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 | ‘FOGTOWN’ BY ANDERSEN GABRYCH AND BRAD RADER
Posted September 19th, 2010
on Lambda Literary Andersen Gabrych (writer for Detective Comics, Batman, Batgirl and Catwoman, but yes, smarty-pants, that was also him acting in Edge of Seventeen, Gypsy 83 and Another Gay Movie) pairs up with animator and artist Brad Rader (best known for directing... |  | BALTIMORE COMIC-CON: PAUL POPE & BOB SCHRECK
Posted September 1st, 2010
on ComicBookResources.com An intimate crowd was very eager to see Paul Pope and Bob Schreck take the dais at last weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con. Billed as a “cage match,” the panel was surprisingly low-key, extremely low-tech (no slides) and very casual. |  | PAM HARRISON'S NEW SCI-FI SERIES "A DEVIANT MIND" NOW AVAILABLE ON WOWIO
Posted September 1st, 2010
on Wowio.com Pam Harrison's new sci-fi series "A Deviant Mind" and her award winning "House of the Muses" series are both available now on Wowio! |  | REVIEW: FOGTOWN
Posted August 29th, 2010
on The Gay Comics List You know how it is, when you wait for years for a book or a film to come out, and then you’re all disappointed? Well, that’s not how I felt after reading Fogtown, an all-new graphic novel I’d been hearing about for a number of years. | MORE FEATURES... SUBMISSION GUIDELINES |
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THE ONLY THING THAT’S PERMANENT by Ed Natcher
Posted August 29th, 2010
What a media frenzy! Even the ancient environs of the slowly dying print media were all agog over the recent revamp of Wonder Woman. Well, if you think that was hot news, wait ‘til you hear what other changes the infallible controllers of the DC Universe have in store! I’ve looked into my queer-ystal ball and am now ready to share with you what the future holds! My vision of The Shape of Re-Doings to Come reveals these major characters to be some of the many that will be undergoing Super-Sized makeovers:
BATMAN
As writer J. Michael Straczynski will put it in a soon to be unleashed press release:
“When Dan and Jim asked me to undertake this project, I immediately said ‘Yes!’, but on one condition: That I be allowed to jettison everything that is superfluous to the fundamentals of The Bat. They, of course, agreed. So, in my new, back to basics take on Bruce Wayne, he never had any parents. Instead, he began as a clay statue which the Greek god Ares brought to [Continue reading...] |
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"VOTING AND COMPLAINING" by Terrance Griep
Posted August 22nd, 2010
In this American republic, the most obvious form of expression is the vote. The vote, in fact, externalizes the voter's internal self: her motives, her methods, her mentality. Where national elections are concerned, it's no exaggeration to say that voting is exerting, in some small measure, the ballot-caster's identity onto the whole country. So important is the vote that its dearth has borne an aphorism: "If you don't vote, you can't complain." And August 26th marks the 90th anniversary of, uh, Female Americans getting their first crack at ballot-casting via the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
And while ballot-casting is the most obvious, it isn't the most vital means of American voting.
In a super-doer comic, the most obvious form of expression is the costume. As with the ballot-caster's vote, the super-doer costume externalizes the champion's internal self: her motives, her methods, her mentality. So, changing a super-doer's [Continue reading...] |
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“A LEG UP ON ALL THE REST” by Edward Beekman-Myers
Posted August 15th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I was in a car wreck. I had the green light, but the other driver decided to make a left turn right in front of me. I tried to swerve, but smashing into the other vehicle was unavoidable. Trying to clear my frazzled brain, I got out of the car, amazed I was able to even get out at all.
At first I thought I was pretty much okay. All I could see was blood trickling from the top of my hand, which had been cut from who-knows-what. But as I walked around the crash site, there came the most excruciating pain I ever felt in my left knee. The EMTs at the scene offered me a ride to the hospital in the ambulance, but I told them I would just wait for someone to come get me.
Trouble was, I had a hell of a time getting hold of my mom and my four siblings. I finally got through to my brother, who was able to get through to my mom, who was on the other side of town having lunch with her sister at Olive Garden. Since the crash happened close to where I live (I was on my way [Continue reading...] |
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TAKE HALF A DIRTY DOZEN...AND YOU GET THE SECRET SIX by Saranga
Posted August 6th, 2010
The Secret Six are a ragtag bunch of villains, formed in opposition to a bigger group of villains, during a prelude to one of the DCU's universe threatening catastrophes: Infinite Crisis. They are a peculiar bunch, comprising of a contortionist, a God from a hellworld, the daughter of an immortal, an assassin for hire and a Catman. None of them really have superpowers, (well except for the God, but even then she is just who she is), they are just pretty good at what they do. That may be shooting, fighting or creating mind altering drugs. But they are all human.
This trade collects the 6 issues of the mini series that helped launch their now ongoing title of the same name. The book opens with the team carrying out a hit contract which takes them to the concentration camps of North Korea and exposes us to the dirty side of humanity (a fairly unexpected way to start your super villain book I must say). Then the story settles into a more traditional tale of attempted assassinations, [Continue reading...] |
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RAINBOW BATMAN DOUBLE FEATURE : BATMAN #182 - "THE RAINBOW BATMAN" by PKA
Posted July 31st, 2010
Like many avid comic fans, our comic collection extends beyond the standard monthly publications. We also happen to have a small army of action figures, trading cards, and even books about comic books. One of these coffee table dominating books that we've acquired is called The DC Vault. The first page of the aforementioned is an intricate splash-page-sized picture of the Batcave, courtesy of Dick Sprang (Silver Age continuity, of course).
It's actually a lot of fun to sit there and look at every spec of the picture to see all the crazy crap that Batman has in his hideout - sort of like a superhero version of "Where's Waldo?". On top of the cliché stuff like that giant penny and the big robotic dinosaur, the reader is treated to an array of bat-gadgets, nearly a dozen vehicles, and some creepy life-sized statues of Batman's greatest villains. Unfortunately there is one thing that we are disappointed not to see in this image - Batman's rainbow costume. Yes, you did read that [Continue reading...] |
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