I saw a few interesting things today as I went to my LCS (local comics shop). Firstly, there were a few more people there than usual, which was fantastic. I guess most of them heard about the place from the Supanova expo. I love it when people discover comics for the first time. I firmly [...]
TobyMac: Alive and Transported DVD/CD
dcTalk helped me become a Christian. I used to mock their cheesy and outdated Christian Television Association ads over a decade ago, then I saw their Welcome to the Freak Show live concert on VHS and couldn’t believe they were a Christian band. Surely Christian music had guys in braces playing harps and singing, “Hallelujah,” [...]
Supanova Perth
The geek trumpet sounded this weekend in the most isolated city in the world, and the geeks answered. And how. I’ve gotta say, I wasn’t sure of what to expect. The Supanova pop culture convention has been successfully operating on the other side of Australia for a few years now. (I went to the Gold [...]
Artist Michael Turner Dead
The global comics community is still small enough that writers and artists who I’ve never met, somehow seem like old friends. I grew up reading artist Mike Wieringo’s fun and energetic pencils on Flash and Spider-Man and when he died last year, I was quite emotional. I felt the same way upon discovering Michael Turner’s [...]
Revere Trailer
The comic biz is a hard one to break into. Most small publishers know that to compete directly with the Big Two (Marvel and DC) is foolishness, but their superhero stranglehold is fandom’s gain, as we get diverse publishers like ASP. Though they are (openly) in the midst of a restructure at the moment, some [...]
Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo
Kiss have done it (a few times). So has Alice Cooper, even New Kids on the Block. Now it’s Tori Amos’ turn. That’s right – musos and comics. What a combo! Almost as good as my favourite mix-up, chocolate and coffee. Mmm…mocha. Comic Book Tattoo is a massive 480 page anthology book, releasing on the [...]
X-Men and the Power of Community
You’ve seen the sketch variants for the 500th issue below, now you can see a few interior pages right here, free of those annoying words that only get in the way. The crowded cover is also quite appropriate to my newest article, now on Sight magazine. It’s all about the power of community, and that [...]
Xanadu’s X-Men Squadron
Don’t worry if that title doesn’t make sense. It will. Madame Xanadu is a classic DC Comics character who has come back in to a sort of prominence in the last few years. She’s a powerful, blind sorceress, and now she has a new limited series written by Matt Wagner (creator of Mage and Grendel) [...]
Uncanny X-Men #500
500 is a number worth celebrating, especially in the comics world. Marvel have given us two sketch variants for this milestone, rather than risking a fire by trying to light 500 candles. One is from one of the best lady-pencillers in the biz, Terry Dodson. (Drool at his work here) … and one is from [...]
Definitely, Maybe-Certainly
I hate most rom-coms (um, romantic comedies-yeah) My house-mate loves them and put on Fool’s Gold recently. I gave it twenty minutes and could stomach no more. Most are bland, predictable and written for 11 year olds. The quirky cast of supporting characters, the lame physical comedy, the same upbeat strings on the soundtrack, the [...]
Tropic Thunder Promo
This looks like it could be a funny film. Ben Stiller stars as action man Tug Speedman, Jack Black is the funny guy Jeff “Fats” Portnoy and an unrecognisable Robert Downey Jr portrays the award winning Aussie, Kirk Lazarus. From the names alone its obvious this film will be mocking blockbuster conventions. The somewhat unique [...]
The (not-so) Incredible Hulk
Well, it was better than the first Hulk film in 2003, but that’s not saying much. Director Louis Leterrier’s re-boot is certainly closer to the comics version of the Green Goliath, but it is still lacking in key areas. The action has been ramped up, with lots of running, and some light humour, in the [...]
Bourne’s Xbox Biffo
I thought I’d treat myself (for no discernible reason) and buy the latest official Oz Xbox mag this week. I only ever buy mags with demo discs attached. It’s quicker than downloading off Xbox Live and it’s a good way of seeing if the game may be purchase-worthy. Apart from a gloriously huge Gears of [...]
It had to be done
Well I guess it was only a matter of time. It’s not like the world needs yet another blog, especially one from a comic book junkie, but I could resist no longer! I used to be the Comics Editor for Infuze, a great little on-line pop culture mag, but that went belly up (not my [...]
