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Press releases, we get press releases. By the bushel. And a lot of times we just skim. But then, sometimes, some thing catches our eye.
Look, this could have been anyone. Us, even.
But, I guess this means that Archie isn’t marrying Betty OR Veronica, but POISON IVY, right? And a garden weasel is gonna be the best man! That is, if the wedding is broken up when ORTHO MAN attacks! One things for sure, Archie is going to need to wear knee pads!
Do you think that after he’s married, Archie is going to go on the trowel for other girls?
Okay…that’s all I got. Sorry.
This mystery art has been making the rounds online…and in honor of the All-Star break in baseball, we approve…of whatever it is.
If our Twitter feed is to be believed, we follow a very high percentage of people who are interested in a) watching GHOSTBUSTERS or b) purchasing the new GHOSTBUSTERS on Blu-ray or c) purchasing the new GHOSTBUSTERS video game. Perhaps this brain trust could help us answer why GHOSTBUSTERS was so great and GHOSTBUSTERS 2 is probably the lamest sequel to a beloved film ever. Our own theory? Ivan Reitman is just a very bad director.
Speaking of Twitter, one of those who was engaged in the GHOSTBUSTERS hunt was Geoff Johns, whose recent Twitterings are showcasing his storytelling skills in a stunning way. Last night’s tale of a stolen bicycle, a large slurpee and a friendly 7-11 clerk should have come with a Danny Elfman soundtrack.
As for other Twitterings, the comics world quite rightly rallied with support when Len Wein’s house sustained a serious fire…will they be as supportive for his latest setback?:
Off to a Father’s Day brunch w/@mcvalada and son. Starting to think today’s the day I’m gonna pass the kidney stone. Suspense mounts.
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We misplaced the link to Tom Spurgeon’s always indispensable tips for enjoying San Diego Comic-Con. Every tip has much wisdom, but we thought we’d spotlight this one:
Tip #15. Get Your Pre-Convention Stuff Done One Full Week In Advance
If you’re preparing anything at all for the show — resumes, business cards, art to sell, opening lines, books to sell, art to show, scripts to pass around, your camera, a freelance assignment — get everything done by July 15. This gives you a day or two leeway if something is screwed up, but it also means you won’t be a basket case when you arrive on the convention floor because you stayed up for 37 hours stapling your mini-comic biography of Phil Seuling. Forget entirely getting something done while you’re there. It’s not convenient and you’ll find 10,000 excuses to skip it.
So true. Over the years we remember talking to artists who would go back to their rooms to ink, or writers who were doing some script punch-up in their spare time. Or, ourselves, running back and forth to the Kinko’s in the lobby to make some last minute (and expensive) copies of something we should have done the week before. Such foolishness is no longer allowed.
Also, hasn’t everyone learned that having the printer air-ship the copies to the con at the last minute, just isn’t a good idea? How many times have we seen people standing wryly before an empty table explaining that “The issues didn’t get here from the printer.” EVERY CON!!!! That’s money you left on the table, people, money lost for the shipping, and money lost for missed sales. Ahead of time means “ahead of time”, not “at the con.”
Was talking to a good friend the other day, one I had worked with back in my magazine publishing days. (I worked at various publications, trade and consumer, for several years, including a long stint at Disney Adventures.) He reported that he and just about everyone I had worked with on staff have been laid off from their current jobs at various magazines. One of them just up and moved to Florida with the advice, “Go back to school and look for a new line of work.” He also said he had answered an online ad for a Art Director job and been told that there had been 550 applications for this single post.
It goes without saying that In This Economy, in every field, even people who are at the top of their game are now struggling, It hadn’t previously occurred to me, though, that an entire class of professions is being swept away, as surely as the people who used to set hot type no longer exist. Not necessarily creators, but the people who put things together, photo editors, page layout people.
Will they find new ways to make a living aggregating Twitter content, I wonder?
Art by N.C. Wyeth.
We weren’t entirely hep to what Rich Johnston was talking about the other day, but the Coventry Telegraph has made an image that even a dullard could interpret and it seems that Green Lantern is making crop circles! Out of oilseed rape! (please, no Women in Refrigerators comments.)
Over at Comic Book Resources, Rich Johnston asks: “Is this the first PR stunt in preparation for the Green Lantern movie?”
But creating the circle in a bright yellow field would once have been an impossible feat for the superhero, who is part of an interstellar corp of ring-bearers.
In the past, Green Lantern’s energy-emitting ring was powerless against anything yellow, such as the rape flowers, although this flaw has since been overcome by wearer Hal Jordan.
