Mark your calendars--The Tick Vs: Season Two is due out on DVD on August 7th! Its $34.99 price tag is a little painful, but this gloriously strange mid-nineties cartoon is totally worth it.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Evildoers beware
Mark your calendars--The Tick Vs: Season Two is due out on DVD on August 7th! Its $34.99 price tag is a little painful, but this gloriously strange mid-nineties cartoon is totally worth it.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Now with pictures
We're very excited to see that there's going to be a graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer's first Artemis Fowl book, due out in October. According to Colfer's website, the book will be a faithful adaptation of the story, co-written with Andrew Donkin, and feature artwork by Giovanni Rigano (The Incredibles). We expect this means it will be pricey, but if all else fails, maybe you can ask for it for Christmas...?Labels: Comic, Eoin Colfer
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Archie goes East
I hear that there's a possibility of an Indian version of the long-running Archie comic books. Apparently, Archie's pretty hot in India, and its publishers are thinking of releasing a culturally-appropriate version for their Indian readers. Betty and Veronica doing their G-rated catfighting in saris?--I would love to read it.Labels: Comic
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Friday, May 04, 2007
Hey, I did remember
As promised, a reminder--tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, people (and my buddy Patrick says there's some good stuff this year). Get thee to a comic book store and demand (politely) that they turn over the loot.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Achewood teaches us about wine.
Achewood.com, home to Chris Onstad's awesomely surreal webcomic of the same name about the group of anthropomorphic toys, robots, and animals that live at 62 Achewood Court, now offers The Achewood Cookbook, a book designed "for people who are fed up with glossy, high-quality efforts by professional chefs who aren't forced to shop at lousy chain grocery stores and cook everything in a ruined teflon pan." (Ooh, and it's only $14! I think I've found my little brother's birthday gift!)I tend to wonder if this kind of thing is a very late April Fools' Joke, but apparently it isn't: you can buy the cookbook or the Cook's Gift Set--which the shop assures us is "just about the finest thing a person can give to another person"--at Onstad's online shop.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Free Comic Book Day is coming soon...
Remember, gentle readers, Free Comic Book Day is coming up on May 5th. I don't know much about this year's titles, but there's one titled The Umbrella Academy that features cover art by the phenomenal James Jean (the cover artist for Fables, Jack of Fables, and the soon-to-be-released paperback edition of Annette Curtis Klause's Freaks) and something called Choose Your Weapon, a compilation title from Tokyopop. We'll try to remember to post a reminder on May 4th, but mark your calendars now!
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Get thee to a comic book store
Today's the release date for the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic book! I'm not sure how this whole season-eight-in-comic-book-form is going to work out (I was underwhelmed by the Serenity graphic novel), but it's probably worth the $4 cover price.Labels: Comic
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
I can't believe I'm typing this...
...but I am actually about to recommend a Marvel comic book.
Runaways is unexpectedly awesome. This series, about a group of teenagers who discover that their respectable California parents are leading double lives as a cabal of supervillains, is funny, touching, and smart. The artwork is mediocre, and I'm told that Joss Whedon is about to take over as head writer (longtime readers know that I look at any Whedon project with suspicion, having never forgiven him for the last two seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), but I'm enjoying myself too much to care. And at a mere $7.99 per volume, they're even reasonably priced!
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Northanger Abbey
Artist Anne Timmons and writer Trina Robbins are doing a graphic novel adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as part of a collection for the Graphic Classics line. Details are sketchy, but the book is due out in May. (Timmons has featured additional artwork on her blog, if you're curious.) I'm really excited about this--I think Northanger Abbey will make a great comic book. [Source]Labels: Comic, Jane Austen
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Monday, January 22, 2007
Chin up.
According to my mother, who saw it on the news, today is supposed to be the gloomiest day of the year. The weather tends to be bad, Christmas bills are due, and most people have broken their New Year's resolutions. (It's also the day after my birthday, so I choose to believe that the world is just recovering from the massive celebrations they held in my honor the day before.) Anyway, if you're feeling particularly ghastly today, here are the Wordcandy staff's picks for best comfort reading:
Meg's pick:
Nathan's pick:
And mine (which is, of course, the best):
Labels: Bone, Comic, Stella Gibbons, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Classier and classier...
Zenescope Entertainment is offering another twist on the popular revamped fairytale genre: an R-rated comic book version! Doesn't their "Grimm Fairy Tales" series look delightful?
Dude, that's fully what *I* would wear to my grandmother's house.
