So I've been a bad comic blogger as of late, with scant posting and whatnot. Sorry, life has been busy and I haven't had much time to read many comics, let alone blog about them.
But I'll be making it all up to you! Come back Tuesday evening when I'll be announcing the Biggest Comic Book Blog Giveaway Contest Ever! It's in honor of my second blogiversary, and it's going to be a big one. I mean it. Stay tuned...
Friday, 4 August 2006
Wednesday, 2 August 2006
New This Week: August 2, 2006
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--I think--is Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, vol. 8: Five Crazy Women. I say 'I think' because I don't ever recall seeing this offered in Previews (surely I would have pre-ordered it if I did, and I didn't), nor does it seem like McNeil has accumulated enough new online material for a collection, nor is it listed as available through any online retailer (Amazon, Mars Import, etc.) So to tell the truth I'm not convinced that this actuall exists--but if it does you should get it.
If not, then the fall-back Pick of the Week is the first collection of Kyle Baker's Nat Turner, in which he shows that he can bring the serious to an autobiography adaptation.
In other comics:
Abstract have the 18th Strangers in Paradise collection.
Airship have a paperback of the second Girl Genius collection.
Antarctic bring out the Fred Perry love with three Gold Digger comics: Gold Digger #76, Gold Digger Tangent #2, and Gold Digger: Throne of Shadows #3. They also have the final issue of Twilight X: War, even though the volume collecting it came out last week...
Archaia have a new issue of Mouse Guard (#4).
BuyMeToys.com have the first regular issue of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles.
Dark Horse have a collection for Concrete (vol. 6: Strange Armor); a new volume of Eden (vol. 4); and new issues of BPRD: Universal Machine (#5) and Usagi Yojimbo (#95).
DC have a big ol' Absolute Kingdom Come hardcover; the first collection of Exterminators; and new issues of 52 (week 13), All New Atom (#2), Detective Comics (#822), Ex Machina (#22), Jonah Hex (#10), Justice League Unlimited (#24), and Y, the Last Man (#48).
Fanfare/Ponent Mon have Vanyda's The Building Opposite GN.
IDW have a new issue of Fallen Angel (#7).
Image have new issues of Invincible (#34) and Noble Causes (#22).
Marvel debut Jeff Parker's retro Agents of Atlas mini; and have new issues of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (#11), Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (#18), The Punisher (#36), and Ultimate Spider-Man (#98).
TokyoPop have the first volume of the OEL manga Afterlife, and the first volume of Return to Labyrinth, based on the old Henson film with David Bowie and Jennifer Connely.
Top Shelf have Jeffrey Brown's I Am Going To Be Small.
Viz have the third volume of Crimson Hero.
Plenty of stuff to give your LCS the love today!
The Pick of the Week--I think--is Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, vol. 8: Five Crazy Women. I say 'I think' because I don't ever recall seeing this offered in Previews (surely I would have pre-ordered it if I did, and I didn't), nor does it seem like McNeil has accumulated enough new online material for a collection, nor is it listed as available through any online retailer (Amazon, Mars Import, etc.) So to tell the truth I'm not convinced that this actuall exists--but if it does you should get it.
If not, then the fall-back Pick of the Week is the first collection of Kyle Baker's Nat Turner, in which he shows that he can bring the serious to an autobiography adaptation.
In other comics:
Abstract have the 18th Strangers in Paradise collection.
Airship have a paperback of the second Girl Genius collection.
Antarctic bring out the Fred Perry love with three Gold Digger comics: Gold Digger #76, Gold Digger Tangent #2, and Gold Digger: Throne of Shadows #3. They also have the final issue of Twilight X: War, even though the volume collecting it came out last week...
Archaia have a new issue of Mouse Guard (#4).
BuyMeToys.com have the first regular issue of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles.
Dark Horse have a collection for Concrete (vol. 6: Strange Armor); a new volume of Eden (vol. 4); and new issues of BPRD: Universal Machine (#5) and Usagi Yojimbo (#95).
DC have a big ol' Absolute Kingdom Come hardcover; the first collection of Exterminators; and new issues of 52 (week 13), All New Atom (#2), Detective Comics (#822), Ex Machina (#22), Jonah Hex (#10), Justice League Unlimited (#24), and Y, the Last Man (#48).
Fanfare/Ponent Mon have Vanyda's The Building Opposite GN.
