Comic-Con Mania!
Jul 20My brain, she is already San Diego. The rest of me will join her there on Friday. In the meantime, check out this most excellent field guide to Comic-Con fans on Story Boredom. Link found via Heidi MacDonald’s The Beat, which recently changed locations — update your bookmarks!
I think my favorite is Bob. Bob made me laugh for a full minute straight. You go, Bob!
SPINS A WEB, ANY SIZE!
Jul 19I fixed it, I fixed it! Holy shit!
I wrestled with the php and the mysql and the satan, and I won!
Time for a victory dance! Take it away Spidey!
Fixing the style bugs that are bugging Matt is next – but they’re easy.
Wanted: Someone to come and kill me
Jul 14Initially intrigued by Stan The Man’s upcoming Who Wants to be a Superhero on Sci Fi, I realized right away that there was a very narrow margin in which this should could succeed – I didn’t know what that margin would be, but it would be narrow. The concept was goofy, just so goofy it might work, so I was rooting for it. But…
Now that I’ve seen the website, and read through the hero profiles, I need someone to come and kill me. I’m a coward – or maybe I’m not programmed to self-terminate. It doesn’t matter, the consequences are the same. I don’t want to see this show and can’t take matters into my own hands. Please help.
“The only living thing that can withstand is Death Punch is The Hulk.” Fuckin’ A for Banner. Verily, it sucks to be Thor.
52 Or Shatner: Week 10
Jul 13You know the drill. You get a picture of Shatner, or words about 52, DC’s weekly comics series.
Bring it, mothertrucker!
I'd buy that for a dollar
Jul 13Matt mentioned earlier that the new Escapist comic was coming out – this confused me to no end, as I’d bought a couple of the VERY expensive and sporatic Escapist comics from a few years back. They were good, but they were eleventy bucks or more, and they always felt like the comic equivalent of fast-growing a clone from a child to an adult in a matter of months – the whole point behind them seemed to be to portray the Kavalier and Clay story as fact over fiction. Which was cool and all, but I could only read so much about how Gil Kane did character studies for Amazing Midget Radio Comics, but it never went anywhere and he returned to DC. And whole pages of the books were a mix of fake and real letters. It was a great idea and I just couldn’t pay attention.
Now Dark Horse is doing a six part series, wherein Brian K Vaughan, Philip Bond, and Eduardio Barreto tell the tale of a man attempting to get The Escapist updated and publishing again. I dig Vaughn. I love Bond’s art. I should probably know who Barreto is, but don’t – his “golden age” Escapist art is excellent. The whole thing is awesome – and the first issue that just came out… is a buck.
In fact, the only downside to this whole venture is that they lead with Frank Miller doing the cover. It’s not quite an eyeball grabber – I actually tend to skip over Miller art when I visually scan the shelves, so I almost missed it. Why can’t that dude do feet properly? They always look odd. Brian Bolland did the backcover, so that kind of makes up for it.
Anyhow, if you liked The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, you might want to check this out – it’s almost like a sequel, without all the pretentions of presenting fiction as fact.
Chime in, Matt – what’d you think?
WikiWikiWhack: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
