Motion comic?
Stumbled upon a completely new product category the other day.
The eighth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, originally developed in graphic novel format will soon be available as a motion comic as well.
File under: “must see before passing judgment”.
Duckburg Blast
Some of the the long ago sold out first issues of Ankkalinnan Pamaus, the finnish Disney fanzine are now available for download.
Floyd Gottfredson Anthologized
Yay!
Floyd Gottfredson, the greatest Mickey Mouse artist in the world gets the anthology treatment from Fantagraphics.
I’ll be there next year, with a pre-order on Amazon.
Sacre Bleu, Sacrilege!
I have avoided the newest Asterix-album (Asterix and the Falling Sky) unconsciously – the reviews indicated the quality of the series had slipped even further with the thirty-third volume.
However, upon spotting the book in the local library, I couldn’t resist picking it up.
And can now report that it is indeed a misfire of epic proportions. Even when compared to other post-Goscinny albums, this is head and shoulders above. Above, that is, when mindbending stupidity is concerned.
There’s so much wrong with this book that it cannot be recommended to anybody as anything but a dire warning of jumping the shark.
Aliens! Superman! Clones! Robots! Inane dialogue! Everything has very little to do with the normal Gauls vs. Romans! Aliens! Gaping holes in the plot!
And finally, a firm press of the reset button at the end. I certainly hope someone would erase this travesty from my mind as well.
Fingerpori's most banned
Since variants of “Fingerpori 4.5.” seems to be by far the most popular search term these days, here’s the multi-offensive strip in its full glory.
Fingerpori, censored
Fingerpori‘s one panel “free-range jew soap”-joke turned out to be too controversial for Hesari, and the comic strip is now gone:
Jarla meets Kubrick
Genius, pure genius.
Viivi & Wagner hits a homerun
Juba’s comic has not exactly been a shining insight into my life. Every once in a while the cohabiting pig and feminist do reach great heights (usually related to wearing shorts or drinking beer).
This time around the strip reaches lofty heights of employment-related angst usually reserved for the top shelf entries of Dilbert.
Best of Batman
Out of the top 25 Batman graphic novels, my tally is nine, with none of the honorable mentions covered.
The first Batman / Judge Dredd crossover is sadly absent from the list, whereas the top 4 is impeccably selected. And props for leaving out Frank Miller’s unfortunate return to Batman.
Predictably delayed
The second part of the The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century has been delayed. More than a bit:
Chapter 2 was set to be released April/May 2010, and was then moved to October 2010, then to “2010/2011″ and it has now been moved to 2011.
Assembling the Avengers – with plenty of ironic dialogue
Joss Whedon to direct Avengers film for Marvel. Due out in 2012, and converging multiple comic-based franchises.
War against apathy
No blog lately. Lack of inspiration and time is the main reason.
Fingerpori helps.
This comic strip from last saturday epitomizes what is good in Pertti Jarla’s masterpiece.
Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec
Finally a decent Luc Besson movie!
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, based on Jacques Tardi’s graphic novels looks nothing short of delicious.
Based on the trailer it seems to collect adversaries from multiple episodes.
Katuoja 2.0
Katuoja has moved.
Planetary – finally finished
Warren Ellis and John Cassaday have completed Planetary, the 27 issue intertextual journey through space and time.
Picked up the fourth anthology, Spacetime Archaeology, today. But will re-read the whole saga before tackling the last six episodes.
Next in line
A dual topic under a single title:
- Updated the “next in line” bit in the sidebar to cover the upcoming movies, games and such.
- And while doing that, once again marveled at the domestic comics calendar, which tells when new issues and albums are due.
Tempo, take 2
The second issue of Tempo is out.
Once again featuring a non-canon Spirou & Fantasio-story.
Once again exceeding expectations.
Heartily recommended.
And looking forward to a tighter publishing schedule in 2010.
Elfquest artist meets a melancholy brooder
Wendy Pini‘s take on Elric, Michael Moorcock’s doomed prince from Melniboné is awesome indeed.
The film, begun in 1987, was never completed.
The life and times of a melancholic last son of a fallen empire, forever bound to his demon sword is not an easy topic for a movie. So it is with a considerable surprise that Chris and Paul Weitz’s planned trilogy arrives.
Graphing movies
Movie Narrative Charts. Yet another display of genius from XKCD. A snippet of the Fellowship of the Ring, as rendered as a graph showing the interactions of various characters.
Incidentally, finally got my copy of the first anthology of said comic, ordered more than two months ago.
Looking for good artists
A new Uncle Scrooge script by Carl Barks has been discovered.
[ via Ankkalinnake. ]