IDW have a new issue of Fallen Angel (#7).
Image have new issues of Invincible (#34) and Noble Causes (#22).
Marvel debut Jeff Parker's retro Agents of Atlas mini; and have new issues of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (#11), Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (#18), The Punisher (#36), and Ultimate Spider-Man (#98).
TokyoPop have the first volume of the OEL manga Afterlife, and the first volume of Return to Labyrinth, based on the old Henson film with David Bowie and Jennifer Connely.
Top Shelf have Jeffrey Brown's I Am Going To Be Small.
Viz have the third volume of Crimson Hero.
Plenty of stuff to give your LCS the love today!
Tuesday, 1 August 2006
Super Covers Week: Clark vs. Superman
Super Cover Week continues with the Battle of the Century: Clark Kent vs. Superman. Don't you just hate it when you have to fight your alter ego?
If my name were 'Mala' I think I'd want to become Clark Kent too!
Cannon balls?
If you're going to use your Head of Hate to hypnotize someone to destroy Superman, might I suggest someone other than a mild mannered reporter? (Perhaps Geeen Lantern--he can create a planetoid of Kryptonite!)
Exactly what good does it do to expose someone's phony secret identity?
Again with Superman masquerading as Clark Kent...
Now this is the way a mild-mannered reporter should take on a super-hero: through yellow journalism!
Thus ends another edition of Super Covers. Later this week I'll have the final installment (like how I stretch a week out into two?)
If my name were 'Mala' I think I'd want to become Clark Kent too!
Cannon balls?
If you're going to use your Head of Hate to hypnotize someone to destroy Superman, might I suggest someone other than a mild mannered reporter? (Perhaps Geeen Lantern--he can create a planetoid of Kryptonite!)
Exactly what good does it do to expose someone's phony secret identity?
Again with Superman masquerading as Clark Kent...
Now this is the way a mild-mannered reporter should take on a super-hero: through yellow journalism!
Thus ends another edition of Super Covers. Later this week I'll have the final installment (like how I stretch a week out into two?)
Monday, 31 July 2006
New Library Comics: Week of July 24, 2006
Here are the comics we got in for our library collection last week:
Hartman, Rachael. Amy unbounded : Belondweg blossoming /Wynnewood, PA : Pug House Press, c2002.
Matsumoto, Reiji, 1938- Galaxy express 999 /San Francisco : Viz Communications, 1998- vols. 4-5
Nibot, Root. Banana Sunday /Portland, Or. : Oni Press, 2006.
Nizzi, Claudio. Tex : the lonesome rider /Celje, Slovenia : SAF Comics, 2005.
Tinder, Jeremy. Cry yourself to sleep /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf Productions, [2006], c2005.
Vance, James, 1953- Kings in disguise /New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
World war 3 illustrated 1980-1988. /[United States?] : Fantagraphics Books, c1989.
Hartman, Rachael. Amy unbounded : Belondweg blossoming /Wynnewood, PA : Pug House Press, c2002.
Matsumoto, Reiji, 1938- Galaxy express 999 /San Francisco : Viz Communications, 1998- vols. 4-5
Nibot, Root. Banana Sunday /Portland, Or. : Oni Press, 2006.
Nizzi, Claudio. Tex : the lonesome rider /Celje, Slovenia : SAF Comics, 2005.
Tinder, Jeremy. Cry yourself to sleep /Marietta, Ga. : Top Shelf Productions, [2006], c2005.
Vance, James, 1953- Kings in disguise /New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
World war 3 illustrated 1980-1988. /[United States?] : Fantagraphics Books, c1989.
Sunday, 30 July 2006
Super Covers Week: Monkey Covers
What do you get when you combine Super Covers Week with Monkey Covers Sundays? You get Super Monkey Covers! Because there's nothing better than a Superman cover with a monkey on it!
Superman and monkeys have been forever intertwined. It started early, when as Superbaby young Kal-El encountered Beppo, a Kryptonian monkey who stowed away on his rocketship.
Superbaby totally owned monkeys, defeating gorillas to become the mighty lord of the jungle.
But as he got older and became Superboy, he found his simean foes getting tougher too. He'd have to battle the giant Kingorilla...
And he totally got showed up by Chandu, a gorilla with x-ray peepers just as good as Kal's.
Even alien monkey creatures wouldn't leave the Boy of Steel alone!
