Entries from July 2007

July 31, 2007

Jon Favreau Knows What He’s Doing

A clip that is probably already everywhere on the internet is know here as well, for at least as long as livevideo  Youtube keeps it up.

This confirms so very many warm and fuzzy thoughts I’ve been thinking about this movie. The characterization of Tony Stark seems faithful (at least, to [...]

July 25, 2007

Scott McCloud, eat your heart out

When I first heard DC had setup their own digital comics imprint I had my own, wildly inaccurate picture of what that meant.  I imagined DC comics being distributed digitally for download or viewing online.  The truth is somewhat less revolutionary.
The truth is that comics are already free for download if you’re willing to… uh… [...]

July 21, 2007

Nick Fury Saves The Marvel Universe

Lacking any natural artistic abilities of my own, I have accepted that I will forever toil in a world decorated by crude, half-witted stickmen.  With that in mind, I submit the following:
 

 
This day is coming soon.

July 19, 2007

Tintin: Insanest of the Insane

On the lighter side (or much darker side, depending on how you feel) of the aforeblogged Tintin in the Congo, here’s how Tintin rescues Snowy from a pesky primate:

Another monkey? Why, whatever for? Is our intrepid hero hatching some clever scheme?

Hmmm… Interesting. Tintin certainly dispatched that monkey with aplomb, but what now?

He… [...]

July 18, 2007

Tintin, Hergé, and Racism

After being away on vacation for just over a week, I feel like I’ve lost touch with the entire world. After sorting through a pile of unread emails, I noticed that two different people had sent me this item, which details the relocation of Hergé’s Tintin in the Congo from the children’s section [...]

July 6, 2007

Countdown to pointless retcons

Big Events are a fixture of superhero comics. Every year or so, something appropriately earth-shattering happens to the characters we know and love. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the motivation for these events
Both Marvel and DC do their Big Events on an almost annual basis. We accept them as a [...]

July 6, 2007

True Horror Comics

From America’s Greatest Comics #2, 1942
 
I would bet money that the little stick-man on Johnny’s shoulder is about to slaughter all the family.

July 3, 2007

Who Watches Zach Snyder?

A “highly suspect, but rumored to be legit cast wish list” for Snyder’s upcoming Watchmen adaptation has been put up on dtheatre.com.  Not a casting wonk myself, so I can find nothing to gripe about here.  There’s some good actors, and I’m sure they’ll do the script justice if this beast is actually made.  Given [...]

July 2, 2007

Good news for billionaire playboys

A friend sent me this link, for one of the coolest hoodies you could ever imagine:

 There are Superman and Flash sweaers as well, but they’re not hoodies and thus look about half as cool as this one.  They should’ve done a red hood on the Superman sweater, and on the Flash sweater given the hood [...]

July 1, 2007

ceebeegeebee at the racks, July 1 2007

The Boys #8: I read some superhero comics. I enjoy some superhero comics. But I have to admit, Ennis does some pretty deft skewering of a couple of familiar tropes that the genre loves to cart around. Hughie and Butcher’s conversation at the beginning of the issue addresses something that [...]