Gaiman
Neil Gaiman’s legal battle with Todd McFarlane is over…”full steam ahead now for the Miracleman plans,” sez Neil.
(via pal Tom)
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I have the design sense of a blind man with no hands.
Speaking of atrocious redesigns, I’m foolin’ around with the font types and sizes on this weblog. If your eyes start bleeding, let me know.
Well, crud.
The comic series based on the Paul Dini/Bruce Timm Batman animated series is cancelled.
Rats. The animated series Batman comics were the only Bat-comics I’ve read on a regular basis for the last decade. And what I’ve seen of the new animated series (in particular, the atrocious redesign for the Joker) doesn’t have me interested in any comic based on it.
What does Metamorpho’s caveman nemesis read before acting in a movie?
You know those little Javascript tagline thingies I have at the top of this page, that change every time you visit? Well, I was about one nosehair away from taking it down, until pal Jehan asked me to keep it around. However, she lamented the fact that she keeps getting repeats. So, tonight, I’ve added about a dozen more…and if you have any suggestions for more taglines, please feel free to share them with me, either via e-mail or in my comments section here. I have no prize or payment or anything, beyond my promise to think good thoughts about you for approximately 45 seconds to one minute, should I use your tagline. If you do contribute, please use my format “[something-something] since 1969.” Thanks, chums!
Weekly Action.
Something I was discussing with pal Corey earlier…all the serialized stories that ran in Action Comics Weekly that have never turned up in any collections anywhere. It may be a bit late for the Deadman stories by Mike Baron, Kelley Jones, and others, given the fate of the recent Deadman series, and that the Green Lantern serials (featuring work by Peter David and Gil Kane, not on the same stories) haven’t been collected is a darn shame…but the real tragedy is that the Sunday page-style strips by Roger Stern and Curt Swan from this series are now out of print. This was good stuff…a breath of classic Superman air in the midst of the hot Byrne/Wolfman revamp gale (“he said, stretching out his really awful metaphor”).
ADDITIONAL LINKAGE:
I found this mind-boggling convention sketch by Tim Vigil of the death of Green Lantern supporting character Katma Tui (an event from one of the Action Comics Weekly GL serials).
Fark.
Fark‘s latest Photoshop thread features “situation’s [sic] where a superhero’s powers would be a liability.” High speed connections would help…dial-ups, pack a lunch while you wait for it to load.
Some Misc.
1. Apparently I’m providing content to Retrocrush. Hey, you’re welcome!
3. The new issue of Supernatural Law, #39, has a parody of Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan…even down to the art style and eyestrain-o-vision typesetting. Fairly amusing, and worth a look for Acme Novelty Library fans. Look for the cover with the Art Adams purple gorilla!
4. Well, now that Jim Valentino is no longer publisher of Image Comics, you know what that probably means, don’t you? More Shadowhawk, I bet!
4a. Actually, I wouldn’t say “no” to more normalman, but I’m not holding my breath.
5. According to pal Ian, Adrienne Barbeau was on Bill O’Reilly’s show, where Bill complimented her on her performance in the Swamp Thing film! Oh, this is the very definition of mixed emotions.
If you read only one comic about a kid exploding in space, make it this one.
Green Lantern #162 (March, 1983), cover art by Keith Pollard
As memory serves, there was a slight brouhaha over this fairly grotesque cover at the time…it wouldn’t get a second glance today. Well, maybe a second glance, certainly not a third. And yes, the kid does explode from decompression outside the spaceship:
…even though I’m about 80% certain that isn’t what would really happen in real life. The cover did do its job, though…I had given up on GL several issues prior to this, but I had to buy this issue when I saw that cover. I mean, wouldn’t you? Yes you would, don’t lie to me.
This story took place during Green Lantern’s exile from Earth in the early 80s, a series of stories by assorted hands that started okay, got dire pretty quickly, and wrapped up with a nicely drawn Alex Toth issue in #171. You can read more about the particular sequence of stories that issue comes from (in which Hal is based on a space cruiser) here.
Oh, sure, send more junk mail, we can’t get enough.
So at the store today we received an mass-mailing e-mail from some comic publishing company, asking if we wanted to host a signing with some of their creators.
However, due to some screw-up on their end, any e-mail sent to that publisher’s address was immediately sent back out to all the people on the mailing list. Lots and lots of messages, most of which read “PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR MAILING LIST,” ended up in our (and everyone else’s) mailbox.
Bad, right? And this wasn’t the first time this particular publisher has had this problem…the same thing happened a few months ago.
It gets worse. Some of the retailers on the mailing list, sensing an opportunity, start sending e-mails advertising themselves, conventions, what have you, to the publisher’s e-mail address on purpose, effectively spamming everyone else stuck on this godforsaken mailing list. Yes, really. Like we don’t have enough spam, and like we don’t have enough people on this mailing list continually sending “take me off this list” messages. We really need your advertising, too.
Now, I’m not going to name names (though I could…I’ve saved every message), but this really cheesed my crackers, and I hope the next time this happens (and it probably will), those would-be spammers keep their e-mails to themselves and not make a confusing situation worse.
Logs.
Confidential to the person who found my site with a Google search for “Sealab 2021 slash fiction:”
Sorry, I got nothin’.
