As usual, let’s get the blah blah blah involving last week’s contest out of the way and give a big round of applause for Troy Wilson. Troy, the cheeky fuck, just mentioned a guest appearance and not an actual Daredevil story, but what the hell, let’s let him have it because The Death Of Jean DeWolffe does have a pretty great moment featuring by ol’ hornhead Congratulations, Troy!
This week, we’ve got a hardcover collection of the first eight or so issues of Harley Quinn, a comic I enjoyed more than I should have but really don’t need to keep around the house. Preludes and Knock Knock Jokes features the Joker’s better (?!?) half on her own, getting a crew together, and committing crimes. The art by the Dodsons really is the highlight of the thing, but Karl Kesel’s scripting helped the title stood out in an era of not-very-good Bat-family stories.
How do you win a copy of it? Leave a comment with, I don’t know, your favorite Harley Quinn moment in comics or on the Batman Animated Series. Does that sound good? Yeah, let’s go with that. This has to be something that has happened, not your masturbatory fantasies involving Veronica Mars or whatever her name is in clown makeup.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 20, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from last week who just said “I like Daredevil” without answering the question) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
But first, let’s get to last week’s winner. The random number generator at Random.org has spoken and Mike Laughlin won Palestine: The Special Edition! Congratulations, Mike, and thanks for everyone’s thoughtful responses. I know it wasn’t as random or as goofy as previous contests, but the participation was impressive, to say the least.
This week, we’ve got a collection of stories from Ann Nocenti’s run on Daredevil, all of which feature art by John Romita, Jr. Here’s the official solicitation for Lone Stranger:
The Man Without Fear becomes the Man Without Hope as Manhattan falls beneath the fangs and claws of Inferno! Losing everything in more than one kind of fire, DD leaves Hell’s Kitchen to walk to and fro upon the Earth – but no matter where he goes, Mephisto’s waiting for him! Inhumane experimentation and Inhuman secrets abound! Guest-starring Spider-Man and Freedom Force! Collects Daredevil (1964) #265-273.
To qualify, just mention your favorite non-Miller/Bendis/Brubaker Daredevil comics story and say why, if you want to. Mine, for instance, is the Chichester-written arc Last Rites that was later dubbed The Fall Of The Kingpin for the trade. Matt Murdock takes on The Kingpin in a reversal of Born Again and systematically destroys his criminal empire with the help of Nick Fury and some other friends.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants qualify, because I’m nice like that. Comments that don’t qualify will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Who won Elephantmen: Wounded Animals? Sean Witzke did, and I’m eager to find out what he thinks! Congratulations, felicitations, etc, etc, etc to him.
This week, I’ve got a copy of the hardcover special edition of Joe Sacco’s acclaimed Palestine to offer up. Probably the best known piece of comics journalism, Palestine discusses the other side of the Israel situation with a frankness that’s refreshing. You can win your own copy by leaving a comment and telling everyone what underreported story you think would make a good comic. Heck, you can make up something if you want! One caveat: blatant moonbat or wingnut jerking-off will get you tossed in the penalty box and your entry will be deleted. Try to be civil, libtards and morans.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 6, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org. Previous entrants qualify, because I’m nice like that.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Last week’s prize of the first three volumes of The Immortal Iron Fist was won by Scwonkey Dog creator Jonathan Switzer, so let’s all give him a polite round of applause even if we feel we should have won in our hearts. Thanks for entering, everyone, but there’s only one winner (unless some publisher/company wants to shell out for multiple prizes. Hint!)
This week, I’ve got a copy of the first Elephantmen trade paperback to give away, Wounded Animals. Elephantmen is a surprisingly nuanced, frequently thought-provoking look at genetic manipulation in the future. The reviews that compare it to Blade Runner are not far off and it’s one of my favorite recent comics discoveries. (I got a copy of the hardcover from creator Richard Starkings at San Diego, hence having a spare lying around.)
TO ENTER: comment with what animal you’d least like to wake up in the body of. Enter before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 27 to qualify for the draw. The winner is determined using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
The winner of last week’s copy of Dante’s Inferno for the XBox 360 was Morgan Johnson of PoorMojo.com! Congratulations, Morgan! When I get my copy from EA, I’ll zip it over to you tout suite.
This week, we’re back to comics but not leaving brutal violence and exotic locations behind! I’ve got volumes 1-3 of Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker’s acclaimed The Immortal Iron Fist. To get a chance to win hardcover editions of The Last Iron Fist Story, The Seven Capital Cities Of Heaven and The Book Of The Iron Fist, all you have to do is name your favorite martial arts film in the comments. As always, I’ll use Random.org’s number generator to pick a winner and they’ll be able to curl up and enjoy some pulp-influenced Mighty Marvel Martial Artistry!
Enter before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 20 to qualify for the draw. The winner is determined using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
So, last week’s winner of Portable Grindhouse was BW Costello of PrettyFakes.com and I emailed them but haven’t heard back but you should all give them a big round of applause even if they are slacking on giving me their address so I can mail them this thing hint hint hint. Glad to see it going to a fellow VHS veteran!
