? (And is he any relation to Charles Dickkens, the well-known Dutch author?)

Comics Reporter interviews Doug TenNapel, cartoonist of Black Cherry.

Greg Hatcher of Comics Should Be Good wants to write about the “Entwistles of comics.”

Neth Space reviews the new anthology The New Space Opera, edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan.

The UK SF Book News Network talked to Chris Robertson about his new novel, Set the Seas on Fire.

Yatterings reviews InterWorld, the new novel for young readers by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves.

John Scalzi of Ficlets interviews David Anthony Durham, author of Acacia.

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MARTHA THOMASES: Hot Fun in the Summertime

MARTHA THOMASES: Hot Fun in the Summertime

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  • August 11, 2007

Summertime, and the livin’ is easy.  Fish are jumpin, and the cotton is high.  Or so I’m told.  Living in a major metropolitan area in the twenty-first century, I have to take such things on faith.

This summer, the fun times for someone like me are largely political.  The presidential election is over a year away.  The first primaries are six months away.  Nothing is going to be decided any time soon, so I can pretend it will all turn out for the best. 

I spent the summer I was 15 going “clean for Gene,” campaigning for Eugene McCarthy, who was running against Lyndon Johnson for the Democratic nomination on an anti-war platform.  Four years later, I ran as an alternate delegate for George McGovern. Four years ago, I nearly got arrested outside the Republican convention up the street from here.  Presidential campaigns are fun!

Which is not to say they couldn’t be much more fun.  The problem is that presidential candidates tend to be politicians.  They spend all their time hustling campaign funds, writing policy, and meeting the public.  They go on the Sunday morning news shows and show how serious they are.  They go on Oprah or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to show they’re regular folks who can take a joke.

They don’t save the world from alien invasions.  They don’t even fight crime.

Presidential campaigns would be a lot more fun if, instead of Republicans versus Democrats, it was Marvel versus DC.   For example debates between:

 

Captain America and Superman on immigration reform.

Luke Cage and John (Green Lantern) Stewart on affirmative action.

Thor and Wonder Woman about the separation of Church and State.

Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne on the inheritance tax.

Storm and Aquaman on global warming.

The Punisher and Batman on prison reform.

Professor X and Green Arrow on family values.

The Avengers and the Justice League on national security.

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Marvel’s upcoming slate

Marvel’s upcoming slate

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  • August 8, 2007

In presenting its 2Q 2007 report yesterday, Marvel unveiled that it is producing Hulk Smash, a new animated direct-to-DVD movie that will be released by Lionsgate in October 2008.  Concerning its first two self-produced live-action feature films, Marvel has completed production on Iron Man while The Incredible Hulk began production in July, and the two movies are slated for release in 2008 on May 2 and June 13 respectively.  Marvel’s additional movie, TV and stage projects in the works include:

  • Wolverine (Fox) – Gavin Hood to direct and Hugh Jackman stars
  • Punisher 2 (Lionsgate) – Lexi Alexander will direct, starring newcomer Ray Stevenson.

As we noted in yesterday’s Big ComicMix Broadcast, in development at Marvel Studios we have:

  • Ant-Man, writers Edward Wright and Joe Cornish; Wright also directs
  • Captain America, David Self/writer
  • Nick Fury, Andrew Marlow/writer
  • Thor, Mark Protosevich/writer
  • The Avengers, Zak Penn/writer.

In animated TV series development:

  • Spider-Man, with Sony, with a distribution deal in place with Kids’ WB
  • Wolverine and The X-Men (26 episodes) developed by India’s First Serve Toonz
  • Iron Man (26 episodes) developed by Method Films in France.

There are two more animated direct-to-video DVDs with Lionsgate: Doctor Strange comes out next week and Teen Avengers is slated for July 2008.

And finally, the most terrifying project that’s literally in the wings: Spider-Man the Musical, featuring music and lyrics by U2’s Bono and The Edge the show will be directed by Julie Taymor, and produced by Hello Entertainment/David Garfinkle, Martin McCallum, Marvel Entertainment, and SONY Pictures Entertainment.

Whew.

More Mighty Marvel Movies! Powers Speaks!

More Mighty Marvel Movies! Powers Speaks!

It’s The Big ComicMix Broadcast Wizard World Chicago pre-game show (whew!) loaded with this week’s avalanche of new comics and DVDs fresh in the stores. Mike Oeming tips us on what’s ahead for Powers and we uncover the hidden secrets of G.I. Joe!  We reveal what the stock brokers know about all those undisclosed new films coming from Marvel (including Thor and, seperately, The Avengers), and then it’s a trip back to the Nixon era for a song on the radio by a guy name "Yokim" who wasn’t from Dogpatch!

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll spend a cool 14 minutes… but only when you PRESS THE BUTTON!

MIKE GOLD: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

MIKE GOLD: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

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  • July 30, 2007

I’m writing ahead so I can properly annoy people at this past weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, so here’s some massively random thoughts from a probably senile old fart.

Remember the old Batman villain Doctor Double-X? Detective Comics #261, November 1958? The idea was, this guy Doctor X could split into two villains, the second known as Doctor Double-X. Okay, he wasn’t one of your better villains. But now that I think of it – and Crom knows why I was thinking of it – when he split into Doctor Double-X, shouldn’t Doctor Double-X have been a woman?

Back when the Chicago Tribune was still running Lee Falk’s The Phantom, their feature editor told me the strip ranked first among black males. I like The Phantom, but let’s face it: the story is about 21 generations of white men who rule (they each sat on a throne) Africa and the black natives who think he is really one 400 year old man. Was there a severe self-image problem amongst those polled, or what?

You probably remember Marvel Comics’ adaptation of the Planet of the Apes. What you might not know is that what you may have read from Marvel was not their original adaptation. They did the story, printed it and received a few untrimmed copies from the printer. Only then did it come to Marvel’s attention that star Charlton Heston had approval rights to all depictions. Marvel trashed the print run, made the appropriate changes, and went back to press. But at least one of those untrimmed, uncollated copies still exists. It’s not noted in the Overstreet Guide (at least not volume 35, the one closest to me). I wonder what it’s worth on the collector’s market?

Back in the height of the alternate / silver foil / prism / wacky numbering fad (as opposed to today’s alternate / pencil cover / second-printing cover fad), Mike Grell and I wanted to publish a special issue of Shaman’s Tears between issues 3 and 4. It would have been called Shaman’s Tears #π, and it would have been printed on bubble gum stock. We were overruled. Within a year or so, Marvel licensed their comics out to be printed on bubble gum.

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