From the ashes of yesterday’s announcement that The Fourth Rail was closing down, a new Austin-based review site rises — Comic Pants:
Longtime online critics Randy Lander (The Fourth Rail) and Dave Farabee (Ain’t It Cool News) have joined with two other Austin-based reviewers to launch Comic Pants (www.comicpants.com), a brand new comic book review and commentary blog.
Joining Lander and Farabee in this endeavor are Nick Budd and David Martindale. Martindale also serves as lead designer and technician for the new site. All four writers work at Dragon’s Lair Comics in Round Rock, Texas.
Comic Pants is anchored by “Wednesday Number Ones”, a weekly feature updating every Wednesday morning that will provide commentary on every first issue coming to comic shops that day. In addition, the site will feature regularly updated reviews from all four contributors, Lander’s popular Previews forecast column “Down the Line” and more.
Comic Pants is a serious review site with a sense of humor, as indicated by the unusual name, which was suggested by Dave Farabee during a brainstorming session.
“We wanted something that would stick in peoples’ minds,” said Lander. “And hey, you’ll remember Comic Pants, right?”
In addition to reviews and other text-based content, the Comic Pants team expects to begin providing podcasts as of mid-to-late September.
August 29th, 2006 at 6:48 am
Will they be worn outside the trousers like all good superheroes?
August 29th, 2006 at 6:59 am
I miss Quail Man.
August 29th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Jeez, ever since the Ninth Art shut down, its all been down hill.
August 29th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Not bad.
August 29th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Actually, the Ninth Art’s conclusion was one of the factors that got me thinking about doing the same thing with 4R.
August 29th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Don’t worry — I’m not going anywhere. You can’t get rid of me that easily. . .