Marc Guggenheim: Kick ASS.
Oct 30I hate TV writers.
For several years, I yearned to become a TV writer. Throughout those years, and in my current state of not BEING a TV writer, I built up a significant resentment for this rareified breed, these lucky duckies who sit in posh writers’ rooms and eat free food and make jokes all day and then get paid lots of money.
If there’s anything I hate MORE than a TV writer, it’s a TV writer who also gets to write COMIC BOOKS. Yeah, thanks, dude. You really need to have TWO dream jobs, don’t you. I’ll just toil away at bullshit while you get to fulfill every fantasy I’ve ever had. Go ahead–lick whipped cream off the bald head of Ving Rhames. Take away ALL my hopes and dreams.
In spite of all this, I have to confess that I am loving Marc Guggenheim right now. If you’re not familiar, Guggenheim just wrapped a kick-ass arc on Wolverine, maybe the best Civil War tie-in story, and now he’s teamed with Howard Chaykin on Blade’s latest attempt to support an ongoing title.
I am confused as to why more fanboys aren’t wetting themselves over this Blade title. It’s firmly rooted in the Marvel U, it’s got CHAYKIN drawing VAMPIRE CLOWNS, and Guggenheim’s writing is suffused with bad-assery. That second issue, the Doctor Doom time-travel issue, just kicked all kinds of tail. And Guggenheim’s structuring it in a great reader-friendly way–a larger story that weaves quietly through each issue, but a main story that’s completely stand-alone. In other words, just pick one up and let it beat the shit out of you, already.
So Marc Guggenheim, I hate you so much that I love you. Or something.
Spengler, Stantz, Venkman, Zeddemore, and Lovecraft.
Oct 25HP Lovecraft as a Ghostbuster (or at least, paranormal investigator)! Awesome!
That's not very sci-fi, he said.
Oct 25I’m not terribly angry with Cory right now – more accurately, his enthusiasm on a few things grates. Like, Walking Dead. Cory’s discovered THE reigning king of the zombie comics. Well done, you. If you’ve just found it now, you need more comic friends.
But mostly I want to comment on Wired’s upcoming 6-word Sci-Fi Stories, which Cory is reporting, as Cory is one of them. Didn’t make the magazine, but he made the web edition.
What’s most interesting about this article is seeing what was submitted by very bright lights. Not as many actual science fiction writers as one might expect, or hope, but the results are amusing. What’s fairly apparent though is that most had fun with the idea of a six word story, but making them ring as science fiction was mostly ignored.
Case in point, Howard Chaykin’s submission;
“I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.â€
I! LIKE! PUMPKIN! SPICES! (Dalek voice)
Oct 25
The best part of Halloween, especially now that I’m too old to metabolize more than a single treat per evening without killing myself, are the pumpkins. It used to be the costumes, and I guess they’re still a hoot, but they’re a rare treat – you can guess what you’ll see every year by the popular movies that past summer, and most are clever, but have to be explained to you;
“I’m Bill O’Reilly”
“Ah yes, I can see the nametag now. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t really wear a name tag though, now does he?”
“…”
Genius costumes are like a Corpse Flower blooming – they occur once in a blue moon and more than likely you’ll only hear about it afterwards.
But pumpkins… pumpkins are all over the place and the level of creativity poured into them each year makes my cheeks glow.
– Dalek Pumpkin
– Zombie Pumpkins – Best collection of pumpkin stencils going
– “Pumpkin” tag results at Flickr
I’ll be adding more, as I find them. Matt, Sarah? Got any good ones to add?
