September 2008
19 posts
Sexiest Men in Comics
I’d like to squeeze C.B. Cebulski’s grapefruit!
I'm a hero, I'm a hero!
I finally watched the first two episodes of this season of Heroes. I enjoyed it a lot, more so than the begining of last season. I have a lot of postive things to say, which I’m just not going to do. Instead I’m going to look at the glass half empty, or, in this case, really more like 2/10ths empty, and make my one complaint.
Spoilers: Does everyone have to come back to life? I mean,...
Don't Laugh: Best Geo Force Story Ever
So if you’re still reading after the title of this post, let me begin by saying I’ve never really cared for or about Geo Force. He’s a c-list hero who has never appeared with any regularity in any comics I’ve read consistently. So if you really love Geo Force, I’m not one of you, but don’t stop reading because I’m actually going to say something nice about...
Scalped! GO READ IT! I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS! THAT...
To commemorate issue 21 of Scalped by Jason Aaron, R.M. Guera and Giulia Brusco I made a list of the 21 reasons Scalped is awesome. Scalped is, honestly, my favorite book on the shelf and you should go buy it! So, without further adieu…
1. Indians (or Native American’s if you’re not an asshole) are awesome. 2. These Indians have like guns! That makes them almost, like, cowboys....
Sexiest Men in Comics
Geoff Johns used to have a picture of himself, in a sleeve-less shirt holding a football. I think he was on a beach while doing so… Regardless, it’s gone, so here’s my sexy substitute.
BTW, mates, I gots me a ton of these.
WHY OH WHY!?>!?!
Since I’ve started 3 posts, but have been too lazy to finish them…
The Gateway Drug to Manga
Now I’ve read enough of these comic blogs to know that eventually they’re gonna do an obligatory post about manga. It often starts with something like “one of the most often heard requests from our readers is ‘Why don’t you guys talk about manga?’” And then it moves into a discussion about a classic piece like Akira or something that’s big at the...
Open mouth, insert green arrow. →
DC Editorial decides to run with the worst idea since the Jump To Conclusions mat: DC Universe: Descisions #1 (of 4). While accurately portraying Green Arrow as the tree-hugging commie-book pinko he is, Lois Lane is portrayed as a staunch old-skool Republican (thanks to her army brat heritage) and Wonder Woman questions a candidate because of his lack of warrior skills. Yup, that’s right,...
The Umbrella Academy: pros and cons.
Pros: Gabriel Ba. Cons: My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. Are you still here? Wow. So, yes, My Chemical Romance. That connection was enough reason for me to avoid the single issues of this series, under the assumption it was tainted by the stink of One Of The Black Parade. The reason I tried it in the end? The fact that various critics were unsubtly signaling to us, The Haters, that there...
Possibly the better choice
So those that follow such things already know there’s going to be an Avengers movie from Marvel Studios. The questions are which ones are they going to use, and who is going to play them.
We have our Iron Man already with Robert Downey Jr. And we also know that they are going to use Captain America and Thor. But still no actors for these rolls as of yet. But as these movies are already...
Sexiest Men in Comics
‘Nuff Said
Screw the God Damn Batman, I Want the Fucking...
You can read all about the exact naughty words used in All Star Batman and Robin at Rich Johnston’s Lying in the Gutters! Ain’t that just convenient!
I’m going to go ahead and post the list of swears (taken from Rich’s page without permission) right here for us all to see.
“Hey— you little CUNT—
FUCK me that little CUNT stole my board!
FUCK you twice,...
I'm the God BLEEP BATMAN
Batman numero 10 apparently has bad words in it. I haven’t read it, so I can’t really speak for the context of the words. I don’t really understand the big deal with naughty words. We’re all adults, ain’t we?
Robb apparently does NOT like naughty words in his Batman comics. Again, I think a lot of it has to do with context, but let’s also look at audience. The...
Bat. shit. crazy.
It’s kind of hard to miss out on two pretty apparent facts:
DC is getting more press than they wanted on the All-Star Batman swear-fest recall.
Frank Miller is batshit crazy.
Batshit crazy? In my opinion, yes. If his political views — which are unavoidable in the comics world as well, as Frank is (or was) allegedly working on a Batman versus Al Qaeda series — aren’t enough, Frank...
Truly Eternal
So if you’ve been reading comics, which I’m sure you probably do if you’re reading this blog, you’ve likely heard of the name Jack Kirby. You probably even know the fact that he along with Stan Lee created some of the greatest superheroes of all time. I’m not really going to get into that. You can always look him up on Wikipedia or Google or whatever your search...
A Pre-Review: Judging La Perdida by its Cover
I never understood the old adage, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I mean, that’s fucking crazy. If I didn’t judge every bad book I’ve never read by its cover then I would waste my time reading a lot of shitty books. I realized recently that there are some (quite a few) fools out there who actually live their life by this insane motto. In order to help my foolish brothers, I’m gonna go ahead and...
Crisis on infinite introductions into comics
One introduction? Pfft. Try… Infinite. Okay, fine, try four.
I’ve been reading comics since I was 10, and as I am not native to the U S of A, I started out reading comics in my native tongue, Dutch. And, as to be expected, my first comics were European comics. Suske and Wiske, Tintin (Kuifje) and the likes.
As much as I enjoyed those — they don’t count on my list of infinite...
My Intro to Comics
I could have written about the same subject as Mason did, but he did such a great job that anything I would have written on that subject would have seemed pretty damn unoriginal. So I figured I would write about how I got started reading comics.
I actually started later than most people my age. I didn’t read comics as a young child. I was really into sports. If I saw it on ESPN I wanted to...
What Comics Mean to Me by MASON
There’s no better way to thrust through a blog’s virginity with your metaphorical phalus than to make a post about someone’s childhood that is sweet and heartfelt. This is not that post. This post does, however, start at my childhood. It was the 90’s and this little tyke, right here addressing you from his keyboard, found himself reading the likes of WildC.A.T.s (one word, big, “C,” “A,” “T,” and...