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Top Shelf has amicably settled a potential dispute with the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the holder of the copyright for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, over the publication of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls, which includes an adult version of the character of "Wendy" from Barrie's classic fantasy tale. The settlement avoids the issue of whether or not Lost Girls represents an infringement by withholding distribution of Lost Girls in the U.K. and European Union until January 1, 2008 after the expiration the Great Ormond Street Hospital's copyright. Top Shelf is gearing up for a major European launch of the book commencing in January 2008.
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Rice Ball Guy is here to save the day!
Thrill to Rice Ball Guy's first adventure!
And his third adventure! Where he gets all "meta"!
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The first installment of the Marvel/Guiding Light crossover appeared this week in Marvel's Civil-War related Choosing Sides.
Since no one on scans_daily has decided it's scan-worthy yet, here is a brief preview and interview on Newsarama.
First stop on the tour, the Newsarama blog, a quote from Brandweek (a marketing industry magazine):
Marvel Comics, like the stereotypical buyer of its products, is trying to figure out how to meet women. Tired of waiting for members of the opposite sex to wander in to the comic book store, the company is going where the women are by teaming up with CBS’ long-running soap opera Guiding Light. The comic book publisher this week began placing a special insert into some of its titles that has superhero group the New Avengers visiting Springfield, which is home to the Guiding Light’s characters. Next Monday Guiding Light returns the favor with an episode titled "She’s a Marvel," in which one of the show’s characters gains superpowers."We were really attracted to this as a way to get access to a new audience," said David Gabriel, Marvel Publishing’s vp-sales and marketing. "The soaps’ audience is all women and ours is all men."
Next up, what some Newsarama posters think of the idea:
...I think its degrading to the medium. Adult comic readers and the comic industry in general have a hard enough time being taken seriously as it is. Slapping the Marvel brand onto something that "normal" people view as even more ridiculous then comic books isnt really the way to go in my opinion. Im all for exposure and bringing more people to the industry, I just question the choice of the exposure here.
For the other side, the soap fans on the Soap Central board are not particularly happy, either. Among the comments from fans after viewing the episode promo (which is on the Marvel site):
"Guiding Light management just doesn't get it. Soaps are about the emotional connections between people and how they react to things that happen in their lives. We root for our favorite, cry with them, laugh with them and everything in between. Just when GL remembered what they were supposed to be with the brilliant storylines and acting with Reva/Billy/Josh and Jonathan/Lizzie/Tammy it seemed like there were going to start winning back fans and ratings. Now they are going to make Harley an electrically charged superhero that fights crime Spider-man style, glowing eyes and all? Are they freakin' kidding??? Who knows how many weeks we are going to be expected to put up with this idiocracy. This is NOT how you save a soap from being cancelled. It's how you speed it up.""idiocracy"? Are we sure this poster isn't from Newsarama?
The Guiding Light tie-in episode airs Wednesday, November 1. We'll bring you updates and hopefully some YouTube action then.
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But alas, this love affair between Galactica and the right was not to last: in its third season, the show has morphed into a stinging allegorical critique of America’s three-year occupation of Iraq. The trouble started at the end of the second season, when humanity briefly escaped the Cylons and settled down on the tiny planet of New Caprica. The Cylons soon returned and quickly conquered the defenseless humans. But instead of slaughtering everyone, the Cylons decided to take a more enlightened path by “benevolently occupying” the planet and imposing their preferred way of life by gunpoint. The humans were predictably not enthused about their allegedly altruistic rulers, and they immediately launched an insurgency against them using improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers. Needless to say, this did not go over very well in the Galacticon camp.“The whole suicide bombing thing … made comparisons to Iraq incredibly ham-fisted,” wrote a frustrated Goldberg, who had hoped the struggle against the Cylons would look more like Le Resistance than the Iraqi insurgency. “The French resistance vibe … is part of what makes the Iraq comparison so offensive. It’s a one-step remove from comparing the Iraqi insurgency to the (romanticized) French resistance.”
