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Amazon had the box set of Christopher Reeve’s Superman movies on sale over the weekend, so I bought the set. However, when the set came, the cases were heavily damaged. While describing this to my wife, I said, “They look like they were on the back of his horse.” I’ll be wrapping up my impressions of Day 2 tomorrow. Today’s been a rough day; my beloved had massive car problems today, and I need to resolve some issues with that tonight. The very short version is that Baltimore remains my favorite con I’ve ever attended, and I’ll have some more to talk about that [...] I’m typing this from a hotel room in downtown Baltimore. This might be the nicest hotel I’ve ever been in. The beds are gorgeous, we have a view of the city that’s pretty nice, Wanda Sykes is on HBO, and the hotel is as posh as it gets. My friend Glenn scored it (two beds, [...] …most AWESOME superhero movie ever? Edit: Huh. I screwed up the image link. It’s now fixed. Thanks to the good people at Collected Editions, I will be attending SPLAT!, a graphic novel symposium in NYC this Saturday. This event is sponsored by the New York Center for Independent Publishing, and panelists include Understanding Comics’s Scott McCloud, DMZ’s Brian Wood, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets’s Paul Karasik, and many more [...] Congratulations to Joe Quesada, Marvel’s Editor-In-Chief. The mayor of Orange County declared March 8, 2008, as Joe Quesada Day, recognizing his accomplishments in comics. My leg’s feeling much better, so when Glenn got press passes for the Comic Widows crew, I was definitely in on Saturday. This was my third Wizard World Philly, but it was definitely…different. WW Philly ran the same weekend as Heroes Con in Charlotte, and the show felt smaller as a result. While Marvel and DC [...] If I had to make a list of exactly why I love comics, Warren Ellis would easily make the top ten. He’s written some of my favorite comics of the past ten years: Transmetropolitan, Planetary, the riotous NextWave, Ocean, Red, Reload, and too many other titles to count. Now, he’s jumping back into the longform [...] ESPN’s Bill Simmons had a link to sadkermit.com, with a clip of everybody’s favorite frog singing Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”, complete with images of Kermit shooting up heroin and staring at portraits of Miss Piggy and Jim Henson. It reminded me of the saddest comic I ever read, Chris Aubry’s “I Still Think Of You, Jim [...] Tom Spurgeon caught this story today. I’ve been reading Fox Trot since I was an undergrad at the U of Delaware, and have always loved the geek-friendly strip. I’ll miss the daily strips, but every artist should know when it’s time to close up, and I wish Bill Amend well with his new projects. ITEM! Looks like Amazon restored the old-school Gold Box this morning. And there’s even Tezuka’s Phoenix: Dawn in there for me. I just purchased the amazing Buddha books from Vertical, and this might be another series I break down and get. ITEM! My good friend Glenn apparently didn’t get the memo that November is “Let’s All Stop Writing Our Blogs For A While” month, and sent me an email asking for updates. I could take that copout, you know. 30 in Hexidecimal would work out to 48 in base ten, and I’d have a few extra days, and I could pretend it all worked out. So back when I started 35/30, I vowed to write something on all the books in the pile, read or not. With about a week to go, the pile’s huge, and I’m going to take a stab at the unread pile. This is the first part of Matt Wagner’s Dark Moon Rising Trilogy, in which he reworks three Golden Age stories into modern Batman continuity. We see Batman fight the menace of Huge Strange, a mad scientist who tries to fix the human genome but ends up creating- what else!- monster men. It’s great pulpy fun [...] Kurtz, creator of PvP, details the events of the live art show he participated in over the weekend. During an auction afterwards, he won a gorgeous piece by Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai. Take a look: Congratulations, Scott (you lucky bastard). Warning: adult topics discussed. Boy, I’m glad I gave this book a second chance. Tough Friday, right? Gotta pay the rent/mortgage and wrap up all those end-of-month actionables, right? Stressed out and need a laugh? |
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