“Pattern emerging: Woods only dates women who sleep during the day. Trendy vampire angle?”: NPR recently interviewed Doonsebury cartoonist Gary Trudeau about his new book, “My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?”: The Tweets of Roland Hedley. You can read the story, or listen to it, here.
“Cameo!?“: I would have cast Stan Lee as Odin. He’s perfect for the role! They’re both older guys who talk kinda funny! And besides, the Stan Lee cameos are getting old…let’s give The Man a meaty role, just for a change of pace. (Note: This may be one of the many, many reasons why I’m a comics blogger and not a filmmaker).
“I wanted to integrate all of my cartooning knowledge, but I also wanted to forget some of it”: That’s Stephen DeStefano on some of the art that he drew inspiration from while working on his highly-anticipated-by-me graphic novel Lucky in Love. (Via Flog!)
But how did a snake make lemonade?!: Randall Christopher’s amusing little Top Shelf 2.0 strip asks a haunting question. Okay, maybe I’m the only one that will be haunted by it. But seriously, he’s a snake! He doesn’t have hands…!
People really, really wanted those plastic rings: ICv2.com has some initial numbers pertaining to how the Blackest Night tie-ins that were incentivized by the plastic rings did. I’ve been trying to think of other low-selling DC titles the publisher could try to incentivize with future plastic doodads. The best I can come up with are maybe Flash rings or Legion flight rings. It’s really too bad that Wonder Woman, Warlord, Jonah Hex and some of DC’s lower-selling heroes don’t wear rings…
If Marvel jumped off a bridge, would DC do it too?: The latter is apparently planning to adopt one of the former’s more annoying habits—arbitrarily changing the numbering of their comics arbitrarily for no real reason. At least in the case of Wonder Woman having its numbering de-re-rebooted, it at least seems like they did a better job on the math than Marvel sometimes does.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I’m guessing the change to #600 is due to DC’s upcoming 75th anniversary. Won’t Batman and Superman be at 700 by then?
I dunno, it seems logical to me. Business-wise, at least.
December 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
“But how did a snake make lemonade?!”
I think the real question is what the heck happened to the bird that was there? Did the snake eat him? Was this a guest panel by Rob Liefeld?
December 17th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Wonder Woman 600? So I guess the post card writing campaign worked? But Morrisson will be doing his own series next Simone’s next year possibly fosucing on a more sluttier version of Wondie? I heard he said “bondage” or some such nonsense.
On the general topic, Marvel is also ripping DC with the uber awful Necrosha ala Blackest Night for X-Men. And then “Captain America Reborn” name wise is a direct ripoff of “Batman Reborn” only difference is the original legacy character is returning while the latter is about replacement. And then “Search for Bruce Wayne” will spark “The Search for the Scarlet Witch?”. Sounds like a *NOVEL IDEA!*