The Marvel and DC solicits for January came out a week or so ago, so I gathered together a small group for a bit of a round table.
We’ve got the Nexus’ own Aaron Glazer!
There’s my buddy, and a GM from the message boards I regular; Logan!
And my personal graphics man, the master of Photoshop, Proto!
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Welcome to the inside of my thought bubbles. I’m Aaron Glazer, as you no doubt noticed (giving you a bit of credit to start) and I used to write East of Gotham and comic reviews for the Nexus. Well, after awhile that all fell apart because, you see, despite a passion for comics and some really great feedback, I always thought I kind of sucked. So, never one to settle for mediocrity, I took a hiatus and focused on my Pulse Wrestling writing for the time being.
Simply put - Marvel and FOX Studios blew it big time by changing Daredevil’s suit way too much. The Zorro-styled mask? Fine, I can live with that - it lends to the swashbuckling, dark-rogue nature of the character. Putting the “DD” over the left breast as opposed to centered in the chest? Another stylistic choice that I can’t understand the point of, but whatever. The big thing to me was…putting a leather racing suit on a free-running vigilante who relies on stealth to carry out his obvious death-wish? Uhm, yeah - coulda thought that out more…
Last week we went text-heavy, this week I’m bringin’ pictures, baby - a potpourri of some of my favorite images from the last few weeks of comic book buys, in this week’s I’M JUST SAYIN’…!!!
You know what’s always bothered me about comics? The constant need to keep things in an unbreakable status quo. Bruce Wayne will ALWAYS be Batman, so even when they tease us with a possible new Batman, we all know what to expect. We had Jean Paul Valley, but nobody expected him to stick around forever. [...]
We go behind the scenes of Comic Con 2008 with David Glanzer, and we meet Terry Moore and Tim Sale. We review their books: Strangers in Paradise & Spider-Man Blue and we talk about their upcoming projects
I don’t care how humble the guy is in life - and I’m pretty sure he is - but if I were David Hine, I’d be pretty damn proud of myself right now. I’d be about as proud of myself as I was when I came up with the 4-S theory on female sitcom characters, or the ultimate definition of irony. Ask me about them sometime, it’s kind of neat, if I do say so myself…
Spidey sings the DD theme song, Ghost Rider takes to the Good Book, Archangel is feeling blue, MODOK makes a splash, Longshot gets lucky, Hercules as well, Sue with Namor even more so, Captain America becomes a Queen… and the Avengers challenge Galactus to a Texas Hold’Em tournament!
Captain Britain returns, Starhawk joins the guardians of the Galaxy reunion, Cyclops is revealed for the hack he is, Captain America reveals his origin (twice in the same week), Kraven gets a boob (and bleach) -job, Claremont hits tilt, Stark goes Skrully — and yet it all pales before the awesomeness of… MARVEL MUMMIES!!
Note: LYS@D will be delayed by a day this week.
Hello all and welcome to another edition of the Handbook. I‘m Jim Trabold. We have one large email to cover this week. We call it Cory mail.