Shawn Starr / don’t need no hug
———————-Batman: Earth 1 ———————-
The point of the Earth One line of OGN’s is to capture the proverbial “new reader” that never seems to appear. My guess as to why, is that comics are by and large expensive and shitty. Fifty Shades of Grey is $10 and, although poorly written, will at least make your mother and sister cum; Batman: Earth One is $24 and will just make you feel empty inside. Batman has a strict no cum policy in place. AND HE IS THE LAW!
The only moment of emotion felt in Earth One is when Batman sweeps Alfred’s leg like Johnny Lawrence in Karate Kid and showed that cripple son of a bitch who’s the boss. Because in that moment Alfred (and you, my dear reader) know Bats is really ready for the mean streets of Gotham, because only Batman is so cold that he’d knock the prosthetic limb off of the only man who was ever there for him. He took lassie out behind the shed and put a .22 square between his eyes and became a man in that single moment, because that’s how you become a man, by killing the things you love. And Geoff Johns kills everything he loves. Because he is a man. And so is Batman.
—————–Batman #11——————–
The joke was there was no joke.
——————Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #6————–
No review, just this.
———————-Thickness #3 ———————-
You ever see anal beads shoved up a man’s urethra? If not email me, I got pics for you.
———————- Walking Dead #100——————-
This is going to be the highest selling comic of the year, maybe the decade, and it seems set out to prove to everyone that Marvel and DC do not have a monopoly on shitty comics.
It takes a cynical man to write the same comic he did 55 issues ago and think no one will pick up on it, and I guess in between screwing his co-creators out of royalties so he can buy more KFC grease to rub on himself, Kirkman got his cynicism down. Joey (Alusiolioe) posits that Kirkman has a random plot generator, i posit that he has a 3 sided dice with maim, kill, copy plot of -50 issues ago that he rolls each arc to determine the fate of his characters; and copy takes up 47 of the 52 sides of the die.
———————–Spider-Men #3————————-
The following is an excerpt from the pitch meeting for Spider-Men:
Marvel: “Come on baby, i thought we had something special here, it’ll be quick, you won’t feel a thing.”
Bendis: “I’m not sure… i don’t feel comfortable about it…”
Marvel: “Baby, don’t you love me?”
Bendis: “Yeah, but…”
Marvel: “Then you’ll let me…”
Bendis: “I don’t know…”
Marvel: “Baby…”
Bendis: “I just don’t know… will it hurt?”
Marvel: “Will it hurt?”
Bendis: “Yeah, will it?”
Marvel:"I would never do anything to hurt you. Never.”
Bendis:"Are you sure?"
Marvel:"Yeah"
Bendis: “Ok. I guess”
Marvel: "Are you sure?"
Bendis: "Yeah, I'm sure"
Marvel: “I love you”
Bendis: “I love you to”
*insertion*
—AN ASIDE: SASSY SAYs SUBSCRIBING Soooo ZoO SOUNDS SILLY______
The primary obstacle in comics, for the artist, is to convey motion. Unable to show every action, like animation, artists need to pick out the major beats and convince the reader the character got from one point to another. All in the span of a single gutter. It’s a difficult task, and the over-rendered nature of mainstream comics has made it all the more so. Readers expect splash pages and group shots, but inherent in this is a reduction in the spontaneity of the artists line work: when every line is pre-planned and pre-arranged; before ever being put to paper the image just sits there like a stiff corpse. There’s a reason why Kirby’s panels jump off the page, and it’s not because he’s laboring over each panel.
One of those silly philosophical questions you’re asked as a child is “if a tree falls in the woods, does it make any noise?”. The actual answer is no, since sound requires a human (or “living” entity) to register the motion taking place. It is because of this fact that sound in comics is impossible, but for it to even be a possibility it requires the artist to provide the semblance of motion on the page. Which far to many fail to do.
It is for this fact that the use of sound effects is so widespread in comics, they are used as a way to hedge one’s bets against the incompetence of so many artists and show explicitly whats occurring on panel. Where the purple prose of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing once secured this fact, writers and editors are now stripped down to this single tool. Which they use as subtlety as Snoop Dog’s drug advocacy. This in turn ruins the artwork of competent artists by adding foreign objects into the composition and making each element unbalanced.
There’s no real point to this , besides that you shouldn’t ruin Jerome Opena’s art with sound effects to reinforce the point that he did in fact illustrate someone getting stabbed, but maybe it’s OK on a Billy Tan page.
———————-MORE OF AN ASIDE: Pop that Pussy Patrol =====================
I went to the beach this week; this is what I learn’t:
Mandy is supposedly a bitch.
Some girl within earshot had sand in her crotch.
The proper ratio of rum to cola, in a beach setting, is one liter to one pint.
Sand crotch girl doesn’t remember where she got all her bruises from… she drinks a lot.
All I learn’t about beach life from 1950′s movies was a lie. There was in fact, no beach battles, nor was there a clam shack rock band playing music for all the beach babes to bop the night away at.
I am not a fun beach companion.
——————————-BloodStrike #1———————-
RUBBING THE BLOOD is no longer a provided service. I demand a refund.
——————————- LINK DUMP—————-
This was awesome
Additionally Sean Collins has taken up Tom Spurgeon’s call to talk about Love and Rockets during Comic Con pretty seriously. You can read some of his reviews and essays here . I do have to say that Jaime's Love and Rockets: New Stories #4 story was easily the greatest ending to a comic ever published. I read both Locas omnibuses over two amazing months last year and when you reach the final pages of Love Bunglers its truly a transcendent experience. Jaime Hernandez is one of the mediums greatest artists and produced one of the decade’s defining stories, his absence from both the Harveys and Eisner’s is a tragedy.
Chad Nevetts posts on Avengers vs X-men are so much more than that shitty comic ever deserved.
For all you’re League of Extraordinary Gentlemen news may I suggest The Mindless Ones and Comic Books ARE BURNING IN HELL
Tucker Stones 10 most anticipated comics of the year are pretty spot on. Although he did neglect those EC archives Fantagraphics are doing and the new Johnny Negron book from Picture Box Negron. But you know, opinions are opinions.
Mickey Zacchilli is selling original artwork from her Thickness strip. (http://mickeyz.org/)
The Chemical Box put up a new podcast, I attempted to record an episode with them earlier this year, but it was 7 hours long and unusable. This one is much better. (http://thechemicalbox.blogspot.com/)
MOCCA died and no one should give a fuck.
———– Digression #8———–
No Black Kiss review, just more Chaykin. See Black Kiss is old and therefore irrelevant. Cheer up
though, I’ve got seven inches of natural blonde on retainer for tonight.
= ==== Random Haunts, Random Digs, Random So Called Lives+++++++++++
The Scatology of Freud. – #PossibleBandNames
The Scatology of Freud – #MyNewComic
The Scatology of Freud – #MyNewS&MClub
The Scatology of Freud – #MyGraduateThesis
The Scatology of Freud – #NotFunnyAnymore
The Scatology of Freud – #GrandmasFavoriteBook
——–End————-
Well, I got fired from the column this week, see you never.
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