Comments Off | Posted: June 5th, 2008 | Filed under:Uncategorized
iFanboy appears to be trying to make up for having the worst name in the world and has a new webcomic from the guys behind the quite-good AiT graphic novel Continuity. “Watch to see if a lovesick gastrointestinal hitman can find romance in the big city? Or will love shit him out?” It looks lovely and made me smile in its first installment, so maybe you want to check out The Gastrometrist, too?
(One minor problem: there’s no way to subscribe to the comic or be notified when it updates without subscribing to the whole iFanboy feed. I don’t need to subscribe to the whole iFanboy feed. I don’t want to subscribe to the whole iFanboy feed. You can’t make me subscribe to the whole iFanboy feed!)
Comments Off | Posted: June 5th, 2008 | Filed under:Uncategorized
(NSFW) Two Japanese men have broken a long-standing record by masturbating for over eight hours. Norihiro Taneichi and Masanobu Sato of Tokyo competed at this year’s Masturbate-a-Thon in San Francisco with Sato taking the grand prize after hitting the eight hour, forty minute mark. Sato credited the Tenga New Adult Concept line of onanistic aids and repeated readings of The Comics Journal for improving his masturbatory skill.
Newsarama has redesigned its front page with the first significant change in over four years. Comic Book Resources, Something Awful, and 1Up will be welcoming their newest identical sibling with a brunch at Denny’s.
Warner Brothers has hired a screenwriter for the big-screen adaptation of Warren Ellis’s Ocean. The 2004 Wildstorm miniseries concerns the discovery of unusual alien technology beneath the ice of Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter. There’s been no word yet if it’s Arthur C Clarke or Stanley Kubrick they’re exhuming for the gig.
Comments Off | Posted: June 4th, 2008 | Filed under:Uncategorized
The Boys #19 Ennis and Robertson put on their best shoes and show how it’s done. There’s some secret origin action, a conversation I’ve been wanting to see happen, and, yes, a man convered in his own filth. I don’t even know why I talk about this book anymore. I should just copy and paste the phrase “It’s better than it has any right to be and you should be paying attention to this.”
Criminal, Volume 2 #3 Like The Boys, I’m sort of lost as to what to say at this point. (I also see why Sims cherry-picks what he reviews from his list.) Anyway, this series continues to be a stripped-down homage that manages to best what it’s paying tribute to with Sean Phillips never looking better, to say nothing of Ed Brubaker’s apparently bottomless well of writing talent.
Duostar Racers #1 This is going to be gorgeous in the inevitable massive hardcover version, isn’t it?Other people would likely complain about a barely-comprehensible comic about street racing that only had a few word balloons and seemed to exist mostly to show off Ashley Wood’s love of heavy lines and blacks, but I’m too big a fan at this point to be rational.
Manhunter #31 Seamlessly picking up from the previous 30 issues (and three trade paperbacks,) this dense issue serves as a great example of how to do serial comics well. There’s a superhero vs supervillain battle, the first acts of an A-Story and a B-Story as well as a number of thematic strands that are laid in place. With Michael Gaydos on board, density appears to be the order of the day, with pages averaging between six or seven panels and a few well-handled information dumps, including the recap pages at the beginning. I’m probably just going to switch back to reading the series in trade paperback (and being told how I’m killing the book for doing this,) but it’s nice to know that this is still the most interesting, best-written 10PM drama featuring superheroes out there.
Midnighter #20 The final issue of a series that stayed on my pull list far longer than it should have, and a nasty little beast it is at that. In fact, I’m sort of surprised they didn’t slap a FOR MATURE READERS warning above the UPC, as this features some of the most graphic dismemberment I’ve seen since Preacher wrapped up, but I imagine that Wildstorm can get by with just about anything it wants to at this point, with their numbers hovering somewhere between those for the Johnson County Feed And Seed Catalog and Dog And Cousin Fucking Quarterly.
Comments Off | Posted: June 3rd, 2008 | Filed under:Uncategorized
Confidential To MoCCA’s Marketing People: You may want to make sure that there’s a broad selection of downloadable, press-friendly images for web and print distribution. I had to take a screenshot of the downloadable PDF poster and resize it to make the above image. Very few people are as patient as me when it comes to dicking around with images for their blog.
Comments Off | Posted: June 3rd, 2008 | Filed under:Uncategorized
I’m a little in love with Aziz Ansari. He’s funny, delights in the same inane shit as me, and loves fine food as much as myself. I’m sure this will pass and I’ll find myself waking up next to Rob Huebel. (Sorry, Paul. I require a full, lustrous head of hair.)
The new Booka Shade album is fairly addictive. The first few tracks are more laid back and then WHAM! Dance madness ensues. There’s quite a lot of singing on this record, which is something they’ve not had in the past, but it works fairly nicely in that Georgio Moroder technodisco way. The highlight of The Sun And The Neon Light has to be”Charlotte,” which I’ll likely include in the next muxtape update.
I read the first collection for Spider-Man: Brand New Day and really enjoyed the format – three-issue, rat-a-tat stories with new villains and some of the 70s-style soap operatics that I enjoy so much. I can see why Quesada and Brevoort wanted to make this move, but there’s very little about these stories (other than the Jackpot “mystery”) that required Peter Parker to hire the services of Mephisto: Supernatural Divorce Attorney.
From the conversations I’ve had with them (and their bitching about Whedon not writing more issues of Buffy,) I don’t think a lot of Joss Whedon devotees understand that he wasn’t the only writer on the various series he’s created.
PORT ST. LUCIE — Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn’t like about Barton’s 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said they were going to take a vote, Barton said.
By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class.
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Barton said after the vote, Portillo asked Alex how he felt.
“He said, ‘I feel sad,’ ” Barton said.
Alex left the classroom and spent the rest of the day in the nurse’s office, she said.
Thank you, Wendy Portillo, for ruining my fucking morning.
