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05.14.08 by Widge @ 12:09 am  Well, this sucks. Comics Reporter informs us that Gene Colan's liver has failed. This, as you might could figure out on your own, is Very Goddamn Bad. Colan was the artist for scads of classic comics, including Daredevil, Tomb of Dracula, and Tales of Suspense. If you've read comics, you've seen and know Colan's work. He's inescapable. And damn good. If you want to help out, there's various ways to do so. First, they need money because you can imagine the medical costs are extensive. There's auctions running for some of his artwork to raise money. Or if nothing else, a get well card can be sent to the address you can find at this blog. More info about Gene can be found at Mark Evanier's place. Found via Uncle Bear. (Left off the bloody hat-tip...I blame the opiates.) Categorized as: Comics
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05.08.08 by Widge @ 11:04 am  Viper tells us The Middleman--the ABC Family TV series based on the Chazzie-nominated comic--hits Monday, June 16th. Everyone I talk to is positively aghast that they find they have a reason to watch ABC Family. They'll get over it. The site for the show is here. The Middleblog with lots of pics is here. Also, bear in mind that the collected Middleman is hitting soon (watch here for details) plus Viper has a ubermongo edition of Dead@17, the "Compendium," which features all that axe-wielding undead schoolgirl goodness that you love in one big book. $20? Nice. Find it here. Categorized as: Comics
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05.08.08 by Widge @ 5:04 am  The title of the comic book is The M16A1 Rifle: Operation and Preventive Maintenance. It's been posted by Ethan Persoff as part of his Comics With Problems series. What makes this fascinating is not just the fact that a copy of the comic book was included with each rifle that went to a U.S. soldier in Vietnam back in 1968. It's not just the wacky levels of innuendo that permeate this thing. It's the fact that Will Eisner and Eisner Studios provided the artwork. Categorized as: Comics
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05.07.08 by Widge @ 3:47 pm  Well, it's no secret that we at Needcoffee love zombies. As a subgenre, I mean. We don't love-love zombies, unless you mean tough love. With shotguns. And we know that we're currently riding a wave of zombie awareness. I mean, whenever George Romero puts out two Dead movies in the same freaking decade, you know times are good for the undead. But it's seldom we run across something so odd in regard to zombies that it gives us pause. Such is the case with Strongarm Labs. I ran into them at New York Comic-Con where they were touting their twisted wares. They have created The Tall and the Dead, where the dead rise up and then keep rising up. Until they're freaking huge. And you thought rage zombies were a pain in the ass. Sweet Jebus. They also have a great book called If You Have to Ask..., where extremely obvious questions and answers come together. Either yes or no should always be the answer for these questions. And if you know somebody who needs a book to cover them, then you better buy this one and give it to them, because they're obviously not bright enough to buy it for themselves. Check out more of their madness, buy their stuff and give them love at their website. Categorized as: Comics
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05.07.08 by Widge @ 3:23 am  There's a long standing tradition of Batman being translated into other languages. Part of that tradition is doing so without, shall we say, prior approval of Time-Warner-DC, as we've discussed before. Ethan Persoff has posted a great find: a bootleg Vietnamese Batman comic. If you look at the cover there, it's obvious that's taken from a pic of Adam West as Batman. And some of the interior art seems to have been traced from classic Batman stories. I love how there's a couple of cases where Batman is looking right of panel and it's the same drawing...and then when he's looking left of panel, they've just reversed the same pose. Sort of like what a lot of artists do today to save time and effort, huh? For pages and pages and pages. Categorized as: Comics
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