Comments Off | Posted: February 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
So, there’s this “Comic Shop Column” that Marvel has decided needs to be inserted into their Previews magazine. This is, unsurprisingly, just a big excuse to have some shop owner crow the latest offerings from Marvel to a narrow fanbase that has already, you know, spent the $.99 on the catalog already (or gotten it free when they paid $5 for Diamond Previews.) I’ve read this thing and, frankly, it was so stupid and insulting to the fans that it made me see a fair shade of red by the time I was done with Phil Boyle’s “thoughts.”
While this is hyperbolic and seems to equate “comics fans” with “Marvel comics buyers” a bit much, I can actually say “fair enough” to this sort of thing. It’s the sort of hucksterism that Stan Lee used and that’s just fine – this is Marvel, after all, and Joey Q’s probably asked you to contribute something that’ll get people talking. But I don’t recall Stan or Roy Thomas or Marv Wolfman or Jim Shooter or Tom DeFalco ever actually going as far as the next paragraph…
Wait, are you telling me I should worry about
your business, Phil Boyle?
While, yes, I would like to buy my comics from a local shop, I can go just about anywhere I please for them without any sort of guilt over you not being able to pay your bills, OK? In fact, I’m the sort of person that hates it when businesses start bringing their operating costs into the customer relationship. You don’t worry about how I make the money to buy your comics and I don’t worry about how much you pay for rent, OK? I think that’s a fair exchange.
(Exception: If you write an entertaining blog about your business and don’t get it inserted in the Marvel Previews, then I might care.)
If nobody in the small, vocal community of Marvel Comics Fans is talking about something, then that probably means that Marvel hasn’t done their job and promoted the damned book properly, dude. They spend millions in marketing every quarter and if people aren’t going “Hey, this looks interesting,” then maybe,
just maybe it’s not. I mean, it’s not enough they manage to get
New York Times coverage and all, but fans are supposed to become street teams for fucking
Ronan The Accuser?
You know, Mazda never has to beg people to tell their dealership to carry the cars. I’m just saying.
You know, if you’re a Moon Knight fan and you won’t shut the fuck up about him, keep away from me, you freak. Seriously.
I’ve got The Essential Moon Knight and we I can safely say that we really don’t need any more regular series featuring the character. He should be safely relegated to one-shots, minis, and guest appearances, kind of like Dean Cain and the never-ending Lifetime movie parade. Some characters don’t deserve to be revived on their own “merits.”
Yes, because you know how you can get your friend who really dug
Spider-Man 2 into the comics? Introduce them to
The Other or, even better,
Sins Past to make sure they know that (Marvel) comics aren’t just for kids – they now have eyeballs getting ripped out and eaten along with some wonky sex between Peter’s girlfriend and his greatest enemy! Wow, that’s totally mature!
Again: the onus is on you, True Believer! Sure, you’ve already bought the catalog, read some promotional stuff on Marvel’s website, and you’re still not convinced that you want to make the commitment to something like
X-Men: Fairy Tales without actually cracking the book open, but this means that you
may never see it. Preorder and suck it up if you don’t like it, fanboy! Show Mighty Marvel (and your local shop, which has bills to pay) how much you love them!
You know, only in the world of superhero comics are you told to preorder everything months in advance without getting more than a few pages of promotional art or whatever, unquestioningly. While creators certainly are more important than ever to promoting Marvel’s books, it’s amazing how much dreck they expect the fans to pick up because, you know, Spider-Woman’s got big ol’ titties.
If you need Phil Boyle to tell you to stick to your guns about what you like, then maybe you need to talk to a therapist. Sure, the world may not really need a
Super-Skrull series, but if you get hot and bothered for the dude, then so be it. Like the creators you like, too. I mean, I can’t imagine that anyone really is crazy about Mike Deodato’s work, but if you’ve got half a brain and can tell me why you like besides “him make pretty draw me like,” then you shouldn’t be embarassed about it on the fucking internet. Stick to your guns, you wimp.
OK, I can’t argue with “reading what you’ve paid for,” honestly.
Equating Nova getting his own book to “great things happening in comics” makes me wonder if Phil’s medications need to be adjusted. Also: what is it with this Moon Knight fetish, dude? Seriously.
