ComicMix Quick Picks – May 3, 2009
A weekend window-closing wrap-up:
- The hardest core Wolverine fan you’ve ever seen… unless someone’s actually gotten their skeleton laced with adamantium.
- The Seven Stages of the Comics Critic – comiXology
- Interview: Heroes artist Tim Sale on the true colour of Batman and Spider-Man
- The Comics Reporter: More staffers leaving Wizard?
- Warren Ellis on the genesis of Global Frequency:
I defined GLOBAL FREQUENCY from the start as Rescue Fiction. if not
explicitly Post-9/11 Rescue Fiction. Because Thunderbirds is the
anti-Superman. Now, I just woke up, so it’s okay if that doesn’t make
sense. But immediately after 9/11 I found people on message boards
ACTUALLY SAYING OUT LOUD that they wished Superman were real because he
would have saved the WTC. And that is an anti-evolutionary wish. What
you say is, I wish the dozen or so people who knew this was going to
happen could have informed someone who’d actually listen and that we
had had the sense/madness to engineer a mechanical response to someone
attacking NYC with flying death tubes. - Hooray, hooray, the first of May. And you know what that means– it’s time for The Wicker Man: May Day Mayhem Onscreen!
- If Destroyed, Still True: Remarkable coincidence alert!: Jonathan Maberry writes a Wolverine story and gets caught creating sockpuppets defending it. I tell people they’ll get caught if they write something under a different name, or if they hire someone to write under their name, but do they listen? Noooo…
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
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Wolverine or freakboy? I vote the latter.
I'm willing to cut Jonathan Maberry some slack and not assume that two (or three) blog comments originating from his home town were written by him or at his behest, especially since they spell his name wrong. The funniest moment comes in the commentaries:Big deal…so Paul and I live together and we've been fans of Mayberry's writing. He's a local author. Big deal. We still like the Wolverine story and you definitely missed the point of it.Celia Herrick | 04.29.09 – 11:21 am | # Someone's definitely missing the point around here…Doc Arkham | 04.29.09 – 11:47 am | # "Paul and I live together…"You mean Robert. I'm Paul.Paul O'Brien | 04.29.09 – 12:34 pm | # *spits out water laughing*Hey Celia, so when did YOU start living in Paul's flat? I haven't noticed you here.Susi | Homepage | 04.29.09 – 1:03 pm | #
When a local tea shop ran Wicker man, I sent the following email out to people:Fine example of Northern English culture to show at Donegal SquareThe Wicker Man, a documentary about modern Welsh agricultural technology, will be showing down at Donegal Square on the 26th of October.Edward (The Equalizer) Woodward plays a policeman, and Britt Ekland does things to the walls of a bedroom that will almost certainly necessitate a repainting.