Chromatic comics
A fun LJ meme: casting various traditionally white comic-book characters as actors of color. There's a good starting point at... (More...)
A fun LJ meme: casting various traditionally white comic-book characters as actors of color. There's a good starting point at... (More...)
Ten years ago, Oni Press published a graphic novel called Whiteout, written by Greg Rucka and drawn by Steve Lieber.... (More...)
I recently saw Natalie Portman live (well, on a screen, but in realtime, from a nearby location). Which gave me... (More...)
I'm tempted to attend the Thursday midnight showing of Watchmen. The theatre a five-minute drive from my house is showing... (More...)
Back in 2006, a guy named Shamus Young posted a couple of strips of a photonovel-style webcomic with the following... (More...)
The Watchmen trailer is out, and it's gorgeous. A few tiny false notes, and a few smallish things that make... (More...)
tacityhydra just mentioned the Mo Movie Measure in passing; I was going to post this comment in response to that... (More...)
They've started shooting the Watchmen movie! For a March, 2009 release! A blog entry on the official site shows some... (More...)
A year and a half ago, I reviewed the comic Y: The Last Man for SH. The series is about... (More...)
Sorry so out of touch lately. I have dozens of things I want to post about, as always, but somehow... (More...)
As I've probably mentioned before, one of my favorite superpowers is that of Stone Boy, of the Legion of Substitute... (More...)
A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,... (More...)
The following is a spoiler, of a sort; kind of a meta-spoiler. But I nonetheless claim that almost everyone will enjoy Superman Returns more if they know this than if they don't know it; knowing this will help you set your expectations appropriately (and most of you probably know it already anyway). However, I know some people won't want to know it, in which case don't read the rest of this entry.
(More...)It occurs to me that most superheroes are, in a sense, super-cops. The main thing they do is fight crime.... (More...)
Some things I did this weekend, including several that I had not planned to do, in no particular order: Spent... (More...)
Belated happy Father's Day to all y'all fathers! I hope you had a splendid day. My day was okay. Slow... (More...)
Kam and I finally saw Fantastic Four. It was, pretty much as expected, fun fluff. Better than Daredevil (which I... (More...)
No, I haven't entered the porn business. This is a post about the economics of publishing. Really. Well, okay, and... (More...)
Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes... (More...)
Last month, Nick pointed to the teaser trailer for what he called Jesus Christ, Superman, for reasons that will become... (More...)
Assorted comics and comics-related items, plus a few cat and lizard photos, and some other stuff. Nifty comic strip in... (More...)