“Now, thanks to Age of Illumination, an ambitious new project from a trio of St. Louis artists, the two elements will be united with a comic book about a mythical piece of bling”: Here’s a pretty big feature story about a new comic work from a couple of rappers and artists from St. Louis.
“Now, by no means am I saying President Obama is Captain Planet, or even a superhero, for that matter”: Writer Nate Rott weighs in on the fake OMG The President Wants To Say Platitudes About School To School Children! controversy, and he does so after strolling through a pretty well-written, rather fond remembrance of the Captain Planet cartoon. There’s one hard to overlook logical fallacy in Rott’s piece however—he refers to Captain Planet as both “ass-kicking” and overwhelmingly awesome. These are lies.
“I was struck by the fact that such similar titles were being released at the same time, and I wondered how they’d fare and how they compare”: Don MacPherson compares and contrasts two Supermen-gone-bad series, DC’s The Mighty and Boom’s Irredeemable, in this post. (He likes ‘em both). I was struck by the piece because although I liked both of the main creators on Mighty, and that I knew the book had something to do with a superhero character, I had no idea it was also a Superman-gone-bad story. So I’m either pretty dense (I do make at least a fraction of my living paying attention to comics), or Boom did a much, much, much, much, much better job of marketing their story.
I bet Orange Lantern Larfleeze wants one of these: In the course of his regular reviews of new comics, Living Between Wednesdays contributor Jonathan links to a set of photos featuring a home-made, stuffed Orange Lantern Larfleeze, made by LBW reader Elise “for cuddling purposes.” Click the link, and feel avarice growing in your heart.
What Kevin Church Has Been Writing: I enjoyed Church’s succint, one-paragraph review of Mirage’s recent edition of TMNT Collected Book One, a big, fat phonebook collecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s first comic books featuring their signature co-creation. A prior edition of that book was the first “graphic novel” I ever bought or read, and those comics ended up playing an enormous role in why I love comics so much. I’m curous how I’d receive those issues if I read them for the first time now, after years of criticizing comics and becoming much, much more demanding of them then I was as a 14-year-old kid just discovering that grids of drawings full of people hitting one another with ninja weapons could be so awesome. So go read Church’s blog. (A good way to tell you might have a problem wasting words? When you’re trying to link to someone else’s post, and your explanation of the link ends up being about the same length as the post you’re linking to. I need help, I think).
“A repellent, juvenile product—lazy in design, ignorant in preparation, and blind to the response it would create”: Check out Tucker Stone vs. Justice League: Cry For Justice, the Internet’s least favorite comic book. Specifically, Stone deals with the relatively high number of gay folks killed in the series so far, for basically no reason (That’s no story reason and no real-world reason). Blogger Dorian Wright took writer James Robinson to task for the same thing earlier in the week.
