I don't know. It's a spin-off from the "Countdown to Identity Crisis" comic that came out. . . was that last month?
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Crap. I don't think I told Cute!Comics Guy to pull OMAC for me. I hope it isn't sold out.
Nice. I *did* tell Cute!Comics Guy to pull OMAC for me. Now to read it.
He saw my car as I pulled up, and asked if it was an Echo. Turns out he drives the exact same car, same year, in red.
Yes. I definitely have a crush.
Cover story from this week's Boston Phoenix: [link]
Interesting article. You don't see the mainstream press dealing with the superhero genre much unless there's a stunt death, or the comic is "radically reinventing the genre."
But the side effect of metacomics’ rise is that they’ve become the province of "super-readers," those who are so conversant in the minutiae of genre conventions and comics lore that it’s possible to make allusions to those minutiae the whole point of a story.
::steals a glance at Ple..::
Well, it's by Douglas Wolk, who, incidentally, is all over Jandek On Corwood.
Ooooh! New Astro City series this summer!
I haven't posted outside of the music thread in forever but I just had to make sure all the Y, Ex Machina, Runaways fans were aware of Brian Vaughan's great blog. I found it through this announcement that Michael Chabon asked him to contribute to The Escapist anthology. I stopped reading the Escapist after the first volume, but I will have to pick it back up now.
Also? Vaughan thinks that Spike is dreamy. (Scroll down until you see the Peroxided One's pic.)
Also any Powers fans read the Bendis/Quesada Q and A in back of issue 10? Quesada's telling of the kismet that resulted in Joss writing Astounishing is a good story and falls in the middle of the VERY long interview.
Quick tech question -- what would mac users recommend as the best CBZ reader?
ita, FFView, by FeedFace. I've tried Jomic on my Mac, but FFView works MUCH better.
EDIT: That link seems to be to ver. 0.8.5, which sounds buggy. I'm running 0.8.2 on my Mac (which is OS 10.3.9) with no problems at all. If 0.8.5 is buggy for you, try to find 0.8.2, or I can yousendit to you.
Edit again: and here it is -- FFView 0.8.2, should you need it.