Archive for June, 2008
Tony picked this week’s subject: The Shadow! I get to pick next week’s character: Grendel.
Here are this week’s entries from our fellow PANEListas:
A couple from Tony Goins, world’s biggest Shadow fan:
Craig Bogart (colors by Steve Black):
Totally forgot that I entered this thing in some competition. Just checked in and it looks like my piece is doing crappy in the polling. Wizard was really dragging their feet with this thing. Everything was on a two week delay. I gave up on the thing. Anyway, if you feel it, vote for it. You don’t have to sign in or whatever. It’s about as harmless as voting on a MSN poll. Also about as accurate. You could still, in theory, go from one computer to the next and add another vote. So long as they don’t share the same IP address. Not that I’m encouraging this (shuffle, wink) but it seems everyone else is doing it still.Voting ends on the 20th’.
Thanks y’all.
6/18 update: Despite a slight increase, I’m still 250 votes shy of surpassing the Ashley Wood knockoff guy. Silly internets. The voting has increased across the board but as of now feels like it hasn’t changed any from yesterday.
More b&w goodness for your guessing pleasure…
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(previous weeks: 9/12/2005, 9/19/2005, 9/26/2005, 10/3/2005, 10/10/2005, 10/17/2005, 10/24/2005, 10/31/2005, 11/1/2005, 11/2/2005, 11/3/2005, 11/4/2005, 11/5/2005, 11/6/2005, 11/7/2005, 11/14/2005, 11/21/2005, 11/28/2005, 12/5/2005, 12/12/2005, 12/19/2005, 12/26/2005, 1/2/2006, 1/9/2006, 1/16/2006, 1/23/2006, 1/30/2006, 2/06/2006, 2/13/2006, 2/20/2006, 2/27/2006, 3/6/2006, 3/13/2006, 3/20/2006, 3/27/2006, 4/3/2006, 4/4/2006, 4/5/2006, 4/6/2006, 4/7/2006, 4/8/2006, 4/9/2006, 4/10/2006, 4/17/2006, 4/23/2006, 5/1/2006, 5/8/2006, 5/15/2006, 5/22/2006, 5/29/2006, 6/5/2006, 6/12/2006, 6/19/2006, 6/26/2006, 7/3/2006, 7/10/2006, 7/17/2006, 7/24/2006, 7/31/2006, 8/7/2006, 8/13/2006, 8/21/2006, 8/28/2006, 9/4/2006, 9/11/2006, 9/18/2006, 9/25/2006, 10/2/2006, 10/9/2006, 10/16/2006, 10/23/2006, 10/30/2006, 11/6/2006, 11/13/2006, 11/20/2006, 11/27/2006, 12/4/2006, 12/11/2006, 12/18/2006, 12/25/2006, 1/1/2007, 1/8/2007, 1/15/2007, 1/22/2007, 1/29/2007, 2/5/2007, 2/12/2007, 2/19/2007, 2/26/2007, 3/5/2007, 3/12/2007, 3/19/2007, 3/26/2007, 4/2/2007, 4/5/2007, 4/9/2007, 4/16/2007, 4/23/2007, 4/30/2007, 5/7/2007, 5/14/2007, 5/21/2007, 5/28/2007, 6/4/2007, 6/11/2007, 6/18/2007, 6/25/2007, 7/2/2007, 7/9/2007, 7/16/2007, 7/23/2007, 7/30/2007, 8/6/2007, 8/13/2007, 8/20/2007, 8/27/2007, 9/3/2007, 9/10/2007, 9/17/2007, 9/24/2007, 10/1/2007, 10/8/2007, 10/15/2007, 10/22/2007, 10/29/2007, 11/5/2007, 11/12/2007, 11/19/2007, 11/26/2007, 12/3/2007, 12/10/2007, 12/17/2007, 12/24/2007, 12/31/2007, 1/7/2008, 1/14/2008, 1/21/2008, 1/28/2008, 2/4/2008, 2/11/2008, 2/18/2008, 2/25/2008, 3/3/2008, 3/10/2008, 3/17/2008, 3/24/2008, 3/31/2008, 4/7/2008, 4/14/2008, 4/21/2008, 4/28/2008, 5/8/2008, 5/12/2008, 5/19/2008, 5/27/2008, 6/2/2008, 6/9/2008)
Tom picked this week’s subject: The Fantastic Four! Mr. Tony Goins picked next week’s character: The Shadow.
