No Comments | Posted: August 31st, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Please Note: All items are culled from other internet sites so you may enjoy them without having to deal with Xeni or MetaFilter trolls or That Annoying Point System at Digg or Reddit. This service is provided free of charge.
1This may well be the last Kevin Smith reference you will ever see on this site. Savor it, my children.
2For instance,the train station near my office uses the new Charlie Tickets while the train station next to my house is still on tokens – they’re one stop from each other on the subway)
No Comments | Posted: August 31st, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized The modern Asian-American experience is, perhaps not surprisingly, ill-documented. Outside of a few indie films of varying quality and the occasional article in Giant Robot, I know I’ve never made much contact with it, despite my enthusiasm for Chinese cinema and a keen interest in Asian culture, even defending an incident or two of Engrish when it caused my friends to guffaw a little too hard. That’s why I think the surprisingly complex, beautifully illustratrated American Born Chinese is one of the most important graphic novels that’ll come out this year; it manages to entertainingly elucidate the Chinese-American experience in terms that people of a certain generation (i.e. mine) can relate to easily.
Yang’s very ambitious in American Born Chinese. He uses three intertwined stories: the legend of The Monkey King, the young Jin Wang’s experience as the new “Chinese kid” in school, and all-American teenager Danny’s experience with his hyper-stereotypical cousin Chin-Kee to explore subjects like casual racism, parental and cultural expectations, and general teenage angst effectively and with a great deal of sympathy that never becomes mawkish. The immediate attraction, Yang’s cartooning, is gorgeous – all thick outlines and minimal, a textbook example of perfect distillation of the human form, and even better, his writing is up to the task. Dialogue is natural and the structure is handled with an ease that I find both appealing and utterly despicable – it’s too damned good and it makes the writer in me fairly angry.
American Born Chinese was an oddity when originally published. The single issue I have from the serialized form is a thick, square not-quite-mini featuring production values that were far too high for its price point and a quantum leap in writing and art quality by Gene Yang, whose earlier Gordon Yamamoto was enthusiastic if not quite as good as the creator (And me) wanted it to be. I’m glad that American Born Chinese is now available in a proper collection and give it an enthusiastic recommendation.
A review copy of American Born Chinese was provided by First Second Books. More information about the title and sample pages can be found at the publisher’s website.
No Comments | Posted: August 30th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized 
It’s that time of the week again. You can read the newest
Nitroglycerin strip over at the
BOOM! Studios site. You can also view the same comic in a larger format
here. While I think Birdie made my forehead look garish and large here, it was most likely done to indicate a powerful brain that hates you all.
Related links:
Agreeable Comics | Genre City | Kings Of Pop
No Comments | Posted: August 30th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized 
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No Comments | Posted: August 29th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Disclaimer: I don’t know how much of this I actually believe.
From The Digital Bits website, in the middle of a discussion about HD and Blu-Ray versions of Trek:
So here’s where it gets even more interesting. In doing some digging with our industry sources over the last few days… I’ve found out something that’s going to come as a major surprise to a lot of you. It might be one of the best kept secrets in Hollywood in recent years. Never mind The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager: It turns out that CBS Video, as part of their high-definition remastering of The Original Series, IS giving a lot of the special effects shots a new CG face-lift! Specifically, they’re re-doing all of the spaceship shots. This to me is a very exciting idea… in principle. As anyone who saw the Mirror Universe episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise will tell you, the old TOS ships look awfully damn good in new CG. The replicated TOS sets, the original ship designs… rather than looking dated, they actually hold up VERY well by today’s standards. Re-doing the effects will give new life to The Original Series and could help it appeal to a new, younger generation of fans. Unlike, say… the Star Wars films… the original versions of these episodes will always be preserved in GREAT remastered quality on DVD. And it would be extremely cool if CBS would release BOTH versions of the episodes on HD-DVD/Blu-ray, such that you can choose which version you wish to watch… the original or the new enhanced version.Here’s my concern about this… I’ve learned that, rather than going with a proven effects house, CBS has chosen to do the new CG work in-house. One hopes that they’ve got someone with REAL Trek effects experience and knowledge involved in the effort… and they they’re taking care to preserve the look and feel of the original shots. There’s also the concern over whether CBS will re-frame the 1.33:1 aspect ratio series in 1.78:1 for HD presentation. I tried contacting CBS and their DVD distributor, Paramount, on this subject last week, but there was basically no comment. I suppose we’ll find out soon enough, but cross your fingers in the meantime. Any way you slice it, however, this is a very interesting development.
