You know the drill. Let’s roll. Massive spoilers ahead.
Note: I’m going to be largely talking about the book without Countdown; sections that relate to events in Countdown or Countdown-related series or really anything outside of the Johns/Morrison/Rucka axis will be discussed separately, since anything “learned” in Countdown is suspect.
Okay, double note: Note the text on […]
Wow, I haven’t written anything in a while. I need to adopt Dave’s work ethic, but work is all consuming at the moment. Since I missed the recording of the podcast this week (a compelling discussion of the Bill Jemas era at Marvel), I decided to put some thoughts together in a typically […]
And we’re gonna go yet another round in the “What the fuck is going on at DC” sweepstakes, thanks to Warren Ellis’s latest Bad Signal (stolen from Schwapp!!!):
People like talking shit about Dan Didio online. The truth is that he’s actually a smart guy who, on entering the company, had to make some tough decisions […]
There has been - to understate - a bit of a storm around Morrison’s recent Newsarama interview regarding the lack of connection between the 51-issue weekly Countdown and the series it was leading to, his 7-issue (plus tie-ins!) opus Final Crisis. For those who didn’t read it, it essentially goes like this: Grant Morrison writes […]
Anyone who follows Morrison’s career likely remembers his announcement of numerous new Vertigo projects at the New York Comic Con. Well, by numerous I mean three (maybe technically four): Seaguy 2 and 3, Atomika & Me (which was apparently a surprise to even the panelists - I’m afraid this was the one panel I missed […]
Today saw the end of the DCU-villains-are-mysteriously missing plot line that has been running since around the quarter mark of Countdown. Both of these stories were promised as major status quo modifications for the cadre of villains that DC has, of late, become increasingly enamored with. Both of these stories were, supposedly, born out of […]
Supergirl #30 - Will Pfeifer & Ron Randall
DC, I know you’re not all about this “informing readers” thing, what with Dark Side Club crossover banners appearing out of nowhere without a checklist and your love of last-minute artist changes. But when you straight-up change the whole story, usually you have the courtesy of letting us […]
Sometimes, I’m reading the weekend previews, and an image or a panel jumps out at me as something to mention. This week, in the preview for Teen Titans #59, we see Darkseid’s “gangsta” iteration from Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle. Morrison’s Dark Side was an imposing figure, in a sort of Suge Knight way, and spoke […]
“In Israel, cats like me see the shadows of another choice.”
-Ta-Nehisi Coates
In my personal experience, discussions of Israel, particularly with people who have never visited it, rarely focus on the ordinary lives of the people who reside there. For some, Israel stands as a lonely bulwark of Western liberalism in a reactionary region, while […]
I’m in the middle of a rousing paper about the Chinese firewall and the technical aspects of it, but man I still can’t stop my self from checking my favorite creator sites and today there were 2 updates I had to share with you guys.
I am the night - 私は部屋
The always awesome Cliff Chang shares […]
My great discovery at the NYCC was that Archaia Studio Press is printing comics that aren’t just about adorable mice wandering in well drawn woods with swords. They have an incredible range of comics. Unfortunately, I hadn’t heard of a single one of them before the con. I picked up a few of their books, […]
David Lapham has returned to the internet with a blog. You will not be surprised by its URL.
http://davidlapham.blogspot.com/
Feel free to go over there and comment on his promo article for Young Liars about how much you wish he was working on Stray Bullets instead. I hear he loves it when people do that.
So far, he’s […]
Via this blog, Check it.
Nothing snaps you out of your own myopic view of things faster than a little story like this:
Magdy El-Shafie, author and cartoonist of The Metro, widely regarded as the first Egyptian graphic novel, last week received a summons to appear before the state prosecution service following the confiscation of his […]
The first lettered preview of Final Crisis is up at Entertainment Weekly, which clearly has had a new editor promoted who’s a comics nerd, considering the recent coverage of Secret Invasion, Spider-Man: New Ways to Die and now this.
It’s five pages, from the middle of the comic - it’s known the book starts off with […]
So, I’m browsing through Midtown’s posted cover images because I’m a nerd for trade dress when I come across this:
JLA presents AZTEK by GRANT MORRISON (with mark millar)
OUCH.
I understand that Grant Morrison’s the company man and Mark Millar isn’t at this point, but Aztek was a full creative partnership between the two, and I highly […]