Author: Glenn Hauman

Okay… there’s no real visuals. But we do have Samuel L. Jackson reading a Stan Lee caption that you’re probably going to mouth along with yourself, and… oh, just click play, already.

Imaginary Forces directed this with Ahmet Ahmet and Peter Frankfurt credited as Creative and Art directors respectively, and this was probably used as a placeholder reel to run on a loop at a licensing expo somewhere.

Hat tip: Comics Alliance and Bleeding Cool, who both beat us to the punch.

…and this XKCD cartoon got us thinking about the numerous ways websites get it wrong and occasionally right.

So we figured we better ask you, the people who use it, what you come here looking for and what you like about the site, and what things would you like to see added. Facebook integration? Comics previews? Birthday lists? Twitter directories? Convention coverage? Spoiler tags? More movie coverage? Video games? Trivia contests? Yaoi?

Let us know in the comments.

• after we finish with getting books out the door and covering the summer conventions.

There’s something very strange when the only write-up I’ve seen on this year’s Black Panel came not from any comics websites, but from the Wall Street Journal. On the other hand, perhaps they were just reading the actual sales figures, and they noted that the best selling comic of 2009 featured a black man.

This year’s panel included, besides moderator and self-crowned Master Of The Universe Michael Davis, author Nnedi Okorafor, entertainment
attorney Darrell Miller, former Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard,
director and comics writer Reginald Hudlin, artist Denys Cowan, writer Natashia
McGough, Wu-Tang Clan’s Prodigal Sunn, and actor Bill Duke.

The WSJ certainly captured the flavor of the panel:

Davis opened the event by beckoning any reporters from conservative
media outlets to take his comically incendiary comments out of context,
including his announcement that he would not be letting white people
into the event and that white people are all better off dead. He later
scathingly lambasted anybody that violated the rules of the panel, such
as when audience members digress during the Q&A portion. Suffice it
to say, it pretty much happened most of the time anyway.

Hopefully video will be available soon.