Here are this week’s entries from our fellow PANEListas:
Craig Bogart (colors by Steve Black):
Steve Black (work in progress):
Just an FYI … the Columbus Zombie Walk is this Saturday, June 14, at 3 p.m. in Goodale Park.
They’re asking you bring a canned food item for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank.
Braaaaaiiiiiinssss ….
OK, so DC is trying to turn Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman into a Trinity, instead of World’s Finest. Mark me as in favor.
Consequently, I’ve read a lot of blog commentary on what Wonder Woman is “about.” The concepts behind Batman and Superman have been mined pretty thoroughly, and we’ve seen all aspects of their relationship. Wonder Woman, however, remains partly undefined.
However — trying to pin down what Wonder Woman is “about” may be too limiting.
One of the great things about Batman and Superman is that they can be “about” all kinds of different things, depending on who’s writing them. They are both icons, but they gain richness from the fact that they “mean” different things to different people.
When Wonder Woman has a strong enough mythos to be iconic, yet still open to interpretation, then she’ll be part of the trinity. One could argue that she’s there already, she just needs strong execution to bring those things out.
Hat tip to Absorbascon for setting these thoughts in motion. There’s a guy who thinks conceptually about his comics.
It turns out I was grossly misinformed regarding the nature of the recreational activities available to visitors at The Wilds. I was met only by shocked stares when I inquired about rifle rental, so I feel I should make it clear to anyone planning a visit to the wildlife preserve: YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO SHOOT A RHINO AT THE WILDS.
Despite this, it turned out to be a cool place to visit. Because of the threat of inclement weather (namely, tornados), they were not conducting the open bus day tour we had planned on taking, so we settled for the two hour version which turned out to be for the better. Taking the little ones on a brief tour of the grounds that ran through their nap times turned out to be enough of a challenge; a full day would have been ridiculous.
We still got the experience of exotic animals blocking the roadway and moseying up beside the bus. It was all very cool, but I felt they ran the tour backwards. We hit the rhinos and the giraffes first, then it was all horses and wild dogs and deer– kind of an anticlimax. If the bus had ran the course from the opposite direction, the rhino encounter would have been an exciting note upon which to finish the tour. Still, for a family of four to take the trip cost less than $20 (w/Columbus Zoo membership), so we definitely got more than our money’s worth.
Following this was three nights at Salt Fork State Park, deep in the heart of the Bigfoot Triangle. We booked a cabin several months ago, not knowing how the tykes would handle sleeping in a tent (which, as we learned a couple weeks ago, they handled just fine). The digs turned out to be too plush for my tastes; it can hardly be called camping if you’ve got a microwave oven and cable TV. The first day there we visited the beach and ended up rescuing the biggest friggin’ turtle I’ve seen outside a zoo– it’s shell was about sixteen inches in diameter, large enough that from about thirty yards away my wife said “is that a turtle?” Judging from the tracks he left, the big guy had been dragging himself across the sand all day unable to find where he left the water. Regrettably, we didn’t bring our camera to the beach, so my animal rescue operation went unrecorded as I carried the radiation-bred giant mutant tortoise to the water. All that stuff you’ve heard about turtles being slow? Forget it. That thing took off like a bullet when it got to the water.
The “C” stands for “cartoon.” The “ILF” stands for what you think it means.
At SPACE this year, a dude walked up to me and told me I looked like someone famous. I assumed it would be one of the usual suspects, but no, it was this CILF guy.
Officially, I am horrified, although Jessica Rabbit I could almost see.
One of my favorite sci-fi writers, Larry Niven, is apparently part of a group of skiffy writers who advised the Homeland Security Apparat.
So says this article.
Niven’s kind of a recent fave; I got into his work sometime last year. This may be a case of “The more you learn about a writer as a person, the less you care about him as a writer.”
“Instead the writers used their time to pontificate on a variety of tangentially related topics, including their past roles advising the government, predictions in their stories that have come to pass, the demise of the paperback book market, and low-cost launch into space.”
