Funnybook Babylon

The fine people of Timothy McSweeney’s Purchasing Harangue are putting all their available literary quarterlies on sale for the ridiculously low price of $5.00 a pop through Friday. For all you funnybook fans, this means you can get Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern issue thirteen, guest-edited by Chris Ware, for less than the cost of two […]

This is a bit when the mics were on during the pre-show rundown. Enjoy. The full show should be up later today. Contact your LCS that you want FBBP! Limited Run!

 

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I wanted to add my 2¢ to the current debate about “Comics Criticism” that David Brothers over at 4th Letter has already covered.
I believe that the creators repudiating critics haven’t experienced much actual criticism; they seem to be responding to reader mail and message board threads. To paint critics as message board posters is […]

A message board several FBBers frequent has been embroiled in a debate about what constitute “spoilers”: many posters feel like if something is revealed by official company promotional material (Nick Fury’s “Secret Warriors” will survive Secret Invasion and receive their own book, Darkseid successfully takes over Earth in Final Crisis, Character X will be appearing […]

I was recently linked to this list on Empire Online of the “fifty greatest comic book characters.” This isn’t all that different from many of the lists I’ve seen go around, where they throw together characters from every subgenre to create this fucked-up chimera of superheroes, everymen, Warren Ellis-style “yeah he is on a heroic […]

Recently there was some controversy over new Runaways writer Terry Moore’s choice of words when discussing his view of the team. Moore repeatedly used the pronoun “he” to describe gender-bending Skrull Xavin, and new artist Humberto Ramos mentioned in his blog comments that he was “told” to redraw Xavin as a male. This led to […]

I understand DC’s sitting on this artwork, but if I were doing the 50th issue of Superman/Batman, I’d be kind of annoyed if this was the cover treatment the issue got:

Superman/Batman #50 covers

Hey, these look famili–
Superman/Batman #23 solicited cover
Superman/Batman #27 cover given at announcement of Verheiden/Van Sciver taking over the book
Oh. (Note: Neither of these […]

Even though the San Diego Comic Con is the closest any of us will see to nerd nirvana, there’s also an overwhelming flood of product announcements. Some of these announcements, such as Neil Gaiman on Batman, or Kevin Smith . . . on Batman, have been amply covered by the ‘Big Two’ Comics News […]

There’s apparently a hell of a quote that the panel reports for Final Crisis Management missed, that you can find if you look at the recordings on dccomics.com. In the interest of public education, I’ve transcribed it for you all:
Um, I love what you do with your storylines, I found out this year that I […]

I’ve got to go drown my Con-less sorrows at the Astoria Beer Garden and wish my friends well in their impending move to Providence. People will have to find their own SDCC news tonight! I’m already late! But first, here’s some stuff:
If you’re anything like us, you’re tired of confusing, incoherent panel reports - especially […]

I guess everyone is out drinking tonight, so not a lot of news trickling out of San Diego. Here’s what we have, though. Eisner results and grousing coming soon!

Yes, I know that it’s practically quitting time here on the East Coast. But out in San Diego, our decadent western cousins are barely done with lunch right now. To keep the lists from becoming leviathan-like, here’s a rundown of what people have said this morning.

All the cool kids are out in San Diego, but that doesn’t mean we can’t link blog with easily digestible San Diego news!

CHECKMATE #31 Written by Bruce Jones. Art and cover by Manuel Garcia. All the pieces on the Checkmate board have converged on China. Is it the end of the world as we know it in this series finale issue? Or will Chimera save the day? On sale October 29. 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US FINAL […]