No, Ben Templesmith did not do this poster, but it was found on his flickr page.
Nice. Were this a movie, I couldn’t stomach it.
]]> No, Ben Templesmith did not do this poster, but it was found on his flickr page.
Nice. Were this a movie, I couldn’t stomach it.
]]>Let’s face it, we don’t need another incident of having to wait for a second printing of Robin or Nightwing just to figure out what the eff happened with that Ra’s Al Ghul story.
You can thank DC for shoving this checklist in their comics this week.
Batman #676-681
Detective #846-850
Nightwing #147-150
Robin #175-176
Batman & The Outsiders #11-13
There. Tell your LCS to get ready. Oh, and pick up Batman Confidential #17, just ‘cause it’s awesome!
]]>Jim Mahfood, Dumper Foo, Griffin One, Mosha One, Brez & Lalo perform live art at Club Red for the Blunt Club 6 yr anniversary show.
2121 E University (Price & University)
But the grand opening of Main Artistry is where its at too.
Main Artistry, 16th St and McDowell Rd.
Starts at 6pm for you early meet and greet types.
]]>Holy blah-blah-blah Batman! These podcasts sure do like to talk… and talk and talk. Seven days of listening to as many podcasts as I could and I still had 44 more episodes left.
I have one request for you podcasters: spoil everything. Anyone smart enough to download your episode should already know they are about to get educated.
Here’s what was of note after the jump.
5/1 Crank Cast‘s Mike Norton did a signing at Amazing Fantasy in Frankfort, IL. I probably should have mentioned that earlier.
5/7 Birds of Geek talks to Dan Ryder about his efforts to bring graphic novels to Maine’s public school libraries and his own class on pop-culture.
5/7 Collected Comics Library starts relating the free comics to their ccl counterparts about halfway through the episode.
5/7 About Heroes One hundred one episodes later finally admit they haven’t had a good show since episode 38. But don’t take my word for it, tons of viewer mail. PLus a discussion about the importance of event comics needing optional tie-ins and not required reading. FCBD recap: DC: Universe Zero should have been on the list. Plus, X-men must have been a challenge for Greg Land finding pictures of 14-year-old porn stars.
5/8 KomicsKast recaps Pittsburg Comic Con. Um, what’s a BOP? Anyway, high praise for Girls with Slingshots‘ print edition, and other attendees.
5/8 Radio Wayne checked out FCBD at Yancy Street Comics in Florida as a 501st Star Wars Trooper. Nerd. Also an interview with Steve Bryant of Athena Voltaire
5/9 Fanboy Video gives a video montage of CAPE 2008 to the smooth stylings of Yelle’s À cause des garçons. p.s. it’s Dave Sherrill with two L’s
5/9 Catch Da Craze‘s Samuel Vera catches up with a back log of interviews from NYCC. Scott Simmons and Brant Fowler of < a href="http://www.wannabezcomic.com/about.html">Wannabez interview and upcoming con schedule attendances.
5/9 Comic Book Page‘s Mayo Report goes over the top selling Trades and the benefits for Indy comics. 31 new trades offered by Marvel? Good luck stocking them all. Plus, some number crunching hinting at low price sellers. mayo hasn’t read Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall yet. Light your torches and grab your pitchforks.
5/9, 5/12 Pulp Secret gives us the four most important word you need to know: Rampant Misogynist Dave Sims. Also, Newsarama’s last remnants of reviewing actual comics with some preview reviews.
5/9, 5/10 Alternate Reality reviews Iron Man the movie, even though everyone has seen it by now. Plus they have a roundtable discussion of Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen which is shockingly unlike the movie.
5/10 Amazing Spider-Cast sells out and reviews Iron Man proving that even they need a break from Brand New Day.
5/10 Comic Book Noise‘s Burning Trash spends their third episode eventually reviewing Birds of Prey, but gives a background of the bat-verse for you trade seekers. Notes that Gail makes food references and that Ed Benes needs to stop drawing female characters with panties riding up their butts.
5/10 Comic Book Savant reviews DC Countdown spinning the f-word count into triple digits—not that I could blame them.
5/10 Comic Book Queers announces the winners of the 2008 Queeries with hot puppet on puppet action. However, they seem to forget that everything is bigger in Texas (winks at Steve).
5/11 Comic Book Noise‘s Comics Playground up in arms about one of their LCS not participating in FCBD and another is limited their free comics to one per customer.
5/12 Comic Addiction interviews Mike Carey.
5/13 Indie Comic Book Noise‘s Bruce Rosenberger announcement his retirement from this podcast, but not his other casts and efforts. Quitter!
5/13 Around Comics stalks guests at the Emerald City Comic Con, bitches about WSLC laws. Come to Texas, we’ll let you drink if you even look like you’ve hit puberty.
5/13 Comic News Insider hops across the pond to interview Doctor Who writer, Paul Cornell and his upcoming comic book with Captain Britain. That and British kids pee in public.
If I didn’t review your podcast, sorry. I tried to get to them all.
]]>Donald Soffritti’s Comic Book Superheroes and Villains Drawn as Old People:]]>Italian comic artist Donald Soffritti drew very funny cartoons of what super heroes and villains would look like in old age! Doc Ock above doesn’t seem too thrilled having all those arms to carry grocery bags home.
Tons of other excellent drawings of super heroes as fat, middle aged men and women: Link - Thanks Haendel Dantas!
(Via Neatorama)
Congrats to all the winners. Keep reaching around for that rainbow.
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Jim Mahfood talks about life, love and happiness in our Barbara Walters special.
Just kidding, its Kristian Donaldson asking the questions.
]]>While we were rushing to theaters to see the super cool ending of Iron Man, our ardent reviewers were diligently bringing us their recaps of this weeks comics.
