Author: Glenn Hauman

Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined

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  • November 6, 2008

Honest. Would we fib? From the London Independent:

A Glastonbury teenager is claiming to have the longest name in the world – Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Captain Fantastic – formerly George Garratt – changed his name by deed poll "for a bit of a laugh" through a service he found online.

The Legal Deed Poll Service, based in Islington, north London, charged £10 for the legally-certified deed poll, which the company said was accepted by UK Government departments including the Home Office and HM Revenue and Customs.

The 19-year-old music student said his name beat the Guinness Book of Records’ longest personal name registered on a birth certificate by 24 letters.

Question for the ComicMix Brain Trust: What web comic solutions do you like?

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  • November 6, 2008

The release of ComicPress Manager 1.20 for ComicPress (which in turn is for WordPress) and D.J. Coffman’s post on how to host your own friggin’ webcomic prompts me to ask: what’s the current state of the art for posting comics online? Who likes what versions and why? Is there a decent way to post comics using Movable Type or LiveJournal, say, or even MySpace or FaceBook? Do you find it more useful to create your own content management system, as Zuda, Marvel, and we have done?

We’d really like to hear from people who are already using the tools. Feel free to link to your comic sites in your comments as well, show us what you’ve been doing.

Stephen Colbert wins Presidency! *

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  • November 5, 2008

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The Daily Bugle Reports That Colbert Wins Election in Marvel Universe!
 
New York City, November 5, 2008—The early results are in and the Daily Bugle is reporting that Stephen Colbert has won the United States Presidency in the Marvel Universe. While many states still have yet to report their numbers, Colbert is already claiming a victory.
 
More on this story as it develops… like how they’re going to work this into continuity. If you thought President Luthor was over the line…

UPDATE 6:06: Never mind, late reporting precients…

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Non-election deep thoughts

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  • November 4, 2008

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Dying In The Gutters (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (IDW))  
Is it just me, or has Greg Rucka been having trouble getting comics work since he tried to kill Joe Quesada?

I mean, it’s not like there isn’t precedent for having comics pros in prison before…

Election Day, ComicMix style

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  • November 4, 2008

Everybody else is watching the results come in, after they go out and vote. But we are a comic book / pop culture web site. We know what the real debate is:


Get your own Poll!

Vote, and give your reasons to the exit pollers in the comments section. (Hey, it beats hitting refresh on fivethirtyeight.com every ten minutes.)

Frankenstein Mobster Halloween masks

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  • October 31, 2008

If you find yourself short of a Halloween mask today, or if you’re a fan of our Frankenstein Mobster series (or his trip to Munden’s Bar), then we have just the thing for you– Halloween masks you can print out yourself.

Choose from Frankie, Janus the Werecat, Ozmed the Mummy taxi driver (add your own toilet paper) or detective Terri Todd. Just save these images to your computer and print.

Enjoy! And we want 10% of the candy. And no pieces of gum!

‘Star Trek’ when Sulu was black and Uhura was white

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  • October 26, 2008

As an occasional Star Trek author, there are days when I have cursed Paramount’s licensing department for saying that you can’t do this with that character, or saying that Klingons aren’t warlike, or that Federation officers never disobey orders, or any other sort of restriction that seems arbitrary and picky that wrecks a perfectly good story idea.

But without them, you can get some truly strange occurences– like this Peter Pan comic book and record set for kids. The first story, "A Mirror Of Futility", drawn by Neal Adams or a very close fascimile, has Lieutenant Uhura as a white woman and Lieutenant Sulu as a black man– and he’s wearing the wrong color shirt to boot.

And it’s not a random fluke, either– because in the second story drawn by the late great John Buscema, "The Time Stealer", it happens again. (It also features an appearance by someone who looks very close to Conan, but that’s another story.)

And the line "Shutting down… engines now, Captain." We’ve apparently gone from Sulu to Yoda.

One has to wonder what George Takei and Nichelle Nichols thought of it…

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ComicMix Poll: How should we display our comics?

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  • October 23, 2008

We’ve been having an internal debate here at ComicMix, about possibly doing different things with the way we display comics– and we want your feedback, since, after all, you’re the people reading them.

Should we…

  • Run one or two pages a day from all of our series?
  • Run four to eight pages a week, alternating series daily?
  • Run twenty to twenty-four pages a month, alternating series weekly?
  • Run it however it works best for the story?

Please vote in the poll below, and feel free to discuss your thoughts on the matter in the comments. Your votes will help determine how we show our comics going forward. And thanks for taking the time to respond!

Get your own Poll!

Is Barack Obama Kryptonian?

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  • October 20, 2008

This week at the annual Alfred E. Smith Charity Dinner, Barack Obama made a couple of comic book references, one to Superman and one to Alfred E. Neuman. Check the video at about :46 and again at 5:46…

So if Barack is Superman, does that makes McCain the Dark Knight?

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