Daily Archive: March 13, 2007

Mar 13

Where do we get our “Cap Was Right” shirts?

Warning: This linked item has profanity galore. And a moderate one in this post. I don’t read Marvel, of course, but it seems that there’s actually an issue of Civil War Frontline wherein some character named Sally Floyd chews out Captain America because he isn’t interested in MySpace or YouTube and thus doesn’t represent America. …

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Mar 13

Metro Med gallery has been posted

Good news for all of the fans of Metro Med, the hospital for superheroes comic book. I’ve posted a Metro Med gallery on ComicSpace. The gallery includes a few page samples, including some never before seen in color, as well as pinups, character designs, logos and a few examples of my terrible, terrible sketches and …

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Mar 13

Russell Reviews “Pride of Baghdad” and “JLA”

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Pride of Baghdad, the “graphic novel” by Brian K. Vaughn and Niko Henrichon. It got a big push in my neck of the woods; Vaughn came to Dearborn to speak at the Arab-American National Museum, did a Q & A, even hung out at Green Brain Comics …

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Mar 13

The super-roofie

I’ll have more to “say” on this later, but for now this sums up my problem with “Superman Returns”.

Mar 13

Captain Carrot is coming back

“Captain Carrot and the Final Arc”, a three-issue mini-series, will be published in the fall of 2007. My big question is, will it disregard the atrocious “Whatever Happened To Captain Carrot” that ran in the Teen Titans? It should. That was more a parody of Identity Crisis and other soul-crushing character-destroying comics.

Mar 13

Congratulations to Sean Taylor!

Sean Taylor, whom I worked with on Job Wanted and Shooting Star Comics, has announced on his ComicSpace that he will be writing Dominatrix for IDW’s Gene Simmons Comics. IDW’s partnership with Gene Simmons has leaked early but will be officially announced at WizardWorld L.A. Way to go, Sean!

Mar 13

The Dude’s wise words on Captain America’s death

Bob and Brian Interviewed Jeff Bridges on March 8th and asked about his new movie, “Iron Man”. They then asked him if he’d heard about Captain America getting assassinated. Bridges: “He’ll be back, you know. This is the comic book world.” He’s also in “The Amateurs” about a group of midwestern guys who get their …

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