Humanoids, Nous Vous Avons à Peine Connu

A few years ago, DC did a very brave thing. Figuring that there was a market in North America for comics from abroad, they partnered up with both the UK’s 2000 AD/Rebellion and the French publisher Les Humanoïdes Associés, or Humanoids Publishing. It was a decision, I imagine, that was based partly on [...]

And now, a special guest rant by Chew

My buddy Chew is no fan of Newsarama Best Shots reviewer Steve Ekstrom’s prose, in particular his review of Criminal #6:
Sometimes these Newsarama reviewers piss me off.  Mostly because they either
misspell everything, or they misuse words with reckless abandon.  A
vocabulary only counts if you know what the words mean.  This is a
disturbing example.  It’s a [...]

FYI: Kids do read comics, they just don’t buy them

Here’s a little tidbit that I think often gets forgotten in the Bottle City of Kandor that is comics fandom: kids read comics. And they love them. They read them for the excitement, the adventure, the melodrama that they don’t even know is melodrama, the pure joy of the genre. They read [...]

For all you rich folks out there

If you have $4000 lying around, you can own a Todd McFarlane Spidey cover.
Shout out to Lawrence for the scoop.

ceebeegeebee at the racks, May 27 2007

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Annual #1: / The big chunk of this book tells Sandman’s childhood backstory, and is almost entirely forgettable (As a kid, Flint Marko was obsessed with sand? Whodathunkit?). But at the back there’s a beautifully illustrated short story that Colleen Doran pencils. It’s almost worth the [...]

Rough Night Out

I came here, by way of here, by way of here, and found this:

  Plenty of other bizarre and wonderful things to be found.

Why, John? Why?

At my local shop, perusing the trades, and I came across a Fantastic Four Visionaries volume by John Byrne. I’ve never really read anything by Byrne, but I’ve heard good things about his FF, so I flipped it open.
There is no God.

Why would you give Sue Storm a mullet, John? Why would [...]

Danny Rand: Hardest of the Hard

For your consideration, please review the following panel from the recently released Immortal Iron Fist #5:

With apologies to Messers Fraction, Brubaker, and Aja, may I humbly offer the following correction?

Yes, you should be reading this comic.
 

BBDOh my God

This is only tangentially related to comics, but bear with me for something cool.
You may have heard that Marvel EIC Joe Quesada was speaking at an advertising firm’s big conference this past weekend. That firm is BBDO, which I’m told is a firm responsible for some of the best commercials you or I have [...]

The League of 80s Action Heroes

This is a little meme I came across at Bully’s wonderfantasmic blog. In the footsteps of Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you put together a team of fictional characters based on a few archetypes (Leader, Woman of Mystery, Rogue, Muscle, Guy With A Boat). To make it easier, I decided to narrow [...]