I need to learn how to summarize an idea in just a sentence or two, and it’s pretty difficult. I tend to go into every detail and talk it to death when all I need to communicate is the concept. But, its all important! The idea and the motivation and the fact that I’m eating [...]
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At this point in the history of pampered Western civilization, most everyone has had their head shrunk by a professional, read some sort of self-help book, or had their mind-space invaded by the self-serving, lunatic ranting of the latest Self-Actualization Guru of the Month. Anthony Robbins. Doctor Phil. Rhonda Byrne. And now, Doctor Brain. Related [...]
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We wanted to know what girls like and dislike about comic books, and we could have speculated and looked up statistics (like everyone else on the internet), but thought it would be more efficient to ask an actual girl. Pink Raygun’s newest contributor, 11 year old “Haileyscomic”, is just getting into comic books, so we [...]
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“The Calm Before the Storm” (Issue Two) Characters: Yorick, Ampersand, Jennifer, Agent 355 Important introductions: the body collector, Margaret Valentine Two Months Later Washington D.C. Yorick is walking down a suburban street in a cape and gas mask with Ampersand in a carrier. He comes across, or rather, gets run into by a woman driving [...]
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I came to Brian K. Vaughan’s work through friends – You have to read Ex Machina! I did, and loved it. Pride of Baghdad was next, and I thought that was just about the most beautiful book ever. I came to Y: The Last Man while working on a story of my own that dealt [...]
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I interviewed Ace Masters’ dad by accident last January. I just shoved my recorder at the guy behind the Masterpiece Comics table at the Phoenix Comicon and started firing questions at him until he said, “I think you want to talk to my son.” Even though we got off to that weird start, Masters still [...]
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Perfect Storm was previously an online comic strip created by comic book artist Rob Jones which was recently relaunched as a print comic book. I’ve never read the strip, but luckily, the issue of Perfect Storm that arrived in my mailbox is an intro to the character and her world, so I wasn’t distracted by [...]
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“Maxim meets Dawn of the Dead” is one way of describing Girls and Corpses. Another way, from the deaditor’s mouth, is “a satire and parody of men’s zines like Maxim, Stuff and FHM” in the spirit of Mad Magazine. Although I think zombies are cool, I’m not Maxim’s target market and Alfred E. Newman has [...]
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I have the first three issues of lots of comic series’ in my closet. My general rule is to give a series three issues to grab my attention and get me invested in the characters. In the past few months, most comics haven’t been doing that for me, and it was getting pretty irritating. I [...]
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From NPR’s Website: Fresh Air from WHYY, May 2, 2007 · John Ridley’s comic-book series The American Way has just been collected into a graphic novel. The series takes place in 1961, when the government has created a team of super-heroes to battle foreign super-villains. But it’s all just a sham — a diversion created [...]
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Pheonix, AZ – April 27, 2007 – Rude Dude Productions announced today that their first official book under the Rude Dude title, Nexus 99: Space Opera Act 1 of 4, is now on presale through your local retailer. Space Opera Act 1 was nominated by the Diamond Purchasing Team as a hot pick for the [...]
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What would you do if you got a hold of your brother’s nose? I’d leave my brother’s nose on the shelf above the toilet in his bathroom. But, then I’d feel bad and wave it over some fresh cheesecake for him. He likes cheesecake. Is it wrong that we’re in our thirties and my brother [...]
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We’re not seeing much about this on the interwebs, so here goes: Hot on the heels of Dark Horse’s continuation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the comic book series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, it looks like Oni Press will be continuing Joss Whedon’s series Angel with “Angel – Season 6,” written by [...]
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In honor of the new FOX series, Drive, which premiered this month and features Nathan Fillion (Captain sexy-droolworthy-fangirl-eyecandy—I mean Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly) and Tim Minear (Firefly/Angel writer extraordinaire), and also in honor of the new Buffy Season 8 comic book that has recently been published, I decided it was only right to do [...]
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As part of Zombie Week, I read all five trades of The Walking Dead in the space of two days. I never sit down and read one trade after another in a series; I like to space it out and prolong the magic, which why I’ve been reading The Sandman in trades for two years [...]
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I really wanted to like this book. On reading the back cover and the first couple of pages at the bookstore, Gerry Bartlett’s Real Vampires Have Curves sounded like a decent paranormal chick lit selection. It certainly wasn’t going to expand my mind, but it would be quick, light read. Related Stuff:
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