I’m sure Phil really isn’t the devil incarnate, but he sure does come across much more as a puppet than a human being with this piece. What I found most grating is the fact the entire piece seemed to exist in a world where everybody who reads Marvel Comics is a brain-damaged sort that needs to eat from a trough every day.
To Marvel, I say this: stop insulting your fans. They read the same stuff the shop owners see and they can make decisions on their own without you having to recruit a cheerleader with a not-hidden-at-all agenda. Look at your bottom lines and cut off the books that are only diluting your core titles and make those good again.
Comments Off | Posted: February 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
“…and that’s why you should never trust a ‘Wizard’
that invites you into his ‘Secret Cave,’ kids!”
From the brilliant Tales Designed To Thrizzle #2
Buy it directly from the fine folks at Fantagraphics
or tell your LCS people that you demand a copy!
Comments Off | Posted: February 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Items! Extra!
Comments Off | Posted: February 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Items!
- Apply to be a Manhunter! I think the costume is fan-tastic and wouldn’t everyone’s life look better if drawn by Walt Simonson? (Thanks, Ryan.)
- ADD writes smart about the demise of Speakeasy. Tom Spurgeon does the same.
- Chris Butcher’s NYCC coverage was a blast. Here’s links to the individual parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, wherein the Manga panels are analyzed. Great job, Chris – it’s made me rethink my plans just to babble incoherently about SDCC.
- What Would K-Fed Do?
- Is there any reason that this kind of poorly thought-out rambling gets on the Google News feed? Also – does anyone else see question marks instead of apostrophes in this babble?
- Headline of the decade: Pedophilic Promo has Manga Maniacs Panting for Pre-Schooler Panties. Yeesh.
At least I found out something new in this: Rorikon, the Japanese word for pedophilia, is a contraction of the borrowed English words “Lolita,” after the girl in Vladimir Nabokov’s book of the same name, and “complex.”
- Finally, Frank Miller is bugfuck, but I am loving his work anyway. Go figure.
That’s it for Items! for today.
Comments Off | Posted: February 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Dear Superman:
Hey. Look, I don’t want to tell tales out of school, but when you leave the Fortress Of Solitude unlocked:
Shit like this happens:
Maybe it’s time you you started tying a string around your finger to remind yourself of these things.
See Ya,
Kevin.
Comments Off | Posted: February 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
BeaucoupKevin.com presents
“The Secret Origin of Nick Fury’s Youthful Vigor!”
Starlin scripts, Chaykin draws.
From Marvel Spotlight #31.
(Really, I scanned this just for Ian,
but I thought I should share.)
Comments Off | Posted: February 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
These Are My Words: Five Random Opinions That
I Hold About Current “Mainstream” Comics
- Alex Ross may be a fine photorealistic painter, but as a superhero comics artist, I find his work to remove just about any trace of magic from the material. The only project he’s worked on that I’m truly fond of is Marvels, and that’s because it’s explicitely presented as commentary from the “real” world.
Seeing the man’s Super Friends fetish writ large in Justice is creepy beyond words to me.
- In general, I want my superhero comics featuring the mainline DC and Marvel heroes to be bright, pop, and good for just about anyone. The fact that a 9-year-old girl can’t easily read recent issues of Wonder Woman drives me up the wall. The next person who cites Watchmen or The Killing Joke as examples of how to use superheroes to tell an “adult” story is going to be reminded that Brad Metzler, Geoff Johns, Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar are not Alan Moore.
All-Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder is my grotesque exception to this theory, simply because I think this is Frank Miller giving a certain, very vocal group of fans exactly what they think want and watching them choke with rage and bile. I am nothing if not straightforward in my hypocrisy.
- I would take a thousand Sal Buscemas over one Greg Land. His picture-perfect style kills any sense of movement in his stories and if I can play “match the source model” from his photoreferencing, then I suspect he’s much more reliant on images than any “artist” should be. The fact that Wizard magazine keeps riding his crotch and leering at me only raises my ire towards his material further.
- Since this came up on another blog, I have to say that Action Comics #775 is not in any way, shape, form, or fashion a good Superman story, nor is it anything more than the clumsiest of commentary on The Authority, which is a book that is commentary in itself. Also: Superman comes off as being a self-righteous prick, which is exactly the problem with the character since the Byrne reboot – he’s often gratingly smug without the humor that characterizes my favorite stories with the character.
