hawaiianpunch

May 4, 2012 10:26 am I just can't decide. They're all so good! OK, Tom Fowler's Rhino.

April 27, 2012 12:06 pm Everyone should read Heidi MacDonald's excellent retelling of the history behind all this creator-bashing at DC: http://www.comicsbeat.com/2012/04/25/the-creators-position-viewed-through-the-lens-of-alan-moore/ There's a lot of insight in that article that people on the internet are not taking into account. Also, in all of the fact-checking and analysis, she tries to give the industry some hope: "As an industry we need to try to let creators create and let new ideas flourish. And support a market that supports new ideas. Some would say there isn’t the money going around for that. Maybe. But we should try." I agree.

April 27, 2012 11:49 am Roberson never calls any of the artists or writers working on Before Watchmen "sell outs". His beef is with the DC/WB corporation that allowed a move like that to happen in the first place and made his decision having wrangled for months about whether he wanted to associate himself with a company that would treat past creators in the manner that DC has treated Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Siegel & Shuster, etc., etc. I, for one, respect his decision AND his initiative to speak about it publicly. Methods and practices like the ones Marvel and DC are employing with their artists and writers should be open to public debate. That's the only way that things will change.

April 27, 2012 11:34 am Joelle Jones' Greendale Human gets my vote, but Andy MacDonald's Midnighter is my second favorite.

April 23, 2012 11:22 am Is that the midget jester from the Men Without Hats - Safety Dance music video?

April 3, 2012 12:14 pm Is it just me, or does BMB look just like Dr. Evil?

March 5, 2012 11:49 am "This is the true story... of three friends... forced to live in a house...work together and have their lives taped... to find out what happens... when fanboys stop being polite... and start getting real...The iFanboy World!" I'd watch the hell out of that.

January 19, 2012 12:09 pm First off, the new logo won't make me boycott DC. I will still get the books that I like regardless. That said, I still don't like the logo in its variant editions. I still think that if you look at the logo by itself, without the "DC Comics" or DC Entertainment" text underneath it, a casual viewer wouldn't easily place it as DC. In a two second glance, all I can see is the "C". In the color versions, I only sometimes see that. Marketing's main task is to make products recognizable and easy to understand. It seems to me that these logos are counterproductive. The variant editions especially aren't catering to an expanded fanbase, but specifically to longtime comic fans who can easily catch the references in the color changes or the effects in the logo. The DC star-swoosh thing was just fine. Maybe flattening that and just using the star and trail would've been more eye-catching and still stayed more recognizable than this complete overhaul. I dunno. I can see it's animated application in iOS or Android apps, but it's going to take a long while for me to get used to seeing this and it's variants in print.

September 28, 2011 5:13 pm I could choose a number of different people to work on a reboot of Lobo. Remender would be one. Jason Aaron would be another. He's had fun with a little known Marvel curmudgeon in need of anger management and he would do well here, too. You mentioned him along with Tony Moore up above, but I'd give the whole thing over to Tom Fowler OR Sean Gordon Murphy. Either of those two have the unique style that would lend itself well to a new Lobo book, plus SGM has done space-y stuff before. But, my ultimate Lobo book would have to be a grand epic written and drawn by James Stokoe. That guy is crazy and I would just love to see what he does with a lunatic bounty hunter in outer space where he can go nuts with all of his weird ideas and concepts.

July 27, 2011 4:27 pm I've liked everything Joe Hill's done in comics so far and that one-shot last year was awesome. I can't wait to read the miniseries.