Previously on ComicMix, I brought you the first part of my interview with writer, actor and publisher Wil Wheaton. In that part, we discussed topics including his feelings about modern comics and comic-book movies, his acting career, his love of writing and, most importantly, what he likes to order for lunch.

In the second part of my interview, we spend a bit more time discussing the craft of writing, personal publishing, his preferences in technology and the sometimes unpredictable nature of an Internet audience.

COMICMIX: Let’s change gears for a minute, Wil. You’re a pretty well-respected technology guy, and I know you’re a Mac user. How long has that been going on?

WIL WHEATON: I was one of the earliest Mac adopters. I had a Mac 128K in the first few months of its release. I loved it. I wish I could find, I key-noted at Mac World a few years ago, and both my notes and my address are gone. I don’t know where they went. 

Ironically, I wrote them on a Linux machine and I think that I may have just inadvertently lost them. But I loved that computer. It was portable, which is funny to say now, because it only weighed like, 20-30 pounds. It had a handle on the top, so clearly, it was portable.

CMix:  Did you ever have a clone?

WW:  No. I wouldn’t consider myself a Mac cultist or an Apple cultist. There’s still stuff they do that I don’t like and I don’t really have brand loyalty. I have brand anti-loyalty, though. I’ll never buy a Sony product… ever. (more…)

Vertigo junkies will be happy to know a group of the DC imprint’s creators have joined together — not unlike Voltron — on a blog.

Standard Attrition is the new blogging home for Jason Aaron, Brian Wood, G. Willow Wilson, Jock, Cliff Chiang, David Lapham and Brian Azzarello.

So far, the site has mostly just news on the group’s individual projects and media appearances. There’s also some news about what they’ll be doing at San Diego this coming week.

If you’re curious, that’s the cover to Wilson’s Air, which debuts from Vertigo next month.

(via The Beat)

Michael Sheyahshe has a new book that features interviews with ComicMix creators Tim Truman and John Ostrander and explores the role of Native Americans in comics.

According to the website for the book:

Native Americans in Comic Books, published by McFarland Publishing, is a unique study and critique of the way in which we Indigenous people are represented in the popular medium of comic books. This work takes an in-depth look at the world of comic books through the eyes of a Native American reader and offers frank commentary on the medium’s cultural representation.

If you weren’t waiting to see a Batman screening this week, you were probably trying to download an episode of Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, and let’s face it, both were worth the wait. In a Comicmix Exclusive, Joss Whedon spills were it all started and how a little whim became an internet phenomenon plus:

• Boom! gives it away
• Bring comics back to Comic Con
• Vertigo flips their sell-outs
   

So how long did it take you to start humming the songs from Doctor Horrible?  Wait until you  Press the Button!

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