- Marvel Comics, there’s a reason your back catalog is selling so well to guys like me: your current material, for the most part, comes across as a bad photocopy of DC’s exactingly-produced Crisis-related materials, rushed together at the last minute after watching your bitter, hated enemy conquer the marketplace and devouring your marketshare like lions wolfing down Christians back in the day. There’s exceptions here and there, but I see so little in the way of joy coming from your customers outside of the most meatheaded defenses of their precious superheroes in message boards where “Gay” is commonly used as an insult.
You earn exceptions for the Ellis projects, and if I hadn’t heard that much of the stuff I liked in the first Brubaker Daredevil was cribbed from shows like Prison Break, I may not have even included you on this list.
These are my words.
Comments Off | Posted: February 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
What’s going to be in your comics shop this week?
If Diamond’s not lying, you can find out by
clicking here.
What am I looking at getting? Read below.
Dark Horse
JAN060078 HELLBOY MAKOMA #2 (OF 2) $2.99
I am not a huge Corben admirer, but his work is perfect for the Hellboy mythos. Also: a giant sack full of monsters! A giant sack full of monsters! That’s quality jollity right there, my friends.
DC Comics
DEC050244 INFINITE CRISIS #5 (OF 7) $3.99
I read and don’t buy this increasingly loud, nonsensical story. Well, I’m sure it’s actually making sense to people who actually care about this thing, but Superboy kicking Krypto and punching dude’s heads off? I don’t really want that in my spandex books. You know the drill.
JAN060314 JONAH HEX #5 $2.99
I know this is formulaic – bad guys have moustaches and need killing – but I’ve not been this entertained by a monthly title from DC in a long, long time.
Marvel
JAN062099 CAPTAIN AMERICA WINTER SOLDIER VOL 1 TP $16.99
Finally in paperback, so I can see what the hullaballoo is about. Everything I’ve heard says the year-long arc doesn’t end up being completely awesome in its conclusion, but the ride getting there is fun enough. I’ll give it a shot.
JAN062106 ESSENTIAL OFF HANDBOOK MARVEL UNIVERSE DELUXE ED VOL 1 TP $16.99
Oh dear. More black and white collections I don’t really need. Why didn’t I buy bookshelves this past weekend, again?
JAN062024 I HEART MARVEL MASKED INTENTIONS $2.99
Squirrel Girl meets the boy of her dreams – Speedball! The marriage of Firestar and Justice! Why yes, that sounds nice, but after the last two issues, my guard is wary and in the mood to pop something with the rifle he always carries.
DEC052025 NEXT WAVE #2 $2.99
Purple Shorts. Heh.
JAN062101 SQUADRON SUPREME DEATH OF A UNIVERSE TP $24.99
I’m 98% sure I ordered this massive slab of old-school Marvel goodness collecting a buncha stories showing Marvel’s Justice League doing all kindsa wacky stuff.
NOV051939 ULTIMATES 2 #10 $2.99
Lord help me, I think the title “Grand Theft America” is pretty funny. I know, I know. I’ve enjoyed swathes of this second series here and there, but the giant reveal in this book let me down quite a lot of some reason I can’t define. I think this is because I’m not asking Millar to be truthful in his political commentary, just consistent. Instead, he seems to come off as the nutcase at the top of the subway steps, ranting incoherently and occasionally coming up with a really, really cool bit.
Still, it’s very pretty.
Other Companies
DEC053304 COFFEE AND DONUTS GN $10.00
Diamond lied to you, me, and the American people. This was supposed to come out last week, along with that Queen & Country Declassified comic.
JAN062815 CORPORATE NINJA #2 $2.95
Liked the first well enough, I’m sure Mike ordered the second for me.
JAN063250 GUNNED DOWN TP (MR) $10.00
$10 gets you 10 westerns done by Terra Major’s “stable of Brazilian talent.” Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba are involved and that’s really all I need to know – I think they’re fan-freaking-tastic.
