Why I’m Taking a Break: Exhibit A
Wizard sucks? The first of many weekly video blog posts is now up. In this episode I’m talking about Wizard Magazine. Hardly an interesting subject, I know, but as I was flipping through the latest issue I noticed a few things that made me cringe, made me think and made me want to throw up.
COMMENT: Sesame Street Has a Lesson for Comics
When the question of diversity comes up in comics, it’s always interesting to watch the likes of Joe Quesada, Dan DiDio, et al stumble over themselves to not put their foots in their mouths as they cautiously dance around the subject. The New York Times has an interesting article today about Sesame Street’s newest female
On The Web: Joe Q. on Colbert Report
Other websites may write about it, but we here at CBC deliver the goods.For your viewing pleasure, sit back, relax, & enjoy the show.
On the Shelves: 7/26/06
Read GOOD Comics, not just the ones you’re used to! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 7/26/06. 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
On The Shelves: 7/19/06
Read GOOD Comics, not just the ones you’re used to! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 7/19/06. 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
CBC Quickees: On Pirates and Expatriates
The Left Bank GangBy Jason (Fantagraphics, 2006; $12.95) Why Are You Doing This?, an enthralling Hitchkockian mystery with a big heart, was my first exposure to the Norwegian cartoonist Jason, and it firmly put him on my list of creators from whom I’ll check out anything they do. Unfortunately, for me, his English translations are
Superman Returns, Disappoints, May Disappear Again and Take His Friends With Him
The initial weekend estimates are in and, like Lex Luthor with Kryponite, it’s bad news for the Man of Steel as Superman Returns pulled in a mere $11.6 million in its third week, bringing its total domestic box office to $163,648,000 and pretty much guaranteeing that it will fall short of the $200m mark that’s
COMMENT: Under the Covers
Pop quiz: What’s the difference between these three magazine covers? If you said “everything”, you get a no-prize! I purposefully made the images small so the copy would be hard to read and you’d first have to focus on the pictures. On the Teen People cover, Ms. Simpson (good thing she kept her maiden name,
COMMENT: Superman Returns Sequel Hinges on $200m
For those who thought I was off the mark with my speculation over Superman Returns’ not broaching $200 million domestically, rumor has it that the suits at Warner Brothers are worried it won’t make that much and have made it the line in the sand on whether or not a sequel gets made: After a
COMMENT: ‘Twas Marketing Killed the Son of Krypton
While Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest finishing first at the box office this weekend was a no-brainer, I doubt even the most optimistic pundit predicted an eye-popping, record-breaking haul of $132 million in its first three days. $132 million: aka Biggest. Opening. EVER! Savvy, indeed! Boxofficemojo’s ALL TIME BOX OFFICE: OPENING WEEKENDS chart