Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Blogaround Challenge 2007 "Winners"

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 4, 2007
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Well, damn! Who knew giving away FREE comics would be harder than selling gas-guzzling SUVs when gas prices are $2/gallon and rising?!?! I was corresponding with a fellow blogger recently, one who's been around since the Usenet days, and she noted how the Comics Blog Boom of the past couple of years seems to have faded a bit. It used to annoy me when I'd read self-proclaimed 1.0 bloggers reminiscing about the "good old days" when, as I understand it, Journalista! and the Warren Ellis Forum were the focal point that ultimately birthed the Blogiverse. Since I started blogging about…

Tidbits: Movies, Retail and Writing Aspirations

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 3, 2007
Post category:Media Pop Culture
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ITEM UPDATE: Wonder Woman Spec Script Review Latino Review's El Mayimbe has a preview/review of the Wonder Woman spec script that seemingly helped get Joss Whedon axed from the movie. Overall, a very great read. The writers did their homework. As a comic book character origin movie - it is just as good as Batman Begins. I can see why Silver supposedly took it off the spec market. If I was a betting man, I figure this is the origin story that Warners might stick with. My note to the studio is to not touch the script, leave it intact,…

Graphic Poetry: The Poem as Comic Strip

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 2, 2007
Post category:Pop Culture
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Talk about when two worlds collide?!! (via The Comics Reporter)The Poem as Comic StripGraphic novelists let loose in our archive.Heightened language--one possible or partial definition of poetry--isn't the first thing one associates with comics. Yet comic book artists take into account the way words appear on the page to a degree poets will find familiar. How many lines should accompany each image? How high should the dialogue balloon float? The ratio of printed words to blank space plays a role in whether a poem or strip succeeds. The best of the daily humor strips (think Peanuts) have produced thousands of…

For Black History Month: Flashback

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 1, 2007
Post category:Media Pop Culture
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I have a love-hate relationship with Black History Month, simultaneously appreciating the thought behind it while despising its continued necessity. As such, I'm not planning to make a big deal about it 'round these parts; it's a thing for less diverse sites and blogs to take note of, an opportunity to pay lip service to diversity for the next 28 days before returning to the status quo. (Cynical? Not me!) That said, in light of some recent relevant discussions across the blogiverse, I thought I'd "reprint" the first really good post I ever made here (and to-date, still one of…

Let’s Stop Blaming Retailers, and Start Blaming Publishers

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 31, 2007
Post category:Media Pop Culture
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This started out as a quick comment over at The Beat, in reference to someone blaming retailers for dim road ahead for the recently canceled The Boys series, post-DC, because retailers will order less copies from the eventual new publisher thanks to the likelihood of lower discounts than they receive from DC.It's a knee-jerk response, and one I've made often in general reference to retailers who focus only on the Big Two, but in thinking about it, I've changed my mind a bit.Marvel/DC-only retailers are like the corner bodega: they stock a basic supply of staple goods from major suppliers…

"Driving Bigger Wedges in to Society"

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 30, 2007
Post category:Media
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I was going to sit this one out but it really does fall right into my wheelhouse...The unflappable Loren Javier has been hosting a handful of interesting debates over the past couple of weeks at his One Diverse Comic Book Nation blog -- which is showing promising signs of becoming exactly the kind of niche site I think the comics internet needs -- and I've jumped into a couple of them, partly because I appreciate the civil tone he sets, even when he's being unfairly attacked.After mixing it up with Gail Simone yesterday over The All New Atom, I finally…

On The Shelves: 1/31/07

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 30, 2007
Post category:Media Pop Culture
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Reading is fundamental. Don't waste your time reading bad comics out of habit! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 1/31/07. The full shipping list, as always, is available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another one; or try Khepri.com or MidtownComics.com] PICK OF THE WEEK Why Are You Doing This?DC COMICS Batman And The Mad Monk #6 (Of 6), $3.50 Blue Beetle #11, $2.99 Uncle Sam And The Freedom Fighters #7…