Pull List for the week is up at CWN. This week's quick reviews include:
Action Comics #826
Adventures of Superman #639
Captain America #5
Legion of Super-Heroes #5
The New Avengers #5
Red Sonja #0
Hellblazer #207
Plastic Farm #9
Supernatural Freak Machine #2
Artesia Annual #3
Friday, April 29, 2005
Great Curve: Liefeld and Squiddies
I wasn't going to post about this because they're not actually thought-out articles, but what the heck. I just put up a couple of posts on The Great Curve. One's about how I like Gail Simone's work much more than I dislike Rob Liefeld's. The other's just another mention of the Squiddies.
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Squiddie Nomination
This is kinda cool. I've been nominated for a Squiddie Award under the Best Comics Reviewer category. There's some nasty competition there, which means that it's nifty just to be listed with them.
Full list of nominees for that category:
BEST COMICS REVIEWER
Bob Agamemnon
Chris Allen
Alan David Doane
Tony Isabella
Randy Lander
Sean Maher
Michael May
Alex Ness
Paul O'Brien
Tom Spurgeon
Dave Van Domelen
David Welsh
A full list of all of this year's nominees can be found here.
Full list of nominees for that category:
BEST COMICS REVIEWER
Bob Agamemnon
Chris Allen
Alan David Doane
Tony Isabella
Randy Lander
Sean Maher
Michael May
Alex Ness
Paul O'Brien
Tom Spurgeon
Dave Van Domelen
David Welsh
A full list of all of this year's nominees can be found here.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Review: SPAGHETTI WESTERN
Wrote a review of Scott Morse's Spaghetti Western. If you dig the genre at all: good stuff.
The Workload Groweth
I got a nice package from Top Shelf Productions today. In it were copies of Owlie Vol. 2, Minisulk, Mosquito (which is on my Amazon Wish List, so Yippee!), and Hello, Again.
I spent some time tonight re-watching last week's episode of Revelations and taking notes for my Pop Thought column. That should go up tomorrow sometime, I hope.
I spent some time tonight re-watching last week's episode of Revelations and taking notes for my Pop Thought column. That should go up tomorrow sometime, I hope.
Monday, April 25, 2005
MicroCon 2005
MicroCon was so much fun. I shared a table with Grant Gould and Jessica Hickman again like we did at FallCon last October. I was much better prepared this time though and we had a good looking table, I think. Here's some pictures of it before the con got started. Click on it or any of the other images to see a full-sized picture.
Since FallCon, Grant was selected to be an official sketch artist for the Revenge of the Sith cards. That's a collage of some of his sketch cards behind him. I kept forgetting to ask, but I think Jess is working on a page from Three Days the Devil Danced.
Behind the Grafika and Cownt stuff on the table you can see a cool drawing that Grant was nice enough to contribute to my Black Canary sketchbook. One of these days I'll get the rest of the sketchbook scanned in and posted on my LiveJournal, but for now, here's Grant sketching and a better shot of the final piece.
Grant had a great idea for attracting people to his side of the table. He'd made up trading-sized cards on which to do personal sketchs for people of whatever Star Wars character they wanted. Or any other character some joker like me wanted to see holding a lightsaber. One guy requested a Scrooge McDuck. I wanted the Cownt.
One of the coolest things about the con was all the kids there with their parents. Grant attracted those guys like Pooh bears to honey.
After a while, fellow Grafika member Darla Ecklund showed up to pretty up my side of the table.
Seeing people is the best part of these things. There's some folks I only get to see a couple of times a year like Sam Hiti.
This year there were several people whom I'd talked to online, but never met in person. The scurvy rogue known on Steve Niles's message board as Black Bart stopped by and picked up a copy of Tales from the Inner Sanctum #2. I also finally got to meet inker Barb Schulz after missing her for coffee a week or so ago. There was also indie creator Jennifer Young who's done some very cool mini-comics and a graphic novel called Cold Summer. I love her work and it was great finally getting to meet her. I don't know why I'm so serious in the picture. Blech. The camera caught her in mid-gum-smack, but I think it works for her.
What else? Oh, yeah. I got to meet some cool new people too. There was a father and son there with a table who are starting their own publishing business and are looking for creators. We exchanged information and promised to stay in touch. And I talked to lots of comics fans. One fella bought Tales from the Inner Sanctum #1 thanks to the fact that Jess's original pages were on the table (I bought those from her, which was my coolest purchase of the day). There was also a nice couple named Amanda and Mike with whom I had a very nice, long conversation. And then there was this guy. We never did figure out who he was supposed to be dressed as. That's green construction paper on his head though.