Very suspicious. Like the article merging two directors’ names into one “Martin Greengrass.” (It’s Martin CAMPBELL who is slated to direct the GREEN LANTERN film later this year. The
original article will raise suspicions that something funny is going on to DefCon 1.
Despite increasingly cranky Bruce Campbell’s insistence that he doesn’t want to make EVIL DEAD 4, director Sam Raimi was all over SXSW saying that he’s up for it:
However, speaking to Sam Raimi at SXSW on the eve of the premiere of his new film, “Drag Me To Hell,” the director didn’t seem worried in the least and in fact laughed off Campbell’s remarks and insisted the actor would still be onboard whenever they can find time to revisit the beloved cult and campy horror classics.
“He can dream all he wants. He’s trying to get out of getting back in shape,” he smiled. “I’m going to kick his butt in shape. I’m gonna say ‘get back in the chainsaw!’”
Of course just WHEN this might happen with Raimi committed to making SPIDEY 4 for a few years yet is questionable…but if Sam believes, we believe.
Religiously patrolling our comment section as we do, in between all the spammers who think this is am excellent site and would love to talk to my webmaster, it was just what they were looking for, we’ve noticed that our peanut gallery is turning into more of an Ensure gallery, as crotchety old folks argue about new fangled devices like the ballpoint pen and what it will mean for the comical picture book industry.
Now, being something of a cranky old coot in training ourselves, we can see how easy it is to fall into this trap. But it is tiresome! Come now, people, wake up and smell Gears of War! While it’s our duty as host to attempt some manner of timeliness, we’re going to be more vigilant and punitive about pointless whining and moaning. Step lively, now!
We can’t be the only people who detest the first week of Daylight Savings Time? Not for political reasons, but just because? Admittedly, the extra daylight is a boon, marking the end of the Seasonal Affective Disorder Season and the coming of Spring Coat Season and eventually Rooftop Sangria Season.
And what about that Corky? Will he be eaten by the giant monster octopus? A “thrilling 3-part novel”? Would that be what we now call a “graphic book”?
Questions….questions…
Sorry we disappeared yesterday. We had chores to do.
BTW, isn’t a shame that comics don’t have word balloons on the covers any more?
William Shatner, beloved blowhard, pitchman, voice-over actor, and the man who made the phrase “Get a life!” famous as a nerd icon, would like to run for Prime Minister of his native planet, Canada:
The 77-year-old star said: “My intention is to be Prime Minister of Canada, not Governor General, which is mainly a ceremonial position.”
Shatner revealed his lofty ambition in response to a letter from a fan who urged him to put himself forward for the Governor General of Canada.
The Governor General is appointed by the monarch - which in Canada is currently Queen Elizabeth II - to perform the constitutional duties of the sovereign on her behalf.
In his letter, Shatner regretfully added: “I must, with my deepest thanks, turn down your honourable intent to advance me as Governor General. Besides which, I don’t have time to be Governor General.” Despite his busy schedule, the actor is confident he has what it takes to run the country, explaining: “As Prime Minister I can lead Canada into even greater exploits.”
While there is some potential that this is an errant thought and not a planned career change, the idea of the non-aggressive, harmonious people of Canada being led by Captain Kirk does lead down fruitful paths of reverie. One could imagine Kirk and his exploration team landing on Bloor Street, and the ensuing conversation with Spock over the communicator.
“Captain, sensors indicate a Grade 4 civilization, organized around the concept of a sporting competition involving men propelling themselves on ice while striking a small rubber disk with a curved stick. The game usually involves the ritual consumption of a beverage with intoxicating effects by the supporter of each team.”
“Spock, such a peaceful people should be left unaffected by Federation politics.”
“Captain, according to my data, the people of Canada are also known for their attractive women.”
“In that case, I’d better run for Prime Minister.”
Looks like we have a new mystery on our hands.
That and so much more after the jump….
Okay, the question is …. “Whose mother is the girl with the gun?”
She was called Ellie, so the first logical guess is Eloise Hawkins, who most people seem to think is Daniel Faraday’s mother.
Does that also make her Charlotte’s mother, if Daniel and Charlotte are sibilings? (and if they are, let’s hope there is no “Luke and Leia” creepy kiss.)
But there are other possibilities to be sure.
Penelope? We know now that Charles Widmore was there on the island in 1954 … and an Other?
The girl in the coma? Could be.
Claire? We saw Claire’s mother in 2004, but maybe she could have done some time-travelling?