No Comments | Posted: August 29th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized 
(I think Dorian pointed this out
before, but it bears repeating.)
No Comments | Posted: August 28th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Here are my picks
(along with the occasional
pan) for the titles coming out
August 30, 2006.DC Comics
MAY060143 ALL STAR SUPERMAN #5 $2.99
Like fine wine, this title takes a little extra time to reach its maximum flavor. That’s why the print run is stored in oak barrels. Also: Frank Quitely draws super-slow, but real pretty-like.
JUN060243 BOYS #2 (MR) $2.99
Oh, I like this comic. Sure, it’s Ennis doing his usual tropes, but it’s a terrible amount of fun for those who, like me, either want their superheroes pop and absurdist or brutally beaten within an inch of their life.
MAY060165 GREEN LANTERN GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD TP $19.99
What probably occurs in this trade: Hal gets hit in the head by something yellow, Denny O’Neil lectures the reader, using John Stewart as an avatar, Guy performs some acts of dicketry, and Kyle whines and minces until I manage to break the fourth wall from this side and beat the crap out of him.
JUN060165 SHOWCASE PRESENTS BATMAN VOL 1 TP $16.99
For the price of about half the cost of a reader’s copy of one of my precious 80 Page Giants from the 60s, I can get a massive chunk of goofy Batman action in monochrome – a fine bargain. I probably won’t stop buying those 80 pagers, though. I love the house ads, letter columns, and silly gag strips far too much to stop now.
JUL060226 SNAKES ON A PLANE #1 (OF 2) (MR) $2.99
Maybe this will be like the Superman Returns adaptation, giving the readers all new scenes that feature, you know, snakes on a plane. Biting people.
JUN060215 SOLO #12 $4.99
Brendan McCarthy, the most hallucinogenic of 2000AD artists, gets to send this series out in style. You can check out Mark Kardwell’s interview with him here.
JUN060217 TRIALS OF SHAZAM #1 (OF 12) $2.99
DC, I want a simple answer: why do I have this moribund, fairly awful series instead of that long-discussed Jeff Smith book that certainly promises less child abuse and blood sacrifice and much, much more wonder and joy?
Also: I really liked Winick’s First Thunder series, detailing Captain Marvel and Superman’s first meeting. You should have kept that tone.
A copy of Trials Of Shazam #1 was provided by DC Comics for the purposes of review.
Marvel
JUN062031 ESSENTIAL PUNISHER VOL 1 TP NEW PTG $16.99
I hate to say this, but I rather enjoy the early Punisher stories for what they were. Dude shows up, dude kills people that need killing, dude goes away. Why is it only Garth Ennis seems to realize the joy this can derive?
JUN062004 JACK KIRBYS GALACTIC BOUNTY HUNTERS #2 $2.99
I wonder if this series serves as some sort of apology to Jack’s family for screwing them out of royalties since the dark ages?
JUN062006 NEXTWAVE AGENTS OF HATE VOL 1 THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT PREM HC $19.99
God help me, I think I ordered this out of loyalty to the title. There is something clearly wrong with me and I need to be put down like a rabid dog. A fat one. With glasses
Other Companies
JUN062954 AP HOW TO DRAW HENTAI ADVANCED INTERCOURSE #1 (A) $4.95
I hate puns and loathe Hentai in general. Why am I so delighted by the name of this book, then?
MAY063027 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA #1 $2.99
Issue 0 pained me. Yet here I am, waiting for the next issue. A sucker, me.
JUN063145 ROTTING IN DIRTVILLE GN (MR) $13.95
Buy this graphic novel so that Rick Spears can afford to eat.
Thank you.
JUN062818 URSA MINORS #2 $2.95
I like Neil Kleid a lot, but man…this one’s a mess. The art is not jiving with the script at all – I spent most of the last issue slightly confused, wondering if there was a CO2 leak in my house.
MAY062981 X ISLE #2 (OF 5) $2.99
I am not saying to buy this because it’s a damned fine bit of sci-fi. I am not going to mention that the scripting is tight and the art is dead good. I’m saying that you should buy this so you can enjoy an all-new Nitroglycerin strip by Birdie and myself.
