Sep/090
My Run-In with Paul Cornell (Apologies Included)
Hey, hey, everybody. So Fencon has come and gone, and it was a fantastic time. If you live in the D/FW area and are a science fiction / fantasy fan and aren’t checking out Fencon when it rolls around you’re missing out. That’s all I’m saying.
There was a lot of great stuff at Fencon this year, and I’ll get to it in some later entry. Right now, I’m pretty damn tired, and I’m about to keel over. But there was something at the very end that I thought is worth talking about.
Sep/090
The Last 7 Superheroes I Want to See as Movies
So I asked my friends and neighbors in the Twitterverse to give me a topic to blog about because I’m pretty lazy and at this point, I sometimes feel like I’m repeating myself. At least if I do it with a suggested topic, I can pretend like it’s semi-worthwhile and not an exercise in self-indulgence.
I had a couple of good suggestions. My favorite was “Grandma Takes Rainbow Kitty to the Dentist”, but that is far too complex a subject for me to just write a spur of the moment blog about.
Sep/090
Fixing Comics (some friendly suggestions)
Hi-dee-ho, superfriends.
Here’s a list of things I’d like to throw out there to the powers-that-be in the comic book publishing world. It’s a list of challenges. Does anyone care what this humble novelologist has to say about the comic book world? Probably not. But it’s something I had on my mind and just thought I’d throw it out there. Consider it a comic book fan’s manifesto. Or should I say former fan? Either way, let’s get to it.
BRING BACK SOME GOOD GUYS:
Aug/092
Deadpool, A Modest Proposal
Y’know what I’d like? A Deadpool movie. I’d really, really like that.
One of the things that I feel modern comics are missing is a new character to step up. We haven’t seen that in a while. Where is the next Spider-Man or Wolverine, Batman or Superman?
I don’t think a great new character has been introduced in a long, long time. Plenty of characters have been added to the world of comics, but most of those lack that timeless quality to extend their reign. Spawn may have been big in the 90’s, but that’s kind of his problem. He’s too 90’s. Spawn is to the 90’s as The Hypno-Hustler is to the 70’s. Yes, I said it. Who says I shy away from controversy?
Aug/090
DC’s Wednesday Comics (a partial review)
Recently, DC launched an interesting experiment called WEDNESDAY COMICS. The idea is a retro tribute to those old Sunday adventure strips of yore. So once a week we’re treated to 15 one-page strips of various DC characters. Issue #4 came out this week, and it’s pretty good. While I won’t have a complete review until all 12 issues are released, I thought I’d throw out some thoughts on each of the strips. Some are great. Some are weak. And it might be surprising to discover which is which.
Jul/091
Fan Service
As a long time, on again, off again comic book fan, it’s no secret that I’ve had my ups and downs with the storytelling medium I used to consider my favorite. Comic books are going through a crisis, and it’s one from which they may never escape. Like a black hole of sucking doom, this could lead to their end.
