Holy crap! The other comic looks like an old EC horror title...
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.
Jon B. - Aug 18, 2007 8:12:39 pm PDT #845 of 5059
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 18, 2007 10:18:48 pm PDT #846 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Thank god that they caught it before the daughter started coloring on them.
Y'know what really bugs me is the report's continual use of the word 'sketch' to describe those comic book pages. Not appropriate, not by a bloody long shot.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 20, 2007 11:12:23 am PDT #847 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Astounishing #22 is finally coming out this week.
Glamcookie - Aug 20, 2007 11:31:17 am PDT #848 of 5059
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Y'know what really bugs me is the report's continual use of the word 'sketch' to describe those comic book pages. Not appropriate, not by a bloody long shot.
Ha! GF, who is an avid comic art collector, also took issue with the word 'sketch.' She made mouth noises every time they said it in the clip.
CaBil - Aug 21, 2007 3:16:44 am PDT #849 of 5059
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
For the Serenity RPG fans amongst us...
- Margaret Weis Productions has expanded its Serenity license, and will release three Serenity RPG products next year. Early in 2008, it will release a collection of short adventures; late spring brings Six-shooters and Spaceships, a ship and technology sourcebook; and the Big Damn Heroes Handbook is slated for next summer, probably as a GenCon release.
orkhan - Aug 21, 2007 6:20:54 pm PDT #850 of 5059
Hi all. This is my very first day and very first post, well on any message board anywhere actually. At the risk of just busting into anyone's conversation but can anyone explain how Anya's death so completely flew beneath our collective geek radar, while Tara's death had all of fandom wearing black armbands?
It just strikes me as, well, rather unfeminist that her rather point-blank death would elicit nothing more than a "she's such a swell gal" from her, albeit, ex-fiance. To say nothing of the rest of us.
P.M. Marc - Aug 21, 2007 7:01:54 pm PDT #851 of 5059
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Howdy, orkhan!
You'd probably get more response to your question here: sumi "Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!" May 29, 2007 6:36:27 pm PDT
(As this thread's where we talk about comics, Buffy and otherwise.)
JZ - Aug 22, 2007 4:57:59 am PDT #852 of 5059
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
But an excellent question, and one well worth chewing over, so please do head over there! (Um, yeah, I bolted over to BUFFYNANGLE and then got all sad to see no new posts there.)
Thorny gender issues in genre TV (and, as Plei has written about extensively and gorgeously, comics) are, unfortunately, a perennial. Even on marvelously feminist Buffy -- dead good guys (recurring, name-in-the-title-sequence or guesting-for-at-least-a-full-season), female division: Anya, Tara, Joyce, Jenny Calendar; dead good guys (R, NITS or GFALAFS), male division: Um. Angel, kinda, Spike, kinda.
beekaytee - Aug 22, 2007 6:09:25 am PDT #853 of 5059
Compassionately intolerant
I'd add Jonathan to that list of dead good guys. sorta.
SailAweigh - Aug 22, 2007 7:43:58 am PDT #854 of 5059
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Even though he was more the bumbling mundane with no intent to harm than a real "good" guy, I think I'd include Principal Flutie, too. After all, he was a fuzzy-headed liberal. Poor bugger.