With this show, of course, just about anything is possible.
As for the rest of the episode…
* Baby Charlie. Apparently born in the Phillipines a few years ago, when Penny and Desmond were hiding from Charles Widmore. And don’t you think he could have had Desmond followed when he went back to the boat?
* Speaking of the baby, is he named after Driveshaft Charlie? Or maybe evil daddy Charles?
* Miles’ ghost-whispering talents really paid off in this episode.
* Just how many redshirts are left now? Can’t be too many, except for the ones with the Others at the temple.
* I will never get tired of Richard Alpert appearing unexpectedly. I hope they have signed him to a long-term contract. Imagine if CANE was still on the air. What would the show’s producers have done?
* Faraday’s long-time benefactor is Widmore. Not really a surprise, but does call Faraday’s good-guy status into question.
* Are LOST fanatics now going to start learning Latin? So much for it being a dead language.
* “Jughead” had nothing to do with the Archie comics character. Hooray. Lots of concrete, you say? Could that be what was buried under the hatch? And did pressing the button keep the bomb from going BOOM?
* Oh, Charlotte. That’s not good. That’s a Minkowski-sized nose bleed.
* Wasn’t this a great episode, with no Jack, Kate, Hurley or even Ben? A nice refreshing change.
Next week: Things heat up for the Oceanic Six.
Alarming headline: Astronauts tinker with urine-to-water machine:
Even more alarming lede:
Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and sweat into drinkable water, which is vital to allowing the international space station crew to double to six.
Today’s Halloween art comes from Jose Ladronn and HIP FLASK. Ladronn was born in Mexico and won a 2006 Eisner Award for his work on HIP FLASK: MYSTERY CITY.
Keep those cards and letters coming, folks…it’s getting spooky out there.
An incredible new Gecko-like glue is said to be the stickiest yet. Using some fancy-schmancy system of carbon nanotubes enhanced with curly strands of carbon, the new glue is 10 times stickier than a gecko’s feet. The substance’s adhesive qualities can also be measured in a unit we all understand:
A 1-inch (2.5-cm) square of the adhesive can support the weight of a 220-pound (100-kg) man climbing up a vertical surface, but it can be easily lifted and reapplied, an ideal material for, say, a Spider-Man suit.
“That is not real. What we do is real,” said Zhong Lin Wang of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, referring to the comic book superhero’s wall-climbing prowess.
Way to be snotty, science head. Like you don’t want to sleep on a
Rhino mattress.
Are we the only person who is on some kind of spam list for folks in Dubai selling expensive construction equipment (cranes and bulldozers)? With PICTURES? We are excited as anyone by the idea of looking at pictures of 80-ton cranes, but how on earth did we get on this list? Is this some kind of Al Qaeda front or a variation on the NIgerian scam? WTF?
PS: We’re on the road again, this time for R&R — more posting later.
Puttering around here on various projects, like PW Comics Week, a general sense of sadness is overtaking us. Adding up today’s postings, it turns out that in Hollywood, messing with one detail of a beloved comic book classic is enough to give a director flop sweats; whereas removing the structures that made one of the most powerful, haunting and profound novels ever written in English powerful, haunting and profound, is dubbed “giving it that graphic novel sensibility.”
I do not think that word means what you think it does. And I think we’re in for a long haul.
[Above image: one of Rockwell Kent’s immortal illustrations for Moby Dick.]
Sad days in the world of pro wrestling, especially if you are a fan of the Lucha Libre style.
On tonight’s 75th Anniversary CMLL show in Mexico City, Blue Panther, one of the most accomplished luchadors of the modern era, shockingly lost his mask in the main event against Villano V.
If you think comics nerds get upset when some Silver Age “B” level villain gets a costume change, you should see how Lucha loving wrestling nerds are reacting to this shocking development. Imagine if Batman was killed not by the Joker or Ra’s Al Ghul, but by The Signalman or The Cavalier?
As the Beat would likely say in this situation, “We need to go lie down.” We know there are plenty of comics folks out there who dig the Mexican wrestling (since we used to supply them with tapes back in the day), so our condolences go out to them too.
Posted by Mark Coale
We love the expression on sometime-comics creator Rosario Dawson’s face here. She’s all like “Yup. It’s all real. I DO have a fabulous complexion.”
If you’re are like me, you are watching the Olympics, which is shorthand for bouts of gymnastics interrupted by endless play by play, minute detail microscopic examination of women’s beach volleyball.
Seriously how is this even a sport? I mean we all know the answer to that but why is it a sport that has every single game covered?
