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Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
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Frankenbuddha - Apr 21, 2005 3:46:20 am PDT #7944 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
DavidS - Apr 21, 2005 7:45:36 am PDT #7945 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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..::
Hayden - Apr 21, 2005 8:25:51 am PDT #7946 of 10000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Well, it's by Douglas Wolk, who, incidentally, is all over Jandek On Corwood.
Gandalfe - Apr 21, 2005 8:27:49 am PDT #7947 of 10000
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Ooooh! New Astro City series this summer!
tina f. - Apr 21, 2005 12:18:01 pm PDT #7948 of 10000
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.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 4:45:38 pm PDT #7949 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Quick tech question -- what would mac users recommend as the best CBZ reader?
Steph L. - Apr 22, 2005 4:49:38 pm PDT #7950 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 4:55:39 pm PDT #7951 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Excellent. You got me just before I installed Jomic. Thanks!
Steph L. - Apr 22, 2005 4:57:14 pm PDT #7952 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Jomic is fine, and it might work well for you and prove me wrong. It ran just fine for me and then one day decided to act bratty. I have no idea what the issue was.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2005 4:32:40 am PDT #7953 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I flipped a little through Batman/Superman (or is it Superman/Batman) and was going to come here to ask about the apparent Babs in costume, but it's been a little bit explained in scans_daily. So my other continuity question is about Ultimate Secret. Given what's happening in Ultimates 2, why is Thor escorting the Fantastic Four? With so few titles, I'm kinda disappointed they don't have tighter reins on the timelines. Thor's been non grata for a while, hasn't he?