This Week on YAMB

Yes, after a long absence, I finally returned to posting on my other blog, Yet Another Media Blog. Here's what I was up to:

I discoverd what type of humor I have.

I looked at Time Magazine's Top 100 Novels list to see which of them I've read.

I found out about the Woodsongs Website, where there's lots of great free acoustic folk and Americana live performances to be viewed.

And I updated Yet Another Music Radio to a playlist especially for Halloween. Lots of good music to be heard, running over a large range of styles. Pop in sometime in the next week and give it a listen!

Linkblogging: Blogs That Love Comics

A handful of blogs I visit when I want a comic book blog pick-me-up:

Zilla and the Comics Junkies, where Zilla and the boys, recently returned to comics after a several-year absence, discover with amazement some of the things that we long-time comics readers take for granted.

Dial B for Blog, where everyday is a celebration of the joys of comics (with a strong emphasis on DC's Silver Age), like today's Ghost of the Giant Hand!

Redhead Fangirl, which is exactly as the title implies. She's a librarian too, so you know there's a lot of Batgirl/Oracle love.

Steve & Sara in Spain / Manga TP

Steve Lieber is not only known for being a great cartoonist and a fine gentleman, but also for his highly entertaining convention write-ups.

Steve has now posted on the Mercury Studios blog a summary of the trip that he and Sara Ryan took to the Salón Internacional Del Comic Del Principado De Asturias in Gijon, Spain.

Although the text of the write-up is relatively short, Steve makes up for it by including a host of entertaining photos, including this one of toilet paper with manga-inspired packaging:



Which inspires us to suggest a new slogan for an up-and-coming U.S. Manga Publisher:

Manga: It's The Sh!t

YAFL: Week 6 Results

Here are the results from week 6 of Yet Another Fantasy League:



Tomorrow Syndicate 60
Kickers Inc. 75

Power Pack 44
The Inferior Five 43

B.P.R.D. 57
www.rickgebhardt.net 52

Inferior 5 plus 6 70
Moon Knights 55

Nine Pound Hammers 70
The Maxx Squad 57

Danger Limited 60
Secret Six 86


Current Standings:

   Team                 W-L-T  Pct    Pts  Streak
   -------------------  -----  -----  ---  ------
1. Inferior 5 plus 6    6-0-0  1.000  443  W-6
2. Power Pack           5-1-0   .833  384  W-4
3. B.P.R.D.             4-2-0   .667  406  W-2
4. Kickers Inc.         4-2-0   .667  343  W-1
5. Nine Pound Hammers   4-2-0   .667  343  W-1
6. Secret Six           3-3-0   .500  425  W-1
7. Tomorrow Syndicate   3-3-0   .500  402  L-1
8. The Maxx Squad       2-4-0   .333  338  L-1
9. Moon Knights         2-4-0   .333  294  L-2
10.www.rickgebhardt.net 2-4-0   .333  280  L-1
11.The Inferior Five    1-5-0   .167  293  L-3
12.Danger Limited       0-6-0   .000  322  L-6

Week 7 Games:

The Maxx Squad (2-4-0)
vs.
Kickers Inc. (4-2-0)

Tomorrow Syndicate (3-3-0)
vs.
The Inferior Five (1-5-0)

Power Pack (5-1-0)
vs.
www.rickgebhardt.net (2-4-0)

B.P.R.D. (4-2-0)
vs.
Moon Knights (2-4-0)

Nine Pound Hammers (4-2-0)
vs.
Secret Six (3-3-0)

Inferior 5 plus 6 (6-0-0)
vs.
Danger Limited (0-6-0)

Good luck to all!


In my other Fantasy Leagues, I tied 68-68 in my friends & family league (2-3-1, seventh place); lost 82-48 in my public league (2-4-0, eighth place); and scored 221.45 points in my Pass & Kick league, remaining in third place but falling further behind the lead.