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Comics Worth Reading looks at "Wizard's New Low".
Which is a mix and match of artists and female character's rear ends.
Remember back when Wizard did "Babe and Hunk of the Month"?
Did you ever think you'd look back and think "why can't Wizard go back to being more mature like they were back then?"
Anyway, the comments on the post:
I’m not a regular reader of Wizard magazine, but it seems to me that the magazine is trying to move away from comics and be more of a pop culture magazine that happens to include comic coverage. Also it seems that Wizard has given up on any idea of a female readership and decided to pander to the lowest common denominator among fanboys. Each issue seems to make Wizard look more like Maxim. (I won’t even discuss the fact that each article reads like it was written by the PR department of either Marvel of DC).
And:
1. I knew there was a reason why I don’t read Wizard.2. Lockjaw is female? Really? Wow.
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So, the internet is happily assuming that the Marvel memo mentioned in this week's LITG is directly aimed at Greg Land (I don't actually think it is, and even if it is, it's not for the right reasons), starting and re-starting the "Greg Land is a dirty stinking rotten tracer" vs the "Greg Land draws the HAWT women!" threads again.
The Jinxworld thread:
http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=90631
Try the Newsarama threads:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=88648
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=82103
As usual, a bunch of different issues are being conflated - He traces! He photoreferences celebs! He reuses his own work constantly! He uses work that doesn't belong to him! - and not in a particularly rational fashion.
And, now, updated for your viewing pleasure:
Found on CBR, in the LITG discussion thread, "If Greg Land is a CopyCat, What is Roy Lichtenstein?"
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Halloween Man to be collected off-line.
Go buy it!
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Marvel's finally getting to Iron Man's side in the Civil War.
Millarworld discusses...
Unless they say that the teenage tony is around again I dunno how they'll pull off him acting so out of character
What motivates a man to turn on his friends?
but we already learned he's only doing it for the dough, in ASM!!it's capitalism heroics baby!
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Somehow, combining Peanuts characters into classic fanboy moments? Pure MAGIC.
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It's just his working title, you see. Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, talks about his upcoming serialized novel for the New York Times and about comics:
The Escapist, the fictional comic book of "Kavalier and Clay," has now actually become a real comic book character. When I see his comic book on the rack, I have to catch myself from saying, "Oh, that's so great that they brought that back," since it only existed in your imagination.I'm glad that's your reaction and not "Oh, what a crass attempt to cash in and exploit a literary property."
Did you worry that that would be the reaction, that it would be like merchandising for your novel?Yeah, I'm always worried about that kind of stuff. There is no merchandising the comic book itself. The idea has always been to make something worth reading on its own. We did a good job initially with an anthology format, but that had limitations of its own.What's out there now, the Brian K. Vaughan-written and Steve Rolston and Jason Alexander-drawn "Escapists" is wonderful. It's just great in its own right, and doesn't lean on the novel very heavily at all. I think it would be an intensely entertaining piece of work even if the novel had never existed. That's what I really was hoping for from the beginning. It's exciting to see a writer as good as Brian K. Vaughan take over this material and make it his own.
In the past, you sometimes weighed in and defended or promoted comic books and graphic novels as an art form. Do you think that's broken through to the mainstream?I think so. If anything, at this point I think that it's possible that comic books are taken too seriously. There's almost too strong of a bias in favor of adult-oriented material now in the comics world. I think comic books worked so long and so hard to achieve some level of the respect that they deserve as an artistic medium that they along the way abandoned some of the things that prevented them from being taken seriously, such as being written for the pleasure of child readers.And now when I take my child readers into the comic book store, it's hard to find good things for them to read. There are good things for kids in comics, but people in the comic book world don't like to talk about them that much.
Going to be needing a moment or two alone, boys! *Grabs Kleenex*
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Mr. Britney SPears K-Fed Kevin Federline The dumbest wannabe to ever fall ass-backwards into money made an appearance on the WWE's Raw program and promptly got his ass handed to him by reigning WWE Champion, John Cena.
