“That’s what being a hero is all about, it’s that sometimes, you gotta take out a baby”: That’s Tucker Stone trying to look on the positive side of things in his latest Advanced Common Sense, which means Donna Troy taking out a zombie baby is actually an admirable thing, and Justice League: Cry For Justice helps teach kids about their bodies…? Give it a watch, but be warned, it may not be safe for work, depending on what you see when you see Stone’s defense of Gotham City Sirens.
“There is going to be an EXTREMELY COOL movie based on this coming out next year, and when it comes out if you’ve read this back in 2009 it will make you EXTREMELY COOL also”: Colin Panetta tries out a strategy for making people want to try reading Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series in this piece.
“Be prepared for a lecture on how the series’ mythopoeic pantheism informs its assertion of a sort of mimetic eschatalogical narrative which defies conventional exegeses. Also: Lacunae!”: Is Glen Weldon being contrary, or dumb or is this the way one reacts to a classic work if one comes to it too late? I often wonder what it would be like coming to The Sandman late. Like, really late—like, after it stopped appearing as a serial comic book, and could be experienced for the first time in trade late. (The special was my first issue, and I started reading it monthly somewhere during Fables and Reflections). NPR’s Weldon contends there is an extremely high bar of entry between new readers and The Sandman, apparently because J’onn J’onnz, Mister Miracle and Dr. Destiny are in the first volume. I’m not sure I agree at all, in the same way that you don’t need to know all that much about Calliope or Bast to understand their appearances, a thorough knowledge of Element Girl probably isn’t necessary to understand hers. But then, I think Weldon over-thinks Sandman: He takes three paragraphs to explain the premise, which can be summed up even more directly as “The story of story in the 20th century.”
Martin Eden is certainly doing something right: I’ve seen more stories about his Spandex in my Google News feed the last few days than on just about any other topic. Here’s an interview in Wired.
