On the Shelves: 3/15/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! Check out the Independents’ Day Campaign, a rallying cry for comics fans to…you guessed it — TRY SOMETHING NEW: “This coming New Comics Day, give up your copy of Teen Titans and New X-Men and consider instead Femforce, Hero Squared, GI Joe America’s Elite or Starship Troopers
LINK: Jason Todd Spoiled?
NEWSarama has the DC solicits for June up, and this one caught my eye: NIGHTWING #121Written by Bruce JonesArt by Paco Diaz & BitCover by JockNightwing’s been captured, and the only man who can save him is…Nightwing? When Jason Todd’s life is on the line, will Dick Grayson be ready and willing to save him?
COMMENT: Friends & Enemies in the Digital Age
In the midst of the whole Speakeasy dustup two weeks ago, Ed Cunard made an interesting point that I wanted to address on the front end of the blog. Of course, Guy, you’re also friends and coworkers at Pop Culture Shock with some creators that got screwed by Speakeasy. Just saying–it seems like everyone talking
Is that Spring around the corner?
Yikes, I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last blogged! Here, at least. Lots of things happening but I haven’t really had the time or desire to blog about them. The kids are doing well; Salomé and I are once again in full-angst mode over our living and working situations; and I’ve reached
LINK: Project Rooftop
PROJECT ROOFTOP Project Rooftop is where cartoonists and illustrators bring their costume design skills to task in tribute to the superheroes and villains we’ve grown up with. This site is intended to promote positive costume design as well as foster continued interest for these amazing characters. This site was inspired by a lot of different
LINK: Why Batman Annual #25 Sucked
Don’t take my word for it, since I’ve hated the Jason Todd returns angle from the very beginning and was extremely biased going into this issue, which I read in the store and then put right back on the shelf, eyes completely glazed over and, for the first time ever, looking forward to reading a
LINK: Skyscrapers of the Midwest #3 First Look
The Isotope, San Francisco’s ultra-hip comics retailer, has an exclusive First Look at Skyscrapers of the Midwest #3, Joshua Cotter’s award-winning series published by AdHouse Books: “Without a doubt, Josh Cotter is one of those comic creators whose work the Isotope looks forward to the most. Sure, we’ve got a special place in our heart
PROPS: Gingko Press
I’ve still not gotten around to doing a New York Comic-Con wrapup, here or at PopCultureShock — my week-late Establishing Shots column may get written in time for next week, if I’m lucky — as there’s several comics I picked up that I want to read first, but I wanted to give props to one
COMMENT: Riddick Comics?
from Comingsoon.net (x-posted to Buzz Blog): “It took me five years to make ‘The Chronicles of Riddick,’” says Vin Diesel, “and [I’m] very precious about it. It went through many, many, many writers. Hopefully it won’t take five years for the next one. But when I was in the process of creating this mythology for
LINK: Elsewhere, in the Comics Blogiverse
Traffic’s been up in these parts over the past couple of months, making me feel the need to post something relatively substantial every day, but the 9-to-5 hasn’t been letting up and I’ve been attempting to get to bed before midnight on a regular basis, especially since the Con. Started on a post about making