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Tuesday, April 17, 2001
I find myself praying that Dave Sim does not know two things: (1) How to make a bomb, and (2) Gail Simone's home address. Dave Sim's Guide To Getting Chicks, in this week's YOU'LL ALL BE SORRY!
posted by Chris at 9:48 PM EST
The fantastic folks at Newsarama have DC's July 2001 solicitations up; go give them a look. By far the most interesting thing there is the INVISIBLES: ENTROPY IN THE UK TPB collection, which collects issues 19-25 of INVISIBLES, volume one, leaving volume three as the only volume yet to be collected. I think it goes without saying that Chris and I are both absolutely ecstatic about this; the name of this blog alone should clue you in as to how much we dig THE INVISIBLES...
That said, it's not as though that's the only interesting thing coming out from DC that month. There's also BATMAN: EVOLUTION, the first collection of Greg Rucka's fine work on DETECTIVE COMICS; a preview of THE ESTABLISHMENT (the upcoming Ian Edginton/Charles Adlard "spinoff" of Ellis' STORMWATCH/AUTHORITY) in THE AUTHORITY #24; CYBERNARY 2.0, which features art by the stunningly good Eric Canete; WILDCATS: SERIAL BOXES, a the second TPB collection of Joe Casey and Sean Phillips' fine work on that series; a second PROMETHEA hardcover collection; the "season finale" of TOP 10; and more of that "Our Worlds at War" mega-event story, which, I admit, is starting to pique my interest a bit... not enough to buy the individual chapters, but if they come out with a TPB collection or two, I might be tempted to give it a try...
(Note: For more information on some of the above-mentioned comics, click here. There are more detailed descriptions and more art samples for some of the above-mentioned comics. )
However, if you buy only one thing from DC in July, make it the ENTROPY IN THE UK trade. Unless, of course, you haven't already bought the preceding v1 trades, SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION and APOCALIPSTICK, in which case you should buy those now so you're good and ready for ENTROPY IN THE UK when it comes out in July...
If you're looking for more information about THE INVISIBLES, I doubt you'll find a better site than The Bomb, though those unfamiliar to the series might want to be a bit cautious when visiting, as it can be a bit spoiler-heavy (it's perhaps best visited after one has read the series; it's a fantastic place to go to find the answers to nagging questions or just to simply discover new bits in the series that you missed on the first few reads...).
Also, forgot to blog this earlier, but the Newsarama folks also have a fairly interesting interview with Joe Kelly up, wherein he discusses the "controversial" ACTION COMICS #775; you know, the "Superman vs. The Authority" one.
posted by Ross at 1:38 AM EST
Monday, April 16, 2001
I was puttering around Image's website (because I live to put off homework...), and discovered a press release detailing their July-December '01 schedule, which contained a number of interesting tidbits. Including:
This August, Image is proud to release the first softcover edition of KABUKI: METAMORPHOSIS, Mack's most ambitious graphic novel to date. Mack utilizes a wide variety of mixed media fine art techniques to create this poetic meditation on identity, psychology, gender, and culture.
In September:Picking up where the classic 80s series left off, this all-new series will feature the classic Joe characters and concepts fans remember and a bevy of new surprises to engage a new generation of readers. Written by Josh Blaylock and drawn by Steven Kurth, the first issue of GI JOE ships in September with a cover by DC/Cliffhanger star J. Scott Campbell!
Wow. 'JOE is coming back to comics... Marvel's 'JOE series was the very first comic that I bought and read on a monthly basis, and for that reason it'll always hold a special place in my heart. (Plus, the toys were just too cool...) So, for reasons of nostalgia alone (I don't have the faintest who Blaylock and Kurth are or what they've done...), I might check this out...
Also in September:...Image is proud to release the POWERS SCRIPT BOOK by Brian Michael Bendis.
Any resource that can be of assistance aspiring comics creators is a Very Good Thing. Plus, I'm interested in seeing Bendis' scripts. (And, yes, I know that the script for POWERS #1 was included in the recent POWERS: WHO KILLED RETRO GIRL? collection... but, hey, the more scripts the better, right?)
And, in October:Minotaur Press gets DOWN with a new series by two of the most respected creators in comics. Award winning writer Warren Ellis and fan favorite artist Tony Harris join forces for this gritty six-part series.