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Over at CBR, they apparently ran some kind of vote by members of the CBR forums for their favorite comics writers and artists. CBR is releasing the resulting list this week.
The discussion thread on the top 50 writers can be found here.
The thread on the top 50 artists can be found here.
Each thread contains a brief bio and description of the individual writer/artist named to the list.
Some of the atrocities visited upon this list? Jae Lee (a fine, fine artist in his own right, mind) and Greg Land beat out Brian Bolland on the artist list. J. Michael Straczynski and Jeph Loeb beat out James Robinson, Bill Willingham and John Ostrander.
Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame, CBR, shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. *wags finger indiscriminately*
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It was a year ago yesterday that Fanboy Rampage closed its doors.
But did you know that the comments section of the last blog post continued being posted to up until August of this year?
And it got weird towards the end.
Nice to see this website finally put out of it's misery! All the whining by you babies won't bring it back. YAY!!! Time to slink back to your daddies basements and dream of being half the man John Byrne is.One by one the negative Byrne-bashing sites bite the dust and the John Byrne Forum is still going strong!
NUFF SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But see... the comments section doesn't require any real authentication... so it looks like some people start posting as the Byrne boarder (I hope).
Wait, I thought of more to say! I like having sex with cows and chickens! Go Byrne!!!!!!
And:
UPDATE: Last night I had sex with my girlfriend's cat.Okay, I'm lying.
I don't have a girlfriend.
Then Rod Odom shows up to express his disgust.
There is nothing funny about any of this.Why doesn't everyone just grow up.
Don't forget to check out all the pencils to comics you don't buy at www.byrnerobotics.com
And is also appropriated.
And when you're done checking out the awesomely awesome pencils, let's all go fuck bunny rabbits!Byrne fans for bestiality!
And starts arguing with "himself". Or a close approximation thereof.
What's your obsession with bestiality?Do you ever say things like that to a persons face?
Somehow I doubt it, coward.
Who is the real Rod Odom?
I am shocked. None of these previous statements have been made by me. I was directed here by a friend and am shocked by what has been said (by both sides) in my name. I am no fan of bestiality. Nor am I a raging John Byrne fanboy. You should all be ashamed.
It's all so confusing.
Seriously, OK? Cut the crap. I can understand if Byrne isn't your cup of tea or don't follow his projects or whatever, but enough with bestiality references. Grow up. Get a life. And Byrne is NOT a homosexual even if his cock tastes like shit.
And it goes on like that for a few months.
Then "John Byrne" himself (obviously not himself, but you get the idea), shows up to respond to "Rod". Rod first:
Good News People!!!!John Byrne has decided to quit the monthly comic grind and focus solely on commissions.
What a great guy. Let the other "kewl" artists and writers bang their heads against the wall writing crap comics while the true heir to Kirby devotes himslef to what he does best, drawing big pictures!
Huzzah for the new King of Comics!!!!!!!!!!
Then "Byrne":
It's totally not because I've been let go from DC and can't get any other work! It's totally not!
So it's good that that was cleared up.
...
The Internet is weird.
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We want our childhood back.
Those wacky French. Workers from EuroDisney dressed in full company gear engage in a little sexe de groupe. Simulated, of course.
We always knew Minnie was a whore.
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Lindsay Lohan and Kiera Knightley to co-star as lesbian lovers.
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So this girl (we're assuming she's a girl) calls herself "jean_summers" and posts in the 'net, right? One of the things she posts is some kind of sexual fanfic involving Cyclops, Wolverine, and Jean Grey (with a bonus, awkward sexual moment between Logan and the Beast) called (wait for it) "The Animal and the Gentleman".
You can't see us right now, but we're typing this with a straight face.
jean_summers actually says in an introductory note to Chapter 2: "I hope everyone thinks it's as sexy as I do."
. . . .
Seriously.
Actually, the story's author in the link is listed as "Frisque" -- get it? -- but a link in someone else's blog leads us to believe that Frique and jean_summers are one and the same. Which blog, you ask? Well, we're glad you asked.
