March 2010
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TWC News with ADD [033110]
* At Comics Comics, Jog takes a look at your best comics bets for titles arriving in comics shops today. Tom Spurgeon also weighs in with his list. * At his own blog, Troublemaker Johnny Bacardi remembers Dick Giordano. Tom Spurgeon does the same at The Comics Reporter. * Tom also has news that tickets are all sold out to this year’s San Diego Hoo-Hah. * Uncomics: Bet you never asked...
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Daily Breakdowns 072 - The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures
Writer/Artist - Dave Stevens
Publisher - IDW Publishing
Do you remember the La’s? “There She Goes.” I thought about them as I read this collection. You can substitute your own favorites, maybe Jim Morrison or Nick Drake or Jim Morrison but the idea is an artist or band creating this small but great body of work and then basically shutting...
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Daily Breakdowns 071 - Done Canny
Uncanny X-Men #521-522
Writer - Matt Fraction
Pencilers - Greg Land, Whilce Portacio, Phil Jimenez
Inkers - Jay Leisten, Ed Tadeo, Andy Lanning
Publisher - Marvel Comics
I’ve been reading a fair amount of superhero comics lately, in their serialized monthly form. I’d gotten out of the habit, buying mostly hardcovers and trades of creators I knew and liked, plus the occasional book...
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TWC News with ADD [032610]
* At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna weighs in on two new Archie series taking place in alternate worlds where Archie marries, in one, Betty, and in the other — you guessed it — Veronica. Intriguing (well, mostly for my wife — she’s the big Archie fan at our house). * Here’s the trailer to the Scott Pilgrim movie. Yes, please. * At Nerdage, word from this week’s...
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TWC News with ADD [032510]
* At Grovel, Andy Shaw reviews The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite. I don’t talk much about The Umbrella Academy, maybe because it’s not out that often, but it’s about as much honestly-earned superhero comics fun as can be had in funnybooks today, and everybody should give it a look. * At Comic Book Resources, Greg McElhatton looks at Mark Millar’s Nemesis and says...
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TWC News with ADD [032410]
* At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon has news that Salon.com is dropping Tom The Dancing Bug. After Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World, TTDB is the strip I most associate with Salon. Perhaps not coincidentally, This Modern World is now Salon’s sole remaining comic strip. * Comic Book Resources talks to Chip Kidd about his design work, especially for a new Alex Ross art book titled...
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TWC News with ADD [032310]
* At Comic Book Resources, retailer and Direct Market Advocate Brian Hibbs wonders about the future of periodical comics. At the Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon responds. Tom and I seem to be in the same boat, periodical comics-wise: “Today, there’s almost no periodical work I’m interested in buying that actually appears in comic shops, even when I have months of pent-up demand...
Best of 2009 List Revisited - Part 1
Taking advantage of my library system, I’ve been catching up on some of the great books that I didn’t get around to reading in time to do my best of 2009 list. Here’s a few random thoughts about a few random books:
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell – I think technically this may have been a 2008 release, but regardless of when it came out, it’s...
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TWC News with ADD [031910]
* At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon comments on yesterday’s news on IDW moving to the front of the Previews catalog. * CBR has the June Previews solicits for Image Comics. Mark me down for Godland #34. * At YouTube, check out the music video for James Kochalka’s song Bacharach Galactica. * R. Crumb is designing wallets. Hopefully his will get fatter as a result. * The LA Times...
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News: IDW Moves to Premier Status in Previews
IDW has announced that it has become the first comic book publisher to gain “Premier” (front of the catalog) status in Previews in nearly a decade-and-a-half. In a press release from IDW, Diamond Distribution CEO Steve Geppi is quoted as saying “This change recognizes the growth and importance of IDW Publishing, and we look forward to working with them for many years to come.”...
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TWC News with ADD [031810]
* At Comics Comics, Jeet Heer visits The Beguiling, North America’s best-stocked comic shop. [Edited to remove inaccurate characterization of Heer’s post.] * At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon profiles this week’s most promising new releases. * Tom also points to cartoonist Steve Bissette’s lengthy and essential look back at how corporate comics companies and the creators...
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TWC News with ADD [031710]
* Arrr, Happy St. Patrick’s Day. That is the day when we all talk like pirates, right? I never keep track of that stuff, avast! * At Comics Comics, Jog runs down this week’s most impressive new releases. New issue of Garth Ennis’s Battlefields, which I am reading in the collected editions, but if I was still buying floppies much, that would be at the top of my reading stack this...
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TWC News with ADD [031610]
* At The Comics Journal, Kent Worcester presents a transcript of a 2009 interview with cartoonist Tom Kaczynski. * At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon ponders what recent changes in newspaper publishing mean for newspaper comic strips. Me, I skip over the comics, and these days I read the newspaper most every day of the week. They’re printed too small, and my local paper carries no...
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TWC News with ADD [031510]
* At CBR, JK Parkin talks to publishers about Amazon’s freeze on selling graphic novels from some publishers. * At The Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon evaluates Batwoman’s GLAAD award. * Paul Gravett runs down the most intriguing graphic novels being solicited in Previews for release in May, 2010. * Uncomics: Roger Ebert dismantles Glenn Beck. — Alan David Doane
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TWC News with ADD [031310]
* CBR has the scoop on a new Serenity comic focusing on the character of Shepard Book. The comic sounds intriguing, but as a Firefly fan, man, I wish this was being unpacked in a movie or TV episode. * Nerds outraged that the Hulk got the drop on Thor. Read the comments, then gouge your eyes out with a mellon-baller. * While we’re there, here are the May Previews solicits for Marvel and DC....
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TWC News with ADD [031210]
* At About.com, Gary Groth discusses the new Manga line at Fantagraphics Books. * At The Savage Critics, Sean T. Collins writes a really good review of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s All-Star Superman. * Congratulations to Jason and Kristine Marcy on the birth of their second son (and a big WHAT UP? to firstborn Xander!) * Uncomics: The Life-Cycle of Internet Mailing Lists. Eerie and...
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TWC News with ADD [031110]
* Chris Sims re-names comics as what you really say about them. Funny. * Uncomics: Over on The ADD Blog, I make note of the 46th anniversary of the very first Star Trek pitch, and talk about my 25 favourite original series episodes. * Random comics reading update: I got a huge (over 60) pile of floppies in the mail yesterday and read a batch of them last night and this morning. Quick thoughts:...
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On ADD on Santoro on Chaykin on Blitzen..
I have to agree with ADD on this one. Nothing against Frank, as his musings are clearly out of admiration and fondness for Chaykin, Simonson et al. But you know, those musings are really just another form of nostalgia, right? And I use nostalgia neutrally, or ambivalently—it can be good and wholesome and charming and add a golden luster to how one sees the modern world, and it can have a...
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TWC News with ADD [031010]
* Tim O’Neil examines the recent backlash against blogger Valarie D’Orazio, apparently due to her use of her own life experience to inform her script for an issue of Punisher Max. I haven’t read the issue in question yet, but I’ve been catching up on post-Ennis Punisher Max comics recently, so this is, as that cat says, “relevant to my interests.” This is the...
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What Is All This?
A collection of short fiction by Stephen Dixon, What Is All This? features one bizarre, baffling tale after another. Not baffling in the sense of being incomprehensible, but rather in the way in which it is nearly impossible to imagine how one human mind could have ever conceived such a breadth of strange and wonderful stories. I don’t know anything about Dixon, really, other than that the...