MAY063375 ZOOM SUIT #4 (OF 4) $2.95
I’m sorry, but this comic is dire. I gave the first two issues a try (you can read the PDF of issue one here) and found the art uneven, apparently forced to bend in new and unusual ways to match the alternately overwrought and goofy script that tries desperately to capture the weird alchemy Bendis frequently manages on Ultimate Spider-Man and ends up coming off exactly like what it is: a horribly written also-ran.
Why am I picking on this book? Because, hell, someone’s got to disagree with some amazingly underinformed person at Newsarama who says it’s “easily the indy comic of the year” and the Silver Bullet reviewer who said #2 “Come on John, do something wrong with this series so we�ll have something to complain about!” My theory is that these writers were either given large cash payoffs or that I’m completely out of touch with the fanboy market and their overwhelming desire to have badly-constructed reference-filled “nostalgia” shoved down their throat. I suspect Column B.
Oh, speaking of, I forgot to review Justice League of America #1. I’ll do it in three bullet points, making it easier for everyone.
- No matter how hard DC tries, I can not give a damn about Red Tornado, or as I like to call him: “The Emo-er Vision.”
- I think that in first issue a comic called Justice League Of America, there should be more action from the big three than just sitting around a coffee table, picking names out of a hat. This is doubly true since there was an Issue 0 featuring the same three characters sitting around a coffee table, talking about old times.
- See the first item. I fucking hate Red Tornado outside of the rather excellent Super Powers toy.
A copy of Justice League Of America #1 was provided by DC Comics for the purposes of review.
No Comments | Posted: August 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized 
Three words, people: “Wonder Woman — Gorilla!”
Script: Robert Kanigher
Pencils: Ross Andru
Inks: Mike Esposito
Previous Complete Stories:
The Challengers of the Unknown combat “The Man Who Stole The Future!”
Lois Lane meets “The Monster Who Loved Lois Lane!”
Jack Kirby draws “I Found The City Under The Sea!”
The Three Rocketeers discover “The Lunar Goliaths!”
The Fighting American breaks up “Operation Wolf!”
Space Cabby receives “The Luxury Limousine Of Space!”
“Little” Joe Little is “The Three-Foot Sleuth!”
No Comments | Posted: August 27th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized 
This sort of thing would have livened up
Saving Private Ryan quite a bit.
No Comments | Posted: August 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Please Note: This is a rerun from last year with very minor edits, but I think it’s a decent enough bit of writing.
Monday, as you probably don’t know unless you care about this sort of thing, is Jack Kirby’s birthday. He would have been 89. It’s easy enough to get the basic biographic details, along with some great resources as far as his bibliography, so instead I’m going to tell you all what Jack means in regards to my perception of the medium. To be brief, it’s as simple as ‘comics=Jack Kirby’ in my mind. Yes, there’s many, many other excellent creators with long and storied careers, but I simply can’t imagine comics without Kirby at Marvel and DC.
The matter of who created what in the early Marvel Universe is, of course, up for a lot of debate. Kirby’s own stories varied wildly from having decided to save the company after walking in on Stan Lee crying over the fact that bankruptcy was looming to just accepting the Fantastic Four job as he would with any other western or monster or science fiction story Stan cranked out and not knowing or really caring about the script as long as the check didn’t bounce. Here’s what is a cold, hard fact, though: without Kirby, we probably would not have had the same Fantastic Four comic that captured so many young hearts and helped make superheroes cool again.
As Stan found himself busier and busier with his myriad responsibilities as editor-in-chief, huckster, and writer, the burden fell on Jack’s shoulders (which already bore the weight of a full two-thirds of the company’s artistic output) to create more and more from plots that were less and less defined, and create is exactly what he did. The Negative Zone! The Inhumans! Galactus! The Silver Surfer! Annihilus! All of these now long-standing characters and ideas came out of his imagination in a remarkably short amout of time in a single title, and mark the beginning of his most fertile period as a creator. His individual Marvel creations grew much larger than life and his art changed to reflect these concepts and the powers they contained, becoming more minimal while still imparting a sense of scale and urgency to the reader.
It’s this near-constant sense of panic and clear depiction of action that defines the idea of what a superhero comic’s art should be for me. After departing Marvel for DC’s promises of complete control, Jack’s storytelling in both scripts and art became more and more epic, showing the boundaries of comics at the time by slamming against them and knocking them a few inches out of place. Only a few of the most ambitious of Kirby’s Marvel creations would have fit well into his DC work. Long gone were the petty concerns of Johnny Storm, wondering if his hot rod was going to win the big race next weekend and in their place was a New God’s realization that his father was a Space Hitler that made Odin look positively pacifistic. Making sure that we beat the Russians in space seems like a quilting bee compared to a mohawked soldier pumelling his way through a horde of enemies in the World Of Tomorrow.
