Then you'll love Wizard World Chicago, which takes place this weekend in -- no, not Chicago -- Rosemont, Illinois. I'll be there the entire weekend, signing books at the DC table, scouring the quarter boxes for issues of Kyle Baker's SHADOW comics and generally trying avoid eating even a single mouthful of food from the convention snack bar.
So if you've got issues of CATWOMAN you want adorned with my John Hancock, or if you feel like you just can't get through the summer without telling me how much you loved loved loved AMAZONS ATTACK, be at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center this weekend. All the info can be found right here.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Buy my comics, make me rich: CATWOMAN #80
Only three issues to go, and then our gal Selina rides off into the sunset. (Actually, it's the sunrise, but we won't see that scene for a couple of months yet.). This issue, the antepenultimate one, is titled "Final Jeopardy," and it kicks off the three-part finale to the series.
If you've been buying the book, I think you're going to like where it's going. If you haven't been buying it, here's a swell place to start. Hell, you only have to buy three issues!
Meanwhile, here's the cover, as always by the great Adam Hughes...
It's out Wednesday. You know what to do.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Buy my comics, make me rich: SUPERGIRL #30
Almost forgot this one was arriving today, but if you happen to be in the "S" section of your local sequential art emporium, be sure to grab the comic with this cover...
It's my issue of SUPERGIRL, a done-in-one story where Kara explores her past from several different angles and tries to figure out her relationship to both her adopted planet and the one that blew up. It's a solid issue with both emotional moments and grand fight scenes. Plus, that guy in the bat suit makes a guest appearance.
And, as always, stop by here with any and all questions, comments, what have you. You know the drill.
It's my issue of SUPERGIRL, a done-in-one story where Kara explores her past from several different angles and tries to figure out her relationship to both her adopted planet and the one that blew up. It's a solid issue with both emotional moments and grand fight scenes. Plus, that guy in the bat suit makes a guest appearance.
And, as always, stop by here with any and all questions, comments, what have you. You know the drill.
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
How did I not know this was coming out on DVD?
I was reading the interview with comedy genius Robert Smigel over at the Onion's AV Club, and after plowing through paragraph after paragraph of YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN discussion, I stumbled onto this tidbit:
AV Club: Can you talk a little about the TV Funhouse special?
Smigel: Do you mean the SNL thing or the Comedy Central TV Funhouse? Cause that's coming out on DVD imminently. It's so imminent. I can't begin to tell you how imminent it is. It's coming out July 22.
July 22? Six days before my birthday? A month and a half (or so) away? That can't be true. So I zip on over to the Upcoming Releases section of DVD Talk (Resources? Damn right I've got resources!) and lo and behold...
If you think "TVFunhouse" is just the name of the animated bits Smigel produces for SNL, you're in for a shock, my friend. This TV FUNHOUSE was a short-lived (a mere 8 episodes) half-hour series that ran on Comedy Central way back in 2000 and 2001. Cleverly disguised as a children's show, with jolly host Doug and his Anipals, it was instead one of the darkest, strangest, funniest shows in the history of television. That line on the DVD box that says "THIS SHOW NOT FOR KIDS! JAM PACKED WITH FUN! THIS SHOW NOT FOR KIDS!" is true on both counts.
Each episode had a theme -- "Astronaut Day," "Hawaiian Day," "Safari Day" -- that Doug would try to teach the Anipals about, but they'd inevitably stray into some strange plot. Here, for example, is the plot of "Chinese New Year's Day," cribbed from the fine folks at TV.com: "The Anipals ditch the Funhouse to enter the lucrative, glamorous world of lab animals."
Cheery, eh? And needless to say, it goes downhill from there. Some shows, you wonder why they were canceled. TV FUNHOUSE, you wonder how it ever got on the air in the first place. Not that it wasn't funny and brilliant and revelatory -- it was, in spades! -- but it was so damned weird it's hard to believe it lasted eight minutes, much less eight episodes.
Realizing this thing would be cancelled toot sweet, I taped every episode I could (Yes, taped -- it was the early 21st century, remember?), planning to transfer them to DVD one day. But now, thanks to Comedy Central's insatiable urge for more money, I can save myself the trouble.
And yes, Triumph The Insult Comic appears in a thrilling two-parter where the Anipals travel to Atlantic City, where they hang with Robert Goulet. Can you resist buying it now?
I didn't think so.
AV Club: Can you talk a little about the TV Funhouse special?
Smigel: Do you mean the SNL thing or the Comedy Central TV Funhouse? Cause that's coming out on DVD imminently. It's so imminent. I can't begin to tell you how imminent it is. It's coming out July 22.
July 22? Six days before my birthday? A month and a half (or so) away? That can't be true. So I zip on over to the Upcoming Releases section of DVD Talk (Resources? Damn right I've got resources!) and lo and behold...
If you think "TVFunhouse" is just the name of the animated bits Smigel produces for SNL, you're in for a shock, my friend. This TV FUNHOUSE was a short-lived (a mere 8 episodes) half-hour series that ran on Comedy Central way back in 2000 and 2001. Cleverly disguised as a children's show, with jolly host Doug and his Anipals, it was instead one of the darkest, strangest, funniest shows in the history of television. That line on the DVD box that says "THIS SHOW NOT FOR KIDS! JAM PACKED WITH FUN! THIS SHOW NOT FOR KIDS!" is true on both counts.
Each episode had a theme -- "Astronaut Day," "Hawaiian Day," "Safari Day" -- that Doug would try to teach the Anipals about, but they'd inevitably stray into some strange plot. Here, for example, is the plot of "Chinese New Year's Day," cribbed from the fine folks at TV.com: "The Anipals ditch the Funhouse to enter the lucrative, glamorous world of lab animals."
Cheery, eh? And needless to say, it goes downhill from there. Some shows, you wonder why they were canceled. TV FUNHOUSE, you wonder how it ever got on the air in the first place. Not that it wasn't funny and brilliant and revelatory -- it was, in spades! -- but it was so damned weird it's hard to believe it lasted eight minutes, much less eight episodes.
Realizing this thing would be cancelled toot sweet, I taped every episode I could (Yes, taped -- it was the early 21st century, remember?), planning to transfer them to DVD one day. But now, thanks to Comedy Central's insatiable urge for more money, I can save myself the trouble.
And yes, Triumph The Insult Comic appears in a thrilling two-parter where the Anipals travel to Atlantic City, where they hang with Robert Goulet. Can you resist buying it now?
I didn't think so.
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