Someone with the login name of "scottswife" (eeeeeee-yikes; just wait, it gets worse) has a LJ page that she's entitled "fanficrants" and apparently, she posted a complaint about the hottie-hot-hote Cyclops-Wolverine forbidden man-love story.
But she didn't complain because of what you might assume would be the reason why any self-righteous, knees-locked-together, lie-down-and-think-of-England, burn-down-the-barn-to-roast-the-pig type of nutjob would complain about slash fic.
No, she complained about "The Animal and the Gentleman" because, well, they offend her religion. And not because her religion prohibits re-imagining fictional characters in sexual situations, as any good, decent, American family values religion should!
No, her religion has something to do with the X-Men. And Cyclops/Scott Summers in particular. Observe. "Scottswife" responding to a few questions:
I honestly can't tell if you're actually batshit or not, and if you are, to what degree you are batshit. I also don't know whether or not you're a flat-out troll or genuine and willing to speak. But I have faith in humanity, so I'll try to be reasonable and assume that you're saying what you honestly believe and not just trolling.I believe in what I said. I am not "batshit." Do you consider the people who claim to hear God talking to them batshit? Some woman sold a piece of cheese on eBay for thousands of dollars because people thought they saw Mary in it. Give me a break. My religion was rather private until I came across jean_summers who seemed to think that my reporting that story was a personal attack. She claims that I seek out people to bother. I don't. You'll notice that's the only story under that account. Probably because she's been banned for smut before. {And its badly written smut at that}
Apparently, "scottswife" also has kids. To which we say:First, a question of curiosity: In what way do you believe Scott is connected to you? Do you think he's a fictional character that's come to "exist" in you, or do you think he's still fictional but you have personally invented a version of him? Or, hell, do you think he's fictional at all?I don't believe he's fictional. I believe he's a spirit that am I close to. I used the word "married" but not in the sense that we stood before an altar and all that. Marriage is just hte joining of things. I meant it like that. jean_summers completely misquoted me in that ff.net message she posted. A lot of my words were changed and/or deleted.
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OHNOES!!!1!! Tara Reid had plastic surgery! AND SHE REGRETS IT!!! Eeeeeekk!!!
On why she had plastic surgery in the first place:Click the link at the top of the post for some pics of the saggy, bulgy, contorted, heinous freak. A couple of NSFW pics* are there of Tara exposing her boob when she went to a P. Diddy party and posed for pictures outside the event, unaware the entire time that he gown had slipped down, exposing her freakishly mauled left breast. Unaware, perhaps, because the crime against nature on her chest severed all nerve endings when it implanted itself on her as a host for an alien egg that will eventually give birth to a race of Earth-conquering marauders from another galaxy?
"I got my breasts done for the first time because my breasts were uneven. I was a 34-B, but the right one was always bigger than the left. I weigh 110 pounds now, but I always used to fluctuate by 10 pounds, so my skin was kind of saggy. I figured, I'm in Hollywood, I'm getting older, I'm going to fix them."On what went wrong:
"First of all, I asked for big Bs, and he did not give me big Bs. He gave me Cs, and I didn't want them. At all. Right after the surgery, I had some bumps along the edges of my nipples, but the doctor said, 'Don't worry, it's going to be better.' But after six months of 'it's going to get better,' it started to get worse and worse."On being intimate:
"Guys I was dating would be like, 'What's wrong with them? They look really bad. You know, you should really get them fixed.' So embarrassing. I mean, you definitely need to turn off the lights, that's for sure."On getting lipo:
"I got lipo because even though I was skinny, I wanted - I'm not going to lie - a six-pack. I had body contouring, but it all went wrong. My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing."
Damn, she's a freak. YOU'RE THE FEMALE MICHAEL JACKSON, WOMAN! LIVE WITH THAT.