Even after his DC titles were all canceled and he came back to Marvel in the mid-70s, his creative impulses were still slanted towards the grandiose. It seemed that Kirby wanted to know why, in his absence Captain America duked it out with second-rate villains when he could and should take on a high-level conspiracy armed with something called “Madbomb? ” For whatever reason, a lot of the work from this material is derided by the fans, but I find myself capitvated by his ambition: turning 2001 into a psychedelic showcase and remixing Chariots Of The Gods to create The Eternals. Sadly, he didn’t quite fit into the Marvel of the time, where Steves Englehart and Gerber were leading a new direction that, while insanely creative, was much more self-aware and sardonic compared the earnest nature of Kirby’s work.
It’s after this second departure from the house he helped build that Jack’s career fell into an irrecoverable retrograde. He tried publishing a few books that never got off the ground wih several companies and even came back to DC to wrap up his own New Gods saga as well as draw the (frankly, mind-numbing) Super-Powers tie-in comic along with a few pinups and occasional stories, but it was never the same for him.
Looking back, though, that decade-and-a half that bridged the Silver and Bronze Ages, when Jack was creating the new each and every month makes a lot of what’s happening in mainstream superhero comics seem positively dull. Outside of Grant Morrison, I can’t think of a single writer working at DC or Marvel that is intent on creation instead of maintenance, much like the Silver Age Superman stories that would occasionally excel, but most of the time seemed to be a matter of station-holding for the readers and characters.
Some would argue (just as I have, on occasion) that these companies are filling a need: to exploit pre-rendered universes to tell stories that the readers who like said universes will buy. There are some excellent writers who are very good at doing exactly that, but I’m missing Jack more than usual lately, and it’s not out of nostalgia. Do I want to read comics stories featuring people aping Kirby’s more easily utilized tropes? No. I want people to take the lessons that each page of his best work can give and apply them in unique ways. It’s the best way to pay tribute to The King.
No Comments | Posted: August 25th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Matt Wagner is an odd creator to have found himself working so much with DC, considering his pedigree as the former wunderkind behind Grendel and Mage. For the last decade and a half, he’s been quietly putting out high-quality superhero work that focuses primarily (and perhaps unsurprisingly) on Batman as well as helming a revival of Doctor Midnight and making Sandman Mystery Theater one of the essential Vertigo reads of the 90s. His 2005-2006 series Batman And The Monster Men takes one of the earliest Bob Kane / Bill Finger collaborations and updates it to fit in with modern tastes and match Batman: Year One in tone, if not technique.
Batman And The Monster Men is an impressive bit of pulp fiction that manages to inspire the sheer glee of the Golden Age (“Oh my god, he’s fighting an army of giant mutated men at the command of Professor Hugo Strange!”) while being just grounded enough to give the reader the “comic book” realism that helps bind things together a bit tighter (“So, Bruce Wayne drugs Julie Madison and puts her in bed so he can go off and fight crime!”). Wagner’s skill as both writer and artist is obvious in this book – the plot is nailed down, with each beat perfectly placed for maximum reader impact and the art compliments the story perfectly, moody and dark without loosing that slightly cartoonish feel that helps propel the action along perfectly.
There are a few surprising choices and turns that work to the story’s benefit. Hugo Strange is distinctly less modern and more pulp-derived than the rather unfortunate version that appeared in Legends of the Dark Knight in the very early 90s, for instance, to the point of keeping an Asian manservant. Strange is also a slightly more relatable villain than prior versions while somehow managing to never lose his ruthlessness. There’s also the sublime use of Julie Madison, someone that has always been a paper-thin caricature in previous tales becomes fleshed out and you can see why Bruce Wayne falls in love with her.
With the serialized debut of the second title in the Dark Moon Rising line, Batman and The Mad Monk coming out this week, this purchase is a snap for anyone that likes their Batman stories with a distinctly bizarre touch while managing to make you believe that a billionaire can and would dress up as a Bat to punch evil.
A copy of Batman And The Monster Men was provided by DC Comics for the purposes of review.
