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UPDATE: ‘Batman vs. Shark with Lightsaber’ artist found — on upcoming ComicMix projects
So we posted the now-viral image of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber…
…and something was tickling in the back of my brain that I’d seen it before, but I couldn’t figure out where.
Then I got a note from Andrew Zubko. Andrew is currently coloring a new project for us called The Inner Station written by Ben Truman and drawn by Timothy Truman, and he reminded us that he sent us the piece as a sample back in July.
So we are very happy to correct the record that the crowing piece of awesome was painted by Andrew Zubko, and show you a larger version of the piece– and you should go to his website at Zubko.com and see exactly how much neat stuff he’s doing.
And as an extra enticement, here’s a quick look at what he’s working on for us– your first look at The Inner Station:
Found Around: Batman, lightsabers, sharks, dinosaurs, and Mecha-Satan!
Let’s face it, if you’re anything like us, you’ve barely got enough time in between blogging about how much you hate/love the iPad, Blackest Night, Deadpool Corps, Jim and Pam’s baby, and downloading torrents of movies you wouldn’t pay 10 bucks to see in a crowded theater, to see ALL the great stuff floating out on the interwebs. How about a brief smattering of recent awesome things we noticed.
Batman with a lightsaber, killing a shark. Kudos to Nerdcore on this gem.
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How the world would end… and we wouldn’t want it any other way. Kudos to Ctrl-Alt-Del for this piece of awesome.
This guy, singing improv tunes to random people who come in and say hello on chat-roulette.
How To Mutate And Take Over The World
For a limited time (till the end of this week) Benbella Books has posted Adam-Troy Castro’s essay “Dear Magneto” from the book The Unauthorized X-Men:
Let’s imagine a future where you’ve taken over. Baseline human beings
are not an issue, for whatever reason. Either they’ve been
exterminated, or the mutant gene has become so dominant that everybody
possesses a superpower of some kind, or they’re just living underground,
working crap jobs like processing sewage, or sweeping the streets, or
telemarketing. Whatever. They’re irrelevant.Everybody worth talking about has superpowers.
Further, let’s posit a fellow whose superpowers are minimal. He can
jump fifteen feet straight up, bench-press about a thousand pounds and,
while not quite bulletproof, will not be harmed by most knives. You know
the type I’m talking about. In the world you’re living in, he wouldn’t
last thirty seconds against the likes of Spider-Man, but he might be
able to give Daredevil or the Punisher a few anxious moments, on a good
day. He’s clearly a mutant, clearly a guy whose chromosomes buy him a
place in this mutant paradise of yours, but not a person who poses any
serious threat to the entrenched power structure.Do you know what the citizens of your mutant paradise would call this
man? I mean, aside from his given name?Human, that’s what they’d call him.
Your citizens would inevitably develop a value system similar to that
demonstrated by comic book readers, who are known for deriding mutants
with less-than-impressive powers as lame. They’d look upon a guy like
our bulletproof high-jumper and say, well, he’s not really all that.
He’s practically normal. He’s almost (shudder) Batman.
Read the essay, and buy the book.
Clifford Meth: Welcome to Hollywood, Part Deux
Glenn Hauman promised yesterday that I’d deliver a “fuller explanation of what’s been going on” vis-à-vis my piece “Welcome to Hollywood.” So in the interests of keeping this story alive (because you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the words, “You’ll never work in this town again”) I’ll try to squeeze in another few inches.
Jason Brice and his site Comics Bulletin (formerly Silver Bullet Comic Books) have run my “Meth Addict” (formerly “Past Masters”) column without interference since 2004. Among other things, the column was a linchpin in helping secure an important financial settlement for Dave Cockrum that allowed the X-Men co-creator to live his last few years in relative comfort. Good for you, Jason Brice. If we never do another good deed together again in our wretched little lives, that may have been enough.