* Admit it. Normally you see "NSFW pics" and immediately go to shut your door and reach for the Johnson's Baby Lotion and the box of Kleenex, right? Trust us, you won't need them here. Although you may still want to shut the door. No need to traumatize anyone else simply because you're morbidly curious and you're one of the only three people on the planet to have never seen pictures of Tara Reid's freak boobs.
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Similar to Marvel's Tom Brevoort Challenge from a couple of months ago where fans got to play fantasy Marvel editor, Newsarama is running a DC version:
Your task today is to look over the entire line of DC Comics and tell us which three titles should have new creative teams on, which three new books should be launched with your ideas for what they should be (character most deserving of their own title, new team, event book, etc…), and to make way for them you must cancel three titles, but give your reasons.
1st. Drop Supergirl from The Legion of Superheroes. Its not working for me.2nd. Give Green Arrow back to Meltzer
3rd. Flash is back to Wally West
4th. JSA and JLA go back to old numbering. The Relaunch was un-neccesary.
5th. Trials of Shazam is cancelled. Reset Captain Marvel's history to old school Cap.
6th. Get Brian Wood onto a Batman Book, as well as keep Paul Dini on Detective Comics.
7th. Alan Moore. Action Comics.
8th. Give Alan Scott and Adam Strange their Eyes back. What the Hell. Really.
EDIT
Blue Beetle and Booster Gold are back. JLI is back!
(Although, seriously, that new Flash book? Awful. Just awful. It's AWFUL. Awful. AWFUL. Did we mention it's awful?)
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The school is not releasing details on what happened during the trip to the Sept. 23 game. But Chancellor John Wiley described it in a letter to the band's director as behavior "that can be seen as anything from boorish and offensive to patently dangerous and unlawful."Wiley warned in the letter he would consider suspending activities and travel of the band or replacing its leadership if there were more reports of "gratuitous vulgarity, sexualized banter or joking, hazing, or other forms of demeaning conduct."
. . . . He said some of the reports were from the bus trip home from Ann Arbor, Mich.
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Congratulations to Gene Yang and First Second Books.
Yang's American Born Chinese was nominated for the National Book Award in the category of Young Person's Literature. It's believed that ABC is the first graphic novel to be nominated for a prestigious National Book Award.
Cool.
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Just because we felt like posting purty pitchers.
By now you now that DC has changed dialogue and art in the recently-released Infinite Crisis hardcover, right?
The implication created by the changed dialogue is that Earth-2 is coming back and Geoff Johns has been quoted elsewhere on the 'net as saying that Earth-2 (or Earth-3, or Earth-S, or Earth-847, or Earth-pi, or whatever, we can't keep track anymore) will play a big role in 52.
Word on the street is also that they've added some pages to the Batman/Deathstroke fight and also beefed up the exchange between Batman and the Superman of Earth-2 to make their statements about Dick Grayson a little less ambiguous.
But perhaps the most eye popping change of all? This:
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The tape begins with Diamond in a bathtub, narrating what's to come. It ends with Diamond introducing one of the women to a "Dirty Sanchez." Suffice it say, it is unbelievably graphic.We've gone from Pamel Anderson, to Tonya Harding, to various reality show chicks, to Paris Hilton, to Collin Farrell, and now to this.
Who's next? Rosie f'n O'Donnell??? Stop with the madness, already.
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And he doesn't care who knows.
Just kidding. Three weeks ago, Hamner posted the following message to the ComicBloc forums:
A few months back, I got a call from Motor City Comicon, asking me to come to their October show. Now, I've always liked MCCC, they've always treated me really well when I've gone; it's a nice show. Unfortunately, after all the shows I've done this year, I find that I've reached the burn-out point. I decided not too long ago that I'm gonna be scaling back on shows for the next year or so, because it's really cutting into my work schedule. I'll definitely do my mainstays, like Heroes and Baltimore and Atlanta, but beyond that I'll decide to go to on a case-by-case basis.So, I tell them this, and that I really don't think I can do it. But because of my pleasant dealings with them in the past, I tell them I'll think about it, look at my schedule, and that they should call me back in a couple of days. Like I said, that was a couple of months ago, and I haven't heard from them since.
