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Category Archives: Comics
New Comic of the Week: Dresden Codak
The estimable Jon Rosenberg of Goats has done us, his readers, another service by pointing us at the excellent Dresden Codak.
I’m still digging my way through the archives, but my favorite so far is “Dead… and Loving It!“, which brings back memories of people and places long since past.
Joe Dan says check it out.
Fin Fang Foom!
Warren Ellis is always a hoot and a half, but Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. is an irrationally exuberant romp even by his high standards. It may, in point of fact, be some of the most fun you can have with pants on.
(Not that, strictly speaking, you need to be wearing pants to read. But ever since that incident at the public library a while back, I’ve tended to err on the side of caution.)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
My tastes are fickle, my preferences notoriously short-lived. But for the moment, this is my favorite cartoon in the whole world.
The Amazing Screw-On Head
I don’t know what Mike Mignola is smoking, but I hope that The Powers That Be realize the importance of securing him an adequate supply. His latest project, The Amazing Screw On-Head, combines his distinctive visual style with a dash of cheerfully goofy anachronism and the kind of wry, ironic humor he only allowed himself flashes of on Hellboy.
The first episode is highly entertaining, and leads one to hope that it will get a chance to build an audience. (Given that we’re talking about Sci-Fi, the folks who gave Battlestar Galactica the time and space it needed to get its legs under it, and not the scum-sucking swine at Fox, who shot promising infant series like Firefly and The Tick in the head when they didn’t produce high returns instantly, the odds would seem good.)
The Chad Vader Conspiracy
This morning, Holly sent me a link to Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager. I fell in love with it immediately, of course: if features not only one of the best James Earl Jones impressions I’ve heard anywhere, but a charming acoustic version of the Imperial March to boot.
And then, about two-thirds of the way through, a character named Lloyd appeared, and I thought: “Whoa, that guy looks an awful lot like Rob Matsushita.” This being the age of the intarweb, it took me all of one click to reveal the credits and blurt, “Holy fuck, it is Rob Matsushita.”
(Rob Matsushita, for those of you playing at home, is one of my friend Seth’s best friends; after hearing about him secondhand for years, I finally got to meet him at Seth’s wedding in 2003, and to see for myself that he’s every bit as funny as his reputation led me to expect.)
The intertwingularity doesn’t stop there, though. According to his post about the experience of being involved in the making of Chad Vader, Rob has come to the attention of Dan Harmon, who co-created, with Rob Schrab, the ill-fated Heat Vision and Jack, which I’d just been telling Holly about. (He also had a hand in “Scud the Disposable Assassin“, one of the best — and certainly most surreal — comics you’ve never heard of.)
I’m going to curl up into a ball and reflect on the total connectedness of all things now.
(Wait, not quite. In the course of assembling this post I’ve discovered that there’s a fourth Scud book out, “The Yellow Horseman“, which finally wraps up the storyline left dangling for years. Great. In addition to messing with my head, these people are now actively costing me money. Bastards.)
Beat with Snakes
A while back, Greg flung me a link to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, which I very nearly lost later.
Most of the comics are merely highly amusing, but this one borders upon genius. Or maybe it’s just me. (“Personal relevance”? What’s that?)
Garfield is not funny
In an attempt to forestall questions about the T-shirt I’m wearing today, I should explain that it’s from Wondermark. Specifically, #189: “In which tracks are covered”.
Wyrms
“The graphic novel will either complement the original text, or profane it. The prophecies are vague.”
(I like the rendition of Unwyrm on the cover — enough not to be too scandalized that the Gebling King’s been omitted. No matter — I eagerly await seeing Geblings depicted within, to say nothing of Dwelfs and Gaunts.)
Edison Hate Future
I have ordered this. I had to.