JFernandes

September 21, 2012 10:25 am Scalera god DAMN.

August 29, 2012 10:21 pm I go mostly by publisher. Dark Horse, DC, IDW, Image, and Vertigo get alphabetized within their own sections. Marvel takes up two bookshelves on its own. All other publishers are intermingled, sorted alphabetically by title. Digest and manga-sized books are sorted alphabetically by title regardless of publisher on a smaller bookshelf. Given my collection of roughly 1,000 trades/HCs, this is the only way for me to know exactly where everything is. It also makes for easy browsing for my friends that borrow my books.

August 10, 2012 12:15 am Clean-energy guy killed me. Also, "the Jack Arnold Special." Well done, gents.

July 14, 2012 9:35 pm I'm honestly curious to see how many people listened to the director's commentary for Captain America: The First Avenger. During the commentary, he explicitly says that Bucky doesn't die from the fall because of the experiments HYDRA was doing on him when Cap rescued him. Anything other than a Winter Soldier follow-up would've shocked me. I'm just hoping Guardians of the Galaxy works, because that's what I'm most excited for.

July 7, 2012 7:38 pm Awesome episode, Josh. I could listen to Gabe and Jeff going back and forth for hours.

June 8, 2012 11:01 pm I want to see Morrissey play up his Britishness and be The Guvnah.

February 15, 2012 1:04 am Edit to the above: it should read "NYCC in 2011" not "2012."

February 15, 2012 12:55 am So my walls are now covered with potentially actionable trademark violations. That's nice to know. Seriously, though, the precedent this case could set regarding sketches, commissions, sketchbooks, and prints at conventions is scary (to me, at least). A lot of artists pretty much rely on these sales to be able to cover the cost of attending the cons. If an artist knows they won't be able to cover his/her expenses, I just can't see them attending the con at all. Now, Sean Murphy mentioned one (hopefully) feasible solution: a waiver. He's exclusive to DC, so it wouldn't seem too unlikely for him to be able to get some sort of waiver or limited license from DC to be able to draw and sell sketches of DC characters. One would hope the publishers would grant this to their respective artists. So, that leaves artists who may be recognized only for having drawn a trademarked character in the past, but no longer have a connection to the trademark-holding publisher. You know that anyone who drew Batman at one point will be asked to draw Batman at a con. And that artist probably relies on that fact in order to justify going to a show. Does this mean they'll just stop going? I guess we'll see. As for indie artists, if you're going to a con and asking them to draw something from the big two, you're doing it wrong as a fan. Let them draw what they love, which, more often than not, will be their own creation. I met Kevin Mellon and Kody Chamberlain at NYCC in 2012, and when they each asked what I wanted them to draw for me, my response was "what do you WANT to draw?" And their faces just lit up. Mellon drew Shelby from Gearhead and Chamberlain drew a zombie (which I didn't see coming at all since my only exposure to his work was Sweets). Not only does this avoid any trademark violation, but it also let them know that I appreciate THEIR work, THEIR creations. Alternatively, maybe this year I'll just go to Artist Alley with my own pad of bristol board and tell artists I'll pay them money to sign a page of my sketchpad, and wouldn't terribly mind if they happened to use the rest of the page for...whatever.

January 18, 2012 2:57 pm Green Wake vol. 2, Infinite Horizon, Luther Strode vol. 1. That's a good month.

October 10, 2011 2:28 pm Black Metal! \m/ BQ: I'll be there all four days working at the Bill Cole Enterprises booth.