Are we ever going to see a Peter Wheat collection of some kind?: I see these lovely looking Walt Kelly Peter Wheat comics linked to here and there on the comics blogosphere every few months or so. Here’s one at Whirled of Kelly, which I saw linked to at Comics Reporter the other day. I do hope some publisher somewhere is contemplating this.
Of all the comics in creation, I can honestly say Fletcher Hanks’ were the last ones I would have ever expected to be used as RPG source material: But what do I know?
“Hulk not understand second act! Hulk smash!!!”: Ward Sutton channels John Romita for a Turn Off The Dark review in the form of a comic story for The Village Voice. Within the panels you’ll learn what such Marvels as Spidey, The Green Goblin, Aunt May and The Hulk think of the it.
So what are the chances that the folks at DC designed the new, improbably revealing Star Sapphire costumes just in the hopes that cosplayers would wear them?: That was my first thought when I saw this picture. Okay, my second thought. Wait, I also wondered how it was staying on, so third thought.
The Mindless Ones vs. The Joker: Check out the first part of a three-part series examining different portrayals of The Joker, beginning with Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s The Killing Joke. It’s a great piece.
I sold my copy of Mouse Guard #1 to a Half Price Books for a dime when I got the trade collection: I really wish Rich Johnston wouldn’t do this; I thought the death of print Wizard would be the end of comics speculation, or at least comics media’s promotion of it as an important aspect of the medium, but I guess not. Of course, maybe I’m just bitter because if I would have kept my copy of Mouse Guard until today, I could trade it in for five tanks of gas…
March 11th, 2011 at 11:30 am
There’s nothing wrong with people collecting comics…I don’t understand why people get so upset about this. Collecting certainly doesn’t stop people from reading comics and vice versa. There is no binary relationship here. I read comics and don’t collect them. But I know people that do collect. It’s doesn’t hurt my enjoyment of the medium. Comics should have a big enough “tent” to offer a place for both readers and collectors.
March 12th, 2011 at 10:26 am
I see NOTHING wrong with collecting comics. How many things in life do we buy and get nothing back from it? There are plenty of second prints and trades for people who just want the story. And if I want to sell my comic for a profit and buy a trade so I still have the story, I’m okay with that. The industry will survive.
March 14th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Star Sapphire… WOW!