No Comments | Posted: August 24th, 2006 | Filed under: "Funny" | Tags: stan lee's watchmen Our final excerpt from Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating…Watchmen features a scene that caused no small amount of shock when published. Apparently, Lee wanted to do a true “adult” scene, but it was later cut from the script by editor Michael Carlin who considered the final material to be too risque, even for a so-called “mature readers” comic. However, Carlin and DC editorial felt the following page was acceptable.
More Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Watchmen:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Update:
If you like this, then check out my webcomics The Rack and Waimea or any of the print comics listed in the sidebar. You can also read why I’m not seeing the Watchmen film.
No Comments | Posted: August 24th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized J. Chris Campbell is one of the masterminds behind Wide Awake Press. He’s made a lot of minicomics that I’ve really enjoyed and his Recalcitrant Jones And The Dead Beats is one of my favorite things ever.
He also draws robots for people who ask him nicely.
This is a Sad Hitler Robot he made for me. I like it very much.
No Comments | Posted: August 24th, 2006 | Filed under: "Funny" | Tags: stan lee's watchmen In this excerpt from Stan Lee’s bold reimagining of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen, the reader gets a glimpse of what may have caused Adrian Veidt to join the Reds.
More Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Watchmen:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Update:
If you like this, then check out my webcomics The Rack and Waimea or any of the print comics listed in the sidebar. You can also read why I’m not seeing the Watchmen film.
No Comments | Posted: August 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized As has become a hallowed Wednesday tradition, there’s a new
Nitroglycerin strip promoting the fine BOOM! Studios line of comics, this time focusing on the
The Savage Brothers, the latest (and better than it has any right to be) effort from Cosby and Stokes with great art by Rafael Albuquerque. You can view it on the
BOOM! Studios page or check out a larger version on
Birdie’s dedicated page.
While I’m on the subject of B. Birdie, I feel compelled to demand that you take a look at a few things involving his drawing on things that are not written by me, as he’s good at the whole putting-words-in-mouths thing himself.
If you’ve read Agreeable Comics, you’ve met the Kings Of Pop and fallen instantly in love with that pair of buffoons who travel the land in search of the perfect soda (I refuse to call it “pop,” dammit.) You’ll be heartened to know that they’re now part of the new Modern Tales family and can be read here.
While you’re there, you should probably check out the funny, quirky Genre City. Impossible to describe without saying things like “Powers, but, you know, not at all,” this startlingly original series explores a town where amazing powers and abilities are the norm.
No Comments | Posted: August 23rd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized The mighty Stan Lee continues to make the world of Watchmen his own in this latest excerpt from the star-studded megaseries that allows the Mighty Maven of Marvel-Land to wreak writerly havoc on that most hallowed of graphic novels. Click on the preview below to read another page!
More Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Watchmen:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Update:
If you like this, then check out my webcomics The Rack and Waimea or any of the print comics listed in the sidebar. You can also read why I’m not seeing the Watchmen film.
No Comments | Posted: August 22nd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized I’m firmly convinced that the beauty of the American South is that it’s a better place to be from than a place to be in. Frequently, I look back upon moments in my life that could have only taken place in the semi-rural Arkansas and Georgia I called “home” and romanticize the place a bit much. Sure, there’s wonderful food (get me started on barbecue and you’ll want to shoot me in the face around hour three of my treatise on Brunswick stew) and a casual, friendly bond with people that happen to share a zip code with you, but there’s also deeply entrenched racism and mosquitoes large enough to suck the vitals from a fairly large bovine without any hesitation.
Leland Myrick seems to realize that the South is better taken in bite-sized chunks and his minimal yet lyrical Missouri Boy gives the reader vignettes of his growing-up that provide not only lazy summer afternoons and the joy fireworks that can be purchased from about a million roadside stands, but a peculiar regional pathos that is hard to for us, the departed, to quantify to anyone not from “around there.”
Myrick’s art suits the subject matter: the softened angles and love of unsteady lines recalls Paul Grist and much like the creator of Kane and Jack Staff, Myrick ensures that regional affectations are amplified through the presentation. Slightly oversized work shirts, trees that don’t grow as straight as they’re supposed to, the semi-random edges of autumn leaves – they all become characters in their own right because of the manic attention to an almost complete lack of detail, an impression of the original that somehow gets more across than a photograph ever could. Hilary Sycamore’s coloring in the book is, frankly, sublime – an example of why I love flat palettes so very much, with a tonal scheme that provides the perfect subtle counterpart to Myrick’s accomplished work.
