I’ve long believed that Parks and Recreation‘s Ron Swanson is the best sitcom character to hit TV screens since the 1980s*. This Tumblr answers the essential question: What if you combined Ron Swanson with that other great libertarian icon, Rorschach from Watchmen? The resulting blog is magical. * Speaking of which, this interview with Parks […]
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Hunger Games Comix
Check out this collection of terrific Hunger Games Comics by cartoonist Noelle Stevenson, for example… Experience more of Noelle’s Ginger Haze tumblr here.
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Dispatches from From the Emerald City Comicon: Day Three, and Cosplay Gallery
The Sunday of any con is a descending tail of activity. People gradually percolate out of the proceedings, try to beat traffic, and things usually wrap up in the late afternoon or early evening. I spent Sunday mostly just wandering about and indulging in my fanboy proclivities on the show floor and going to a […]
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Delilah Dirk & the Turkish Lieutenant
Hello and welcome to the 2nd edition of the Blogtown Webcomics Primer (better title pending). After reviewing your… well, let’s call it “creative criticism” on the last one, I have determined that you are an audience who likes a bit more action in your adventure. A little swash in your buckle. Some derring in your […]
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Dispatches from From the Emerald City Comicon: Day Two
The Saturday of any convention is pretty much the main course. On Friday, people have jobs, people are in traffic, people are late. On Saturday, though, everyone’s there. The second day of the Emerald City Comicon was a sizable tide of humanity. When I got to the Washinton State Convention Center, a man in a […]
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Dispatches from From the Emerald City Comicon: Day One
Unlike that thing in San Diego, the Emerald City Comicon is actually about, you know, comics. You know- sequential art and all that. The show is not about movie or TV studios promoting their next giant project or making huge, Hollywood-level announcements. It’s more of a giant nerd party that actually cares about the book, […]
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UNH, C’MON, AVENGERS ASSEMBLE
As Chris Sims at ComicsAlliance correctly notes, “Hasbro has produced one of the single greatest toy commercials of all time. There are martial arts. There is movie footage. There is rap music.” I have watched this four times already. Pew, pew, UNH, C’MON
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And Now an Iron Man Made Out of Bloody Urine
Good afternoon! Here is Iron Man! He is made out of bloody urine. The proud creator of “Blood Urine Man,” a grad student in Taiwan named Wong Tin Cheung, won $13,500 in an art contest with this work, courtesy of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts! REMINDER: FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
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Today in Stupid Crap I Cannot Believe People Are Upset About
Okay, granted: I have a fair number of utterly irrelevant things I get all worked-the-fuck-up over that no one else gives a shit about. (I had not one but several heated conversations last night about whether or not the battleground in The Hunger Games is, in fact, just a big holodeck.) But there are some […]
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A Few Thoughts Re: Saga
A long-awaited new comic from Y: The Last Man, Runaways, and Ex Machina writer Brian K. Vaughan launched yesterday: Saga‘s first issue weighs in at 44 pages, costs $2.99, and, thanks to Vaughan’s sharp writing and phenomenal art by Fiona Staples, sets the stage for what looks to be a pretty extraordinary series. I’m more […]
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Alan Moore Has Something to Say
So. About those Watchmen prequels. I have a huge respect for my audience. On the occasions when I meet them, they seem, I like to think, to be intelligent and scrupulous people. If people do want to go out and buy these Watchmen prequels, they would be doing me an enormous favor if they would […]