Topic: Funnybooks (Read 161349 times)

Thad · « **Reply #2240 on:** February 19, 2013, 11:22:39 PM »

Research by Carol Tilley reveals that Wertham wasn't merely wrong, he deliberately falsified his data.

Not surprising, of course, but it throws Wertham's perfidy into even starker detail.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2241 on:** February 25, 2013, 06:15:42 AM »

Just a warning, DC went and spoiled a character death in Batman, Incorporated in the New York Times today. If you're following that book, well, don't read the New York Times today.

And in case you don't follow it but want to know:
[spoiler]It's Damien[/spoiler]

Thad · « **Reply #2242 on:** February 25, 2013, 12:10:59 PM »

I thought it was the Post.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2243 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:53:05 PM »

Ehh, one of those. I just remember reading "New York... yadda yadda"

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #2244 on:** February 26, 2013, 07:02:15 AM »

Roman Dirge hit by a drunk driver.

Büge · « **Reply #2245 on:** February 27, 2013, 01:51:42 PM »

Here's a really neat blog of artists redoing entries in the Handbook of the Marvel Universe in their own style: http://ohotmuredux.blogspot.ca/

Büge · « **Reply #2246 on:** February 28, 2013, 09:19:39 PM »

VIBE CREATED BY GERRY CONWAY AND ~~CHUCK PATTON~~ LUKE MCDONNELL

Scratch that, Vibe wasn't created by anyone, apparently.

Thad · « **Reply #2247 on:** February 28, 2013, 10:28:46 PM »

Welp, while Bleeding Cool is politely putting spoiler warnings in its headlines (and ComicsAlliance is, as usual, a week behind what everybody else is talking about and devoting its major coverage to Orson Scott Card this week), Robot 6 isn't. So that's nice.

So if for example you've been laid-up with a cold for the past few days and haven't been able to make it to the comic shop to pick up the latest Batman Inc, don't go to Robot 6. And maybe delete their RSS feed entirely from your reader, as I'm seriously considering doing.

Rico · « **Reply #2248 on:** February 28, 2013, 11:51:24 PM »

Re: That particular spoiler
[spoiler]One of my local papers ran a story on Robin dying, but with a photo of Adam West and Burt Ward. I was momentarily devestated until I realized they were just talking about Damien.[/spoiler]

Thad · « **Reply #2249 on:** March 01, 2013, 08:36:59 PM »

Simone on Red Sonja. Interesting.

Thad · « **Reply #2250 on:** March 03, 2013, 08:17:50 PM »

...well for fuck's sake, the Big Batman Spoiler is right on the fucking cover. Guess it's not really a spoiler at all.

Thad · « **Reply #2251 on:** March 05, 2013, 05:19:50 PM »

...yeah, no sense going forward with spoiler tags anymore, even if there ever was -- which there probably wasn't, because again, the cover.

Anyway, apparently he'll be staying dead for at least five months; Batman and Robin is being retitled for at least that long, with a different sidekick in the second billing every month.

Büge · « **Reply #2252 on:** March 06, 2013, 01:16:11 PM »

Chris Sprouse, the artist for Orson Scott Card's upcoming Superman comic, quits the project.

Thad · « **Reply #2253 on:** March 06, 2013, 04:49:29 PM »

Which, in turn, has delayed it so that it won't appear in issue #1. Which automatically means Card will be seeing less money from it, because #1's sell better.

Thad · « **Reply #2254 on:** March 07, 2013, 01:09:42 PM »

New Astro City ongoing starts June 5.

It sounds fucking beautiful. If you're an AC fan, go give that link a read; it's worth it even though the interviewer asks a few dumb questions and inexplicably transcribes Kurt's initials as "KG" for the last half of the piece.

Thad · « **Reply #2255 on:** March 15, 2013, 04:52:25 PM »

The latest Batman was pretty great but I'm still probably dropping it anyway because I do not need another goddamn retelling of the fucking origin story hell ass shit.

Also probably dropping Animal Man because I wracked my brain trying to remember the last time I gave a fuck and it turns out it was that issue where Cliff spends the whole thing watching a movie that Buddy starred in.

Thad · « **Reply #2256 on:** March 17, 2013, 01:58:13 PM »

And then I read the latest issue of Manhattan Projects and all is right in the world again.

It can be easy to forget how many great fucking comics there are right now. So what if I drop Batman and Animal Man? There's still Adventure Time and Prophet and Dark Horse Presents and any number of really great comics each and every month. Hell, even DC's still got Dial H. I might even start reading Wolverine again since Cornell's writing it.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2257 on:** March 19, 2013, 06:47:29 AM »

On the subject of DRM, digital distribution and big-name creators seeking publishing other than the Big Two (+Image), Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin have released a new comic called The Private Eye which is DRM-Free and Pay-What-Want. That's 32-pages by the author of Saga and Y The Last Man and the artist behind Doctor Strange: The Oath for whatever you feel it's worth.

Thad · « **Reply #2258 on:** March 20, 2013, 10:20:31 PM »

Welp, I bought Wolverine #1 because Paul Cornell.

It's pretty good, despite being decompressed as fuck. Like, I feel like there are two pages' worth of story in this comic. Three, tops.

But I still liked it enough that I'll probably pick up #2.

Thad · « **Reply #2259 on:** March 21, 2013, 01:53:16 PM »

So I got a job AND Quantum and Woody is coming back?

This is, like, the third-best day I've had all month.

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