If there was one comic that I could, hand on heart, say was an underappreciated work of genius deserving of a wider audience, it’d be Nick Abadzis’ Hugo Tate. See? That confused look on your face? That’s how underappreciated it is; you’ve never even heard of it.
(The above, of course, doesn’t apply to those of [...]
It occurs to me that I have never actually told you all about my Stan Lee Says He Is My Father dream. I know what that sounds like, when I call it that - some crazy dream about the co-creator of the Marvel Universe turned even-more-shameless charlatan having produced not only seminal runs on comics [...]
From 2000, I think. But it was always about the past anyway.
Happy Christmas, if you’re into that kind of thing.
From the classic, much-read Giant Sized X-Men #1:
Wikipedia:
A Judas goat is a trained goat used at a slaughterhouse and in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is [...]
From a recent Damon Albarn interview:
I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across … The only danger is knowing when you are doing good work, how many people might be affected by it … and you try not to become too knowing, which is really hard to avoid. When I [...]
(It’s Onomatoepeia weekend again, so while I’m working on that, here’s last month’s essay.)
Who isn’t excited about Marvel’s new mega-event, Siege (AKA The Story That Made JMS Leave Thor Because He Didn’t Want To Write A Crossover Into The Book, but marketing suggested that that was perhaps a little long to fit comfortably on covers)? [...]
Seriously, I’m not the only person who wonders what the “innocent” explanation of Lois’ response was supposed to be, right?
(From Superman: Past and Future, courtesy of the wonderful Portland public library system.)
My dream last night (This morning?) was one of surreal, cutthroat comics competition. As with all the best dreams, the details are fading now so that only instants and greatest hits are left, but from what I can piece together, there was some kind of underground comics bullpen - by which I mean, a studio [...]
So I’m following this discussion about Should Superheroes Kill. The whole thing started with Chad Nevett reviewing the most recent issue of Marvel’s New Avengers, and saying
I hate superhero comics for pretending that letting villains live is somehow the morally superior thing to do, because it’s not. You know what the morally superior thing is? [...]
This is from the upcoming Marvel special issue, Wolverine: How Did You Get That Tiny Cowl Over Your Head, Anyway? And Wouldn’t It Flatten Out Your Mohawk? apparently. As much as I like the whole “releasing images without any information as a tease for upcoming comics” thing that Marvel borrowed from the one good thing [...]
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