Or uncovered as the case may be.
Seriously, I would like to have been at the meeting where they fashioned the regulation that decreed that women in this sport” must wear bikinis. It’s especially puzzling when men wear baggy shorts and tank tops.
No one is getting fooled here.
Some emotion came with today’s Russia/Goergia game, even if the Georgian players were ringers from Brazil. As you can see from the above, they also have a little jiggle in the caboose, which would totally disqualify them from any other team on earth.
If people are going to be so fascinated by women’s sports, I would like to propose that we find new sweethearts, namely the softball competitors. (There is no men’s softball in the Olympics.)
The US women have been undefeated for something like 10 years. In fact, softball and baseball are both getting yanked from the Olympics after these games and part of the reason is that the US women’s softball team is just too damned good. If you like the volleyball beach bunnies how can you not love the softball terminators. They are so wrapped up in pads and braces and bandages that they seem to be more machine than man.
Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give these hard working athletes the acclaim and attention they deserve! And let’s keep softball in the Olympics! If it’s cheesecake they’re after, this is where its at.
Oh, PS: Australia’s softball team has a player named Natalie Titcume. I think that speaks for itself.
The anthrax matter – and the timely suicide of its purported mastermind — is crazy enough to keep conspiracy theorists going for the rest of Chris Carter’s natural life. However, could there have been an even MORE sinister scheme behind the goings on at Fort Detrick? Over at the TCJ message board, Mort Todd points out that one side effect of the weapons-grade anthrax that was mailed to various media outlets in the fall of 2001 was the destruction of a repository of priceless information
:
What it doesn’t say is that he also is suspected of sending a letter to American Media Inc., publishers of The Star, The Globe, National Examiner, and The Sun and, for a short time, Cracked magazine (way after my reign). This lead to the death of a photo editor and since all the film to print the magazine, from 1958 to 2000, was stored there, it had to be destroyed because of contamination.
Now this may be cheered by some, but there was some great art by John Severin, Jack Davis, Will Elder, All Jaffee, Bill Ward, Steve Ditko, Gene Colan and many other titans of the comics industry!
[…]So we have a complete wack job being paid by our government to handle some of the deadliest substances ever created, and now it turns out that, on top of everything else, he ruined CRACKED. Whose nightmare are we living in, and how in God’s name do we wake up?
We’ll be on the road for a few days for some semi-R&R. That means we’ll be blogging, and reading email but only for a few hours a day instead of all day all the time. Hopefully all hell won’t break loose again.
Actually we used Duane Reade’s “Multi Eraser” knock-off, but either way, when your light switches are clean, you are clean.
PS: Thursday is pretty anticlimactic without Lost. Sniff.
You just can’t. Check previous entries for even more breath-taking Wyeth goodness. Ah, far Selidor!
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Of course a weeding is required; that’s a lot of flowers and bushes out there, after all!
Unless Jughead’s the one concerned about “weed”…
I think you were very restrained in mocking a press release with WEED in the title.
Must…resist…Jughead and munchies…joke…
How about that Archie: he’s into bush!
I think we learned from Kurtzman & Elder’s Starchie, that these boys are capable of anything! Sure, they “Eddie Haskell” their ways through life,…but, look at their eyes,…they’re obviously high as kites.
One is reminded of the wedding of Joannie Caucus and Rick Redfern in Doonesbury.
And that cover image… why is part two “The Proposal”? Should be “The Wedding”, according to Diamond Previews. (Nice how all the bridesmaids are brunette, except Betty…)
(And what denomination or religion is the preacher?)
Torsten: Joanie & Rick’s wedding is one of my all-time fave Doonesbury story arcs. “This is great! We should’ve done it sooner.” “Good enough.”
This is a pretty nifty Archie publicity stunt, but really: married to Veronica Lodge? That can only mean that the ceremony isn’t going to happen somehow. The love triangle is the whole thing.
Eva… I’ll keep reminding people what I saw at NYCC…
600 - 602 = imaginary story set in future, Archie marries Veronica
603 - 605 = imaginary story set in future, Archie marries Betty
That’s right… Archie marries Betty AND Veronica.
(Hmmm… as anyone written a parody where Betty and Veronica wise up and date each other?)
Aren’t these all imaginary anyway?????
Oh, I’d make fun of this typo if I didn’t just know I’ll probably type worser wuns tomorrow!
-E
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Still, never thought he’d marry her! O.o
These puns have left me … COLD … to your pleas of mercy.
Hey…what’s Reggie reaching for?