Spent the morning at the Hickory Con a nice little show worth the hour drive from Asheville especially when we included lunch buffet at Mamatown.
My scores,
Batman Print from Chris Bradberry
ATHF print from another artist whose business card I have already misplaced.
Space Ghost seasons 1 and 2 for ten dollars.
Two Mad magazine paperback collections.
The Gunslinger by Stephen King,
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene.
and four cookies. Yum.
Peas 168
The news that Wildstorm would be ending made many a fanboy upset. But to me I just can’t see a DC universe(who owns the rights to the characters) where Wildstorm figures like The Authority or Wildcats should exist. And that leaves us with this week’s Peas where Midnighter, always a hyper violent version of Batman, tries to apply for the DC universe. The results are less than pretty.
Peas 168 here.
Flavorwire lists 10 amazing comic shops. I’ve been to Quimbys in Chicago many times and would have to agree.
I have finished writing book one of Jessica Parasol, Daytime Ghost Hunter. The story will be 3 issues long with the first coming soon. Can’t wait to share it with you.
Just shown in Japan overnight heres the current launch games for the 3ds, priced at 299 in Japan, Feb 2011. Probably March or later here. 299 is high, but one look at that Kid Icuras footage, and i’m saving my credit card points for it.
Just finished Mockingjay book 3 of the
Hunger Games
Written by me, Art by Daniel L. Maw Coming soon.
Finally saw this last night, and I got to say I really liked it. Even though it’s based on the Oni Press comic series by Bryan Lee O’Malley, it actually felt to me like the first good video game movie. It owes so much to my video game generation, that I’m not sure how anyone older than me could possibly watch it. It’s so full of 8-bit reference and mid 90’s alternative music, that anyone who came before that time, probably just looks at it as a silly light show. Its a language of the culture that to me is a known quanity, and it adds another layer to the storytelling. In the realm of comic book movie, it acutally works as a visual comic, like very few comic movies have (American Splendor being one of the few others) without changing to the normal Hollywood scripting devices that are evident in the Iron Mans and other comic movies. So far Edgar Wright as director has been unbeatable, and I can’t wait for his take on Ant Man.
I’ve launched the new home for Peas Online here. If you would kindly update your bookmarks that would be great. Some nice new features. You can subscribe to Peas now through the rss feed, you can leave comments directly there. I can make the comic any size I want, and I can change the header and background colors pretty easily as well. Let me know what you think of the new home for Peas! Enjoy!
Peas Online!
I have the best friends. This awesome budweiser can circa 1970’s showed up at my house today from my friends at the Iowa City Barnes & Noble. Miss you guys! Thanks so much!