DEC052896 WAR OF THE WORLDS SECOND WAVE #1 $2.99
Confession: excluding the Tom Cruise movie, I love War Of The Worlds with a stupid passion. All the ancillary material, including the late-80s TV series? I gobble it up. That’s why I’m glad that Boom! Studios is handling this, as they’ve proven to be excellent at handling genre-related material.
Also:
Is it just me or do the astronauts on the cover that Robby faked up in the latest issue of Dial B For Blog look like they’re about to go all Brokeback on us? Seriously.
(Yes, I know Brokeback Mountain jokes are way, way past their Sell By date.)
Comments Off | Posted: February 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
File Under:
Never let Lex Luthor handle your holiday travel plans.
or
“I don’t remember that place in my Mayfair Games Atlas Of The DC Universe!“
From “The Girl Who Mourned For Superman,” in
Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #43.
Comments Off | Posted: February 26th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
For the duration of the Silver Age, one question persistently came up in Superman’s life – Lois Lane or Lana Lang? While it was never resolved, writers as diverse as Cary Bates, Elliot S! Maggin, and Alan Moore all came up with their own way of handling the quandry.
Bates wrote date scenes with Clark and Superman seeing both women, though not at the same time, damn it. Maggin actually had Clark spend the evening with Lois in a story that got a bit censored. Moore mused upon the matter in his classic “Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?” that ran in Superman #423 and Action #583, settling the entire thing as definitively as possible for any writer. Hell, the Lois/Lana dichotomy is now a lynchpin in Smallville, a situation that I’m not entirely happy with because I’m the sort of Superman fan that thinks that Lois represents Superman’s future while the strangely Asian-appearing Lana is the past, the life Clark leaves behind when he accepts his destiny.
What everyone concerned with this whole matter fail to realize is that some unknown writer solved the problem neatly in Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #41:
Comments Off | Posted: February 26th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
From Action Comics #350.
If you want a little more context, click here.
Yes, I now have a scanner. Beware.
Comments Off | Posted: February 26th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Genius Covers Sunday Presents:
Journey Into Amazing Weird Tales –
Kirby (and Ditko) Pre-Fantastic Four
Marvel Covers
Ditko didn’t do too many covers, from what I can tell.
I love this one because of the outbreak of Ditko Hands
that seems to have stricken the populace.
There was no way I was going to not put this
one up for GCS, was there? I love the way Fin Fang
Foom is so casually being a complete bastard.
That’s one big dude.
I own this issue. Real upbeat story within. Of course,
it had the “twist” at the end that typified these stories,
but some great Kirby work inside.
Another Ditko cover. This has a great sense of scale
and it respects my intelligence!
Wait, wait, wait. Is he Jewish, too?
Of course, this isn’t the most famous case of Kirby and
Lee recycling a name later in the superhero magazines…
GIANT BROWN FUZZY HULK SMASH!
Kirby, inked by Ditko. I’ve always liked their pairings.
Sadly, I Dream Of Doom was never utilized in
those 70s and 80s TV series and movies that Stan somehow
thought were going to make Marvel tons of dough.
Of course, Doom calls no man “Master,” so it probably
wouldn’t have lasted very long.
Our last Ditko cover. If I were a kid at the time,
I woulda beaten up every kid for their milk money
until I found out the mind-staggering secret contained
within these pages.
Spragg must be fed!
Feed Spragg beef!
Beef and souls all for Spragg!
If I were Chuck Dawson, I’d tell the creepy alien fucker
to knock it off or I was going to miss my turn…
…of doom
Extra Special Bonus! A panel by Kirby!
Make what you will of the farmer’s anguish at the sheep
being removed from his life, my friends. Make what you will.
Comments Off | Posted: February 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
“Fra-GI-lay! It must be Italian!”
Darren McGavin: 1922-2006
“It’s a mark of us Fifes. Everything we eat goes to muscle.”
Don Knotts: 1924-2006
Comments Off | Posted: February 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I finally got my hands on the first volume of Rob Vollmar and Pablo Callejo’s Bluesman several weeks after the publication of the second thanks to Diamond’s warehouse apparently being staffed exclusively by one-armed dyslexic squirrel monkeys and having finally gotten a chance to read the damned things, I gotta say: this is the premium sort of comics experience that I seek out, much like a truffle-hunting pig in the Gallic forests. The plot for this graphic novel series is straightforward enough: itinerant blues player Lem Taylor and his partner Ironwood Malcott travel from juke joint to juke joint throughout the rural south, barely surviving until they happen to visit the right place at the right time and have the opportunity of a lifetime drop into their laps.
