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Posted on 08.31.09 by Widge @ 7:34 pm
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  Words by Brian Reed; Art by IPH; see below for links to them and full pic. First we got Dixar, now we're looking down the barrel of Darvel. The long and short of it is that Disney is looking to buy Marvel for the low low price of $4 billion. There's other details, but that's pretty much what you need to know. Apart from the fact that, despite everyone acting like it takes effect this instant and is retroactive to the dawn of time (Marvel shareholders need to approve and there's that whole anti-trust thing to deal with) it's not yet. But it does look like it will happen. And I have had the agog and aghast reactions from everybody and their brother Bob on this this morning. And I'm not one to be optimistic (for reference, please see...) but I will say that it's not as bad as people might suggest. For one thing, this is the Disney machine but running with a Pixar engine. For those saying that Disney is still nothing but crap, Exhibit A: Bolt. For those saying Pixar has been blunted by the Disney thing, Exhibit 2: Up. So there is quality to be had. Will there still be some crap that leaks out? Sure, like with any studio. But Disney has me feeling pretty good about their intentions for the first time in a long time. So rather than get into what this is on about--this New York Times article does a good job of handling that, I think--I'd like to point out some things that, at least in my mind, we can expect to happen. Categorized as: Comics
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Posted on 08.04.09 by Sir Tuck @ 11:17 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Widge Sez: Everyone please give a warm welcome to Sir Tuck, who thought he might expand our field of vision by talking about some manga for us. We say huzzah. And away we go... When you were little did you and your friends have a secret base? Or imagine scenarios where evil forces would try to destroy the world, and you would stand up and fight for justice? I sure did, often playing the scenarios out with action figures and Legos. 20th Century Boys shines a whole new light on childhood companions and the dreams of being heroes. 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (creator of the popular title Monster), is a Science Fiction mystery manga that spans several decades, from 1969 to 2017. It makes many cultural references to rock (its name for instance), classic manga, movies, and comic books. The series itself opens in the late 1990s, and follows the life of Kenji, a convenience store owner, who find solace in his childhood memories as he works with his mother and takes care of his niece Kanna. Suddenly, his seemingly normal life takes a drastic turn, and Kenji finds himself involved in a series of mysterious events that are somehow connected to his childhood. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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Friends, please welcome Wolven to our cast of characters around here. He's constantly going off on various subjects on his Twitter account, including magic, so I invited him to come and deliver a thesis on pop culture and magic--and his first target is comics. Enjoy.  Hello, gentle readers. My name's Wolven. While you might have seen my name and linkage on a sidebar, or a random source attribution from our man Widge, there's a lot you probably don't know about me. Like the fact that my ribs are more cartilage than bone; or that some days I'm pretty sure that I'm a random government-funded genetic/social experiment; or that I freaking love comics. I love comics with a ridiculous love, and I have since I was a child. I am, by rights, a nerd. A geek. A person with intense interests less known and less understood than those of the so-called norm. And not only am I a geek, I am a geek with professional, academic, and personal interests in magic and the occult. So when Widgett approached me about doing a guest column concerning the Top 5 Comics That Get Magic Right, I damn near fell off of my couch. Luckily I was lying down at the time. Categorized as: Comics
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Posted on 04.13.09 by Widge @ 8:09 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  So a really smart rule to follow is never to summon anything larger than your head. Unfortunately, a bunch of cultists decide to summon up the Antichrist and get more than they bargain for. (And isn't that supposed to be God's decision in that mythos as to when the Big Evil Guy shows up? Geez, know your myths before you start screwing around with them. Silly cultists.) Not only is the Big AC, you know, evil, but that brings the Nuns Without Guns onto their cases. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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Posted on 03.09.09 by Widge @ 12:27 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.   Written by: Mark Andrew Smith Published by: Image Meet Benny and Becca and Cooper and Joss, two pairs of brother and sister whose parents were some of the greatest explorers of our time. Sadly, those parents are dead following an adventure to keep an evil dude named Galomar from getting closer to taking control of the Great Library. Now these four kids find themselves literally stumbling over their true heritage, not to mention, goblins, fairies, a monstrous cat, a magical slug and the mystical properties of proper etiquette. But all of that being said, can they pick up where their parents left off and save the day? You know, the worst part of this is that I can't tell you my favorite part of the book without spoiling something, but it's a sequence involving ghosts. That's all I'll say. And after you reach that part of the book (it's page 32 in my digital copy), if you're not on board, then frankly then you're better off on a much less fun train than this thing is. Categorized as: Comics and Reviews
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