A few weeks ago, I got an e-mail from a fan wanting to know what I would be charging for sketches at MCCC. I told her that I was sorry but I wouldn't there, and that hopefully she could catch up with me next year. It seemed odd to me that she would assume that I'd be there, so I went and checked their website, and sure enough, I was listed as a guest as of August 24th.
I e-mailed the Motor City folks, and said that there must be some mistake. I'd never agreed to go, and really can't anyway, so would they please take me off the list? No response. To date I've sent three e-mails and haven't even gotten a response.
Unfortunately, Motor City Comicon has a reputation for doing this and it's one of the reasons why I've never attended. I've spoken to a few pros whose names were added to the guest list "by mistake" only to have it announced by the con (usually on or just before the con date) that they "cancelled" their appearance.I have to wonder if the organizers aren't doing this on purpose. I've seen it happen with other shows.
Tsk, tsk.
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Not judging. Just sayin'. Paris Hilton touches up:
Does this make Paris Hilton more or less likeable? We're so confused.
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Courtesy of Idontlikeyouinthatway.com, the first known picture of Angelina Jolie starring in a movie as slain reporter Daniel Pearl's wife.
Courtesy of the site:
Mariane Pearl is the wife of the late Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded by Pakistani terrorists in 2002. For a minute there, I thought this was a movie about a white guy trying to get into Harvard.
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Sandy Sullivan, a 65-year old woman in Wisconsin, is running for Secretary of State against a 28-year encumbent. We know, we know. Who gives a flying frog's ass, right?
Well, it turns out that Ms. Sullivan was quite the naughty girl in her younger years. In 2004, Ms. Sullivan published a book detailing her various love affairs with members of the Green Bay Packers:
In it, she confides that her goal was always to marry a pro football player, saying they are "fast, sleek and clean," are built like "Greek gods" and love women."The football players of the 1950s and '60s were every bit as 'HOT' as the men of the present day, if not more so," Sullivan writes of the days when she was a trim, miniskirted brunette who did some modeling. "Remember, the '60s was the 'dawning of the Age of Aquarius' and some women ... were thrilled to experience this brave, new freedom, and celebrate our sexuality ... and the football players loved it!"
. . . .
Sullivan says she was 19 in 1961 when she took a job with the Packers selling tickets and met [legendary Packer Paul] Hornung, the Heisman Trophy-winning running back. She was instantly smitten with the wavy-haired golden boy known for his off-the-field romantic exploits.
"Here he was, in the flesh! Oh! My God! He was soooo CUTE! ... He immediately asked me out and I immediately accepted," Sullivan wrote. She quickly learned "there are two things football players think about all the time ... FOOTBALL AND SEX ... and seldom in that order."
Nana?
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Little scrap over in the comments section at the Comics Should Be Good blog.
First the column didn't care for True Story Swear to God by Tom Beland.
But, unfortunately, this is not good. Not good at all! This book is a perfect example of why I tend to run for the hills when the word “autobiographical” is mentioned in relation to comics. ... Because I’m just a guy. Just like Tom Beland. Which means his life, like mine, is deadly dull. Not to me (or to him), but to people reading about it. DULL.
Then Beland shows up to comment:
I think if there’s one thing duller than reading autobio comics, it’s reading a column by someone who complains endlessly about the comics they bought.I mean, you begin your column by stating that you’re worried about spending so much money on comics… that you may need an intervention… and then go on and on telling us how so many books don’t reach your level of sophisticato. Yawn… and you say I’M covering boring topics..?
Then, the gloves come off:
I said Tom Beland was a nice guy, but he’s kind of acting like a dick. I may have to revise my opinion.
Then the gloves get jumped up and down on:
I’ve had some great conversations with other reviewers who didn’t enjoy my work. But, again, they gave a more professional review than what, well… whatever you call this stuff you’re writing.I just think it’s lazy keyboard mashing in hopes that screams of “LOOK AT ME!!” more loudly than the eighteen issues I’ve published.
