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§ January 10th, 2011 § Filed under sir-links-a-lot § 16 Comments

You know, if I were releasing a boatload of Avengers comics to the stands every month:

…I don’t know that I’d obscure the subtitle of one of them, keeping customers from quickly identifying which Avengers title it happens to be. But, hey, what do I know, I just sell the things. It’s not like I’ve had to point it out to people specifically looking for it or anything.

In other news:

• Comics colorist Tom Ziuko is having financial woes due to health problems and can use a bit of help. You can read the details from fellow comics pro Alan Kupperburg at that link, and you can donate what you can to Kupperburg’s PayPal account: kupperberg (AT) earthlink.net.
• In case you don’t get enough Alan Moore during your day (unlike this dude, who apparently has), BEHOLD: A Moment of Moore, providing your regular required dosage of that fabulous bearded man’s life and work.

  Related projects: A Moment of Ellis, starring the work of your pal Warren Ellis, and A Moment of Morrison, starring Grant Morrison. And this site isn’t called “A Moment of Moebius” but it totally could be.

  Sadly, no “A Moment of Chris Claremont” site appears to exist. …GET MOVING, INTERNET. (Just day after day of panels of characters saying or thinking “I…hurt.”)

• Speaking of Mr. Morrison, pal Dorian provides, as part of his ongoing Paperback Book Club project, the cover of Morrison’s Lovely Biscuits.
• You’ve already seen this, but you must see it again: Bully, the Little Stuffed Bull with a Quick Hoof on the Remote Control brings you “Commissioner Gordon Is A Jerk” (and he totally is). This is the greatest thing.
• Jim Woodring has created a giant pen (the construction of which you can follow by going back through his weblog, and you can see video footage of the pen right here. Why would a man do such a thing? Why would a man not? It was demonstrated at the Gage Academy of Art on Sunday, and I look forward to the eventual release of video of the event. (Gary Groth tweets that the demonstration was both “physically & aesthetically” pleasing.)

  EDIT: And here are photos of the giant pen in action, via Boing Boing.

• Ragnell discusses the problems of liking a particular character, but not liking the books she appears in.
• Whoops! Neilalien points out a bit of a continuity snafu in a recent Avengers storyline, as well as providing commentary on Dr. Strange’s appearance in the story, and the somewhat drab way magic is being used there.
• Tim O’Neil discusses Crisis on Infinite Earths, the two Secret Wars series, and other crossover events and their impact. The brave man defends both Secret Wars, and you know what? So do I. Those are some crazy comics, man. Just pure “what the–!?” pouring over the pages.
• Palookaville #20 – the last comic book?
• Not really comics, and a bit Not Safe for Work-ish: one of the gals at the Shatner-centric Look at His Butt podcast is selling off some Trek ‘zines, and from one of said ‘zines is this fantastic fan drawing of Spock and a young lady. That Spock face needs to be a shirt.
• Don’t hold your breath for a new Wonder Woman TV show, kids. It may be a while.
• Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie have finished The Rack‘s “Baller Dogz Saga,” and you can follow this four-color Greek Tragedy right here. (SUPER TWITTER FLASHBACK: Employee Aaron and I provide BALLER DOGZ COSPLAY.)
• As long as I’m talking about me: the Fantagraphics weblog notes that the prediction jokingly made by a commenter in my predictions posts, about broadcaster Al Roker writing an intro for Fanta’s forthcoming Carl Barks’ ducks reprints, isn’t too far-fetched: Roker will be writing an introduction for the next volume of the Complete Peanuts.
• Milo George presents his favorite Superman, and it’s one of my favorites, too.
• Speaking of Superman, Siskoid has been detailing the many, many variations of Superman from comics, TV, movies and more, including a version of Superman that’s generally praised, though the movie he appears in is not, and a later Pre-1980s-Reboot Superman from a favorite comic of mine.
• And here’s a Superman DC would rather you forgot about: Wonder Man, an early Superman knock-off DC sued out of existence.
• Tom Spurgeon has been unloading all kinds of great interviews over the last few weeks, like this recent one with Dan Clowes.

  EDIT: And here’s a link to all of the interviews!

• Here’s a review of the new superhero TV show The Cape, which describes it as “NBC’s newest attempt at bringing the insanely popular comic book genre to TV” since Misfits of Science, which isn’t mentioned, but surely one can read between the lines, there. And, sadly, the “insanely popular” only applies to Spider-Man, Iron Man, Batman and other hit super-films, and not to the comics themselves, some of which have as many as hundreds of readers! (Unless the “insane” refers to some of the readers, in which case…yeah, okay, you got me.)

  Anyway, didn’t catch the show, since I’ve eschewed the cable thing a while back. Any good? (Yeah, I know, I could read the review…but I’d rather hear it from you folks. Even the crazy people.)

• The “Ruinalista” title is just a gag for this extree-long links post. I’m not doing this on a regular basis!