Well it’s still no New York City…: The top five Connecticut locales featured in comic books.
Slick politician Obama carefully triangulates his position on an important issue, so as not to offend DC fans: “One child asked Mr. Obama whether he had a favorite superhero,” according to this Associated Press story about his visit to a second-grade charter school class, “Spider-Man and Batman, the president answered.”
Except for Bizarro, who hates him: “Everybody Loves Neil Gaiman”
So we have The Imperial Otters’ disinterest in Lost At Sea to thank for Scott Pilgrim?: The New York Times interviews O’Malley about the origins and future of Scott Pilgrim in this piece prompted by that NYC trade show going on this weekend.
While long offering an alternative to mainstream media in content, alternative papers unfrotuantely don’t enjoy an alternative economic model to spare them from the newspaperpocalypse: This Modern World Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow on the history of altweekly comics, which seem to be in the process of becoming history.
Comic strip Electro even dumber than 616 Electro: Comics Curmudgeon and perpetrator of Cartoon Violence Josh Fruhlinger continues to read the funnies so I don’t have to (Good thing too, because doing so only makes me deeply sad). This post covers a recent installment of the recently rebooted Spider-Man strip, and demonstrates how Electro and Spidey are just two sides of the same coin. The same, dumb coin.