The yanking of “Welcome to Hollywood” after CB’s EiC Jason Sacks (the other Jason) had already accepted it and promoted it was a joint decision between the two Jasons shortly after the column was live. I wasn’t in the room when things got weird, but I imagine the conversation was fairly tame and thoroughly professional and went something like this:
Jason: Are you crazy?!
Jason: Huh?
The pair discussed the matter and decided that what I’d written was a little too dangerous for CB. Jason Sacks then pulled the short straw and sent me the following: “Jason and I have decided to pull the column out of concerns about CB’s exposure to potential legal action.”
Within moments, the story was live at Harlan Ellison’s site (“Read it…love it,” wrote Harlan) with offers from others, including comics pros Tony Isabella and Michael Netzer, to re-post. I called Glenn H. because I particularly admired how he’d pointed to the competitive website’s initial story on his own front page. “Want it?” I asked. “Yup,” said Glenn.
Did the Jasons abandon Mr. Meth in his hour of needful spleen venting? Not hardly. “I want to emphasize that as the editor of the piece and editor-in-chief at ComicsBulletin I both support and encourage Cliff to do everything he can to expose the horrible acts of this scumbag,” writes Jason Sacks at Harlan Ellison’s website. “It sounds like Richard Saperstein is the exemplar of exactly the sort of lowdown ripoffs of creative types to whom Mr. Ellison has dispatched his most scathing scorn.”
So where does that leave us? With a bunch of hyperlinks and meta-columns. Could be worse.
In conclusion, I’m sure you agree that it would be a case of chronic irony if the story of how my column was pulled and reposted somehow obscured the far-more-important tale of what occurred with The Futurians movie, the Snaked movie, and my brief love affair with Richard Saperstein.
And they lived happily ever after.
Monday Mix-Up: ‘The Dark Knight’ meets ‘Toy Story’
It’s disturbing how well the two of these stories can be combined.
So let’s see– that means Nervous Rex is Killer Croc in the sequel, and Kelsey Grammer does the voice of the Penguin… but where do we put John Ratzenberger? The Riddler?
What do you say, Christopher Nolan? Are you up for rebooting one more franchise?
Peter Graves: 1926-2010
People Magazine reports that Peter Graves, who starred in TV’s Mission Impossible, and later spoofed his persona in the Airplane comedies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday at the age of 83.
In honor of his memory, I’m going to go watch some gladiator films which will self-destruct in five seconds.
Or we can just sit back and watch his role in It Conquered The World:
What happened to Clifford Meth’s column? Read it here
Editor’s note: This column, which was originally published at Comics Bulletin and which we pointed to on Friday, was taken down from their site yesterday. We’re a bit touchy when it comes to internet censorship and the hint of legal threats from movie people, so we asked Cliff what we could to do help. Clifford has graciously allowed us to republish the original column here, and he’ll be writing up a fuller explanation of what’s been going on tomorrow. –Glenn Hauman
“Welcome to Hollywood”
By Clifford Meth
I’ve been away from this column for so long that an explanation is in order. I’m tempted to say it was something like a summer vacation where, by virtue of missed flights, I didn’t come home for years…but the truth is I sank belly-deep into a myriad of projects, most of which were destined to fail. So before we go any further, let’s get some closure:
Dave Cockrum’s Futurians and I have been attached at the hip for what seems like a lifetime. Besides being a fan of the project, I penned a back-up story that Dave illustrated for Futurians #0 (1995, Aardwolf Publishing) then personally walked the intellectual property into Starz Entertainment (nee IDT Entertainment) a decade later. How excited was I—and how excited was Dave—when they optioned rights and Stephen Brown, executive producer of Showtime’s “Masters of Horror” series, asked me to write the treatment and first draft for what they planned as a theatrical release. This came back-to-back with a script-editing assignment working with Peter David on Gene Roddenberry’s “Starpoint Academy” as well as script vetting for Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment. Seriously fun stuff. And happening fast.
Then came the long fizzle.
