SDCC08: Best News of Con…ALREADY?!
Jul 23Via ComicList:
July 23rd, 2008 – Los Angeles, CA – BOOM! Studios and Disney Publishing Worldwide announced today that they will bring brand new stories from beloved Pixar properties to the comic book medium. Comics will feature characters from the groundbreaking TOY STORY franchise and blockbuster FINDING NEMO film, as well as this summer’s box office success WALL*E.
BOOM! Studios is also proud to announce Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid will be writing THE INCREDIBLES comic book, featuring cover art by DC: THE NEW FRONTIER writer and artist Darwyn Cooke!
“Today, American comic books are aimed primarily at an older readership. Comics produced for an upcoming generation of readers are scarce – and BOOM! Studios aims to do something about that,” said Waid. “There will be comics for kids again!”
Mark Waid writing Pixar’s version of the Fantastic Four?! Darwyn Cooke drawing it?!
UNBELIEVABLE AWESOMENESS MY HEAD HURTS FROM IT HUZZAH!
Comics Linky-Dinky-Doo…
Jul 22…I love you.
Dustin Nguyen has been knocking it out of the PARK over in Detective Comics lately; when Dini’s run started, it was his compact, clever little done-in-one stories that made the book. Now Dini’s stories have gotten more conventional and a little bloated, but Nguyen’s pencils kick ass, as do Derek Fridolf’s inks. Anyway, Dustin can also do the cutest Bat-family you ever did see. I smell a cartoon series.
I’ve read way too much pre-San Diego blabbery across teh interwebs this week, some of it good, some of it gasbaggy. This write-up/reflection by Gerard Jones is easily the best of it. And yes, Mr. Jones, I actually DID grow up on your comics–working to finish my incomplete Green Lantern: Mosaic run now.
This super-long Alan Moore interview has been tabbed in my Firefox browser going on two days now. I want to read it, but I fear the time sink.
Via Mike Sterling, I found this amazing short story on where the Peanuts characters end up when they grow up.
Middlegirl Bonding
Jul 21So I’m enjoying the hell out of The Middleman. The combination of oddness and earnestness, of clever quips and trout-happy zombies and twentysomething drama…it all hits me exactly the right way. I need to check out the comics, but I’m waiting ’til the show goes into reruns — that way (by my screwy math, anyway), I’ll be Middleman-less for a shorter period of time.
One of my favorite parts of the show, though, is an element I wasn’t expecting: the relationship between Wendy Watson and her performance artist roomie, Lacey. As initially presented in the pilot, Lacey seemed like a fairly predictable character construct: kinda flaky, kinda annoying, easily distracted by the square jaw and pillow lips of The Middleman. I was anticipating lots of over-the-top performance art moments and eyeroll-provoking antics. What’s been developed in subsequent episodes is a lot deeper and loads more interesting. She’s a little wacky, but she’s not just wacky. She cares about Wendy, she misses her neglectful mom, and she’s more observant than people give her credit for. She has a soul. And the friendship between her and Wendy is really great — I think it would have been easy to make Wendy constantly fed up with her or just kind of above her various hijinx, but instead, they have a real bond. They feel like real friends, like Buffy and Willow — different people, but with a core of sameness that bonds them.
It’s tough to find a girl friendship on TV that feels that way. It’s nice to see on this show. Keep it up (and please, please don’t have a guy come between them).
Two Thoughts on "Batman R.I.P."
Jul 19I’ve been snarfing down all the great content posted across the internet about Grant Morrison’s current Bat-epic, “Batman R.I.P.” There’s some terrific work being done out there by minds far more expansive than my own.
But here’s two thoughts that struck me as I re-read Batman 678. On this, the second day of my 32nd year on God’s green earth, I share them with you.
Feist on Sesame Street
Jul 18Don’t get me wrong – Canada loves her to death and is very proud. But it’s kind of hard to decide if this is the greatest thing ever or a shark jumping moment. I will optimistically argue it is a boon… but after selling a bazillion albums and all the Apple exposure, it feels like a bit much.
