While my ComicMix colleagues are having the time of their lives in Charlotte or Philly, I’m moping here in NY with a bad case of the sufferin’ sciaticas. It breaks my heart, I love Heroes Con and really wanted to be a part of its big silver anniversary celebration. Oh well, at least I can…
Via Film Fodder, it seems the Wall Street Journal is taking notice of the Big Two’s desire to sell more comics to the gender that, you know, reads more. That would seem to put DC and Marvel one up on WSJ writer Matt Phillips, who cannot resist using the usual balan superhero-reference exclamation-point-laden headline, even…
I think many of us suspect that there’s something fundamentally wrong with the fact that just about everybody reading this knows of the recent exploits of Paris Hilton. If you’re at all attuned to media old and new, it’s nearly impossible to escape the breathless news about her latest adventures in crime and punishment, or…
Via Lisa Fortuner, a group of talented young men who put a not-so-atypical female comic shop customer on a pedestal so they can look up her dress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgpdXkimSSc One step forward, two steps back. If you have to ask why this song is indicative of (or parodying) the "just doesn’t get it" mentality, well, that’s…
Sooner or later our ComicMix columns will be on automatic front-page accessibility. Until then, I’ll be here just about every Sunday to round ’em up for you: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #17: The Sound of Crisis Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer? #17: Two-Fers, part two Me – It’s All Good #16: The awesome…
Variety reports that Warner Bros. Studio has optioned a script by Paul Sopocy to turn the Thundercats cartoon into a CGI-animated feature. Sayeth the article, "Warner-based Paula Weinstein will produce through her Spring Creek Prods. banner, along with Dick Robertson and Lew Korman. Property revolves around a group of humanoid cats (with feline names like…
Like many of you, I thought the Valiant universe was dead and gone. Well, not so fast. CBR reports that Valiant will be releasing a hardcover collection entitled Harbinger: The Beginning (which will be "digitally recolored and remastered using state-of-the-art computer techniques") which will include a brand-new story written by one-time Valiant head-honcho Jim Shooter,…
Your must-watch of the day, courtesy of AOL Video — the unaired Aquaman pilot. It’s been around for a bit, and it’s available on the bootleg circuit, but with the announced Justlce League movie and all that Smallville action, we thought you might find it of interest. It’s preceded by an ad, ’cause it’s AOL…
I haven’t talked that much yet about being what my life is like being married to one of the relatively few lucky and talented people able to make a living as a comic book artist. There are a few reasons for this, among them being stuff I’m not allowed to reveal in a public forum…
The Harvey Award nominations are out! The full list can be found at the Harvey website, as well as pretty much everywhere else in the comic-o-news-o-blog-o-sphere. Nominations for the Harveys Awards are selected exclusively by folks involved in a creative capacity in the comics field — as the site notes, "the only industry awards both…
Via Heidi at The Beat, the newest Friends of Lulu anthology has been formally announced. The Girls’ Guide to Guys’ Stuff has a whole bunch of contributors both new and well-known, from A (Elizabeth Argull) to Y (Shayna Yates) — sorry, no "Z" surnames spotted — with each contributor presenting her take on "men and…
This little homebody has had enough of running around in The City. Sometimes you just have to stay home and collapse before facing another workweek, and what better way to relax than with another reading of some fine ComicMix columns?: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #16: Nostalgia’s just another word for nuthin’ left to read…
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