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I was looking for a picture of Rue and found this instead.
Don’t worry guy from twitter. I’m pretty sure a lot of other people hate you for it as well.
Some people disgust me.
Picture this from ComiXology March 28. Echo, the entire series, goes digital and available.
(via jonhoche)
Greg Palast is putting together a book on election games and the wealthy people who buy our elections and then get the money refunded by legislation.
I rarely use my Tumblr, and have no idea how to properly respond to stuff, so I’m going to post this here and point Gail to it via Twitter.
This example has been around the block a few times (Ron’s already heard it at least twice), but feels worth repeating.
When I was 13 or 14, and was a great fan of Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, whom DC had just removed from the title role), I remember distinctly going to a convention and, in that way that 13 year olds think is cool, confronting Ron Marz with a combination of sarcasm and continuity minutia that I thought would reduce him to a sobbing mass. Or something. I was a kid, right?
Anyway, Ron (if you know him you can probably guess where this is going) was the most pleasant, polite and understanding guy you could ever ask to meet, answered my questions to the best of his ability (not to my teenage satisfaction, of course! How could the ring have killed Kilowog if it was designed not to do mortal harm? HE HAD TO PAY!), and in the end his personality won me over. I never completely warmed to Kyle Rayner, but bought the comic for as long as Ron was aboard and have followed him since. As a young fan, to enter into a conversation with someone you perceive as a bad guy and have him turn out to be a real prince is worth the cost of con admission on its own.
I was recently reminded of the differences between a person’s online persona and their real-life personality during an online kerfuffle I was pointed to that involved Spider-man writer Dan Slott.
Now, I think very highly of Dan’s writing, and we have had some pleasant email exchanges in the past….
Just read someone describe The Big Bang Theory as “nerd blackface.”
I never thought anyone would be able to phrase my complaints so succinctly.
I agree so, so much.
fucking hate this show
You don’t know how awful SOME OF the fans of this show are until you work in a comic book store.
(via zdroberts)
Community’s episode “Advanced Gay” had a very simple, fast moving story about fathers and sons - particularly the relationship between Pierce Hawthorne, established homophobe, and his father, whom, it turns out, is all the more homophobic.
A conflict arises between the two that is not…
Watchmen 2?
So Bleeding Cool reports that there’s a Watchmen sequel in the offing.
Again.
This time, they’ve got big-name creators ostensibly on a DC wishlist attached to the story, including Darwyn Cooke, J. Michael Straczynski and others.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
After all, isn’t the New 52 all about being, well, new? Why would they want to revisit something that’s 25 years old and non-canonical?
Then again, who’s to say that DC wouldn’t give it a go? After a disappointing box-office draw, it seems as though the property itself has hit a wall and has made all the money it’s going to make for Warner, merchandising-wise. Breathing new life into the property has to be tempting…and maybe their idea of “new” just means not being beholden to ideas and sacred cows of the past. It’s not as though they’ve invented a lot of new lead characters recently; the whole New 52 crop is pretty much repurposing old properties in a more modern way.
Of course, if it were going to happen in Alan Moore’s lifetime (I remain skeptical that it will), now would be the time for DC to pull the trigger. It’s going to be widely regarded as a big, stupid risk with potential to either pay off big or implode completely. Their last big, stupid risk appears (at least for now) to be paying off rather spectacularly—which might make it easier to explain a high-profile flop to the top brass. Hell, even just proposing another big gamble so soon after the New 52 initiative might earn DiDio, Lee and Johns some respect from their corporate overlords.
Time will tell…
Please excuse the quality of this video. I had to downgrade it to MP4 in order to get it live quickly. My video guy at Insurgency USA is working on it now and I’ll replace this with the “good” one once it’s ready.
I talked to Erik a bit about his upcoming run on SUPREME, being resurrected as part of Image’s Extreme Comics line, as well as the future of SAVAGE DRAGON.
