I applaud DC bringing Doc Savage back, if only because comics needs more male characters that habitually run around in easily torn clothing.
That being said, I still don’t see why DC thinks there’s demand for an ongoing series about a character created to parody Cable…
This image is from a comic based on a novel by a man who really fucking hates gay people:
Just sayin’…
And Marvel subtly reminds us that their target audience is het males aged 8-18. Mentally, if not physically, anyway:
REMINDER: the above image is now something published by Disney.
Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds or no, is easily in my top six of “most hated” characters. I think Gambit just barely beats him out to make the premier list. And I think three ongoing Deadpool titles is the surest sign available of the return of bad management practices to the company.
I’ll probably pick that up, for the obvious reason.
So, this is in the ad for yet another new super-hero book by Warren Ellis from Avatar:
You know, if someone were to invent a time machine, for the sole purpose of traveling back and preventing the BBC from giving the go-ahead to Monty Python’s Flying Circus, I’d be hard pressed to say that global culture as a whole would be hurt.
Tim Fish has a new gay romance comic coming out, Trust/Truth, about a relationship on the rocks and a custody fight over a dog. All of Fish’s books have been worth getting, and I doubt that this will be any exception. Plus, doggies.
Also, noted homophobe Trace Adkins has a comic based on his likeness coming out from 12-Gauge Comics, called Luke McBain. So, you know, that’s something to consider if you thought about ordering it.
Vanguard Productions has a book by Irwin Hasen called Loverboy, about the amorous adventures of a short man. Hasen, of course, created Wildcat.
So you’re all obligated to buy it.
Just a reminder:
Nerds ruin everything.
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have you actually read Skydoll? it’s fucking compelling. I *wish* disney would do an adult Toon Disney block–there’s a lot of Tailspin in the art style.
I’m totally on the same page with Monty Python. Nerds really do ruin everything.
oh thank gawd it’s not just me after all — Deadpool, Gambit, Cable, Bishop … I hate all the characters of that era and their “what th f— are their powers??” names
Hey, now that the Mouse owns Marvel, we can start the Orson Scott Card protests!
Why did they put Doc Savage in pleated front pants? Everyone knows pleated front pants make you look bloated!
I’d rather see the time machine used to remove Avatar Press. And whoever would sponsor Rich Johnson in their place.
Jed: With the internet, isn’t there enough adult style Disney toons already?
Glimpsing at the artwork and color in that Skydoll thing (aside from all the urgh! centered around “Shiny quirky mega-T&A neo-hentai cuties!” – but from what I gather it’s must be some trite metacommentary on plasticity, and another shitty attempt at a commentary on “women as agencyless sexual fetish objects” by actively making them into lifeless sexual robotic objects blabla etc), it seemed quite fluid, well expressive, attending to minimal design requirements, sort of pretty to look at and more from a animation tradition of big expressive presentation and differentiated silhouettes etc (a bit better than the usual stuff in comics, but that’s not saying much – In other words, it looks like something from a Heavy Metal Comics. And you know you’re in a bad place when that becomes anywhere near an “improvement” – miles deep in a sea of nerd wank).
So yeah, it’s not 8-18. Heavy Metal was pretty much for 13 yo. Current comics’ mindspace is at a lower age still, not ready yet to fully accept (and go full throttle already – so we can all purge it and move on – that) it’s already a stinky (pre)adolescent unresolved mashup abyss of violence and wank.
Say, Dorian, have you been enjoying Morrison’s Batman & Robin? You’ve been recommending less stuff lately.
Monty Python, too? You really do hate everything, don’t you, Dorian? That’s why we love you (?) I suppose.
So Princess Leia is melting into a pile of melted tar? Okay.
Why does that poor woman have two ostrich eggs strapped to her chest? It can’t be very comfortable.
Alan–Yes, Morrison’s Batman and Robin is, as the kids say, the shiz-nit.
I’m not terribly interested in talking about contemporary comics these days, because it only seems to invite dumbassery in comments sections, and I’ve got no patience for that. I mean, have you seen the stuff that Sims has to put up with?
I can be persuaded to say some stuff about some things at some point, if there are specific books people are curious about. I was considering doing a “this week’s books” rundown if I find the time.
>>>I mean, have you seen the stuff that Sims has to put up with?
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… yes.
Yes, I have.
(gazes window, traumatized)
I’m in the dark — what’s the comic that takes place in a boy’s bathroom?
The Ender’s Game adaptation, I believe.
There’s some… interesting material in it that comes off weirder when you factor in OSC’s issues with gays.
ah… Thanks, Evan.
For you, Irwin Hasen is the creator of Wildcat. For me, he is the creator of the god-awful Dondi, and that rather disinclines me to get any new work of his.
It actually occurs to me that any character created to parody or satirize the “dark and edgy” movement will inevitably become part of that movement.
Punisher was a villain at first, now he’s a cool anti-hero. Lobo was a parody of Wolverine, now he’s taken seriously (by some.) Now Magog. It’s like we repeatedly miss the point.
FWIW I’ve grown weary of Monty Python because of the endless, pointless, unfunny parroting of their lines by certain types of people old enough to know better.
See, I can understand that Python fans get annoying, but that doesn’t make the actual work any less outstanding. I mean, last year after I read the Gospels for the first time, I watched Passion of the Christ to see how it was interpreted, followed by Last Temptation; and when I ended that week with Life of Brian… let’s just say it was exactly what was needed.
Evan:
Missing the point seems to be something nerds do exceedingly well. Matter of fact, it seems to be the only thing they do well, since they can’t understand any points made by the actual authors and just try to fit everything into their preconceived notions of how things should work.
I adore Monty Python, so I’m biased, but it was the endless, pointless, unfunny parroting of the Matrix that ruined the whole franchise for me, thanks to obsessive nerds I can’t watch any of it anymore. They really do ruin everything.
I remember when Deadpool was a relatively obscure character who starred in a funny comic written by Joe Kelly. I think a lot of people still have affection for him based on that. I totally agree with you on every point but the “NERDS!!! THEY RUIN EVERYTHING!” humour is kind of wearing thin (for me) right now. The jokes write themselves and I could make quite a nice bit of pocket change betting on whether or not there will be a joke like that when I come to check your site. I get it, weird people with messed up priorities are weird and have messed up priorities.
Also Bah is completely correct. If you let creeps ruin something for you, they’ve won. Don’t let them win. There are enough good comic books (even superhero comics!!!!!!) that it’s easy to just ignore, ignore, ignore.
Lugh–Please, feel free to read another blog if you don’t like the way I write mine. Might I recommend you now go tell Chris Sims why he’s wrong to like/dislike particular comics?
If I came off as trying to tell you how to write your blog – I’m sorry. I was just voicing a complaint about one aspect of a website that I otherwise totally enjoy. In other words, it’s MY problem, not yours.
Also about the whole Sims thing… If I was going to kill myself I think I would do it in a painless manner! Besides, telling him that would be disagreeing with myself.