And when you beat one super-ape, there's always another in line to take you on.
Somehow Clark managed to survive those youthful monkey encounters and grow up to become Superman. But that didn't mean the end to his monkey troubles. It just meant that the monkeys became even more deadly, like King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla!
Or the greatest super-foe ever: Titano, the Super-Ape! He's a giant ape with Kryptonite vision!
Remember kids: King Kong is only make-believe, but Titano is real!
That Jimmy Olsen--what a punk! He arranges a fight between Titano and Godzilla just to make a movie, and then doesn't even lift a finger to help his supposed pal.
Jimmy should take a clue from Lois Lane. See, this is why Lois wins pulitzers and Jimmy is forever stuck as a cub reporter.
Even Superman's friends find themselves vexed by monkeys from time-to-time. Supergirl faced off against the mind-controlling Gorilla Grodd.
In the future, the post-Crisis Superboy fought talking gorillas.
Even poor Bizarro wasn't immune. Bizarro-Titano has blue Kryptonite vision. Bizarro Titano?! I love comics!
Finally, what could be better than Superman fighting giant apes?
Superman becoming an Ape! And fighting a Giant Robot Ape! Pure genius!
That wraps things up for today. Super Covers Week was only meant to cover a week, but I ended up skipping a couple of days, so we'll be spilling over a bit into this next week as well.
(standard disclaimer about giant apes and super-powered gorillas not really being monkeys applies)
Superman and monkeys have been forever intertwined. It started early, when as Superbaby young Kal-El encountered Beppo, a Kryptonian monkey who stowed away on his rocketship.
Superbaby totally owned monkeys, defeating gorillas to become the mighty lord of the jungle.
But as he got older and became Superboy, he found his simean foes getting tougher too. He'd have to battle the giant Kingorilla...
And he totally got showed up by Chandu, a gorilla with x-ray peepers just as good as Kal's.
Even alien monkey creatures wouldn't leave the Boy of Steel alone!
And when you beat one super-ape, there's always another in line to take you on.
Somehow Clark managed to survive those youthful monkey encounters and grow up to become Superman. But that didn't mean the end to his monkey troubles. It just meant that the monkeys became even more deadly, like King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla!
Or the greatest super-foe ever: Titano, the Super-Ape! He's a giant ape with Kryptonite vision!
Remember kids: King Kong is only make-believe, but Titano is real!
That Jimmy Olsen--what a punk! He arranges a fight between Titano and Godzilla just to make a movie, and then doesn't even lift a finger to help his supposed pal.
Jimmy should take a clue from Lois Lane. See, this is why Lois wins pulitzers and Jimmy is forever stuck as a cub reporter.
Even Superman's friends find themselves vexed by monkeys from time-to-time. Supergirl faced off against the mind-controlling Gorilla Grodd.
In the future, the post-Crisis Superboy fought talking gorillas.
Even poor Bizarro wasn't immune. Bizarro-Titano has blue Kryptonite vision. Bizarro Titano?! I love comics!
Finally, what could be better than Superman fighting giant apes?
Superman becoming an Ape! And fighting a Giant Robot Ape! Pure genius!
That wraps things up for today. Super Covers Week was only meant to cover a week, but I ended up skipping a couple of days, so we'll be spilling over a bit into this next week as well.
(standard disclaimer about giant apes and super-powered gorillas not really being monkeys applies)
Saturday, 29 July 2006
Super Covers Week: The Future
Super Covers Week continues. It's a question that has interested the creators for decades: What does the future hold in store for the Man of Steel?
Will he get old but never die? That's how it appears on the cover of Action Comics #251.
Perhaps he gets old and has to move into a home with other fading heroes, like in Action Comics #386.
Or he gets older, just very slowly, as in John Byrne's Superman & Batman: Generations 3.
Or he just gets old and doesn't have the sense that Ma Kent gave him to come out of the cold, as in the darn cool cover to Superman #416 by Eduardo Barreto.
Or he goes the Rip Van Winkle route, like in Superman #107, and discovers that he's not so super anymore.
One doesn't have to go into the far future for a glimpse of Superman's life; how about the near future of... 2001? In Action Comics Annual #3, we find the Man of Steel becomes the President of Steel! (Ironically, in the regular comics, when 2001 rolled around it wasn't Superman but his arch enemy, Lex Luthor, who became President!)
