The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Apr 12Judd Winick has created a cartoon and no-one told me? It’s kind of like Buffy meets that Jackie Chan cartoon, only written by Winick, who writes some good stuff. I stumbled upon it by accident last Sunday. I may have to watch more. When the episodes have titles like “My Mind on My Mummy, and Mummy on My Mind” how can you NOT want to watch?
For those of you not in the know, Winick has written or does write a lot, A LOT, of comics, including Exiles, Batman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, etc. I started reading his stuff with Barry Ween, Boy Genius (awesome stuff – a must read) and Blood and Water, a really good vampire limited series for DC/Vertigo. Apparently he was on Real World, so he plays some small role in the Reality TVpocalypse, but his stuff is too funny to hold that against him.
WikiWikiWhack: Judd Winick, Barry Ween
Linkapalooza: Puke and Piss Edition
Apr 12Just an assload of links piling up, and they’re not getting any fresher, so they’re starting to stink.
Isotope Comics has some neat PDF previews up of some pretty good indie comics. Very worth a look.
Remember the fat kid with the lightsaber you watched online like three years ago? Boy, was that funny. Funny to the tune of several hundred thousand Canadian dollars? Not really.
Mike Sterling writes a funny comics blog which I enjoy daily, and also does a column about managing a comic shop for another site. His latest column has both puke AND piss in it.
The Russian mob is online.
Thor and his posse throwing down a wicked awesome insult rap.
Project 880, also known as James Cameron’s next movie, also known as a geek wet dream, may be moving forward. Is it lame to be excited about this? I’m excited about this.
CSI: Miami with vampires. That is one HELL of a pitch.
To the moon, Alice!
Apr 12That’s right–the MOON!
Well, an unmanned probe, anyway. In 2008.
Two cool things here:
1) It’s a mission to prepare for an eventual manned mission. If I can’t see dudes walk on Mars before I bite the big one, I’ll take walking on the moon.
2) The cloud of dust kicked up by the probe crashing on the moon should be visible to amateur astronomers. Never have I wanted a Toys R Us telescope more.
WikiWikiWhack: The Moon, Project Apollo
What's "fast food" in Chinese?
Apr 11
A friend just came back from a trip visiting family in Hong Kong – I got a knock off set of Constructicons (or was it Destructicons – they were just outside my time in Transformer land) out of the deal, which is awesome. They made up names for them, which start logically enough and then just get wierd – the dump truck is Feeding and the crane truck is Sanitation.
Anyhow, he was telling me about the toy you can buy at KFC there – I know! They have KFC there! Now, I’m a big fan of fast food. The food is ok, but the corporate machinations are something incredible. You know guys who study sharks or tornadoes? Yeah, that’s me, only with fast food. It can kill, but at times that power is a sight to behold and be in awe. So, this kind of thing was right up my alley.
Artist Eric So (I’d seen some of this action figures before) has created a line of little dudes with sign language for heads. Absolutely incredible. The letters that require a gesture? Those dudes have clear plastic arrows indicating the hand movement. There’s one for every letter in the alphabet and KFC HK has them.
At two bucks a pop, I’d buy em. And the plane ticket. And accomodations. And the promotion is over now. And… aw, never mind.
Get Rich
Apr 11The new issue of Sequential Tart is up and boasts some lovely interviews, including this one with former Oni Ed-in-Chief Jamie S. Rich, who has both prose and graphic novels on the way. I dig the way Jamie is creating a “universe” for his characters via all kinds of media, including the web.
Select quotage:
“What I love is looking at people from different angles, and how they are portrayed being different based on who is looking at them. Some events will be in various books, but while a given scene might have been a triumph for one person in one book, it will be a failure for another. And the ultimate goal is to have worked through one big theme, hopefully, by the time I am through with this stage.”
