YACB Bulletins

ITEM! Matt Kindt's online serial Super Spy is completed, and will be collected in print courtesy of Top Shelf this summer.

ITEM! Bob Oksner knew how to draw women. Current comic artists please take note... (via Dirk)

ITEM! I sat down to listen to the latest DC Podcast, which was the audio from the DCU panel at NYCC. But after about 5 min. I decided that Dan Didio, who was emceeing the affair, was too darn annoying to listen to for fifty minutes.

ITEM! The latest Xpress Graphic Novel Reviews are up at LibraryJournal.com. Among the titles covered this time out are Gødland. Vol. 2, Nosatsu Junkie. Vol. 1, and Batman Year 100.

Yet Another Oscar Picks List

Here are my picks for tonight's Academy Awards:

Picture: Babel
Actress Leading: Helen Mirren
Actor Leading: Forest Whitaker
Actress Supporting: Jennifer Hudson
Actor Supporting: Eddie Murphy
Director: Martin Scorsese
Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Original Screenplay: Babel
Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Art Direction: Dreamgirls
Cinematography: Children of Men
Costume Design: The Devil Wears Prada
Film Editing: Babel
Foreign Language: Pan's Labyrinth
Makeup: Pan's Labyrinth
Original Score: Alexandre Desplat (The Queen)
Original Song: Listen (Dreamgirls)
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Animated Short: The Little Match Girl
Live Action Short: Eramos Pocos (One Too Many)
Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short Subject: Two Hands


(Note: This is a 'will win' list, not a 'should win' list.)

Tune in tonight to see if your favorites win!

Monkey Covers

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

Dr. Nagan gets his comeuppance on Larry Lieber & Vince Colletta's 1974 cover to Weird Wonder Tales #7.

(Standard disclaimer about pissed-off gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)

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

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.