Here’s some quick links before I’m off for the weekend to study for the GRE (yes, grad school is on the horizon). Next week, I’ll be back with more reviews, previews and a Holiday guide.
There’s a comic book company out of the middle east that, as far as I can tell, distributes mainstream comics there. [...]
After a holiday week off, I went back to Oxford Comics last night to pick up the monthlies. It wasn’t until after I’d come home and sifted through the stack that I realized I hadn’t picked up a single DC book. Over two weeks, not one had come out that I wanted to read.
So, I [...]
In an editorial yesterday, the Rome News-Tribune (Ga.) derided the city’s prosecutors over their handling of the case of Gordon Lee, the comic book store owner who has been put on trial after one of his employees mistakenly gave an underage customer a promo of The Salon that contained a drawing of a nude Pablo Picasso. [...]
Warren Ellis sent out a note via MySpace that he has a new message board for all sorts of weirdness, comics-related and otherwise.
A new comic is coming out featuring the world famous Bulgarian singing sensations Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulov (from sophiaecho.com). Here’s a little enjoyable slice of the marginally understandable premise: “Her character would [...]
In recent weeks, all the talk of the digital future of comics has centered on Marvel and its new online archive service. While that’s certainly groundbreaking (if not a definitive success so far), I’ve been much more interested lately in the developments of another form of electronic reading.
As seen in a recent issue of Newsweek, [...]
Due out a week from tomorrow, the new Vertigo series Northlanders has been billed as “a departure” for writer Brian Wood, best known for his New-York-caught-in-a-civil-war series DMZ. It’s an apt description, as you can’t get much further away from a speculative look at the dystopian future than by delving into the history of Scandinavia.
This [...]
So much has been said over so many years about Jack Kirby and his prolific (at least everyone agrees on that adjective) career that it’s hard to review his comics for what’s on the pages, not the man who created them. But, looking at the latest volume, No. 3, of his Fourth World Omnibus (DC, [...]
IGN has a thorough set report from Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit (yes, that’s what I’m calling it). I didn’t even know they had a cast, much less filming underway. Here’s hoping that Sam Jackson is far more Unbreakable than Snakes on a Plane as the villain, The Octopus.
Speaking of comics movies, Chud.com has [...]
Something I’ve often noticed while reading through stacks of comics is how often I’ll see a book where the writer seems to have little concept of what makes good art, or a book written and drawn by an artist who seems to have little concept of what makes good writing.
Comics, after all, are a fusion [...]
Apologies for the lack of updates ’round these parts over the holiday. I was planning to do a batch of Wednesday Links before signing off for the long weekend (which was supposed to hold a trip to see in-laws in Ohio), but while playing basketball over lunch break yesterday I had a bit of an injury [...]
