March 20, 2002
Greetings!
Slow and steady wins the race we're told. Here's hoping..!
I've gotten at least one addition to the comics reviews section. Several are in various stages of completion, so I suspect I'll have another sudden eruption of items popping up soon. A little extra incentive for me to kick more out very soon is that my next batch of comics is due to arrive Tuesday.
March 20th is here! With it, Paradigm #1 appeared in discerning comics shops everywhere. Check their newly updated site and look at the previews section to see the covers to issues 1 and 2 (#2's in the current Diamond catalog, and so is being ordered by the comics shops now for its may release) along with the first few pages of each, some interview material, the script for the first five pages of issue #1, the eye-catching ads they've run for it, and more. It's sharp work and deserves some attention. To get a little more of a behind the scenes feel, read through the interview recently posted by popimage.com. For what it's worth I have a review of the first issue up.
As noted on the messageboard, I did a little playing around with the numbers presented in Diamond's Top 300 Comics for March. Take a look.
Pure indolence sees the villains of Buffy poll continuing to limp along. Approaching 50 votes at last look, and lacking a compelling replacement question, I'll let it ride a leeeeeetle bit longer.
For now I'm going to continue to give special attention to these guys:
The highly talented Anders Eriksen continues to update his site with panel-art storytelling, concept shots, CD covers he's done and more. Click on his name and give it a look! When you're done there, check his Links section and go to his other site, Nightmare Gloves, to see some unique, made-to order items for a very particular sort of horror fan.
Darren Madigan has kept a hand in on his site, too, most recently adding a letters column to help work through the mail he's received. Praises and hate-mail, they all make it through. As ever, if you want to read some original novels, short stories, cartoons, and essays on comics and other pop culture, take a look at Doc Nebula's Phantasmagorical Fan Page. If you have and comments or questions, drop him a line, too.
While he hasn't gotten as much material up as quickly as he'd like, take a look around The Cat Dragged Inn -- unless you're a Republican. Even if you are, if you're also a DC comics fan you should go there and scroll down to "The Minor Deities of Doomed Men" for one of the best pieces of DC universe fan fiction I've read in recent years. All that and more, from Grant Schreiber.
Mike Norton
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