Fantagraphics to reprint entire 50 year run of Peanuts.
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Tom Scola - Sep 29, 2003 2:14:01 am PDT #1075 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
DavidS - Sep 29, 2003 10:23:49 am PDT #1076 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Fantagraphics to reprint entire 50 year run of Peanuts.Excellent. I've been hoping they would, because Schulz needs to have his reputation rescued from his long slide through mediocrity. Peanuts was one of the all-time great (and radical) strips for it's first 10-15 years.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2003 10:48:29 am PDT #1077 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Not sure if I'd watch it every week as the heroes, except for Raven (every superhero team should have it's own Wednesday Addams)...
Teen Titans got me back into reading DC Comics in the 80s, largely because of how mysterious and intriguing the Raven character was. I recall loving it when the Brotherhood of Evil chased her all over New York, caused her to hallucinate about her inner fears, and then found out much to their dismay that her Daddy issues included him waking up and manifesting through her.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2003 10:54:22 am PDT #1078 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Teen Titans rocked, in the Perez days -- Tara/Geoforce was great, and also Cyborg.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2003 11:21:55 am PDT #1079 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I also have more appreciation for the soap-operatic musical beds subplots now that I've had years of Dawson's Creek cast rumors to open my eyes about such things. Not quite so unbelievable as I once thought them to be.
victor infante - Sep 29, 2003 12:32:38 pm PDT #1080 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Teen Titans rocked, in the Perez days -- Tara/Geoforce was great, and also Cyborg.
I've seen precisely half an episode of the TT cartoon, and I gotta admit, I wasn't into it. Will give it another try sooner or later, I'm sure.
I loved the Titans in the Wolfman/Perez days. One of the best runs on a super-hero comic ever. The recent run, while it had its moments, kind of sucked. Everytime I read it, I kept thinking about the old book's lead in: "They are the best there are," how these kids were supposed to be hot shit because they were trained by the likes of Batman, the Flash, et al. The recent version made them kind of inept, and it REALLY grated.
The version just launched, with the new Robin, the new Wondergirl, Superboy and Impulse, along with Cyborg acting a lot like Cyborg, Starfire, Changeling (I refuse to call him Beast Boy) and, soon, Raven, has been very promising. Hoping to goodness it doesn't start sucking.
Tom Scola - Sep 29, 2003 3:17:41 pm PDT #1081 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Wolfman actually scripted one of the cartoon episodes, the one with Aqualad.
victor infante - Sep 29, 2003 3:49:07 pm PDT #1082 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Wolfman actually scripted one of the cartoon episodes, the one with Aqualad.
Hmm. Wolfman writing Aqualad. The Mad Mod.
I evidently saw the one crap episode. The one where some robot guy wanted to turn Cyborg into a more-robot type, and then at the end he realized what he was missing being human, and there was hugs and everyone was friends, or something like that.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 29, 2003 6:02:00 pm PDT #1083 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I evidently saw the one crap episode.
Well, I enjoyed all the ancillary stuff in the Mad Mod episode, but I was cheering every time Robin got smacked down. He totally annoyed the fuck out of me - he's O.D.ing on the "I'm gonna get you" testosterone a little on the young side (hormones, I guess).
Jeff Mejia - Sep 29, 2003 6:35:29 pm PDT #1084 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
The version just launched, with the new Robin, the new Wondergirl, Superboy and Impulse, along with Cyborg acting a lot like Cyborg, Starfire, Changeling (I refuse to call him Beast Boy) and, soon, Raven, has been very promising. Hoping to goodness it doesn't start sucking.
Yes to this. I think the series has rocked out of the gate. Geoff Johns has already said more about the current Robin (Tim Drake) with one line than Jon Lewis has said in his 18+ issues that he has had the Robin comic.
So, did anybody else pick up last week's Buffy comic. At least they are ending the series on a relatively (for the comic) strong note. The book really suffers from the lacksadaisical pencils of Pascoe, though. The painted panels by Bruce Horton look great, but when you get to the regular panels, it's just bleah.