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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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5 comments:
I felt like there wasn't any real earth-shattering news from SDCC on the comics end. The biggest announcement was the 'Rebirth' treatment for Barry Allen. Geoff, I'd be curious as to your take on how DC was once moving towards a legacy format particularly with the Flash, Green Lantern and Green Arrow characters and has now backtracked. The JSA continues to support the legacy format, but it makes characters like Wally West, Kyle Rayner, and Connor Hawk impotent. They become old wash ups, almost older than the 1960's characters they were supposed to replace. I suppose it's all part of comics' cyclical nature and you can put them in the creative limbo that Morrison created in Animal Man or kill them off, but just curious on your opinion.
Anyone who's been checking the website daily already knows this, but ... I don't *think* I've seen it mentioned here yet ... Garfield Minus Garfield is being published as a book, with full approval by Garfield creator Jim Davis.
By far for me the most interesting thing was the 20th Anniversary MST3K panel, despite it having nothing to do with comics at all, it was easily the most fun and meaningful for me. Growing up with that show, and getting to see all of my childhood heroes in one place, was quite an experience.
Other than that though, hearing Kevin Grevioux's voice was quite earth shattering. If they ever make that Preacher HBO series they should get him as the Word of God. All other voices are not worthy.
Andy -- that is really interesting. I will think on it.
I had fun at the con, like always, and never really pay that much attention to "breaking news, and don't go to big 2 panels as a rule (got that out of my system a bit). So, the most interesting stuff was the items showing up at the alt comics booths, most notably Tori Amos' Comic Book Tattoo (the book is gorgeous and cheap - I saw Ms. Amos, and she was wearing a Bene Gesserit (sp? you know, that religeous order from Dune) collar - outstanding) and the Pixu book from Klock faves Ba and Moon, as well as others. The Picturebox presence was great.
One thing of mainstream interest is that this is the first year I have heard people refer to the Chicago con (Wizard World Chicago?) in a way that makes me think it may be taking over as the mainstream comics fan's mecca. The gold/silver age venders said they didn't have a lot of key issues because they were "bought out" in Chi town, and I heard reference that some announcements, that would have been held for the SDCC in the past, were released in Chicago. I know Marvel's been pulling away from SDCC for years, but has the competition with Hollywood finally started to push the game to another table?
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