Alternately, Clark could become a widower. But really, making out with that skank Maxima on your wife's grave? Tacky, Kal-El, really tacky.
See, now that's better. (But what kind of name is Lanie for a kid?)
But who says it has to be our Superman in the future? What if Superman came to Earth today--in 1976? Then he'd be the Superman of the future in 2001!
Even farther in the future, here's the Superman of 2965. He's 'so different' from our Man of Steel, what with the flying and the same powers and everything...
Now the Superman of 2999--there's a kid who understands tradition, as he recreates the cover to Action #1.
We end with the aptly named Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1000000, with Gene Ha giving us the Superman of today encountering his future self of the 853-rd century!
Thanks for journeying with us into the future. We'll be back tomorrow with more of Super Covers Week (and if you've been paying attention for the past couple of years, I bet you can guess what tomorrow's theme is...)
Will he get old but never die? That's how it appears on the cover of Action Comics #251.
Perhaps he gets old and has to move into a home with other fading heroes, like in Action Comics #386.
Or he gets older, just very slowly, as in John Byrne's Superman & Batman: Generations 3.
Or he just gets old and doesn't have the sense that Ma Kent gave him to come out of the cold, as in the darn cool cover to Superman #416 by Eduardo Barreto.
Or he goes the Rip Van Winkle route, like in Superman #107, and discovers that he's not so super anymore.
One doesn't have to go into the far future for a glimpse of Superman's life; how about the near future of... 2001? In Action Comics Annual #3, we find the Man of Steel becomes the President of Steel! (Ironically, in the regular comics, when 2001 rolled around it wasn't Superman but his arch enemy, Lex Luthor, who became President!)
Alternately, Clark could become a widower. But really, making out with that skank Maxima on your wife's grave? Tacky, Kal-El, really tacky.
See, now that's better. (But what kind of name is Lanie for a kid?)
But who says it has to be our Superman in the future? What if Superman came to Earth today--in 1976? Then he'd be the Superman of the future in 2001!
Even farther in the future, here's the Superman of 2965. He's 'so different' from our Man of Steel, what with the flying and the same powers and everything...
Now the Superman of 2999--there's a kid who understands tradition, as he recreates the cover to Action #1.
We end with the aptly named Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1000000, with Gene Ha giving us the Superman of today encountering his future self of the 853-rd century!
Thanks for journeying with us into the future. We'll be back tomorrow with more of Super Covers Week (and if you've been paying attention for the past couple of years, I bet you can guess what tomorrow's theme is...)
Thursday, 27 July 2006
YACB Bulletins
ITEM! Kevin Smith discusses his involvment in the early stages of the Superman Reborn movie on YouTube, complete with Spanish subtitles. (warning: language)
ITEM! Do you find the idea of a 'beaty shop quartet' a capella group consiting of four drag queens to be funny? If so, then you'll probably enjoy the music of The Kinsey Sicks. I caught them on CBC's Just for Laughs and was pleased to find a bunch of free songs and vids on their Website. (warning: occasional language)
ITEM! Sommer Browning is an aspiring librarian and an aspiring cartoonist. Check out her comics on her blog: Asthma Chronicles (warning: language, sex, drug use, etc.)
ITEM! Over at Lying Media Bastards, Jake Sexton has an article about his first trip to Comic Con. Jake is not a comic book person, but he is an observer of larger media culture. So he has some interesting comments such as:
ITEM! Do you find the idea of a 'beaty shop quartet' a capella group consiting of four drag queens to be funny? If so, then you'll probably enjoy the music of The Kinsey Sicks. I caught them on CBC's Just for Laughs and was pleased to find a bunch of free songs and vids on their Website. (warning: occasional language)
ITEM! Sommer Browning is an aspiring librarian and an aspiring cartoonist. Check out her comics on her blog: Asthma Chronicles (warning: language, sex, drug use, etc.)
ITEM! Over at Lying Media Bastards, Jake Sexton has an article about his first trip to Comic Con. Jake is not a comic book person, but he is an observer of larger media culture. So he has some interesting comments such as:
Most amazing to me was the number of indepdenents, comic book creators who aren’t affiliated with the top (and seemingly only) comic companies. I wonder if those guys sell enough to make ends meet. If so, it makes compelling evidence for micro-media: instead of a few companies producing media products for millions, we can have thousands of creators making media for an audience of thousands, or even hundreds.
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