As we prepare for this year’s ComiCONN It’s time to get caught up with last year’s, although I still have a lot of panels, interviews, and junkets to get through before I’m finally caught up. Hopefully I’m allowed to this year. This is just an example of what I saw at last year’s event.
Sorry to disappoint Star Sabre fans. This is the coolest he will ever look in this comic.
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #19
IDW Publishing (July, 2013)
“Remain In Light” part 3: “The Divided Self” WRITER: James Roberts PENCILER: Alex Milne INKER: Brian Shearer COLORIST: Josh Burchan SELECTED COVER COLORIST: Josh Perez LETTERER: Tom B. Long EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Kevin Smead EDITOR: John BarberFor the last main round of the Mosquito tournament I’m going to the Disney Afternoon. As Kaboom was losing the Disney license (just after turning the Scrooge McDuck comic to the Ducktales comic) they decided to team both of Launchpad’s group of friends together into a huge crossover. Tonight’s fight comes from that crossover, so enough intro. Let’s get dangerous already!
“Mosquito” Round 12
“Well I’m glad YOU”RE having fun….”
It Girl & The Atomics #12
FINAL ISSUE
Image Comics (July, 2013)
“Stop As You Meant To Go On” WRITER: Jamie S. Rich ARTISTS: Mike Norton (part 1), Natalie Nourigat (parts 2 & 4), and Chynna Clugston Flores (part 3) COLORIST: Mallen Passalaqua COVER ART: Michael & Laura Allred LETTERS/DESIGN: Crank! EDITOR: Jamie S. Rick & Eric Stephenson CREATOR: Michael Allred
I swear the more I hear from and about Dan Didio and his crew the less I understand what goes through their heads.
Granted I worry more about writers than I do artists considering my life goals but I’ve at least heard of Paul Pope. I know he’s pretty big in comics. I know that if he pitches, say, an all-ages version of Kamandi I’m going to at least think about it. Then again I don’t hate anything that benefits kids.
…Pope said he did test the waters, only to be knocked back. “Batman did pretty well, so I sat down with the head of DC Comics. I really wanted to do ‘Kamandi [The Last Boy on Earth]’, this Jack Kirby character. I had this great pitch… and he said ‘You think this is gonna be for kids? Stop, stop. We don’t publish comics for kids. We publish comics for 45-year olds. If you want to do comics for kids, you can do ‘Scooby-Doo.’ And I thought, ‘I guess we just broke up.'”
Somebody’s been playing Super Mario Wii U.
Sonic The Hedgehog #251
Archie Comics (September, 2013)
“When Worlds Collide” finale “Best Of The Best” WRITER: Ian Flynn PENCILER: Ben Bates INKER: Bary Marting COLORIST: Matt Herms SELECTED COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante & Ben Hunzenker ASSISTANT EDITOR: Vincent Lovallo EDITOR: Paul Kaminski
This is Peter Capaldi (second from the left standing in the foreground, after a re-edit because something happened to the pic I was using). Come this December he will portray the 12th incarnation of The Doctor as Matt Smith regenerates away. Smith has been my favorite New Who Doctor as he seems to be a bit warmer than the previous two while still maintaining the same manicness that we’ve come to expect. He seemed more fun to hang around and showed he could make a mistake and bounce back from it. He had his angry and darker moments but not as badly as Tennant’s Doctor. I’ll miss him but I’m curious to see what Capaldi will bring.
While I have no problem with the choice, there were plenty in my Twitter feed who WERE disappointed because they think the Doctor should be played by a woman. Anyone who disagrees seems to be presented as sexist or anti-woman or some such and I suspect I’ll get the same treatment. Then again, when have I cared about being opposite of the group? If you’re willing to actually read through the whole article first, though, I would like to plead my case and show that I not only have no trouble with a strong female character in Doctor Who but proudly support the sadly few we’ve had. That doesn’t mean it should be the Doctor.
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