John Byrne has two pages of preview art up on his forum. He also muses that, in his opinion, Captain Marvel is “really” a DC character (an opinion that is quite obvious to readers of his “Batman/Captain America” one-shot).
Fuzzball sponsors this week’s Dimestore Chat!
Fuzzball Comics, the Shooting Star imprint that released Job Wanted, is sponsoring this week’s Dime Store Chat. As the sponsors, Phil Meadows and I will be the hosts, talking about our two published works (the sci-fi mystery “Enigma in Outer Space” in Job Wanted #1 and our guest story in Shooting Star Comics Anthology #4…
More good news about “I Robot
This featurette about “I Robot” is very reassuring in several ways: * The director of the movie is Alex Proyas, who made the impressive and deep film “Dark City”, one of my personal faves. * Proyas insists he’s trying to stay away from the “Hollywoodized” movie. Considering this sure looks like a frenzied action film…
Movies CAN sell comic books!
Hellboy Top American Graphic Novel in Bookstores
Handy with the pistolas!
Weird. Chuck Dixon’s the experienced gun owner, but I came in #32 on the high scores of Bush Shoot-Out and Chuck got #33! Of course, those are just the daily scores! Monthly, I’m #10,001. Still, a fun and satisfying game.
Sunday night TV
I’ve discovered my new favorite show: “This Just In” on Spike TV. It’s on Sunday and Thursday nights. It is noteworthy for two reasons: it takes advantage of the ease and speed of Flash animation to provide topical jokes, and it has a political slant that is unique to any sitcom live or animated. I’m…
Hellboy missing a scene in your theater?
In his review of “Hellboy”, Roger Ebert made a note of a scene transition that made absolutely no sense. Now he’s found out why it made no sense. There is a scene that goes dark at the end of a reel and many theaters mistakenly take it to be the end of the reel, thus…
Former Fanzing cover artist in first place!
Roz Terrill has won FIRST PLACE in the second round of Small Press Idol! Those of you who hang around our Fuzzball Forum will have already seen NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –her full color version of her entry, as well as her pin-up pages. Roz may be the one to beat in…
Nick Landime on Comic Ratings
Nick Landime, who is given voice by one of the Monitor Duty guys (just to engage in a bit of full disclosure), expounds on comic book ratings and makes what is probably the ultimate comment on the importance of same.
Eclipse remembered
Alex Ness of Pop Thought reflects upon Eclipse Comics. The article includes some cool well-armed pics of Beau Smith, Tim Truman and Chuck Dixon. It’s a good article, aside from an HTML coding error that has a picture situated on top of an entire paragraph.