This week, we have a sponsored prize from EA Games. You can win a copy of the brand-new (and apparently very controversial) Dante’s Inferno game for the XBox 360 gaming platform! While I personally wasn’t very crazy about the demo, Dante’s Inferno is hotly anticipated by a portion of the gaming populace that doesn’t get enough nudity and violence in other forms of entertainment, and you might be one of them! (I don’t know. Maybe your mom monitors your Netflix queue. Time to cut the cord!)
Enter by commenting and telling everyone what circle of hell you’d probably find yourself in (and why, if you want to divulge anything) before before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 13 to qualify for the draw. The winner is determined using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat. Also, you’re going to have to be over 18 years old for this prize, as it’s got a M rating.
Last week’s winner of the second Starman Omnibus was Jenny M, even though I disagree with her most vigorously concerning Terminator 2’s status as a superior movie, as it’s bloated, has an entire middle act that could be cut out without any significant damage to the film’s plot, and makes me suffer through Edward Furlong’s attempts at acting. Still, random is random and fair is fair, so here we are, and I’ve got another book to offer up to you, the eager masses.
Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art Of The VHS Box is a dose of heavy design nostalgia for those of us who haunted (or worked in) video stores in the 80s and 90s. So many gloriously awful titles are given their due here by Jacques Boyreau, who states “On par with the jukebox, disco, and neon, VHS reformatted the world’s product-intake and boosted a libertarian aesthetic that conquered TV in the same way TV conquered comic books in the 1950s, and allowed us to hold movies in our hands. Posters in the lobby could advertise, even fetishize a movie; credit sequences could identify the participants, but somehow, VHS box-art ‘became’ the iconic equivalent of the movie.”
You can win a copy by talking about your favorite VHS title from “the day,” the one that you saw and enjoyed and probably shouldn’t have. You know what I mean. The sort of thing that Andy Sidaris directed. Leave a comment before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 6 to qualify for the draw, which is performed using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat.
Why am I giving away a Starman omnibus? Because I actually wasn’t that crazy about it, even though I liked the first volume pretty OK and I’m fine with not owning a book I didn’t enjoy very much. Why only the second volume? Because whatshername sold the first on Amazon a couple of months ago. So, here we are. Maybe you’ve got the first one already but didn’t buy the second one. Maybe you wanted to get it for a friend. Maybe you just like buying the second volumes of things and wanted to shelve it with Ripley Under Ground and The Two Towers. Anyway, leave a comment that details your favorite second volume of whatever (maybe you like New Coke better than Coke Classic, for instance,) before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, January 30 to qualify for the draw, which is performed using the Random.org number generator.
Before you do that, however, give big ups to Charles Schneeflock Snow, a local cartoonist who won Robert Crumb’s adaptation of the Bible’s book of Genesis.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat.
The winner of last week’s huge swath of Spider-Man books was Jonathan Miller, who picked Electro as his favorite Spider-Man villain. Electro’s pretty rad — and electric — and so is Jonathan, so I’m glad to send these off to him. (Tomorrow. Once this weather goes away.) Give him your congratulations in the comments while you’re entering for your chance to win Robert Crumb’s take on the Bible’s first (and some say best, really) book: Genesis! Here’s a picture of the cover and a video of someone flipping through it!
How do you win this acclaimed hardcover graphic presentation of some of the craziest shit man’s ever put to paper? Just leave a comment with your favorite character from the Bible who is not Jesus or his pops and a brief explanation of why before 12:01 AM EST on Saturday, January 23. That’s it! The staff here at Kevin Church Towers will use Random.org again to pick the winner.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat.
First of all, we should get the winner of last week’s giveaway, Jacques Tardi’s West Coast Blues out of the way. Of the forty-seven comments I got on that post, the winner (according to Random.org) is Isaac from Satisfactory Comics! For once, I’m going to leave the Agreeable Comics/Satisfactory Comics rap feud behind me and offer Isaac a healthy congratulations!
Now, for this week’s giveaway, we’ve got a doozy. Many comic readers began to wail and gnash upon hearing about Joe Quesada’s idea for Spider-Man: get rid of the marriage and return Peter Parker to the status quo that the general public understands him to have and while One More Day’s execution left an awful lot to to be desired, I’ve actually very much enjoyed the Spider-Man comics that have been written in its week: brief storylines of one to six issues (and since it’s published three-times-a-month, that’s two months at most for readers to get an entire story) with attendant b-stories and background arcs that weave in and out of the main arcs remarkably well for something that’s the product of a large writing team. There’s a few clunkers, honestly, (I wasn’t crazy about American Son for instance,) but overall, it’s been a really decent run that’s made me realize how much I like Peter Parker all over again. The problem with having a dozen recent hardcover Spider-Man collections is that I’m not very likely to re-read a dozen recent hardcover Spider-Man collections anytime soon and I need to reclaim the shelf space for my bound volumes of Rescue Rangers fan fiction. That’s why I’m giving away the twelve Premiere Hardcovers issued so far for the post-Brand New Day Spider-Man. Here’s what they look like:
Now, how do you win these books? Just leave a comment with the name of your favorite Spider-Man villain from the comics before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, January 16 2010. (I know, someone’s just itching to write in “Joe Quesada” and ha-ha, we get it, but that person will be disqualified and their entry sent into the darkest pits of internet hell. In other words, they’ll show up on Perez Hilton’s site.) As before, I’ll randomly pick a winner using the Random.org number generator again and that’s it.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America only. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and yes, I know they might undo the whole Peter-and-MJ-not-being-married shebang soon.
