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Phasing in with more to come

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  • October 7, 2007

Wow, it’s been some week for ComicMix, and we appreciate all the kind words of support and terrific reviews we’ve seen so far!  Please let us know where you’ve seen our comics discussed, we don’t want to miss any feedback!  In the meantime, here’s your weekly wrapup of our regular columns:

As you can see, Mellifluous Mike Raub‘s Big ComicMix Broadcasts are now all accessible right from our front page, so no need to recap them here any more; just scroll down on the right sidebar and there they are!  In fact, it just so happens that all of the above columns can currently be accessed from our section entitled "More Comics News" at the bottom of our front page, mixed in with our news items.  Can a separate column archives be far behind?  Well, that would be telling, wouldn’t it?

MICHAEL DAVIS: The Fanboy Guide to Girls • Part 1

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  • October 5, 2007

m-davis-9259250Wow, the site looks great! I really like those drawing of the columnists that…oh, they’re not there. Well I’m sure if there was an issue, the artist (who knocked himself out taking time out of his VERY busy schedule to draw them, sorry I mean the award winning artist who wrote the curriculum for the Museum of Modern Art’s art school) would have been told before he looked at the site and saw they were not there.

I’m sure of that.

Sorry. As Peter David would say, I digress. This column is about girls!

Girls, Girls, Girls!

When it comes to girls we comic book, movie, TV, video game and toy fans have been labeled geeks, nerds, losers, and fanboys – to name a choice few. In most popular culture fair we are often portrayed as the hapless idiot who has no idea how to talk to girls.

Sadly, this is true.

We are those geeks, nerds, losers, and fanboys that people think we are. Well, I’m not, I picked up girls like they were lint and I was a dust buster. You know why? Because I’m FUNNY! Look, you may not think I’m funny, but I am funny! How do I know that I’m funny? Because I’m paid to be funny!

I have written funny TV shows, funny comics, and funny columns. So if someone writes YOU a check for being thin even if strangers come up to you on the street and scream “Have you called Jenny yet?” then you are thin.

And even if nobody wrote me a check, I would still be funny!  Not in a Brokeback way, but in a ha ha kind of way.

See? That was funny!

Not as funny as not telling the artist who broke his back working with horrible photos to help develop a new look for a website and not telling him that there was an issue (the same artist who has a building named after him at a magnet school of the arts) no, not, that funny. But it was funny!

A sense of humor is sooo important with chicks! The problem with some of us (read: YOU) is that what you think is funny requires background information for it to be funny.

Consider this, that girl you are talking to (trying to talk to) may not get that Halo 3 joke you just told her. That blank stare you are getting is a good indication that she does not get the joke or get you.  It’s possible that the young lady doesn’t have Halo 3. It’s possible (sit down this may floor you) it’s possible they may have never heard of Halo 3.

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Fall into ComicMix

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  • September 23, 2007

All hail the autumnal equinox, which crept in at 5:51 AM today!  Yes, we were awake for it, thanks to affection-demanding cats.  For us, autumn is the season of excitement and change, and that certainly applies to ComicMix, as you all know.  But one thing that’s staying the same is our great lineup of core columnists; here’s what we’ve had for you this past week:

Meanwhile, Mellifluous Mike Raub has reached that pinnacle at last, the hundredth Big ComicMix Broadcast!  Here’s that one and the ones surrounding it:

Way to go, Mike!

L’shana tova ComicMix!

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  • September 16, 2007

Yeah, I’m psyched for this next year as well.  Even though I’m strictly a "Phase One" gal for now, ComicMix‘s next incarnation has me excited over lots of good reading ahead.  But let’s not let the weekly columns get lost in the shuffle:

Are we there yet, Mellifluous Mike Raub?  Almost to one hundred Big ComicMix Broadcasts:

May you all be inscribed in the Book of Much Nachas (that’s nachas, not nachos) for the sweetest and healthiest of years!

Going forward into the past

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  • September 10, 2007

Once again I’m here at home base whilst my ComicMix colleagues have more convention fun, this time at Baltimore where, just about at the time you read this, The Big Announcement will be made.  I do hope it’s good news!  Meanwhile, let’s not forget that we "Phase One-ers" are still around cranking out our weekly columns:

And of course, Mellifluous Mike Raub edges ever closer to the hundredth Big ComicMix Broadcast:

Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow, folks!