Castle Waiting Returns

Great news for those who like good comics: Linda Medley's Castle Waiting will be returning in 2006, coutesy of the fine folks at Fantagraphics. Both trade collections of the past issues, and a new series too. Heidi has the news over at The Beat (as well as correcting the mistakes in the PW story), and you'll surely be able to keep up with future news on Linda's own Website/Blog (where she clears up some other misunderstandings in the Fanta press release).

New This Week: October 19, 2005

Based on the NCRL list for this week's comics shipping from Diamond, here are a few things to look for at the local comic shop later today:


The Pick of the Week is the hardcover collection of Charles Burns's Black Hole from Pantheon. Years in the making, this is a superb and creepy horror story of sex and transformation and teenage angst set in a middle-American suberb in the 70s. Few comics are worthy of a hardcover collection, but Black Hole definitely is.


In other comics:

Alias have the second issues of David: Shepherd's Song and the colorized reprint of Opposite Forces.

AP Comics finally release the first issue of Abiding Perdition (read the solicitation copy for the fifth issue in the current Previews--it's unintentionally very funny!)

Dark Horse have a new issue of Conan (#21).

DC have the debut of Captain Atom: Armageddon, bringing the shiny ex-Quality super-hero into the WildStorm universe (remember how well that worked when Marvel was mixing up the Marvel U with the Ultraverse?); the final issues of Authority: Revolution (#12), The Intimates (#12) and Seven Soldiers: Klarion the Witch Boy (#4); and new issues of Astro City: The Dark Age (#4), Birds of Prey (#87), Green Lantern Corps: Recharge (#2), Hellblazer (#213), Lucifer (#67), Manhunter (#15), and Top Ten: The Farthest Precinct (#3).

Dork Storm have a new issue of Dork Tower (#32).

IDW have a 99 cent #0 issue of their new Transformers.

Image have a new issue of The Walking Dead (#22) and a collection of the Beckett series Ruule: Ganglords of Chinatown.

Marvel have the relaunches of two series you really should be reading: She Hulk 2 and X-Men and Power Pack--look, not enough of you bought the first Power Pack mini, so now they've had to go and add in the X-Men. See what you've done! Buy this before they cross-over again! They also have a collections of Daredevil, vol. 12: Decalogue and Supreme Power, vol. 3: High Command; and new issues of Runaways (#9), Supreme Power: Hyperion (#2), and Ultimate Spider-Man (#84).

Oni have the joyous third issue of the sublimely funny Banana Sunday. Buy this comic!

Top Shelf have the second issue of The Surrogates. Buy this one too!


That'll do it for this week. Enjoy!

New Library Comics: Week of October 10, 2005

Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:


B., David, 1959- Epileptic 1 /Paris, France : L'Association, c2002.

B., David, 1959- L'ascension du haut mal /Paris : L'Association, 1996-2000. v. 1-5

Blab! No. 11 /Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, c2000.

Empty pockets. /Ann Arbor, Mich. : Wooden Book Press, 2005.

Fingerman, Bob, 1964- White like she /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books, 1998.

Funny cuts : cartoons and comics in contemporary art /Bielefeld : Kerber ; New York : Distributed Art Publishers, 2004.

Gruenwald, Mark. The official handbook of the Marvel universe /New York, New York : Marvel Comics Group, 1986- v. 1

Henderson, Sam. Magic whistle No. 9, Bigger, larger, and bigger! / Gainesville, FL : Alternative Comics, c2004.

Lapiz japones. /[Argentina : Comuna del Lapiz Japones, 1993?]

Lawrence, Don. The Trigan empire /Secaucus, N.J. : Chartwell Books, c1978.

Martin, George R. R. Sandkings /New York, NY : DC Comics, c1987.

Martin, Sean, 1955- Incredibily lifelike : the second anthology of Doc & Raider cartoons /Toronto : Queer Press, 1996.

Michelinie, David. Avengers : Emperor Doom /New York, NY : Marvel Comics, 1990, c1987.

Mind riot : coming of age in comix /New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1997.