Avengers/Invaders #1 by James Donnelly
Action Comics Annual 11 by Joe Sergi
The Boys #18 by James Donnelly
The Man With No Name #1 by James Donnelly
Invincible Iron Man #1 by Scott Cederlund
Secret Invasion #2 by Scott Cederlund
And less we forget last weeks reviews…
Ultimate Human #4 by James Donnelly
The Order #10 by James Donnelly
Glamourpuss #1 by Scott Cederlund
DC Universe: 0 by Scott Cederlund
What? You only got ten free comics from your LCS? You’re just upset you didn’t get All Star Superman even though you already bought it.
Face it, podcasts only care about what they read and laughing at their own jokes for three hours, which is why I identify with them so well.
Here are a few so far that remotely covered the most important day for comics this year.
More after the jump…
5/4 Raging Bullets name drops Matt Sturges to take over Blue Beetle (who signed at CAPE), but that’s as close as they got to FCBD before spending the next fifteen minutes on sponsors.
5/5 Comic Book Noise talks about how lots of readers missed the whole point of FCBD and why he doesn’t participate. He also recorded while driving which provided a more spontaneous flow to his monologue.
5/5 Star Wars Action News laments that the three Star Wars minis were nowhere to be found. They called everywhere too.
5/5 Just Bill’s Comic Drawer box forgot all about FCBD. Lame.
5/5 Dollar Bin gets out four podcasts for FCBD. They talk to comic shop owners, Richard Margon, Shelton Drum, and Heroes Con creative director Dustin Harbin.
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Jamison Sacks chased Phil Jimenez down an alley, mugged him, stole his kidney and left him for dead. But not until after he squeezed some answers from interviews this NYCC favorite.
]]>Interview: The Phil Jimenez Perspective:
So after the long weekend that was New York ComiCon ‘08, I managed to harangue artist Phil Jimenez, noted for his work on Wonder Woman and Infinite Crisis and one of the current artists on Amazing Spider-Man, into a sit down chat. After showing me some of his favorite spots in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, we sat down in a quiet spot in the Chelsea market and talked about his views on ComicCons, his current work, and his teaching.’ Every question jumped into a few more and we ended up with a great look on the industry from one man inside it.’ We ended up talking for a while and in the end, the simple questions evolved into some great outlooks, so I decided to only trim the fat and was still left with a lengthy interview!
(Via Pop Syndicate)
Mega-thanks to Luke and Oliver from Fanboy Video for putting this together!
Like this video, there are these clips from events past.
]]>Tired of reading about comics? Give your eyes a rest with these sultry podcasts.
Here’s tip for those interested in starting a podcast. Record yourself talking for thirty minutes and force yourself to listen to it. That’s what you will be putting us through.
Here’s what has happened since Sunday.
4/27 Comic Geek Speak hates local comic shops with all the DCBS BS. Oh wait, They talk about FCBD, so suck it DCBS!
4/27 iFanboy wishes for a group intervention for Flash. And many other reviews to fall asleep to.
4/27 Just Bill’s Comic Drawer box laments the rules of giving perspective on comics, thread highjacking
4/28 About Heroes celebrates 100 episodes, gets drunk and makes prank phone calls to people they already know. Tragically, they took photos of it all.
4/28 AOTS Fresh Ink‘s Blair Butler went over the sad reality that NYCC was just one big teaser trailer fest.
4/28 Around Comics gets around to reading Run Home. Shame on you for taking so long.
4/28 Comic Book Noise reviews JLA #20, Dynamo 5 #12, Northlanders #5, Infinite Horizon #2 and #3, Checkmate #25, Mice Templar #4, Noble Causes Vol. 1, and gawks at car wrecks.
4/28 Birds of Geek chat with Tony Lee at NYCC and get all the dirt on British comics and the Eagle Awards story. But it was totally inaudible from their accents.
4/28 Comic Book Page compare the size of their comics stack and try to make heads or tails of the DC/Wildstorm mash-up.
4/28 Comic Timing gets stood up by their date and console themselves in a pint of Hagen Dazs for the next two hours.
4/28 I Read Comics talks about Dan Dare, and Megas so we don’t have to. Also, Miyazaki films, Eric Shanower’s OZ stories and more awesomeness (yes I’m biased).
4/28 Kryptographik is in a transition, so we’re getting short episodes while they sort it out. Reviews Darkness: Butcher.
4/29 Indie Comic Book Noise‘s Derek Coward guest hosts gives a break down of Wednesdays indie comics.
4/29 Oh snap! AOTS Fresh Ink‘s Blair Butler didn’t care for Countdown… nor anyone else. Reviews for Abyss, She-Hulk, Hulk, Star Wars Dark Times, totally plugs Manhunter.
If I haven’t listened to you yet, let me know! Fanboy Radio and I Read Comics aren’t getting along with my iTunes, so I’m trying to fix that.
]]>This week’s Free Comic Book Day generally equals strong sales for retailers. Their efforts to reach out to the public by way of coinciding comic writers and artists signings brings in larger numbers than usual. The only other time local comic shops get that kind of retail love is during the holiday season.
However, both Ultimates 3 and Astonishing X-Men are late… again. Initially, there were delayed for whatever reason and rescheduled to hit shelves today. That would have meant Marvel’s two biggest selling titles available to a larger than average audience. Perhaps they wanted the Secret Invasion #1 second printing to get a fair shake, but let’s face it; the Bendis blockbuster doesn’t stack up to the other two titles in terms of readership.
Not to mention the fact that Iron Man hits theaters this Friday. Where is Iron Man #1? People are going to see the movie and want to go to their local comic shops and pick up related items like comic books and action figures.
BTW, DC Universe Zero is out on time for fifty cents.
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