Jacques Tardi existential comic noir adaptation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s novel confounds expectations with thoughtful storytelling that manages to avoid clichés even as it explores familiar tropes. Tardi’s work has earned him the rightful status of a legend in his native France and this is a great introduction to his bold, organic artwork and unconventional narrative approach.
To win, just leave a comment with your favorite crime story, regardless of medium, before 12:01AM Eastern on Saturday, January 8, 2010. I’ll pick a winner using Random.org’s random number generator!
Please note that this contest is only available for readers within the United States and Canada. One entry per person, please.
I’m as tired as anyone of the constant drubbing Jeph Loeb receives from fans1, but Nathan made me smile with his method of “improving” Marvel’s go-to guy for large, stupid comic books:
“I would turn Jeph Loeb into Kate Beaton — hopefully transforming panels upon panels of out-of-context gore (the Blog EATS the Wasp? Really?!) turn into cozy historical larfs (the Blob eats cookies! With Napoleon!)”
Nathan’ll be getting a copy of Adhouse’s Remake and whatever else I can fit into the envelope.
1Oh, you mean you people aren’t tired of bitching incessantly about him yet? Jesus.
One of my favorite books picked up from this year’s MoCCA is Lamar Abrams’s slacker superhero romp Remake. In it, Max Guy makes friends, eats bread pudding, and uses his Max Blaster to change things into stuff: Remake is funny, fast-paced, and lovingly-made parody of genre conventions in both video games and comic books, and I’ve got an extra copy to give away. To win a copy for yourself, just comment below and tell me what you would do with a Max Blaster of your own: what everyday subject would you turn into another thing and why? For example “I would turn my neighbor’s yapping dog into Jenny McCarthy because she deserves to be on a chain for spreading that malarky about autism and vaccines!” This will run through Friday, June 26 at 11:59PM.
Emoticripple came in early and came in strong in last week’s contest, winning a Mighty Mugg that he or she may call their very own with the succinct and guffaw-worthy “Galactus so hungry one time he straight peeled the Silver Surfer tryin to get at the chocolate.” Thanks to everybody that participated. This week’s going to be a busy one for me thanks to MoCCA, but we’ll see what we can dig up for next week, OK? I like giving stuff away!
Yes, it’s another giveaway, right on the heels of the Potter’s Field contest! This time, though. we’re making it a challenge! Inspired by the Steve Lieber “Hawkeye So Poor” Twitter Extravaganza, I’m asking you to finish this sentence: Galactus so hungry, one time he… in the comments below.
My favorite (yes, you’re subject to my own capricious whims) will get their very own Galactus Mighty Mugg. This contest will run until Midnight EDT on Saturday May 29. (That means that Sunday, 12:01 AM is too late, suckers.)
So, that outage is over now, I guess? The working theory is that we ran into a known issue with wp-cron.php, a scheduler that Wordpress uses to talk to servers so there was a lot of advanced UNIX stuff being used that just passes over my head like a pteradon. Thankfully it happened on a holiday so you, the teeming masses, weren’t left completely without inane ramblings and poorly photochopped comic book panels.
But that’s not why you’re here, is it? You want to know if you got yourself some fancy comic books, right?
Something that I realized I didn’t do with the post announcing the Potter’s Field contest is to let you all know that there were actually three copies of Mark Waid and Paul Azaceta’s book up for grabs. Silly me! Anyway, there were over 300 entries from around the world, but the random number generator at Random.org made sussing them out pretty simple. The winners are as follows: KT Wiegman of Los Angeles; Jeff Metzner from Exton, PA; Chicago’s own John Pontoon! I’ve forwarded your contact information to Chip Mosher at BOOM! and you can expect to see something in the mail in the very near future, gang!
We may have another contest as early as tomorrow, so come back soon, y’hear?
Thanks to my haranguing BOOM! Studios marketing head Chip Mosher to pony up when it comes to the tchotchkes, we’ve got three copies of the brand-new hardcover collection for the critically-acclaimed Potter’s Field to give away! Rightly praised by The Onion AV Club, who described it as “first-rate crime fiction, brought to noirish life by Paul Azaceta” before giving it a grade of A-, this collection features the original miniseries along with the Potter’s Field: Stone Cold one-shot and a previously unseen “lost” story by Waid and Steve Yeowell. For the publishing fetishists, the book is a damn fine object on its own with a silver-inked jacket by J.G. Jones and one of those fabric bookmark things that mean you won’t have to use a subscription card from the soon-to-be-deceased Wired magazine to keep your place.
How do you win a copy? Send an email to pottersfieldcontest@gmail.com with your name and address before 11:59PM on Sunday, May 24 and three winners will be chosen using a sophisticated system involving a random number generator and me going through the inbox to find the corresponding email.
