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Jason Powell has taken on the yeoman's job of doing an issue by issue analysis of Chris Claremont's 17 year Uncanny X-Men run in an effort to make me feel bad for saying Morrison invented all kinds of things he did not in his New X-Men run, and for spelling Claremont "Clairmont" in my superhero book.
Scott McDarmont (Scott91777) is an Instructor Of English at Radford University, Radford VA, an avid reader of books by guys named Chuck, he usually “waits for the trade” on comics unless Frank Miller is somehow involved. He owns more Def Leppard CDs than Bob Dylan CDs and he is ‘Ok’ with this and, while he may answer different publicly, he secretly feels that The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie ever made. He also feels that there are two kinds of people in the world: Indiana Jones people and John McClane people. He considers himself an Indiana Jones person
Jill Duffy, girl reporter, is a professional writer and editor in New York. She spent five years covering video game development in both San Francisco and London, examining the art, science, and business of the industry, and in 2006 was named one of the top 100 most influential women in the game industry. Her work has appeared in The Examiner newspaper in San Francisco, where she was the food section editor, as well as Game Developer, Gamasutra.com, Intelligent Enterprise, DigitalTrends.com, and several other publications. She holds a BA in English from the University at Buffalo. Indeed, she is on the Twitter and also keeps a blog about food.
Andy Bentley is a graphic designer in upstate New York. The first series of Batman movies got him in a comic book store and the DC animated series made him a life long fan. His senior thesis was a short film on the culture of comic books. Animal Man, Starman, and Preacher are among his favorite comic runs. He is an avid toy collector and enjoys playing basketball, mash-ups, karaoke and dark beers. He will be sequestered most of September with The Beatles: Rock Band.
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Scott McDarmont (Scott91777) is an Instructor Of English at Radford University, Radford VA, an avid reader of books by guys named Chuck, he usually “waits for the trade” on comics unless Frank Miller is somehow involved. He owns more Def Leppard CDs than Bob Dylan CDs and he is ‘Ok’ with this and, while he may answer different publicly, he secretly feels that The Empire Strikes Back is the best movie ever made. He also feels that there are two kinds of people in the world: Indiana Jones people and John McClane people. He considers himself an Indiana Jones person
Jill Duffy, girl reporter, is a professional writer and editor in New York. She spent five years covering video game development in both San Francisco and London, examining the art, science, and business of the industry, and in 2006 was named one of the top 100 most influential women in the game industry. Her work has appeared in The Examiner newspaper in San Francisco, where she was the food section editor, as well as Game Developer, Gamasutra.com, Intelligent Enterprise, DigitalTrends.com, and several other publications. She holds a BA in English from the University at Buffalo. Indeed, she is on the Twitter and also keeps a blog about food.
Andy Bentley is a graphic designer in upstate New York. The first series of Batman movies got him in a comic book store and the DC animated series made him a life long fan. His senior thesis was a short film on the culture of comic books. Animal Man, Starman, and Preacher are among his favorite comic runs. He is an avid toy collector and enjoys playing basketball, mash-ups, karaoke and dark beers. He will be sequestered most of September with The Beatles: Rock Band.
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- HAMLET MASH UP
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- Favorite Comics
- Open Letter to Anthony Lane
- Star Trek Review
- 3D Glasses: Beowulf, Coraline, Up, Superman
- MORRISON'S NEW X-MEN: THE ISSUE BY ISSUE ANALYSIS
- Whedon's Astonishing X-Men: The Issue By Issue Analysis
- The Maxx
- Russell Edson's "The Fall"
- John Ashbery's "This Room"
- The Heresy of Paraphrase
- Edward Gorey's The Curious Sofa
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- Pan's Labrynth and Children of Men
- Buffy, Angel and Evil
- Beowulf, David Lynch and Evil
- In Defense of Ally McBeal
- The Surprising Will and GraceSeries Finale
- A History of Violence
- All Star Superman and Jamie Grant
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Read, free and legally, the comic book in which a villain's name is inspired by my own (Doctor Klock)
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16 comments:
I am totally excited -- on saturday night at the Huntington Cinema arts center on Long Island I am going to see a double feature of Kill Bill vol 1 and 2.
