I Would Never Live in the 24th Century!
Nov 02Fans of nerd classic Free Enterprise (and if you’re reading this site, surely you are one) will likely recall that Mark edited a magazine called Geek Monthly. Well, guess what, fankids? That magazine is now real. FE producer/co-writer Mark A. Altman is co-publisher and editorial director and the first issue has Rainn Wilson on the cover dressed as James Bond. Genius, no?
And if you really need another reason to check out the first issue, well…there just might be something written by yours truly on page 84. It’s about the sweetest of topics — geek love. Do me a solid and check it out.
Hellooo, McFly!
Nov 01There isn’t much to say, other than I love that Gnarls Barkley makes a point of dressing up in costumes when they perform, and as evidenced by the latest issue of Spin, even just for a photo.
No Ghostbusters, as yet – perhaps because Alien Ant Farm wasted the opportunity. And yet, I remain optimistic.
WikiWikiWhack: Gnarls Barkley
Gimme some sugar, Bub.
Oct 31
Happy Halloween all – this is quite possibly the best thing ever. No, really. Screw air and sliced bread, this is my new happy place. I don’t know why, really – it has Let’s Make Money written all over it. But I’m a sucker for Zombies and Ash. So, Ash fighting zombies, Marvel Zombies as it happens, is pulling on me like a magnet.
WikiWikiWhack: Marvel Zombies, Ash, in comic form
The Hard, Cold Truth
Oct 31We comic book fans occasionally suffer under the delusion that someday, and soon, the mundane world will “get” comics. We see Watchmen earn a spot on Time’s list of the 100 greatest novels of the century, and we see American Born Chinese snag a National Book Award, and we imagine that at long last, our hobby and artform that we hold so dear won’t elicit another “Bam! Pow! Zap” headline in a national newspaper. We won’t get oddball looks at Subway when we whip out the latest Marvel Civil War crossover and read it over lunch. We won’t be seen as drooling man-children clinging to the relics of our youth with an unsettling vigor.
We’re so fucking crazy.
That’s my local Barnes & Noble, right there. (Sorry for the shitty cell phone pic.) A big ol’ sign announcing “Graphic Novels,” and what’s beneath it?
Piles of manga, aimed square at the kiddies, and How To Make Money Like A Porn Star, a recent release that’s been garnering some negative coverage, to put it kindly.
That table sums it all up, don’t it? Kiddie fare piled alongside an objectifying book of trash, complete with tit-lathered full-color cover.
Shit, if I didn’t already love comics and I saw that table, I wouldn’t want anything to do with them either.
