Just opened my copy of the Kirby biography by Mark Evanierfrom Amazon today. It SMELLS like old comics. And that’s a good thing, a wonderful thing.
I’ll be able to say more about it after I’ve read it. But good God, the book smells like a pulpy old comics store. And that’s the feeling you should [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxPxpSvXQ8

It’s the 50th anniversary of this great cartoon! Go catch it on YouTube. (Thanks to Fark.com for the reminder.)

Why, do you ask? I give you three reasons.
1. Dwayne McDuffie really has a handle on what makes the Fantastic Four unique. It’s not just four people with superpowers; it’s a family. And even though that family is going through post-Civil War jitters, and Reed and Sue have been replaced with the Black Panther and [...]

This is scary-brilliant. However, I suspect Brandy Clark would have talked to Bill Mantlo, not Roy Thomas. Still, brilliant.

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 [...]

I admit that part of the fun of having this site powered by Wordpress is the ability to change themes on the fly. As much as I liked the old theme, I wanted something a bit more dramatic, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s XMark theme seems to take the cake. I need to edit the header and [...]

I can’t figure out how this relates to comics, other than I found this on the Nodwick site. But it’s still darn cute.

Check out the Batman villain masks in this ultra-swinging Gnarls Barkley song.
(Regular posting resumes soon, I promise.)

Adams has lost his voice due to a bout with spasmodic dysphonia, a condition where the brain forgets how to speak in a normal voice. You can sing, shout, and speak in public, but normal talking is impossible. There are no documented cases of recovery.
Until now.
This is an amazing story. Rather than gloat about his [...]

From Warren Ellis’s Bad Signal, with his permission:
Okay.  I just this second got the go-ahead from Nick Lowe to talk about this.  So here we go:
Sales on the singles are okay, if not great. Sales on the first collection have apparently been terrific.  
We were on such a roll with NEXTWAVE that I was [...]