Also: I am off to England this week -- if all goes well I will have my doctorate on Thurs night.
On Saturday I plan on trying to avoid suffering too much from the extreme hangovers I, no doubt, have managed to build up this friday AND wallow in self-pity. Because I have mono and my girlfriend dumped me. Woot.
I have comics reviews on my blog from the past few weeks, plus some other "I wish I was as smart as Geoff" stuff.
The second episode of "It's Only Comics" is now out at our myspace and youtube. The YouTube URLs for the two-part episode are Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXKXhTSUTrQ
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgvX66_opE0
It's Only Comics is a comic news and info show with (hopefully) funny headlines, skits, and a roundtable discussion that solves the worlds problems. This week watch as I do my dramatic re-enactment of Robert Kirkman whacking off to 90s X-Men comics.
It's a high class production, lemme tell you.
Geoff, congrats on your impending doctor-dom. Doctoring?
In other personal news, I am most likely about to put down the security deposit on a storefront where my business partner and I will open our own comic and games shop. We're buying that part of the business from the store that we both work at now and are moving it across town (it's a small town). So yeah, that, the show, and I'm getting married in August. It's been a busy year.
oh wow your doctorate, gratz sir. All I get this weekend is to see Transformers for the third time and level my Blood Elf Paladin to 30, yay for free time!
Geoff: Cool. If my brother wasn't haviing a block party today, we'd be there, too. Congratulations and have a safe trip.
Totally selfish here, but who's minding the mint, blogwise, when you're 'cross the pond?
Also, I have some reviews of 7/18/07's comics at my blog. And on Monday, I'm starting a blog on Iron Fist. It's written already so it will be up on Mon. I'd love for people to take a look.
Christian: tough break, brother. Try to ride it out.
Hey, Geoff, congrats on the doctorate! I know that's a hell of a lot of work. And hey, your being Dr. Geoff can only help class up the comics blogosphere a little bit. :)
Speaking of, a couple of buddies and I have recently gotten our comic blog, Jimmy Olsen's Blues up and running. We're still trying to find the blog's voice, as we bounce between silly and fairly serious, but we've gotten some pretty decent stuff up already, IMHO. Why, just yesterday, I called Frank Miller a whore and a hack! (Speaking of classy...) Feel free to drop on buy if you get a chance, and enjoy your trip abroad! Good luck!
bah! I'm seeing this site for the first time on IE 6.0 on a PC out here at my mom's house and THE HEADER IS ALL F'D UP!!! goddammit! Y'know... this is what I hate the most about being a webdesigner. goddammned cross-platform/obsolete browser version designing!!! Not to mention that Microsoft can just go suck it for all I care.
Anyway, to all you peeps who do not see a very nice header whose images are not running off all over the place, I apologize. I only have G's pc lap top to double check my Mac-made designs on.
ah well...
Marc: (sorry I am in a hurry but wanted to address this one): Blogging will continue as normal, except that the UK gets new comics on friday instead of wed so I will be two days behind on that.
Dunno if anyone's still checking out this thread, but I've got a question for those of you on Myspace, Facebook, etc. How do you decide who your virtual friends are/aren't? What are your standards? Who do you accept, who do you reject, and who do you approach?
troy: I accept anyone that I don't mind talking to or seeing my profile and pictures and I reject anyone that I'd rather never speak to or know what's going on in my life. I generally only approach people who I'd specifically like to talk to. So I accept people that I'd never bother searching out.
troy: I accept anyone who does not look like they are trying to sell me bad pornography.
I don't know if people are still reading these comments but HOLY FUCK CHRIS BACHALO IS GONNA DRAW SPIDER-MAN
Neil, Geoff: Wise policies. I'll keep 'em in mind as I cobble together my own. Thanks.
Geoff: So peddlers of good pornography are okay? ;)
Controversy hits as I shamelessly promote my blog/slash (the /slash is not a typo, the "slash" is for extra slash) yell through the interweb at my friend for dissing on my robot compatriots on national television: http://kicksplode.blogspot.com/
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