You know what’s passé? You know what’s been done? Making fun of Wizard Magazine. Specifically Wizard Online, because fuck if I’m going to shell out bills for a print version.
But sometimes you click a link, and you read a thing, and then you got to write a thing, even though your first reaction is, “Wow, […]
Maaaan, Countdown. I know it’s been forever. I know that there are only nine issues left, and shit is about to go down, I suppose some people might want to know what has happened in the past eleven issues. Half the cast blew up and died, and the other half are […]
Podcast is running a bit late (Technical issues? Joe is sick?? I was wondering why you took my JMS crap seriously, Joe, and now I know!), Pedro wanted some words for the web, and since David Lapham put out a comic recently, I’m gonna write about that.
The fifth and final issue of Lapham’s Terror, Inc., […]
For anyone who missed Pedro’s contribution to 4th Letter’s celebration of Black History Month, here’s a crosspost. Check out the end for special added content! Don’t say we never did anything for you.
Before that Christmas, just like my older sister, I was into Marvel Comics. She used to blow her cash on X-Men, and […]
Pedro, you don’t really care about story integrity or my integrity or about defending Black Lightning or Geoff Johns.
You just want to feel like
“somebody” for instigating and winning a “debate” on teh internets.
Sir, it is a dick move.
Go on the Newsarama boards and pick a fight with some comic writer. I grow weary of you. […]
Here at Funnybook Babylon, we try to avoid linkblogging in favor of middlebrow thinkpieces about the comics industry (or if we’re being honest with ourselves, the superhero genre). We try to educate as well as entertain. But sometimes we break our own rules. Plus, I’m distracted by the presidential campaign and […]
In August 2002, on the middle of his run on New X-Men, Grant Morrison did an interview with the always-insightful Sequential Tart that had what was, at the time, a discussion of a project unlikely to see the light of day. The entire excerpt is relevant to this discussion, so see below:
It’s no secret Grant Morrison brings his pet themes to everything he does.
At the end of the day, from the Filth to New X-Men to Seven Soldiers to Seaguy, his stories are epic sci-fi action yarns - usually, superficially, about good versus evil - underscored by an impassioned plea for mutual respect and tolerance. It’s […]
Jeez o Pete, just call me a Writer from Television and Film Writing a Funnybook, because I have been LATE. Work was hellish for a couple of months, and I prompted came down with some sort of ebola/OMAC virus the moment I had time off for the holidays. But that’s no excuse! […]
Over the last several months, the comics blogosphere has been consumed with the problems of DC Comics. Impassioned posts have been written detailing the decline in both the quality of the books and market share (vis a vis Marvel). DC has significantly altered the tone of its universe in the last twenty years, […]
They are owned by huge, creativity-deadening corporations and operated by lawyers and marketing executives who lord over the worst creative decline I have witnessed in a long time, particularly in films. In television, companies like GE view properties like NBC the way realtors view square footage. GE does not care what is on NBC. So […]
You read six Countdowns
And what do you get?
Another stress headache
And a burning regret
Last time in Downcounting, we learned:
1. That Super___ Prime gets all swoll after Sinestro Corps War and is back to being a clumsily written mockery of the “Comic Book Guy” who thinks things need to be “like they used to be”, only with […]
Hola, amigos. How’s your narrative spine? I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya, but it’s hit the busy season at my job, plus as you’ve all probably noticed, it’s been an eventful six weeks! Halloween, Thanksgiving, Veteran’s Day, inclement weather, Pakistani martial law, writers’ strikes, Wu-Tang beefin’, […]
Two, much to my annoyance, reading superhero comics still carries the stench of loser. The ghost of Comic Book Guy haunts many…
But that guy with the stack of DC and Marvel comics? Well, he’s an unattractive social outcast in his thirties with dodgy views on women and minorities who sweats profusely and writes long-winded essays […]
So much has happened in the past month — lucky for you, the plot developments in Countdown continue to move at a pace that puts DMV employees in dumb stand-up comedy jokes to shame! I seem to have been caught up in that (or possibly my job), but I assure you, more Downcounting is […]