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Another sad comic

March 31st, 2007 at 12:26 am PDT » Comments (0)

At Gail Simone’s board, one of the posters (Ed Contradictory- what an alias!) posted this, and my heart stopped.

I edited it to fit here.
And to answer your question…no, it’s not an authentic strip. Someone made it in Photoshop. But it still stopped me cold.
By the way, Gail Simone is one of my favorite people on [...]



What’s the saddest comic you’ve ever read?

March 29th, 2007 at 10:21 pm PDT » Comments (15)

ESPN’s Bill Simmons had a link to sadkermit.com, with a clip of everybody’s favorite frog singing Johnny Cash’s “Hurt”, complete with images of Kermit shooting up heroin and staring at portraits of Miss Piggy and Jim Henson. It reminded me of the saddest comic I ever read, Chris Aubry’s “I Still Think Of You, Jim [...]



The Summer of Sinnott!

March 23rd, 2007 at 2:14 am PDT » Comments (1)

TwoMorrows is publishing a book about the greatest inker ever, Joe Sinnott.
I’ve bought a ton of TwoMorrows books over the years, and I’ve never been disappointed. John Morrow and his crew do a fantastic job of covering the history of comics and the lives of the people who make them. John has a special love [...]



DC Licensing must be so proud

March 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 am PST » Comments (5)

My bum leg felt okay tonight, and my wife needed to shop for her mom’s birthday, so we hit the Monmouth Mall tonight. While walking around, we spotted a store we had never seen before:

The merchandise for sale was…ahem…rather interesting. Exotic lingerie…

…spare uniforms for nurses and cops…

…shoes only a stripper could love…

…and Halloween costumes for [...]



Marvel Civil War and 9/11

March 1st, 2007 at 12:45 am PST » Comments (0)

In an article for the New York Review of Books, critic Daniel Mendelsohn writes about watching the first plane hit the World Trace Center on 9/11:
 
I flipped the phone shut, looked up, and a dark flash of something darted into the building that loomed directly before me, which was the north tower of the World [...]