There's more, of course - including Marc Silvestri's return to drawing a monthly (well, in theory...) comic, Kevin Smith's BLUNTMAN AND CHRONIC graphic novel, Jay Faerber's upcoming projects (which include a graphic novel and a creator-owned ongoing series), and, of course... the project I know that you're all hotly anticipating: October's WITCHBLADE/LADY DEATH crossover. Oh yes. WITCHBLADE/LADY DEATH.
posted by Ross at 9:38 PM EST
Could the theorized economic recession actually be good for comics? I don't know, but considering how ass-backwards comics is most of the time, it would make some sort of twisted sense...
posted by Ross at 8:50 PM EST
Meanwhile, Michael Chabon has won the Pulitzer Prize for his most recent novel, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. Now, I suppose that there might be a few of you out there wondering why this, ostensibly a comics blog, is reporting on what book won the Pulitzer Prize. The reason, of course, is that Chabon's a big comic fan and the book features comics in a not-insignificant role. It's also a fantastic book.
And, although it has absolutely nothing to do with KAVALIER & CLAY, some of you might be intrigued to know that Chabon wrote a proposal for the X-MEN movie, which you can view here.
posted by Ross at 8:42 PM EST
Katsuhiro Otomo returns to comics. Excellent. Otomo, the justly-acclaimed creator of AKIRA and DOMU, has started up a new serial, ORBITAL ERA, in Ultra Jump, a monthly anthology in Japan. Of course, there's no word on when this might make it to the United States, but hey... we'll take what we can get.
posted by Ross at 8:26 PM EST
Sunday, April 15, 2001
Woo! Those nice chaps at Silver Bullet Comics have an interview with Kyle Baker (creator of such fabulous graphic novels as THE COWBOY WALLY SHOW, WHY I HATE SATURN, and YOU ARE HERE) up. Baker creates some of the funniest graphic novels in the medium, and he's a good interview, too.
KB: I think TV stinks. It's mindless, predictable, and unoriginal. Compare the best TV shows to the best books or theater. Are you telling me that Seinfeld is really the apex of comedy? Better than Twain or Shaw? Do these "Emmy-Winning" TV dramas really rival Chekhov?
Does Friends really capture the spirit of New York Gen-Xers better than Why I Hate Saturn?
posted by Ross at 10:10 PM EST
The nominees for the 2001 Eisner Awards have been announced... go check 'em out. The committee did a nice job this year, in my opinion - fairly even representation of both mainstream and independent/small-press creators in the nominations. Although, as always, there are a few notable exclusions, too... Once again, Warren Ellis and TRANSMETROPOLITAN fail to get any nominations, which is absolutely mind-boggling. And while Michael Avon Oeming, Frank Quitely/Trevor Scott, Eduardo Risso, P. Craig Russell, and J.H. Williams III are certainly very worthy nominees in the Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team category, it's absolutely criminal that John Cassaday and Bryan Hitch/Paul Neary were shut out of that category. And no MARVEL BOY in the Best Limited Series category? Bah.
posted by Ross at 9:58 PM EST
Though I'm sure you've already seen this, I'll blog it anyway... New Newsarama Weekly is up, with news on the upcoming Brian K. Vaughn-written CYCLOPS limited series, Wildstorm's new "Pacific Rim" line (yay - giant robot comics for Americans... because we're too dumb to appreciate Japanese giant robot comics, apparently...), an update on the status of the completed-but-not-published QUANTUM & WOODY comics (hint: don't expect to see them any time soon...), and word on a new THE CREECH series. Yes, THE CREECH!
Okay, so it was a slightly slow news week... Though if you scroll down past all that exciting news, you can see the gorgeous cover to PLANETARY #15, the slate of graphic novels coming out of Platinum Studios, the legal mess between Marvel and 20th Century Fox that's erupted over the upcoming MUTANT X television series, and the hardcover release of a Warren Ellis-written VAMPIRELLA comics.
posted by Ross at 9:45 PM EST
An amazing gallery of comics artists doing their interpretations of their favorite literary figures... I'd single some out, but there's just no fair way to do that without excluding far too many brilliant interpretations. So just go there and look at them all.
(via linkmachinego)
posted by Ross at 9:33 PM EST
Hey. There's a new All The Rage up, with exciting news on whether or not DC will reprint the ROAD TO PERDITION graphic novel (the source of the upcoming film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Paul Newman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh) and ... gasp... get ready for this... new Rob Liefeld art. Yes, new Rob Liefeld art. Looks like it's from the CABLE series he was talking about a while back, although I'd thought that project was dead. Or maybe I'd just hoped that. Anyway, Rob's apparently developed an interest in watercolors, and it's good to see that his mediocrity is not bound to just pencils and inks...
posted by Ross at 9:19 PM EST
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