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They think the changes indicate that Earth-2 is back.
And the Biggie... When Kal-L is dying in Kara's arms, in the comic book, Kal tells Power Girl he'll always be there for her and now he knows what Lois was trying to say. He says, "It's not going to end. It's never going to end... for us..." then two wordless panels, with Kal looking up into space, then the panel where he says Lois' name for the last time, and then he dies.WELL..... In the ICk HC, those two wordless panels gain some dialogue from Kal. After he says, "It's never going to end for us..." he then tells Peege, "...One day you'll see... they're still out there..." Then says Lois' name and dies.
"THEY'RE still out there?!??!!!!!"
But hasn't Earth-2 existed since the Morrison/Quitely book of the same name?
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CIVIL WAR HAS TORN THE FANTASTIC FOUR ASUNDER!
Newsarama sifts through the remains.
I'm not saying that because I hate france, I'm saying it because they couldn't have come up with another more pop-cliché place for him to go than france."Omg Ben doesn't want any part of the war, he's acting like everyone said the french did with the iraqi war. Lets have him go to France! It'll be brilliant..."
...no.
Sorry the fact that they fell on that stereotype is sad.
They ponder what makes an American an American.
Is it crying for your flag?
Pure blooded in my mind is different from being Native American.
Its like being a true blue American, you salute the flag, cry on the fourth of July, and have some quirkiness associated with Americans. That was my intention at least.
Is it taking a stand for what you believe?
You're missing the idea. The writers aren't making an alusion to France's stance on the Irag war. Grimm even saying it himself, he's harkening back to the ex-pats who left the US between the world wars because they weren't happy with the state of the country. Like Hemingway and, I don't know...Hemingway.
Is it eating fish and fucking?
The continuity cluster f*** really ruined the issue for me.Clearly because of how the events in the second half of the issue went down, this happened after CW #4.
But having Sue write Reed a "See you later, we've been fighting all the time, here's a fish and a f*** for the road" letter and THEN just chilling out in the Baxter Building does not make sense.
Basically, the first half had to occur pre CW 4, the second half had to occur during/post the last ASM, which itself had to occur post CW4.
Other than that, JMS hit the Reed characterization on the head, and yeah, the ending totally sucked. I already READ Spider Man.
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The new line of toys, called KISS Players, each have a kinda-way-too-young-looking female counterpart who gives the Transformer powers by kissing them.
I'll tell you guys what freaks me out. I noticed this on the box when Ryan baught it at Botcon. Check out where Autolooper is with her legs open!
It is freaky... but maybe not as freaky as this comment:
Someone should reshell him into a dildo!
Hentai and children's toys... Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one?!
Disturbing very disturbing. Me being an american prude I guess, but these are inches from pure porn, no thanks.
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scans_daily blogged Wizard's old "Queer Eye for the Super-Guy" bit from a few years back.
I like the Luke Cage and Captain Boomerang redesigns, but the rest do little for me.That said, I do believe that Aquaman desperately needed a makeover, but not one as extreme as the '90s pirate/barbarian look or the one above. Personally, I'd keep the look the way it is, but change it to gold scale-mail rather than orange tights. Drop the green gloves, add a gold collar and wristbands. Keep the hair short and the green pants as they are. And give him his hand back. His look immediately before OYL came closest to ideal for me.
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Was Ultimates 2, specifically the scene where Hawkeye's family is executed, too much?
I realize it's just a comic, but watching Hawkeye's wife and children get executed like that just put me off. Especially, having his youngest's blood splattered all over his face, was really brutal. What's your thoughts on it?
Please tell me you're lying about your wimpy brother.
that was a really brutal scene (my brother cannot stand blood and fainted to this panel) but millar did warn us that he wanted to "crank up the gore factor" so i guess i suffered the consequences.
Dude, you are HARDCORE! What a bad-ass!
why would it be goin too far??? its the ultimate universe not 616.. waa waa boo hoo stop crying
Umm...
