Here’s a pleasant surprise: Fogtown, an August shipping book in the “Vertigo Crime” line, by gay author Andersen Gabrych and gay artist Brad Rader, about a gay detective in 1953 San Francisco. I’ve liked Gabrych’s past comics work and Rader has an appealing art style. This is definitely going to be one to keep an eye out for.
sigh…
And there went my positive feelings for DC for the month.
DAMMIT JAPAN!
Oh, wait, never mind, I thought that was one of those creepy, over-sexualized plastic statues of an anime heroine. Turns out it’s just garden-variety American fanboy pandering.
Speaking of pandering…
I can’t help but think it’s a little bit fantastic that we’re getting another “Hercules in the future” mini. I wonder if he’ll slip Galactus roofies again?
On the other hand, it’s rather tragic that Marvel is doing a sequel to the “gay Rawhide Kid” mini from a few years back that went over like a lead balloon and ramped up the culture warriors so much that Marvel even briefly introduced a “no gay characters” policy for fear of offending Fox News commentators. Tragic because the original series was terrible and consisted of page after page of “lol fags” jokes, and with the same writer behind this new series, well…
Dynamite Entertainment is putting out a prequel to the Prince of Persia film starring Jake Gyllenhaal titled “Before the Sandstorm.”
The actual cover is going to be by Todd McFarlane, but given the choice between putting up a McFarlane picture and a picture of a sopping wet Jake Gyllenhaal, the choice of which to post is easy.
If I had the money, I probably would collect the 1/6 scale military style figures. Just for the poseability and, um, photo opportunities. But the good ones are usually $100 plus, which means I’m limited in my opportunities to buy them at an affordable price. So a $110 figure of Harry Hamlin as Perseus is right out of my budget.
Dammit.
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Man… all that Batgirl statue is missing is a run in her stockings.
Your mention of 1/6 scale “photo opportunities” reminded me of this:
http://www.ultrasparky.org/poseablethumbs/
If Image adopted your McFarlane/Gyllenhall policy I might start buying Spawn.
Wait wait wait…
…we’re getting more Space Hercules?
Well, my day’s made.
So, what is that… Wonder Sapphire? Star Amazon? I mean, that’s a Wonder Woman action figure turned into a Star Sapphire, right? Or did that happen recently? I’m so burnt out on Gigantic Crossover Events (one right after the other, with no end in sight) that it’s all I can do to extract a book or two I like — and this isn’t just snark for the sake of it, I love comics and many of these chars.
I will say, that yes, The Rawhide Kid was in its way dreadful, I thought it was an interesting experiment in something so rarely done it’s hard to even recognize it when attempted: The Nelly Heroic Figure.
Ah well, I keep my comic love sated via blogs like this, so thank you for all your postings.