A rest from your labors

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  • September 2, 2007

I’ll be travelling today, hoping everyone else had plans to take to their cars either yesterday or tomorrow, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t leave you with some fine  ComicMix columns from his past week, all well worth reading:

And for your listening pleasure, Mellifluous Mike Raub brings you the Big ComicMix Broadcasts as always:

And, of course, check out Mike’s weekly Stories Behind The Big Broadcast.

Have a swinging September, y’all!

MICHAEL DAVIS: It’s a real mad mad mad world part 2

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  • August 24, 2007

michael-davis100-2162058Last week my article started with what I see is an obvious trend among comic book companies. That trend was the ‘mad angry look” that many comic book superheroes spout when they are looking out from a cover or poster. While writing the piece I came upon an idea to create some “Happy Heroes.”

So I created a super group called Happy Heroes! (Happy Heroes tm & copyright Michael Davis 2007 any unauthorized use will result in a harsh letter from the firm of Starve And Die, Attorneys-at-Law.)

When last we left the Happy Heroes, The Grin, Smiley and Gay-Man were being attacked. By the way that’s Gay as in:

1.    Full of light-heartedness and merriment

2.    Brightly colored

3.    Having or showing a carefree spirit

4.    Gives great dinner parties

As I was saying, when last we left the Happy Heroes The Grin, Smiley and Gay-Man were being attacked by their archenemy Dark Comedy. He had already blasted The Grin in the chest and had turned his attention and ray gun to Smiley. Gay-Man was hiding…eh, I mean seeking refuge in a closet so he could plan his next move.  

Page 4.

Panel 1.

Dark Comedy is now pointing his weapon at Smiley. Smiley is looking around for Gay-Man and by Gay I mean:

1.    Full of light-heartedness and merriment

2.    Brightly colored

3.    Having or showing a carefree spirit

4.    Likes Dick…Tracy

Dark Comedy: Where’s Gay-Man?

Smiley: I’ll never tell.

Panel 2.

Dark Comedy shoots Smiley in the kneecap.

Smiley: AHHHHHHHHHGGGG! GAY-MAN IS IN THE CLOSET!!!

Panel 3.

Dark Comedy is standing above Smiley who is rolling around on the floor holding his knee.

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Another ComicMix summer party

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  • August 19, 2007

Can’t stay long, gotta get back to ComicMix‘er Kai Connolly’s birthday party.  ComicMix columnists wrote stuff this past week.  Here it is:

And that’s not even including tons of news wrapups from Andrew Wheeler, loads of reviews, even a pool-playing post!  By the way, today’s bash emanates from the home of Mellifluous Mike Raub, who has arranged it all and still had time for his Big ComicMix Broadcasts:

The me who wrote this entry this morning hopes the Raub Residence will be as air-conditioned as the Riggs Residence…

Getting wind of what’s been happening

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  • August 12, 2007

Once again we’re away from Second City comic book happenings here in the First City, but at least we can all share Chicago nickname puns as well as the Perseid meteor showers this evening from pretty much wherever we live.  That, and the ComicMix columns from this past week:

As you might expect, Mellifluous Mike Raub is in attendance at WizWorld Chicago, meaning more Big ComicMix Broadcasts than usual:

The interesting thing about many vacations is how much you want to do at the beginning and how little you’ve done at the end.  Mine has gone according to plan in terms of reading (see my column linked above) but not writing.  Ah well, maybe next time…

Fity-seven channels and nothing’s on…

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  • August 5, 2007

olympus-digital-camera-24Yesterday was a very special day for lots of folks.  In the baseball world a couple of home run records were set, in the political world attendees at the progressive blogosphere’s Nerd Prom (yes, they have one too) schmoozed with the Democratic presidential candidates, and we at ComicMix celebrated head honcho Mike Gold’s 57th go-round in life.  All the incriminating photos my camera could muster can be found here.  And here’s our review of what we columnist types have been up to this past week:

I finally got to meet all of Mellifluous Mike Raub‘s many M-named sons, and the one with the "S" name.  He’s been busy as usual with the newest Big ComicMix Broadcasts:

I’m on vacation from my day job this coming week, so who knows, you might even see my byline again on something other than my column and this wrap-up…

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