I have said sorry for my spelling several time's, I don't recognise some letters or words. due to this I was taught ferneticaly. also being able to spell has no bearing on being able uderstand the written word.
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A thread at Marvel.com asks "Who also hates Gambit?"
The thread starts off strong...
Gambit is weak sauce
And doesn't let up...
no gambit is verry good he's not verry powerfu but he is more than some of the characters of marveland dc
I don't know what we're yelling about!
If you don't like gambit then don't make a board about him post stuff bashing him just leave him alone!
So... What have we learned? One, Gambit is verry good. And two, never, ever, make a board about him post stuff bashing him. Just don't do it, okay?
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There are some characters you don't mess with. You don't screw with who they are. You don't have them saying things they shouldn't or acting like they wouldn't. For example, you'd never have Batman slapping children. Or Spider-Man revealing his secret identity.
It just isn't done.
Anyway, for the Byrne board... one such character is... the Wendigo.
You heard me.
Wolverine finds out that the Wendigo is not responsible for the deaths, he is being hunted unjustly. Some hunters actually find Wendigo. A fight ensues and Wendigo is shot by a rifle! Previously Wolverine could not penetrate Wendigo's skin with his claws, yet this bullet somehow guts the Wendigo, who eventually passes out from loss of blood! Wolverine tells Spider-Man, who he sniffed out of a crowd, that Wendigo is not responsible, and then goes off in search of the Wendigo. He finds the Wendigo lying in a pool of his own blood, and uses his claw to casually remove the bullet from the dying creature. When Wendigo wakes up, Wolverine explains the situation to his former adversary, and then they actually end up SHAKING HANDS!At this point in the story, I am literally shrieking at the comic in my outrage. Eventually it is shown that Alpha Flight was asked by Wolverine not to interfere, as you know, Wendigo is now just a harmless woodland creature that plays with butterflies. So now Wolverine essentially has Wendigo as a pet, and the two of them along with Spidey, catch the real crook, and then Wendigo goes back happilly into the woodlands to frolick amidst the flowers and trees.
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Sorry, I blanked out reading all that.
A responsible super-hero would either try to kill the nigh-unstoppable Wendigo ... or knock it out long enough to call Michael Twoyoungmen or Dr. Stephen Strange, to cure the poor bastard.Letting it roam free is likely condemning an innocent to a life of eating babies and murdering people.
If you you're not with us, you're with eating babies.
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Millarworld has a thread on "infamous" lines of dialogue from comic books.
The usual suspects have been brought up.
"Are you dense? Are you retarded or something? I'm the GODDAMNED Batman."
And some of the... unusual suspects.
Wolverine in Secret Wars: 'Stop Raping Meeee!!!!'Dumbest line ever written by anyone. Ever.
Ummmm, yeah. I don't remember that at all. Anyone remember the context of that one? That ain't right.
Anyway... no mention yet of whether or not the letter on Cap's forehead stands for France.
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Burger King will be releasing a series of X-BOX games based on their very creepy mascot, the King.
Our favorite (and most nightmare inducing):
Sneak King"Only the King can turn an everyday act into an art form and now players can step into the King’s royal shoes and use cunning stealth to sneak up behind unsuspecting people and bestow them with a delicious meal. The goal of Sneak King is to surprise hungry citizens with Burger King sandwiches and other menu items throughout the day before they pass out from hunger. Whether in a logging yard, construction site, suburban neighborhood or downtown urban scene -- each rich with detail and hidden pathways -- players can hide out and earn points based on how elaborate the delivery is executed."
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Perhaps this oft-blogged series of Wizard articles on how to draw female comic characters was the inspiration for this thread over at Girl-Wonder.org that seeks to find "artwork where we can showcase a genderswapped scene from comics".
ARGHHHH...a TUTORIAL on how to draw sex objects?
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And Balent's advice on keeping the hands and feet pointed at all times? All my words are rage-y ones.
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Eh, the package and the buttocks are located at roughly the same height on the male human body. In order to get a clear view of both at once, I think one would have to draw in a mirror image.
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