At work on Friday someone left a stack of a new magazine — Comic Foundry — at the magazine and comic rack. I picked one up, flipped through it, and shoved it in my bag to take home and look at over the weekend. The thing I noticed on Friday, though? The smell. Yes, theContinue reading “More on Ink and Paper”
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On New Doctor Who Comics
IDW, published of comics based on Star Trek and the Transformers, has picked up the comics license for Doctor Who. Announced at San Diego Comicon yesterday, the series will star the tenth Doctor and Martha and will debut later in the year, written by Doctor Who novelist Gary Russell and with art by Nick Roche.Continue reading “On New Doctor Who Comics”
On Magneto and Cosmic Boy
A reader named Alex dropped by the “Ask Allyn Anything” post Saturday-ish and asked a geeky question. Because the post has dropped off the front page, though, I’m going to respond to it here as well, to say nothing of greater length to explain my reasoning. It’s my blog, and I can do things likeContinue reading “On Magneto and Cosmic Boy”
On The Batman Cereal
Grocery store yesterday, buying lunch meat for dinner. I need breakfast cereal–I’d finished my box of Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp that morning. I don’t recommend the Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp, but that’s a story for another time. What do my eyes spy, but a cereal box with Batman on the front. The Batman cereal, LimitedContinue reading “On The Batman Cereal”
On Batman Begins
Jesus Fucking Christ. Go see Batman Begins. It’s not just a good comic-book movie. It’s a good movie, period. I won’t say much about the film, because there’s a surprise in the film that had I known about going in I’d have hated myself for knowing. The performances, all save Katie Holmes, were top-notch, withContinue reading “On Batman Begins”
On the Fantastic Four trailer
As I mentioned in a previous post, I saw Revenge of the Sith yesterday afternoon. Before the film were trailers for Batman Begins, a movie that looks like it could be the definitive Batman movie and the film to beat this summer, and Fantastic Four. A caveat. I cannot stand the comic. I just don’tContinue reading “On the Fantastic Four trailer”
On Crisis
The new Science Fiction Book Club catalog came today. I was flipping through the Altiverse flyer–Altiverse is the comics and media SF flyer–and what I noticed on the cover of the flyer was Superman holding the broken body of Supergirl, one of the seminal images from DC Comics’ 1985 crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. MyContinue reading “On Crisis”
On the Beast
No, I’m not talking Milwaukee’s Best, the official alcoholic beverage of the University of Richmond. I’m talking Hank McCoy, the Beast of the X-Men. Kelsey Grammer, of Cheers and Frasier, will portray the Beast in next summer’s X3. At a guess, I would think that the Beast will be done in CG, much as theContinue reading “On the Beast”
On Constantine
Yesterday the Judge Dredd video game arrived in stores. Released eighteen months ago in Europe, its North American release had been delayed time and again as the game changed publishers and reviews savaged the game. In the back of my mind I couldn’t believe that the company spent the extra money to have Judge DreddContinue reading “On Constantine”
Legion: Foundations
When I was into comic books, and I was majorly into comic books until about 1997, DC’s The Legion of Super-Heroes was one of my favorites. That and its spin-off Legionnaires were typically the first I read as they came out of the bag. I’m not sure I could to this day tell you whatContinue reading “Legion: Foundations”