February 14th, 2012 at 12:14AM
Yer a tasty piece of sweets. An’ I’m gonna have a slice! Ahhhh. Yer so warm inside, girly. An’ aren’t you the juicy one… —

Actual dialogue from Batwoman #4, said from a villain to a teenage sidekick as he beats the bone marrow out of her. On each page, in inset panels, are shots of the sidekick’s mentor orgasming as her girlfriend (or date? I don’t know, I don’t care) goes down on her.

You can juxtapose sex and violence to great effect, whether in an artistic or exploitative way.

This isn’t great effect.

I hate my hobby.
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February 11th, 2012 at 6:26PM
Several voices have been raised on Kirby’s behalf. Many more voices, much quieter, have shown that a great deal of creative ingenuity is being devoted to the invention of excuses for professional cowardice. — Frank Miller, writing about the fight for Jack Kirby’s original art.  A petition went to 200 creators demanding the original art be returned— 50 people didn’t sign.  1 in 4 comic creators wouldn’t stand up for Jack Kirby.  In this transcript of a radio interview with Miller, Kirby, Gerber, and Evanier, Miller is asked about a cocktail party of professionals where the room went silent at the mention of Kirby’s name: “It happened many times when the subject came up.  I hope that it’s a temporary effect; I hope it’s just a simple stroke of fear running through things.”  Also: “We’re talking about an industry that until maybe ten years ago, a contract could not be negotiated in the office of the publisher of a major comic book company, because the writer showed up with his attorney. The publisher just got up and walked out. This is a true story; I know the writer, I know the attorney, and I know the publisher. We’re talking about the Dark Ages here.”  See also, Jack Kirby talking about the same kind of checks used against Friedrich in the summary judgment opinion denying him his claims:  ”they printed that on the back of every check the artist ever got. If you didn’t sign that check, you didn’t get paid.“  (via twiststreet)

(via supervillain)
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February 3rd, 2012 at 10:01AM

The Wire: Chicken McNuggets (by goodcookiedrift)

this is basically how the comics industry works

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February 1st, 2012 at 3:03PM
Some will point to Alan Moore’s lack of “approval” or involvement as a bad thing, but that’s one of the best parts in my eyes. It’s good to see new creators taking on these characters. it’s good to have fresh voices reaching into these characters. If a character is compelling, there should always be more stories to tell. Moore’s assessment that DC is relying on his “ideas from 25 years ago” is ludicrous and insulting to the talented people working on these books. He didn’t write prequels, they’re writing them. It’s like saying all of his use of public domain characters is him relying on other peoples’ ideas from 100 years ago: he can’t have it both ways. —

Newsarama.com : Op/Ed: BEFORE WATCHMEN is a Great Move!
sick one million ducks, comics.

what is wrong with these people?
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January 29th, 2012 at 11:14AM
flavorcountry: I know you other Grant Morrison fans are out there somewhere! Where are you This is good advice.

flavorcountry:

I know you other Grant Morrison fans are out there somewhere! Where are you

This is good advice.

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January 29th, 2012 at 10:48AM
If I had it all to do over again, I’d cut off my hands. — Wally Wood.  Comics: An industry with a long history of intellectual property theft, self-censorship, fly-by-night Hollywood scam publishing swindles, endless holofoiled death-bagged gimmickery, bait-and-switch crossover thieving, mindless speculator madness, suicides, and betrayals, funded by meth-related money-laundering schemes, that now wants to spend all day every day lecturing its audience for not living up to the very, very high moral standards of the comic book industry.  Yikes.    
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January 27th, 2012 at 10:00AM
Derek: please stop! If you have some moral qualm with theft, there’s the public library, webcomics, web-video people who want no more “support” than your eyeballs. You’re under no duty to “support comics”– comics exist to amuse you, not for you to help them build pyramids. It’s a businessman’s job (which they’re paid to do) to figure out how to make money from a receptive audience, not your job to figure out how to be HELPING them remove money from your wallet. Whoever you think you’re supporting– they’re not going to pick you up from the airport. They’re strangers who only want your money– they’re not putting out variant covers as a favor to you. Their happiness is not more important than yours– you’re a delicate flower! (Like, spiritually speaking?). Anyways, please, please stop. —

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realest thing ever wrote
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November 28th, 2011 at 11:12AM
(via Dredd Reckoning: Judge Death: The Life and Death Of…) I had some great fun writing about the Judge Dredd character Judge Death with Douglas Wolk.

