CONTEST: BOOM! Sampler Giveaway
In honor of our new look and impending relaunch (and in a shameless attempt at generating some traffic to bear witness), I’m giving away a sampler of comics from Wizard Magazine’s “Best New Publisher,” Boom! Studios. Jeremiah Harm #1-3Hero Squared #1Cthulhu Tales #1What Were They Thinking?! Some People Never Learn #1War of the Worlds: Second
COMMENT: So Ashamed!
I found a cosplay woman attractive. I’m officially lost in nerddom. Help me. Someone please, take away the comics! If you don’t know what cosplay is, you are a better man than I.
INFO: CBC’s New Look
A little late-Spring cleaning here in the CBC offices as I’ve finally made the long-anticipated move from blogspot.com to hosting the blog on my own site. As you can tell from a quick look around, I’ve got plans for a bit more than just the blog, some of which will come to fruition sooner than
HYPE: Artesia
A proper review is forthcoming soon, but I couldn’t contain my excitement about my latest, greatest discovery: Mark Smylie’s Artesia. It’s the perfect combination of compelling lead character, richly detailed setting and absolutely beautiful artwork that marks the best epic fantasy tales. I picked up Artesia: Besieged #1 on a lark last week, having enjoyed
LINK: Defending Ronée
My official statement on the whole Ronée + Soma/Brownstein affair went up on PCS earlier this week, and reaction so far has been mostly what I’d hoped: muted and, I daresay, somewhat chastened. Official Statement on “What A Girl Wants” Controversy Based on my own internal investigation of the information Ms. Bourgeois had available before
Rolling With the Punches
That’s pretty much my rule of thumb when it comes to life in general: roll with the punches and wait for an opening to land your own, and when you do, make it a good one. Sometimes, though, life delivers a vicious flurry and you just need put up your dukes and start hitting back
POLL: Niche Comics Sites?
Thinking “aloud” here… NEWSarama and CBR have gobbled up two of the better group blogs out there recently, while peripheral niche sites like the Ninth Art are shutting down. Meanwhile, the sleeping giant, Wizard, is finally doing something with their web site, already snagging exclusive columns from Bendis and Johns, and likely becoming the new
On the Shelves: 6/7/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Thursday, 6/8/06. The full shipping is list 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,
HYPE: Elk’s Run Hits the Big Time
First the Harvey Awards, now this: Villard Acquires Rights to Elk’s Run New York, NY – June 5, 2006 – Villard, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that it will be publishing Elk’s Run by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon. The graphic novel will collect the complete eight-issue comic book
REVIEW: Battlestar Galactica #0
It’s pretty hard to bring a story from one medium to another. I love the new Galactica so hard. There’s been virtually no secondary products to go along with it. This lack of capitalism makes the inner child cry. No joke. I want more than one novelization, more than a soundtrack, more than an okay