Writer Jim Zubkavich (Image’s entertaining Skullkickers) has created a handy tutorial to writing comics. So far there’s two parts, and you can read both at Jim’s blog and for your cat viewing pleasure, here’s the Comic-Con variant cover for Skullkickers #15.
65 mins. We finally get to this topic! The history of minority characters within comics, superheroes who are replaced by minority characters, or changed when adapted to other media. We also throw a few gnarly questions at one another.
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1:05 NEWS
Katsuhiro Otomo returns to long form manga
Ralp McQuarrie’s He-Man film sketches
Warner Bros. vs the Superman creators’ heirs. Again.
Perth’s Swancon, featuring Extra Sequential’s own Kris Bather speaking at 2 panels!
WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING/ WATCHING
Hilarious Little League webcomic
Atomic Robo’s new series
2 foreign films – Cell 211, and Tais Toi
Hobbes and Bacon webcomic
IDW’s Locke and Key
David Boring
15:16 THEME – RACE RELATIONS
Replacement characters including:
War Machine
Steel
Ryan Choi as Atom
Miles Morales as Ultimate Spider-Man
History of minority superheroes including:
Black Panther and his wife Storm
Luke Cage
Falcon
Static Shock
The use of Black in character names, such as:
Black Manta, Black Lightning, Black Racer (he’s on skis!), and Black Vulcan
Asian characters like Amadeus Cho, James Woo, Green Arrow Connor Hawke, Batgirl Cassandra Cain, Katana, Lady Shiva and Nico Minoru from Marvel’s Runaways.
and many more characters.
As an added bonus, here’s the “Bruce Lee” film from 1977 that Mladen mentions.
Well, this is very nice of Robert Kirkman. The successful writer behind The Walking Dead comic, and the inspiration for the hit TV series, is showing an excerpt of Rachel Rising, the undead mystery comic from Terry Moore, in this month’s ish of The Walking Dead. Nice one, Kirkman. He did the same a while ago by running a preview of Chew, and that went on to great success. Good on Image for showing this excerpt too, considering Rachel Rising isn’t even a comic published by them. I’ve read its first issue and was pretty impressed so may just have to pick up the TPB when it goes on sale at the end of this month.
Oh, and if, like me, you’ve missed The Walking Dead TV series, you’ll be happy to know that the DVD and Blu-Ray collection of the first season is now on Aussie shores.
THE WALKING DEAD #95, in stores on March 28, will have a five-page preview of Terry Moore’s horror comic Rachel Rising, published by Moore’s own Abstract Studio. The trade paperback collecting the first six issues of the ongoing series by the Strangers in Paradise creator, Rachel Rising: The Shadow of Death, will be in comic book stores the same day.
Rachel Rising tells the story of a young woman who cannot die. She wakes up at the foot of her own shallow grave, looking at her own freshly-murdered corpse. The events of her last night are hazy, and Rachel must piece together the events that led to her death — so that she can take revenge on the right person. Comic Book Resources described Rachel Rising as being “chock full of decadent mystery, unspeakable horror, strong characters, and beautiful black and white artwork, and it’s on its way to becoming the best of Terry Moore’s already impressive work.”
THE WALKING DEAD creator Robert Kirkman decided to include the preview in the latest issue of the Image Comics bestseller to support Moore’s work.
“Terry is a personal hero of mine dating back to my self-publishing days,” he writes in his introduction to the preview. “I’ve always been a fan of his work and an admirer of everything he’s been able to accomplish independently.”
THE WALKING DEAD #95 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn continues the series’ “A Larger World” storyline. Rachel Rising: The Shadow of Death (ISBN 978-1-89259-751-9) is a 120-page black-and-white trade paperback.
56 mins. We go high-brow and examine meta-comics. In other words, stories in which the writers appear as themselves, characters know that they’re in a comic, and more rule breaking craziness. Also, the best pirate joke you’ll ever hear.
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WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING
The adventurous and entertaining Lord of the Jungle #2
The disappointing Danger 5 TV series, and Reading Comics book by Douglas Wolk
The erotic Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie
9:35 NEWS
The upcoming Image Comics doco
11: 30 THEME – META-COMICS
Characters and comics that break the fourth wall.
Grant Morrison’s work on Animal Man, and The Invisibles
Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Casasday, including the Batman cross-over one-shot featuring different versions of the superhero
Bat-Mite in TV’s Batman: Brave and the Bold
Ambush Bug
Deadpool. Here’s 10 of his best fourth wall breaking moments.
Dave Sim’s Cerbeus
Andrew Drilon’s Supermaker webcomic
