Stuff, nonsense, and still more stuff from a husband, dad, nerd, library padawan, and one-time would-be boy detective.
This Supergirl drawing by Faith Erin Hicks is might be my favorite Supergirl drawing in a long, long time. And I say that as someone who really likes Supergirl drawings. It’s flight, it’s hopeful, it’s refreshingly demure, modern and yet classic. The Supergirl drawing to beat all Supergirl drawings.
The Resident Evil guy is good, too, but I’ve never played an RE game and have no feeling one way or the other about him or any of the characters. I’ma prefer the Supergirl drawing.
And, apparently, typing out “Supergirl drawing.” Supergirl drawing, Supergirl drawing, Supergirl drawing.
Two scraps I found on my harddrive while digging around for other stuff. A Supergirl commission from DCAF a while back, and a doodle of Leon from Resident Evil 4 looking unimpressed by getting splattered with zombie blood. omg i love you Leon call meeeeee!
I’m going to try a little Super Best Friends Forever experiment here. Warner Bros. have put out some fantastic shorts during their DC Nation programming block on Cartoon Network. They are evolving one of those into a series - Teen Titans Go! It’s almost a continuation of the old Teen Titans animated series but either way, sounds like fun. I know a lot of folks were hoping SBFF would also move on to a half hour series as well but from what I’ve been hearing, it’s not likely and my question is - why?
Warner Bros. don’t believe a “girls” show has the same selling power as a “boys” show and I’d like to prove them wrong. I’d point them to the huge successes that were Lauren Faust’s Power Puff Girls (EDIT for clarity, I know Craig McCracken created PPG, Faust also worked on the franchise. Sorry if I confused anyone!) and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic were, I’d tell them women make almost all the purchasing decisions for their household (specifically entertainment), that they are seriously underestimating how much parents spend on their daughters, and that children aren’t the only consumers of animated TV shows and their related products. I could do that but what I’d like to see right now is all of YOU do that.
Reblog or like this post if you’d not only watch a Super Best Friends Forever television show but buy products based on it. (Money talks, remember?) Add your own commentary or not but let’s see what the numbers say.
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Ame-Comi II: Batgirl #1 is 99 cents well-spent
I’m not the sort of guy who drops money on the many comic statues, nor do I typically go for Japanification of American pop culture concepts (memories of the Marvel Mangaverse event, doncha know), so DC’s Ame-Comi concept has pretty much passed me by. The digital comics DC has been releasing through Comixology featuring the Ame-Comi line-up intrigued me, though, largely due to the creative teams. Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti are writers whose work I often enjoy (and even when I don’t, I at least think it’s still usually pretty interesting, and in the good way, I mean), and that initial Wonder Woman arc had art by Amanda Conner. Tempting as hell, but I didn’t cave. The preview art for Batgirl, though, that grabbed me. Sanford Greene’s take on the designs was fun and flirty without seeming like fan service (impressive, considering how fan servicey those statues sometimes look), and it had an animation-inspired style without actually seeming like he was trying to slavishly copy an anime/manga (which makes sense, seeing as a quick look at his ComicBookDB page shows he has worked on spin-off books for the Justice League Unlimited and Legion of Super-Heroes cartoons, among many others).
The finished artwork by Greene did not disappoint, and he’s definitely someone I’m going to be keeping an eye on from now on. And hey, Palmiotti and Gray’s story got off to a fun start, too. Batgirl was the level-headed, logical Babs we’ve come to know and love, and this Robin (named Carrie!) has a personality as big as all outdoors. She’s going to be fun, I can tell. I don’t know if I’ll be getting the rest of the Ame-Comi digital books, but I’m in for the second and third parts of Batgirl. And considering how few digital books I buy, that’s huge.
What I Bought 4/18/12 - Batman has been great since issue 1, but it’s going to have to be flawlessly perfect pretty consistently to keep me buying at $3.99, even with my LCS discount.
Pretty excited about this issue Supergirl, though - art by George Perez, and the re-introduction of Silver Banshee, one of my favorite Superman Family villains of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths era. This is largely because she fought Superman in Superman (1986 series) #17, which if not the the first post-COIE DC comic I read, was certainly the first Byrne reboot Superman I read (the mid-80s were the heyday of my Marvel Zombie period). I’m sentimental like that.
So why are they really making the Watchmen prequels?
Dan and Jim want to buy a boat.
What I Bought 2/8/12:
- Archie: The Best of Dan DeCarlo Treasury Edition #1 from IDW. Embiggened Dan DeCarlo artwork? Lots of Betty and Veronica cuteness? Yes to both, please.
- Demon Knights #6 from DC
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold #16, also from DC. Final issue. *sniff* At least, like the show, it goes out with a story featuring Bat-Mite running wild with the classic tropes of the story’s medium.
Page 1 of the 5th chapter of Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Morality from Tales of the Unexpected #5, written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Cliff Chiang. Funky Flashman, DC’s own Stan Lee stand-in. A gaggle of Batmobiles. The damn Supermobile! Yeah, this was one of my grail pages. And now it is mine, because my amazing wife bought it for me.
No offense to other people’s wives, who I’m sure are fine, but my wife is the best wife.
The Shazam / Marvel Family kick I’m on continues, so I figured I’d post the various Marvel Family sketches I’ve picked up from people at cons and online in the last several years.
What I bought 2/1/12 - Took advantage of a slow, palindromic new comics day to fill in some of the holes in my various Shazam series collections. Plus, new Animal Man, and it looks like we get a break from the main story to see just what that superhero movie Buddy starred in is like. After the breakneck paced creepiness of the last several issues, the brief respite will be appreciated.
What’s in a name? Or, “Hi, I’m Shazam. (BOOOOOM!) Dang it!”
So the word from DC is that Captain Marvel will no longer be called Captain Marvel but, instead, Shazam, because (sayeth Geoff Johns) “everybody thinks he’s Shazam already, outside of comics” (and because they can finally nail down that trademark lock, stock, and barrel without having to constantly answer the question “Why can’t they just call the book Captain Marvel?”).
Do I think it’s lame? Yeah, I do. But given that every single comic book or piece of related merchandise since 1973 has had SHAZAM in large, friendly letters on the cover with only the barest mention of the name Captain Marvel (if at all), I’m actually kind of surprised it took them this long to finally do it.
But, nomenclature aside, this is still my favorite superhero ever we’re talking about here, and so long as the stories are good, I don’t really care what they call him. And I’m legitimately curious to see if Shazam will still be Billy’s magic word (but why wouldn’t it be?), if that means he’ll have a really hard time introducing himself to people, and what this means for the possibilities of seeing Freddy and Mary this go-round (Freddy especially, since not being able to say his own superhero name was always his burden).
Besides, a name change is probably the least damaging thing DC has done to the Big Red Cheese in the last 10 years. We should count our blessings.
(Of course, now I worry people are going to go around asking if Shazam is the superhero with the power to identify any song, but we’ll worry about that when and if that actually happens.)
Cross-posted from my blog, Trusty Plinko Stick, because why not?
