Catching up on linkblogging…
Flashy Links
- Losing Weight The Barry Allen Way! at Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!!
- DCU Club Infinite Earth 2013 Pictures [dead link] of including Wally West, Elongated Man, Larfleeze and more.
- That F’ing Monkey: Aw Yeah Comics
And of course there’s always new stuff at The Rogues Kick Ass and The Fastest Fan Alive.
Art
- Great fan art mashups for CSBG’s The Line it is Drawn #100 including Magneto vs the Borg and a lot more
- Justice League of the Wild West by Denis Medri
- DC steampunk by J.L. Straw at Ladies Making Comics
- Get Your Own Parody Comic Book Portrait! – Once Upon a Geek
- Art: MFA Superhero Typographic Classifications on the Behance Network – Superheroes drawn using letters and symbols from different styles of fonts.
- Davis Willis (Shortpacked!, Dumbing of Age) is working on a COIE homage poster featuring the Walkyverse and DoA versions of his characters. [Edit: linked to a post further along in the process.]
- A Compendium of Cool Comics Cosplay: August 3rd
Cons
- Fixing the cons of Comic-Con – UTSanDiego
- With SDCC over, SoCal comics fans can plan for fall events like Long Beach Comic and Horror Con and Stan Lee’s Comikaze. Here’s my Long Beach 2011 writeup and photos
Comics Industry Commentary
- Interesting thoughts: Vertigo Comics – A Decline of an Empire at The Weekly Crisis
- Thought-provoking article at The Beat: Why DC and Marvel will never truly target female readers. Don’t miss responses: Even Glaciers Melt at DC Women Kicking Ass and It Ain’t Over at Comic Book Grrrl.
- Grumpy Old Fan: Consequences, consistency and idea-making in a shared universe.
- Cartoonist Battles Frivolous Lawsuits with Comedic Protest – CBLDF on the Oatmeal/Funnyjunk/Carreon case
- The Hobbit being stretched into 3 movies reminds me of last year’s post, What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?
- Interesting question & responses at Newsarama: Is Continuity Really A Draw For Superhero Universes?
- DC sales analysis for June at The Beat
More Comics
- Read Comics in Public Day is coming up on August 28 (via The Beat)
- Dark Knight Rises: Bane as the Cumulative Villain – 4thletter
- It’s been nearly 5 years since Flash artist Mike Wieringo’s death. Honor his memory with a donation to The Hero Initiative on M-Day – Mark Gruenwald/Mike Wieringo Memorial (August 12)
- It turns out there’s a Tamaran Building in Pasadena, California.
- Wild Blue Yonder, a 5-issue miniseries by Zach Howard Mike Raicht Austin Harrison, looks like it could be cool. “In a post-apocalyptic society in the sky, Cola, a teenaged girl fighter pilot fights to protect The Dawn, her flying fortress and home.” They’ve been working on it off and on for a few years and are raising funds on Kickstarter to focus on the project, due for release next year.
So if Barry were to shoot peashooter parts of himself at someone while running, which would hit the target first: Barry Bits or Barry Allen?
Normally I’ve loved The Line Is Drawn, but the last two offerings were meh for me….except for the Borg/Magneto one. That was brilliant.
I think I really love Steampunk Jay a whole lot more than I do Earth 2 of the nu52 Jay. Nah..I do love SP Jay more and that’s with just one picture to go by.
The Hobbit….I can’t stop seeing Dr. John Watson there doing cosplay. God help me if movie Smaug has curly hair.
Never minded reading comics in public…until the last two other comics lovers at work turned out to be thieves. If the comic book crowd wants to worry about it’s image they should consider touting the importance of morals. I dunno. Just saying I’m now a little leery of reading in front of my bosses.
Bad week for me: major roach infestation rears its head again. I officially now hate summer nights and rainstorms. Thank you Marvel for Mark Waid’s Daredevil #16 with Murdock and Pym….helped keep me sane. I now want some fan art of Matt defending Wally in court against DC’s blacklisting. Mark should have a scene insertion of this….just change the names enough to avoid getting sued. I’d frame the page. 🙂 The truly awful thing here is that I should be finding Flash as my mind saver like in years long ago.
At least the art is still pretty even with a guest artist.
M-Day, great cause in the memory of two great creators.
Thanks for the tip, Wild Blue Yonder looks and sounds terrific. After I donate, can’t wait to see it.