You can expect just one comic on Wednesday – The Clone Wars #5.
Disturbing Expanded Universe quote du jour
From the original Essential Guide to Characters, way back in 1995:
Ackbar and the white-haired beauty would enjoy each others’ company a lot over the coming years, both in their tasks for building the New Republic, and in private.
Ahh, 90’s EU. When the human/fish romance roamed wild and free. (Thanks to the miscreants of #eu.)
Surely Club Jade will get a mention…
A little birdie tells me that the Amazon page for Steve Sansweet‘s latest book has gone live.
Stories about his collection, including the unique fan-made items? I’m sure that some of Club Jade’s more unique contributions will be ridiculed described.
Lady gamers looking for new recruits
I’ve never heard of the Frag Dolls before Heartless Doll wrote about them today, but if you think you have what it takes to be a professional gamer, they’re hiring.
(Professional gaming? Who knew?)
TCM picks Star Wars as one of their 15 most influential movies of all time
The cable channel Turner Classic Movies turns 15 this month, and to celebrate they’ve named the 15 most influential films of all time. The list also includes Citizen Kane, Metropolis, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Psycho – but, for once, no Godfather movies. Star Wars is the latest film on the list, and one of the biggest moneymakers… Which is precisely why it’s there! Merchandising, baby.
At least someone in comics is trying!
It’s a sad statement of how screwy comics can be that a Batwoman design featuring sensible shoes is being hailed as a breakthrough big deal.
Or maybe it’s just the timing.
Dunc reads: Books from March
Sorry to be so late, but I assure you, these are indeed all the books I read last month. If this has taught me nothing else, it’s that I read a lot less books than I thought I did… Continue reading “Dunc reads: Books from March”
There’s something for everyone in Star Wars
Including giant bunnies. No, seriously. This of the kind of thing you need to be aware of if you’re even going to think about taking Star Wars too seriously.
Anyway, I know this is rather late, but Happy Easter/Passover/[insert spring holiday of your choice here], everyone!
(Meanwhile, all this stuff will be on sale tomorrow. The hand-painted eggs, not so much. But scrambled Ewok sounds good. Better than ham, anyway.)
More on Free Comic Book Day’s Star Wars offering
As announced last December, Dark Horse Comics is releasing Star Wars comics as part of their annual freebie book for Free Comic Book Day, which is on Saturday, May 2, 2009. A preview of the book is up – and it contains a Kit Fisto story, ‘The Gauntlet of Death‘. The free 28 page comic will also contain stories of Emily the Strange, Usagi Yojimbo and other Dark Horse properties suitable for all ages, and has a flip cover. Dark Horse also had a second freebie book for 2009, with a flip cover, helping to relaunch their Aliens and Predator comic tie-in series – check out the preview.
Marvel misses the point yet again
Did Marvel took that one guy’s rant on woman and comics– Remember, the one that unleashed a furious response from the female comicsphere – a little too much to heart? Check out an upcoming mini-series, Marvel Divas, as announced by Dude-in-Chief Joe Quesada:
“The idea behind the series was to have some sudsy fun and lift the curtain a bit and take a peep at some of our most fabulous super heroines. In the series, they’re an unlikely foursome of friends–Black Cat, Hell Cat, Firestar, and Photon–with TWO things in common: They’re all leading double-lives and they’re all having romantic trouble. The pitch started as “Sex and the City” in the Marvel Universe, and there’s definitely that “naughty” element to it, but I also think the series is doing to a deeper place, asking question about what it means…truly means…to be a woman in an industry dominated by testosterone and guns. (And I mean both the super hero industry and the comic book industry.) But mostly it’s just a lot of hot fun.
There’s some hope that the execution could turn out better than it sounds – the writer, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is on the staff of HBO’s Big Love, a show that has sympathetic portrayals of women in a society that pays even less lip-service to equality than comics. But with an introduction that uses words like ‘naughty’ and ‘hot fun,’ the backlash is likely to be very loud.