However, much like the lyrics of music that fills and informs this comic, bad, bad things happen and Lem soon finds himself on the run from not only the law, but the deep-seated prejudices that twisted it (and still does in many places) into a mockery of justice. Vollmar’s to be praised here for a number of things. First, he builds the world fluidly, without ever giving too much exposition away and even his use of academic captions in the second chapter of Volume One is perfect in a way very few writers – Alan Moore being the one that comes to mind – can approach. Secondly, I instantly found myself immersed in the story (separate from the plot) because every character in the story feels worthy a reader’s investment within a few moments. His dialogue captures the Southern vernacular for both white and black people without descending into the sort of parody that so many turn it into. Everything in Vollmar’s script is nailed down perfectly and his execution lacks not one bit in my opinion.
Not to be outdone by the script, Pablo Callejo draws the living hell out of the entire affair. His rich style reminds me of a fusion between R. Crumb’s cartoonish style and the harsh woodcut-influenced work of someone like David B. While many artists only know how to draw three black men (the bald guy, the guy with hair, and Michael Clarke Duncan) and two black women (the sassy fat mama and the hot juke joint jezebel), Callejo’s gift for deceptively simple faces and expressions populates this book’s world completely.
The cliffhanger that ends the second book has me impatient for a third volume, which is already he works. If, for some stupid reason, Bluesman (when completed) doesn’t put these two on many people’s radar, then it should certainly be referenced in a few years as a watershed moment for these two men’s careers. If you’re a fan of works like Kings In Disguise and Steve Lafler’s BugHouse books, then this is an essential addition to your library.
You can find out more about Bluesman by visiting The Bluesman Project website and even get your own from the publisher�s site.
Comments Off | Posted: February 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
NEWS ALERT!!!
Investors, there may be gold in comic books
Paul Mullins not only knows that Superman is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound – but also that he can help you make some major cash.
Mullins, owner of Comic Book World, which has stores in Florence, Cheviot and Louisville, has been in the business of selling comic books for more than 30 years. He says investing in comic books is less volatile than investing in the stock market. If you invest in the right comics, “your return can be a lot greater,” he said.
A high-grade comic, in Mullins’ opinion, is like gold these days.
Not everyone agrees. The American Association of Individual Investors cautions that comics don’t pay dividends like some stocks.
Seriously, I thought we lost articles like this ages ago.
Comments Off | Posted: February 24th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Three Items!
Item the first: This may be the best commentary I’ve seen so far on the whole “let’s freak out because we’re an Islamic sect with narrow views and some bonehead published a cartoon” matter.
Item 2: Fellow Comics Bloggers And Comment Leavers, please note – it’s Infinite Crisis, not Infinity Crisis.
Buy Two Get The Third Free: Check this out! It’s the All-Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder makes-no-sense-at-all Batcave that’s going to appear in a giant gatefold in issue 4! Boy, that’s a lot of stuff. Thank god he’s an insane billionaire so he can afford it!
Comments Off | Posted: February 24th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Comics that came out Wednesday, February 22: The Short Form.
At this point, I feel like I should say something hypercomplimentary about Ross Richie and Boom! Studios, as he’s been so kind to link to me twice in the past week. Thankfully, I’ll only need to add the smallest bit of superlative prose to any review of the second part of Zombie Tales: Death Valley, which went down quite nicely with my iced coffee. It’s your Standard Zombie Effort made more bearable by Andrew Cosby and Joanna Stokes’s knowledge of the undead genre and how to avoid the pitfalls of the same. Again, the art by Rhoald Marcellus suffers from some syndrome that causes the quality to swerve from “competent” to “quite nice” in the space of a couple of pages, but it’s still more bearable than the majority of work out there.
