Let’s Discuss The The Wolverine Trailer
Such frustrating use of grammar, agh. The Wolverine released a first full trailer today, as this week appears to be trailer week. Wolverine heads off to Japan for this sequel, meeting up with a host of familiar names along the way - and fighting most of them. Let's discuss some of the things happening inside this 2:33 of tease. … [Read More...]
Growing pains hitting many indie comics shows
Even indie comics are getting to be, if not big business, then extremely popular. More popular than a street fair, even. The last two years, perhaps inspired by BCGF and TCAF, have seen indie shows spring up in many cities from Minneapolis Autopic, to Portland's The Projects to Chicago's CAKE. While we noted that last weekend's TCAF has mostly outgrown its venue, and the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival shutdown came partly over problems over the show's growth (more on that in a minute) it's also evident in the trouble exhibitors had getting tables at SPX. Even a comparatively small show like this weekend's Maine Comics And Arts Festival had a very quick sellout in January: The first wave of exhibitor tables has sold out. We have started the waiting list and will fill the … [Read More...]
Do not mess with Greg Capullo.
“@thetenaciousric: @gregcapullo You fucking rock man!” twitter.com/GregCapullo/st…— Greg Capullo (@GregCapullo) April 14, 2013 That is all. … [Read More...]
Let’s Discuss The The Wolverine Trailer
Such frustrating use of grammar, agh. The Wolverine released a first full trailer today, as this week appears to be trailer week. Wolverine heads off to Japan for this sequel, meeting up with a host of familiar names along the way - and fighting most of them. Let's discuss some of the things happening inside this 2:33 of tease. … [Read More...]
REVIEW: You Really Should Have Read TEN GRAND #1 by Now
And if you haven’t, I strongly recommend that you don’t read this full review, or maybe not even any of it, since not knowing anything about the comic before reading it makes for a pretty astonishing experience. TEN GRAND reads like a Choose Your Own Adventure story and you feel convinced somehow that you did choose all those twists and turns via the power of suggestion embedded in remarkable writing by J. Michael Straczynski and the disarmingly plausible world created by Ben Templesmith’s all-too-convincing artwork. The fact that it convinces you that you want to read a story that descends, and ascends such crazy distances is part of the allure, of course, and draws you into the life and times of main character Joe Fitzgerald. Maybe I’m doing the book a slight injustice to say … [Read More...]
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TCAF 2013 wrap-up: 96% good
[Above illo via and © Matt Wiegle] As usual I'm the very last out of the gate with my TCAF wrap-up (although I was early with my newsier report). But like many I feel compelled to write a memoir … [Read More...]
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Pre-School Bans “Super Hero play” at School
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