My brother-in-law and co-Cownt-creator Dave showed up for a while. It's weird to me how much he and Cownt artist Gav Spence look alike.
And that's pretty much it. After the show, Grant, Jess, Dave, and I went and got some burgers and called it a day.
The End.
Since FallCon, Grant was selected to be an official sketch artist for the Revenge of the Sith cards. That's a collage of some of his sketch cards behind him. I kept forgetting to ask, but I think Jess is working on a page from Three Days the Devil Danced.
Behind the Grafika and Cownt stuff on the table you can see a cool drawing that Grant was nice enough to contribute to my Black Canary sketchbook. One of these days I'll get the rest of the sketchbook scanned in and posted on my LiveJournal, but for now, here's Grant sketching and a better shot of the final piece.
Grant had a great idea for attracting people to his side of the table. He'd made up trading-sized cards on which to do personal sketchs for people of whatever Star Wars character they wanted. Or any other character some joker like me wanted to see holding a lightsaber. One guy requested a Scrooge McDuck. I wanted the Cownt.
One of the coolest things about the con was all the kids there with their parents. Grant attracted those guys like Pooh bears to honey.
After a while, fellow Grafika member Darla Ecklund showed up to pretty up my side of the table.
Seeing people is the best part of these things. There's some folks I only get to see a couple of times a year like Sam Hiti.
This year there were several people whom I'd talked to online, but never met in person. The scurvy rogue known on Steve Niles's message board as Black Bart stopped by and picked up a copy of Tales from the Inner Sanctum #2. I also finally got to meet inker Barb Schulz after missing her for coffee a week or so ago. There was also indie creator Jennifer Young who's done some very cool mini-comics and a graphic novel called Cold Summer. I love her work and it was great finally getting to meet her. I don't know why I'm so serious in the picture. Blech. The camera caught her in mid-gum-smack, but I think it works for her.
What else? Oh, yeah. I got to meet some cool new people too. There was a father and son there with a table who are starting their own publishing business and are looking for creators. We exchanged information and promised to stay in touch. And I talked to lots of comics fans. One fella bought Tales from the Inner Sanctum #1 thanks to the fact that Jess's original pages were on the table (I bought those from her, which was my coolest purchase of the day). There was also a nice couple named Amanda and Mike with whom I had a very nice, long conversation. And then there was this guy. We never did figure out who he was supposed to be dressed as. That's green construction paper on his head though.
My brother-in-law and co-Cownt-creator Dave showed up for a while. It's weird to me how much he and Cownt artist Gav Spence look alike.
And that's pretty much it. After the show, Grant, Jess, Dave, and I went and got some burgers and called it a day.
The End.
Friday, April 22, 2005
Interview: TENTH MUSE's Darren G. Davis
Just posted an interview on CWN with Darren G. Davis, creator and writer of The Tenth Muse. I asked what I thought were some pretty tough questions about the history of the book and Darren's business decisions and he answered them all pretty candidly. He didn't always go into a lot of detail about some of the more painful experiences, but he gave an honest, general idea of what went on.I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'm impressed with where his head's at.
Review: PULL LIST 4/20/05
This week's Pull List includes:
The Amazing Spider-Man #519
Teen Titans #23
Space Ghost #6
Young Avengers #3
The Grimoire #2
Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities #1
The Iron Ghost #1
Seven Soldiers: Klarion #1
The OMAC Project #1
X-Men #169
Birds of Prey #81
Conan #15
30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales #7
Runaways #3
Chromaphile (Ragnar Art Book)
The Amazing Spider-Man #519
Teen Titans #23
Space Ghost #6
Young Avengers #3
The Grimoire #2
Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities #1
The Iron Ghost #1
Seven Soldiers: Klarion #1
The OMAC Project #1
X-Men #169
Birds of Prey #81
Conan #15
30 Days of Night: Bloodsucker Tales #7
Runaways #3
Chromaphile (Ragnar Art Book)
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Salome: Revelations -- Episode One
I just posted a monster of an article dissecting last week's episode of NBC's Revelations. I had a good time writing it, but Holy Moley it's long.
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