Go Read: Flytrap episode 2

The second installment of Sara Ryan's Flytrap is now available online. Art this time out is provided by Ron Chan, who does a great job.

(The first episode, with art by Steve Lieber, is also online.)

My Current Fave Online Strips

My Current Favorite Online Comic Strips are:

* The Joy of Tech
* The Perry Bible Fellowship
* Piled Higher and Deeper
* A Softer World
* Unshelved
* XKCD

What are yours?

Cyborg Monkeys!

The world becomes more and more like comic books every day...



(via Q via Random Good Stuff)

YACB Bulletins

ITEM! "Capes, flying, and eye lasers are important plot points to a kid." - Eric Powell talks about his upcoming gig on Action Comics.

ITEM! Saw Ghost Rider Saturday night with a group of friends. We laughed a lot. Not because the movie was trying to be funny, but because it was so ridiculous. They trotted out every single super-hero cliche, and possibly even invented a new one or two. It's one of those so-bad-it's-good movies if you're in the right frame of mind.

ITEM! When did scrotum become a bad word?

ITEM! My new favorite Webcomic is XKCD. Very funny.

New Library Comics: Week of February 12, 2007

Here's a list of comics that we added to our library collection last week:


Battaglia, Dino. Due racconti /Milano : Studio Michelangelo, 1998.

The book of boy trouble : gay boy comics with a new attitude /San Francisco, Calif. : Green Candy Press, c2006.

Castells, Ricard. Araia /Onil (Alicante) : Edicions de Ponent, [2003]

Giménez, Carlos, 1941- Los profesionales /Barcelona : Glénat, c2003- vol. 1

Giménez, Carlos, 1941- Paracuellos /Barcelona : Glénat, 2001- vol. 1

Hergé, 1907-1983. Cigars of the pharaoh /Brussels, Belgium : Casterman, 2006, c1984.

Hergé, 1907-1983. The blue lotus /Bruxelles : Casterman, c2006.

Kawashima, Yoshio. Gloom party /Carson, Calif. : Digital Manga ; London : Diamond [distributor], 2006.

Marzocchi, Leila. Niger /Seattle : Fantagraphics Books ; [Bologna, Italy?] : Coconino Press, c2006- no. 1

Nonaka, Eiji. Cromartie High School /Houston, Tex. : ADV Manga, 2005- vol. 1

Prado, Miguelanxo Tangencias. /Barcelona : Norma Editorial, 2006.

Sacco, Joe. But I like it /Seattle, Wash. : Fantagraphics ; [S.l.] : Distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton, 2006.

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover.

Hokey jokes never go out of style, like on the 1995 cover to Hanna-Barbera Presents #4.

(Standard disclaimer about clueless cartoon gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

Someone Else Has Probably Already Made This Observation

So in looking at the two-page spread of the new Fortress of Solitude in last week's Action Comics Annual #10, I noticed that there are statues of the old (pre-Crisis/ZH/Reboot) Legion of Super-Heroes in there, not the current LoSH.

Which led me to a realization: The current Supergirl and The Legion of Super-Heroes comic is probably set not in the future of 'New Earth' (i.e. the current DCU), but rather in the future of the 'New Parallel Earth' (or whatever they end up calling it) that is being hinted at.

This would explain why the Supergirl in SatLoSH is different than the one appearing in the modern day DCU. I also seem to recall some multiversing going on in the final issue of the old Legion when the new LoSH was introduced.