(via Dredd Reckoning: Judge Death: The Life and Death Of…)
I had some great fun writing about the Judge Dredd character Judge Death with Douglas Wolk.

Source: dreddreviews.blogspot.com #words#comics
July 29th, 2011 at 6:10PM
Fourth, this case should never have been filed. It’s pathetic that it had to come to this. Marvel should have used a decade’s worth of mega-cash to settle honorably with the Kirby family a long, long time ago, using their current relationship with Stan Lee — which itself had to be haggled out in court — as a model. Marvel doesn’t even match its closest rival’s efforts in terms of compensating creators for use of their characters in movies, and at some point, no matter how well they treat their current crop of creators, no matter how many entertaining comics they make, no matter how many weekends are won by their movies, this easily correctable series of shitty policies should matter to people. — The Comics Reporter
spurgeon on the kirby/marvel lawsuit
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July 27th, 2011 at 10:31AM
Wolfman, on the panel “Marvel Comics: The Method and the Madness” at the 1974 New York Comic Art Convention, told the audience that when he first began working for DC, he received DC’s first writing credit on their mystery magazines. In those days Gerry Conway wrote pages between the actual stories which had the book’s hosts tell you what was coming up. In one, knowing Marv wrote the next story, Conway wrote that the following story was told to him by a “wandering Wolfman.” The comics code, which did not permit the mention of werewolves or wolfmen, demanded it be removed. DC informed the code authority that the Wolfman in question was Marv’s real name, so the code insisted that he be given a credit to show the Wolfman in question was a real person and not a monster. Once Wolfman was given a credit, the other writers demanded them too. Shortly, credits were given to all writers and artists. — Marv Wolfman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
comics is seriously the dumbest industry sometimes
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July 25th, 2011 at 6:24PM
Commercial comics can be enough of a snakepit even in relatively benign times. But bringing back a process both demeaning and creatively inferior, and just fucking lying to people about it? I don’t like what that says about the next cycle in the field. I guess the Nineties really are coming back. — Warren Ellis » Sneaker Pimps
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July 20th, 2011 at 3:16AM
I wouldn’t want to comment on that because it was something I wasn’t around for. I can’t tell why they decided to do what they did. Obviously Bob Kane came in at the same age and got a very different deal and profited hugely from Batman’s success. So who knows? They were boys of the same age, but maybe some of them were more keen to sell the rights than others. It all just takes a different business head. —

Grant Morrison, pretending its some mystery how Siegel & Shuster got into a bad contract in order to explain his (a) disinterest in the lawsuits currently ongoing, and (b) participation in a project that may have been designed to reduce Superman’s corporate parents having to pay money to Siegel & Shuster’s heirs.  (Which project I expect will be of his usual high quality and which I’m totally on board with reading— Morrison still being Morrison, and everyone else still being, you know, not nearly as good).  Conventional wisdom is that Bob Kane had a family member who had experience with contracts in some capacity— to my recollection, it’s never exactly been presented as some great unsolved mystery, and I haven’t just completed writing a goddamn book on the subject.

I guess I was just lucky to have grown up in a time when the people who made comics sought out personal brands for themselves other than “company stooge.” That bit of branding wasn’t on the job description back then, but it was a different time— see, e.g., Sheila E.  But oh well, time marches on, and fuck you for not being nice enough, Alan Moore, wherever you are…

(via twiststreet)
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July 11th, 2011 at 12:33PM

(via New ‘The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn’ Trailer Shows Off its CGI Cast [Video] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews)

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July 11th, 2011 at 11:00AM
Casey: I really don’t see these characters as “new creations” as much as they’re radical updates and new takes on pre-existing characters. Sorry to say this, but Dragotta and I don’t gain much by creating all-new characters that we’re not going to own and control, but coming up with a new Miss America for the 21st Century is more in line with how creators should approach the Marvel Universe. That kind of approach is definitely important for these long-running superhero continuities. — Casey & Dragotta Hunger for “Vengeance” - Comic Book Resources
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July 10th, 2011 at 1:42PM
king city page 188 (by fourel) i bought another page of original art, this time from brandon graham’s King City.

king city page 188 (by fourel)
i bought another page of original art, this time from brandon graham’s King City.

Source: Flickr / fourel #art#brandon graham#comics