On the Shelves: 2/22/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/22/06. 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,
LINK: BOTS Article
The article I mentioned a couple of days ago, on the BOTS sketchbook, is up now: Artists, Robots Team Up to Raise Funds for Autism Research. It’s a bit of personal background, Nic Carcieri talking about how the project came about, and some cool samples from the book itself. Was pulling it together helpful to
LINK: Runners & Special Clips + Top 5 List
One of my favorite comics of 2005, Runners: Bad Goods, has made the jump to the movies! Well, kind of… RUNNERS SCI-FI ANIMATED SHORT ONLINE! The highly-acclaimed sci-fi adventure comic Runners, by Sean Wang, is now a fully animated short! The 3-D computer-animated Runners feature from The DAVE School — makers of the X-Men Minimates
INFO: Have You Ordered BOTS Yet?
I just ordered my copy of BOTS, the sketchbook benefitting the Autism Society of America that I mentioned a while back. Nicola Carcieri, the comics writer who organized the project, did an amazing job, pulling together 90 different artists to contribute artwork! The list of contributors is impressive by any measure, and I was happy
COMMENT: $25 Pop Quiz
Shane (Near-Mint Heroes) Bailey threw out an interesting challenge this week: a $25 budget, this week’s release list, and the question, “What would you buy?” Winnowing my already light-for-me list this week was harder than I thought it would be thanks to Essential Moon Knight‘s $16.99 cover price, and really drove home the stark reality
LINK: JLA Parody
Putting the bwa-hahaha back into the JLA: Fly On The Wall, Vol. I: JLA. From 2 Guys Buying Comics, one of the better comics blogs on my radar these days. Coupled with Neil Kleid’s INFINITE PATIENCE: The Blog of Alexander Luthor, the DCU hasn’t been this much fun in years!
COMMENT: Growing Pains
Just a quick update, in lieu of any significant posting this week. 1) Buzzscope is apparently experiencing some growing pains, as our server has been crapping out randomly over the past couple of days. They’re working on getting it fixed, but your ability to access the site in the (very) short-term will be sporadic. Do
INFO: PCS & NY Comic-Con
Mark your calendars, people, because Buzzscope/PopCultureShock is taking the New York Comic-Con by storm! More info here.
INFO: Comics Bloggers’ Poll 2005
Did you “create or contribute to a comics blog” in 2005? Then you probably have some pretty strong opinions about what you liked and didn’t like in comics last year, yes? Now you can add your two cents to the discussion in a bit more concentrated way via the Comics Bloggers’ Poll 2005. The comics
COMMENT: Late-night Speakeasy Musings
I haven’t had the time to really follow up on the whole Speakeasy situation myself, but I have been tracking the comics blogosphere which refuses to let the story die, including this rather humorous addition: Speakeasy Comics Archives, wherein a Jonathan Martin is attempting to pull together everything relating to the company’s current woes. (CBR