Here’s this week’s page. Guess away!
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(previous weeks: 9/12/2005, 9/19/2005, 9/26/2005, 10/3/2005, 10/10/2005, 10/17/2005, 10/24/2005, 10/31/2005, 11/1/2005, 11/2/2005, 11/3/2005, 11/4/2005, 11/5/2005, 11/6/2005, 11/7/2005, 11/14/2005, 11/21/2005, 11/28/2005, 12/5/2005, 12/12/2005, 12/19/2005, 12/26/2005, 1/2/2006, 1/9/2006, 1/16/2006, 1/23/2006, 1/30/2006, 2/06/2006, 2/13/2006, 2/20/2006, 2/27/2006, 3/6/2006, 3/13/2006, 3/20/2006, 3/27/2006, 4/3/2006, 4/4/2006, 4/5/2006, 4/6/2006, 4/7/2006, 4/8/2006, 4/9/2006, 4/10/2006, 4/17/2006, 4/23/2006, 5/1/2006, 5/8/2006, 5/15/2006, 5/22/2006, 5/29/2006, 6/5/2006, 6/12/2006, 6/19/2006, 6/26/2006, 7/3/2006, 7/10/2006, 7/17/2006, 7/24/2006, 7/31/2006, 8/7/2006, 8/13/2006, 8/21/2006, 8/28/2006, 9/4/2006, 9/11/2006, 9/18/2006, 9/25/2006, 10/2/2006, 10/9/2006, 10/16/2006, 10/23/2006, 10/30/2006, 11/6/2006, 11/13/2006, 11/20/2006, 11/27/2006, 12/4/2006, 12/11/2006, 12/18/2006, 12/25/2006, 1/1/2007, 1/8/2007, 1/15/2007, 1/22/2007, 1/29/2007, 2/5/2007, 2/12/2007, 2/19/2007, 2/26/2007, 3/5/2007, 3/12/2007, 3/19/2007, 3/26/2007, 4/2/2007, 4/5/2007, 4/9/2007, 4/16/2007, 4/23/2007, 4/30/2007, 5/7/2007, 5/14/2007, 5/21/2007, 5/28/2007, 6/4/2007, 6/11/2007, 6/18/2007, 6/25/2007, 7/2/2007, 7/9/2007, 7/16/2007, 7/23/2007, 7/30/2007, 8/6/2007, 8/13/2007, 8/20/2007, 8/27/2007, 9/3/2007, 9/10/2007, 9/17/2007, 9/24/2007, 10/1/2007, 10/8/2007, 10/15/2007, 10/22/2007, 10/29/2007, 11/5/2007, 11/12/2007, 11/19/2007, 11/26/2007, 12/3/2007, 12/10/2007, 12/17/2007, 12/24/2007, 12/31/2007, 1/7/2008, 1/14/2008, 1/21/2008, 1/28/2008, 2/4/2008, 2/11/2008, 2/18/2008, 2/25/2008, 3/3/2008, 3/10/2008, 3/17/2008, 3/24/2008, 3/31/2008, 4/7/2008, 4/14/2008, 4/21/2008, 4/28/2008, 5/8/2008, 5/12/2008, 5/19/2008, 5/27/2008, 6/2/2008)
The Pulse interview with the Chemistry Set went live today. We chat about the upcoming anthology with Desperado, life, living it. Turned out nice. I don’t think they edited anything for length so it’s pretty long.
Benjamin Ong Pang Kean (what a cool name!) interviewed me over at Newsarama. A snippet:
“NRAMA: How do you translate a “playfully irreverent comedy that brings a new twist to the classic monster genre” into the comic book format?DN: Well, we started with the movie script and a PDF of the main character and set designs. Once I got a feel for the characters, their personality quirks, and motivations, I started outlining what storylines we could or couldn’t cover (given that this is a prequel). Chris Ryall was actually instrumental in setting the format of the series when he suggested doing shorter, self-contained tales instead of a 4-issue long story. I loved the idea and ran with it. While there is a good bit of physical comedy in the movie, a lot of the humor is actually character based, which translates well into comic book format. I approached my stories a bit like writing a sequel to a well known movie: you want to give a nod to some of the key sequences and memorable character moments, but not at the risk of being derivative…”
