First, a thanks to Heidi for linking my post on Platinum Studios last week – despite my mildly calling her out in same. If you didn’t see this you can be forgiven as it was less than strategically positioned directly below a picture of the ever-gorgeous Angelina Jolie. This is likely the closest I’ll ever get to the future ex-Mrs. Brad Pitt. And for the record, The Beat is generally the very first comic book related stop I make on the Internet each day.
Yes, I passed on this meme. I tried, really, but got nothin’. And I’m still trying to figure out how I’m going to remember all this stuff, you know, always.
Have you been following Marvel’s Max series SUPREME POWER: HYPERION? An okay story, by and large, but the fact that it’s taking place in an alternative to an alternative of an alternative universe is giving me a headache.
So I’m in the local Borders the other day and what should I see next to the magazines? Comic books. The equivalent of maybe two spinner racks worth. I knew some Barnes and Noble stores carried them but didn’t realize Borders had jumped on board as well. And there were three people reading them including a 10-year-old (roughly) boy thumbing through the latest issue of TEEN TITANS GO. I quickly wandered over to the manga section to find exactly zero readers. It’s a trend, I tell you.
Awhile back I read some interview with Chuck Dixon where he referred to himself as “persona non grata at Marvel” and wondered what could possibly have caused that? I dug around the Internet, never really gettin an answer and then stumbled across this beauty in one of my own long-boxes (click on image for larger view):
From Argosy, circa 1993. And yes, those are tentacles, from a villain called Octopus. This probably still doesn’t answer the why, but it would surely help get you to non grata if you weren’t there already.
If it’s February, it must be comic book convention season.
First, be sure to attend the WonderCon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, February 10-12. Frank Miller will be there. That’s a good get.
Next fly out to New York for the Comic-Con at the Jacob Javits Center, February 24-26. My buddies at Buzzscope/PopCultureShock are hosting an After-Party on Saturday – so leave time for that and Guy’s Independent Comics Roundtable on Sunday. (Oh, and the aforementioned Heidi, will be moderating a Comics and Hollywood panel with the aforementioned Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and couple of other guys you may have heard of: Bendis and Sienkiewicz.)
If you can’t make it to New York then how about Orlando for the MegaCon going on that same weekend? George Perez will be there and you can ask him in person to explain INFINITE CRISIS.
Finally, swing back over to Los Angeles Convention Center on March 17-19 for the west coast edition of Wizard World. I may actually make that one.
Once you’ve hit all the cons head over to this site and rate them! This is also a great place to keep track of all this stuff.
I quickly wandered over to the manga section to find exactly zero readers. It’s a trend, I tell you.
Get another four bloggers to say the same thing and I believe it's officially a trend.
...leave time for that and Guy’s Independent Comics Roundtable on Sunday.
And the kids! Don't forget about my all-ages panel following that one. ;-)
Posted by: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | February 09, 2006 at 07:13 PM
I meant start of a trend. That's the ticket.
Oops - sorry! We're all about the kids here at Return to Comics.
Posted by: Kurt | February 09, 2006 at 07:26 PM