I'd buy that for a dollar
Jul 13Matt mentioned earlier that the new Escapist comic was coming out – this confused me to no end, as I’d bought a couple of the VERY expensive and sporatic Escapist comics from a few years back. They were good, but they were eleventy bucks or more, and they always felt like the comic equivalent of fast-growing a clone from a child to an adult in a matter of months – the whole point behind them seemed to be to portray the Kavalier and Clay story as fact over fiction. Which was cool and all, but I could only read so much about how Gil Kane did character studies for Amazing Midget Radio Comics, but it never went anywhere and he returned to DC. And whole pages of the books were a mix of fake and real letters. It was a great idea and I just couldn’t pay attention.
Now Dark Horse is doing a six part series, wherein Brian K Vaughan, Philip Bond, and Eduardio Barreto tell the tale of a man attempting to get The Escapist updated and publishing again. I dig Vaughn. I love Bond’s art. I should probably know who Barreto is, but don’t – his “golden age” Escapist art is excellent. The whole thing is awesome – and the first issue that just came out… is a buck.
In fact, the only downside to this whole venture is that they lead with Frank Miller doing the cover. It’s not quite an eyeball grabber – I actually tend to skip over Miller art when I visually scan the shelves, so I almost missed it. Why can’t that dude do feet properly? They always look odd. Brian Bolland did the backcover, so that kind of makes up for it.
Anyhow, if you liked The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, you might want to check this out – it’s almost like a sequel, without all the pretentions of presenting fiction as fact.
Chime in, Matt – what’d you think?
WikiWikiWhack: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Los los los!
Jul 06
I opened up the brain and let random bits of my trip to Germany fall out – I did it at MySpace, and rather than repost it here, I’ll just redirect you there. I keep thinking of random things I forgot about, so there will likely be a third post on completely random facts and snippets.
Remixing Cory's column title
Jul 06When Cory posted his new column, entitled “Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet.” I thought to myself, “That’s a pretty dumb idea.”
Upon reading the column, it turns out the title is not the thesis of his article. The piece talks about the history of copyright and winds along to his conclusion, which is that science-fiction authors are using the net to comunicate with their fans, even going so far to release whole texts online for free – this in turn creates fans, fans help promote, creating new fans, and so on – all of whom buy hardcopies, equaling success for the author. Yay! I agree. However, the title still bugs the shit out of me.
Laugh it up, furball puppet
Jul 05This is possibly one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Now I want to make puppets. I’m going to make puppets and you can’t stop me. Ghostbuster puppets. YEAH!
Jet setting sucks
Jul 03It looks as if Alert Nerd was mostly abandoned this past week, as Sarah was away for part of it, Matt was away for part of it, and I was away for all of it. I half expected I would be able to posting SOMETHING while I was in Germany, but not so much.
I wish I had lots of German nerdiness to report, but with the World Cup on, it’s all German jockiness right now.
I did however buy not one, not two, but THREE German hip hop CDs, which make me very happy.
I’ll share more when my brain isn’t convinced it’s dinner time at breakfast time.