I really shouldn’t like Myrick’s structure here – it’s disjointed and leaps forward in gaps that vary from one year to four, but his narrative voice is so strong, I don’t mind one bit. The script is never overdone or underwritten – it, like Sycamore’s coloring, provides another layer to the visual storytelling that serves as the centerpiece for this outstanding graphic novel.
A review copy of this book was provided by First Second Books. More information about Missouri Boy and sample pages can be found at the publisher’s website.
1 Comment | Posted: August 22nd, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Click on the preview below to read a page from Just Imagine Stan Lee’s Watchmen, where the genial geriatric genius behind the Marvel Universe takes the concepts behind DC’s most fantastic heroes and makes them even more amazingly awe-inspiring!
More Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Watchmen:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Update:
If you like this, then check out my webcomics The Rack and Waimea or any of the print comics listed in the sidebar. You can also read why I’m not seeing the Watchmen film.
No Comments | Posted: August 21st, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized Just a few choice selections
for the comics shipping this week
for delivery to your shop on
August 23, 2006.DC Comics
JUN060153 BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN TP $14.99
Despite the fact that my good friend David Campbell, he who pontificates far too long on the merits of Passover and manages to draw entire Punisher fan comics really, really likes this series, I’m picking it up. I mean, Campbell loves the work of Norm “Flatface” Breyfogle. There is no accounting for taste at all with that man.
JUN060259 DMZ #10 (MR) $2.99
I’m really quite curious as to how Matty and Zee are going to work their way out of this one. I’m pretty certain Wood won’t resort to the Standard Zombie Movie Trope of having someone with a large vehicle show up, have it distribute troops that resolve the situation, and then disappear, leaving our protagonists safe…for now.
MAY060187 WONDER WOMAN #2 $2.99
It’s been what, eight weeks since the first one? You know, I used to laud DC for managing to make sure Kevin Smith wrote his entire Green Arrow arc up front, but that sort of planning seems to be a thing of the past in their race to nab the newest hottest superstars.
Marvel Comics
JUN061958 DAREDEVIL #88 $2.99
I read the shop’s preview copy of this last week and it’s a neat little story, letting us get into the (melon-shaped) head of Foggy Nelson. A nice breather between Brubaker’s longer arcs.
MAY062031 THING IDOL OF MILLIONS TP $20.99
Do you know what killed The Thing? People like me, who wanted to wait for this trade paperback.
JUN061930 ULTIMATES ANNUAL #2 $3.99
I think this is just part of my regular sub for The Ultimates in the shop’s eyes, but…I gotta say that Charlie Huston + Mike Deodato does not inspire the same confidence that Mark Millar + Steve Dillon did last year. I’ll give it a look.
It’s of note that this takes place after The Ultimates V2, as that series isn’t, y’know, done.
Comics
APR063144 ACTION PHILOSOPHERS THE PEOPLES CHOICE $2.95
Using the latest in polling technology, Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey have concocted an issue of Action Philosophers featuring the most-requested subjects: Thomas Aquinas, Soren Keirkegaard, and Ludwig Wittgenstein! Check out a giant-sized preview of this great comic here.
MAY063450 MIDDLEMAN VOL 2 TP $9.95
Do you like action comics that are good and funny and beautifully drawn? Then get this dense, well-done trade and put that issue of Greg Land’s Strokebunnies back on the goddamn shelf.
JUN062817 REX LIBRIS #5 $2.95
There should be a giant statue of this series’s title character outside of every library, peering down on the masses and informing them that if, just if they decide to keep a book out overdue…there will be consequences.
I absolutely adore this comic. It cracks me up to no end.
APR063234 SUPERMARKET #4 (OF 4) $3.99
Between this and DMZ, Wood has had a lock on near-future, socially concious science fiction for the last several months. I’ll be sad to see this go and hope he’s got another project lined up with the staggeringly good Kristian.
2 Comments | Posted: August 21st, 2006 | Filed under: "Funny" | Tags: stan lee's watchmen Excerpts from this senses-shattering tome will appear on this blog every day until Friday. You may not be ready for this one, true believers, so pop a Xanax or two before gazing downward at the awesome magnificence I present to you!
(Yes, I know it says “Mightest.” Mea culpa.)
More Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating Watchmen:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Update:
If you like this, then check out my webcomics The Rack and Waimea or any of the print comics listed in the sidebar. You can also read why I’m not seeing the Watchmen film.