Gail Simone and the art duo of Garcia-Lopez and Janson have the sophomore issue of their JLA Classified arc drop and it’s more of the same, which is a very good thing indeed. I’ve never been a huge fan of Simone, mostly because she was writing books that I couldn’t work up any enthusiasm for, like Birds Of Prey1, but here she displays the same chops here that made her JLU episode such a delight – naturalistic dialogue, a real sense of character versus cheap characterization, and timing that works for the slightly over-the-top, serial version of the medium. Between this and Villains United (which I read a few pages from and will buy thanks to Ian’s review,) I may well turn the cruise liner that is my stick-in-the-mud attitude around.
Andi Watson shattered the tiny lump of coal that functions as the center of my circulatory system with the last few pages of this issue of Paris, but it’s OK, really – it speaks to his strengths as a writer. Simon Gane helps no small amount with his beautiful, chunky drawings that switch from comedic to romantic without even the slightest indication that the clutch was pressed.
I Heart Marvel: Outlaw Love reads like a backup story that’s way, way stretched out. Nicieza’s script appears to be sparsely scattered over the art, a poor-man’s version of Alex Maleev that Jon Proctor has concocted for the story that is sometimes quite nice but then goes off its internal model for pages at a time. Part of my apathy for this is that I feel that Bendis pretty much used up Bullseye’s credit for a while with that last Daredevil arc and while Ruby Tuesday and The Answer were fine for their time period, trying to update them all Sleeper-noir for the Naughties is kind of stupid. They’re fairly camp, just like, oh, Dr. Light.
I’ve been looking forward to John Ridley’s The American Way and now that it’s here, I can’t help but feel a little underwhelmed by this Smells Like Astro City affair. The idea of a politically heavy, pomo take on the Silver Age appeals to me no small amount, but the execution in the first issue of this miniseries is sorely lacking. Any comic that tries to shock or inform the reader with a giant information dump smeared across a four page sequence (even if it is well-rendered by Georges Jeanty) immediately gets on my bad side, though, and with the analogues here making Squadron Supreme look positively subtle, I’m rethinking my decision to preorder the series. It’s getting one more issue because I think Ridley’s capable of much better and I love the Kennedy administration as a backdrop, but goodwill when it comes to my comics budget is in short supply.
Finally, can I just say that it’s crazy disturbing to see Kelly Sue DeConnick crying every time I glance at the cover of the Belle & Sebastian anthology, Put The Book Back On The Shelf? I know Laurenn McCubbin works from photographs, but maybe she could have inserted an eyepatch or scar. As far as the interior, I’ve only read about half the stories, but there’s a lot of love here and a wide array of storytelling techniques on display. Tom Hart’s “Me And The Major” adds some great cartooning to the lyrics, for instance, while Ande Parks and Chris Samnee (who needs a high-profile gig, stat) use only the title and the tiniest bit from “If She Wants Me” to tell an entirely new (and excellent) story. There’s one gross misstep in the surreal, far-too-arty take on “The Chalet Lines” by Erin Laing and Matt Forsythe. It’s a rarity, though, and if I become a millionaire I’m going to buy all of the pages to Andi Watson’s “I Could Be Dreaming” and the terribly cute “Legal Man” that Ian Carney and Jonathan Edwards produced.
I’ve got other comics to read and write about, but I should bother going to the office and posting this instead. Maybe Haloscan will be up by then.
(Written at Diesel on Rage Engine One with the new Mos Def record, The New Danger playing on Mother Box. Ed made me buy the latter and he was right.)
1Yes, go ahead and tell me there’s something deeply wrong with me. The 90′s-style cheesecake art puts me off quite a lot, OK?
Comments Off | Posted: February 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Have you, like me, ever imagined that that somebody could convince a woman that looks remarkably like Katee Sackhoff to portray Power Girl in a fan film about Kara’s search for a “real job?”
Imagine no more. Very entertaining and the appearance of a certain JLI comedic duo had me in stitches.
Comments Off | Posted: February 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Casey saw this on Scans_Daily and felt
that it needed to be shared with the world.
He’s right. I have this comic and this
sequence still blows my mind.
(Image from the Brave And The Bold Special ’78)
Comments Off | Posted: February 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I think this is proof that it’s time for DC
to put together a Showcase volume for
the 60s Batman that rubs me the right way.
You “hardcore” “realist” Bat-fans have your
Neal Adams volumes. Just give me this, OK?
(Yes, I know Haloscan is down. Don’t worry,
because my crack team of internet professionals
are on the case.)
