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Dark Knight

Nora Rocket — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:43:04 -0400

1. I loved it.

2. Midnight showing totally worth feeling like defrosted death at work this morning.

3. Watchmen preview very nearly brought on orgasm.

4. Note to douchebag outside theatre: go back to chatting up other girls by quoting (nationally known, televised) comedians' routines and bumming clove cigarettes and stop touching my earlobes without my permission and positing your guesses as to my sexuality based on the size thereof. You so obviously know nothing about me as either a carpet muncher (your charming term--I prefer "lady-fucker" but hey, you didn't let me define me; you took the liberty, so bully for you) or as a modified individual ("are those, like 1 gauge?" pffft.

Bad Fangirl

Nora Rocket — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:42:41 -0400

I was short a back issue of Buffy Season 8 because I've been a delinquent comics buyer and Newbury, a shop I like less and less, did not have it. Fine--it's not their responsibility to have two months ago's single ish. But this story arc ("Wolves at the Gate") has had one MAJOR BOMBSHELL already and I neeeeed every ish. So I went to Comicazi in my neighbourhood and they also didn't have issue 14 on the shelf. At Newbury, which I'd been growing very cool about lately, I would not have asked the staff for help because, ah, they are not fanboys and the store stocks too much general stuff for me to think they care about finding me one back issue of Buffy for $2.99. They cop the kinds of attitude I used to get from the kids at Reckless (but never got from the staff at Laurie's Planet of Sound, which is why I love Laurie's with the burning fire of 1000 of your Earth's yellow suns. That and I think Laurie's could read my mind: if they didn't have something one week, I'd just think to myself "gee, I wish they had That One Album," and it'd be there the next week, without fail).

(new interview)

anne elizabeth moore — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:04:41 -0500

I was accused recently of not properly cataloging my various things, so here is an interview the really rad Irina Ivanova conducted with me over at the Indypendent.

I'm blogging from the offices of the Cambodian/French comic-book publisher Our Books, by the way, where we're busy preparing to release Flower of Battambang. Order your English-language version today! Or distros: order some to sell!

Tell John I sent ya.

Hold me closer, Tiny Unicorn

harpy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:41:33 -0400

My best friend Liz has been sending me care packages of zines while I'm in Florida. This saves my life. With the first package I got, I felt this great satisfied joy as my hands held xeroxed newsprint. It was like I was back home.

Tiny Unicorn - A comic with many, many words and one teeny unicorn. Our bitsy pal is a lot like you and me -- it watches TV, gets cranky about LA heat, slaves for minimum wage, smokes, buys stuff at IKEA. But mostly it likes to comment Andy Rooney-style on all sorts of goings on from the political to the hallucinatory.

You Don't Get There From Here #2 -- Hot damn, this comic was dense.

Free Scott McCloud!

Chicago Underground Library — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:55:05 -0400

No, he hasn't been locked up, pulled over, or buried under a collapsed bookshelf of "Understanding Comics."

Scott McCloud is giving away parts 1 & 2 of his graphic novel "The Right Number" here, and intends to put part 3 alongside them when it's completed.

Web comics are nothing new (in fact, I also have an unfinished graphic novel online-- as I'm assuming do most people who have ever dipped their feet in that pond) and they're especially not new to McCloud, who was one of the earliest comic artists to seize the internet for his own devices (and, because he's Scott McCloud and has always done things with a bigger picture than himself in mind, the devices of the entire comics community).

But what's really interesting to me is that before giving it away, McCloud tried a micropayments distribution system to get it out there.

Doing Nothing Gives It Power - An interview with "Darkness Calls" Creators Steve Sanderson and Sean Muir

Ben Tanzer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:09:13 -0500

"Darkness Calls" has all the trappings of any iconic superhero comic book. The protagonist is the kid someone hurt, abandoned, or bullied, who ultimately finds the inner strength to overcome not just the bad guy, but his or her inner demons. The superhero who is in essence one-half of the protagonist’s tortured psyche is a ripped, sword-wielding, awesomely handsome warrior with long hair, a motorcycle, and bad-ass fighting skills; while the bad-guy is the other half, a creepy, demon-like presence with glowing eyes, flames for hair, a skeletal visage, and claws for feet. The climatic battle scene which occurs in an abandoned warehouse, is a wordless display of power where good ultimately triumphs over evil and we all live to fight another day.