Medic!
Sep 18Oh God, it hurts!
I just watched the Justice League: The New Frontier featurette on the Superman Doomsday DVD and I think I injured myself in my excitement…
…you know.
In my pants.
Ouch. But hip hip hooray for Darwyn Cooke!
Oh no you didn't.
Sep 13Doctorow. I understand you take a great deal of delight in using the term “underwear pervert” whenever you can, even when you don’t have to. But when you do it to the Metropolis Marvel, you have to hand in your comic fan membership card. We always knew it was a McLovin-sized forgery anyhow, but were willing to turn a blind eye. But you’re crossing lines now. I don’t know how much more we’s can stands it.
The Big Blue Cheese is THE comicbook hero. If you cannot display any respect for any other hero, at least show some respect to the one that set the bar.
Congrats, Ladies
Sep 12I’m sure some hyper-observant types have already pointed this out, but doesn’t it look like Black Canary and Wonder Woman are totally getting married?
(Image from Midtown Comics, which I recently visited!)
On Comic Shops
Sep 12Tom Spurgeon at The Comics Reporter files a terrific essay on the state of the modern comic shop, and how to improve it.
Weirdest Cover (Lately)
Sep 11Take a look at this Gene Colan cover to The Phantom Zone #3, written by Steve Gerber:
Let’s unpack.
1) Superman is gettin’ up close and personal with a strange woman wearing a mask. Above this woman, a seductive face floats.
2) The mask comes off to reveal–OH NOES–the woman’s real head is a planet, namely Krypton.
3) The Krypton head explodes. The floating face laughs.
4) Accompanying it all is the smart-ass, Marvel-esque tagline: “Have you ever noticed…that on some days…everything seems to go WRONG?”
If by “wrong,” you mean that on some days, I am sexually attracted to a mysterious masked woman whose head is actually my home planet which then explodes while I stand there shellshocked, then NO, I have never noticed that.
ALSO: The answer to An Important Question has arrived: With 46% of the votes, Kirstie Alley has been named Alert Nerd’s Cutest Saavik. A tastefully-framed certificate will be forwarded to her care of Weight Watchers at our earliest convenience.
