‘Spider-Man’ ad is wrong on so many levels
The SpaValley Water Park and Spa in Korea used this as an advertisement. I don’t even know where to start. (Via FAILBlog.)
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ComicMix Quick Picks – what day is it? March 32nd?
What it’s been like here recently… Just way too much stuff to go through, and we’ve been very busy with the print announcement and rushing to get things ready for the Previews catalog, and I have dozens of tabs open to blog about and consolidate. Wheeee! So this will be more of a high-speed link…
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The Un-Ethics of Watchmen, Part 1: A Bird’s-Eye View
Editor’s note: With the imminent release of Watchmen, we thought we’d try and get a different perspective. So we asked Alexandra Honigsberg, a professional ethicist and genre author, to read the book for the first time and delve into the ethos of the world created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. If super-hero comics are…
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NYCC 2009: Day 3, late
Yowza! Another con comes to a close, and a lot of hi’s from the usual gang of idiots, renewals of acquanitances (hi Cooch!), the continuted con conversations– you know, the ones which you pick up again as soon as you see the person you haven’t seen since the last convention, and so on. We’ll have…
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ComicMix QuickPicks – January 16-18, 2009
The weekend wrap-up of comic-related news items that might not generate a post of their own, but may be of interest… * Tom Mason interviews Dan Thompson about his new strip RIP HAYWIRE at Comix 411. * The Comics Reporter: Dan Vado on the recent changes at Diamond: …the thing that slaps us up in…
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Review: ‘Dexter’ Episode #301
The Crime Scene: “Our Father” From Showtime: “[[[Dexter]]] begins to question his blind loyalty to his father’s memory. In an act of spontaneity, he wonders whether The Code of Harry is a necessity anymore. Dexter’s relationship with Rita intensifies. Angel becomes Sergeant, replacing the deceased Doakes. Dexter goes to desperate measures to cover up his…
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Review: Invincible the Series
During the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, MTV New Media debuted their new animated series based on Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker’s Invincible comic. Published by Image Comics, [[[Invincible]]] tells the story of Mark Grayson, a young man who inherits his father’s superpowers. It’s been released through various outlets: iTunes, Xbox, Amazon, MTV2, MTV.com, and…
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Review: ‘After 9/11’ by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
A few years back, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón came up with the novel idea of retelling the 9/11 Commission Report in comic book form. Now they’re back with something of a sequel, After 9/11: America’s War on Terror (Hill and Wang, $16.95). While their earlier book was a simple recreation of an existing document,…
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Review: ‘Slow Storm’ by Danica Novgorodoff
Slow Storm By Danica Novgorodoff First Second, September 2008, $19.95 This is Novgorodoff’s first full-length graphic novel; she was an Eisner nominee last year for the one-shot [[[A Late Freeze]]]. She’s got an assured, pseudo-outsider art style, with big blocks of color and slablike faces, but her writing isn’t quite up to the same level…
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Review: ‘Bluesman’ by Vollmar & Callejo
Bluesman By Rob Vollmar and Pablo G. Callejo NBM, August 2008, $24.95 [[[Bluesman]]] was published once before, as three album-sized collections, but this is the first time the entire story has been collected between two covers. It’s a moody tale, told in black and white – but mostly in grays, from the background to the…
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‘Heroes’ Hopes for Rebound Season
After a pretty unambiguously down second season, the NBC show Heroes is looking to get the magic back from its debut season that marked it as the network’s most important show. In an interview with the New York Times, Heroes creator Tim Kring gave some insights into what’s to come, as well as reflecting back…
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Thomas Scioli on Gødland, Day Jobs and Joe Casey
Over at The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon has been conducting a great series of weekly interviews that, for no good reason whatsoever, I’ve been neglecting to point out here on ComicMix. It’s time to change that. His most recent interview, with Gødland co-creator and artist Thomas Scioli, was a real gem. Much like Spurgeon, I’m…