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Shojo exhibit hits DC
The international touring exhibit "Girl Power! Girls' Comics from Japan" is coming to Washington D.C. on January 30th. Curated by Dr. Masami Toku, Associate Professor of Art and Art History at California State University Chico, "Girl Power" features 23 shojo artists and more than 200 works from World War II to the present. As our only DC-area staff member, Megan will naturally be forced to attend and report back on this event. And possibly bring us a few souvenirs.... [Source]
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Holy cow--is she smiling?
Unable to get Sarah Michelle Gellar to stop looking like a wet week, Joss Whedon has turned to comic books to continue his story. Behold: Buffy the Vampire Slayer's season eight, coming soon to a comic shop near you:
I'm torn--I still haven't forgiven Whedon for essentially abandoning Buffy for its last two seasons, and I got seriously tired of watching Buffy, Xander, and Willow turn into unrecognizable caricatures of themselves... but I still might check this out. I'm weak. For a sneak peek, click here.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
It's not the lack of girl-friendly comics, it's the lack of girl-friendly comic stores.
The New York Times has an article up about DC's upcoming "Minx" imprint, due to be unleashed next May. Minx will be a line of graphic novels (seven titles are planned for release in 2007) aimed at the young adult female demographic. DC is teaming up with the mighty marketing power that is Alloy Marketing + Media, obviously hoping to create an American version of the shojo manga phenomenon. Ah... good luck with that one, guys.Labels: Comic
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
Guilty Pleasures
Check 'em out! The long-awaited Anita Blake comic book was released this week. While I could not bring myself to actually go out and spend my hard-earned money on one, I was able to find some sample pages on the web to share. Check out Jean-Claude! Oh, my God--I could not stop giggling....
*All images are property of their respective artists and publishers. They are also funny as hell.
Labels: Anita Blake, Comic, Laurell K. Hamilton
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Friday, September 22, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
YAY!
We're back! Megan still has a boatload of stuff to unpack, her cat's mental health may be fragile for the foreseeable future, and I came home with a wicked case of laryngitis. Still, I arrived at home to find my review copy of The Ladies of Grace Adieu, so all is right with the world. (Er... more or less.)And this morning I discovered that the cartoon version of Ben Edlund's The Tick is freshly out on DVD! HURRAY! I loved this series. There were villains like the evil Breadmaster and his sidekick, Buttery Pat, El Seed, and The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight. There were sidekicks like Speak the Capybara. There were episodes about superhero exchange programs gone terribly, terribly wrong. It was awesome, and I must add it to my Netflix queue immediately.
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Wordcandy odds and ends
Juicy tidbits regarding Wordcandy-approved books are drifting in left and right…
1. The Eragon movieFrankly, I'm not a huge fan of this series. It was okay, but I don't think that it would have been published--certainly not without some hardcore editing--if it weren't for the author's unusual age. Still, it was entertaining enough, and the movie version is apparently coming out on December 15. I'll probably see it. I'm weak, and (judging by the movie homepage) it looks fun--imagine The Lord of the Rings, edited down for a made-for-TV-movie, aimed at twelve-year-old girls. Doesn't the hero look like a WB star? (And doesn't that girl's leather bustier thingie look uncomfortable?) But why that particular camera angle--does the straight-up-the-nostril angle have some special significance?[Source]
2. More Stardust movie newsMore and more images are leaking from the set of Neil Gaiman's Stardust. This picture features the Dread Sienna Miller, all dressed up as the Barbie-esque coquette Victoria. Seems like a role that will suit her, actually. I'll definitely see this one, but I fully intend to hiss when she comes onscreen.[Source]
3. (Best of all) A boatload of Fables info!There will be a new, limited-run Fables comic called 1001 Nights of Snowfall, which will take place before the events of the main series. It's an Arabian Nights-style story, with Snow in the role of Scheherazade. (And Charles Vess is gonna paint the set-up story!) The next storyline in Fables is going to be a four-part series called "Sons of Empire", which will continue the story of the Empire's plans for war, as well as featuring mini-stories devoted to some of the minor Fables. And the January 2007 issue of Fables, called "Burning Questions", is going to be devoted to answering some of the dangling plot threads that might have bothered readers.[Source]
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Friday, July 21, 2006
Comic-Con
Comic-Con 2006 is underway. Have fun in San Diego, you lucky little devils! Let me know if Snakes on a Plane is as crappy as I hear it is (truly bad, not Plan 9-style enjoyably bad), and if the Masquerade Ball is as excruciatingly embarrassing as it looks.Labels: Comic
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
You know what I miss?
The Classics Illustrated series from the early nineties. Remember those? I mean, I had some Classics Illustrated rip-offs (including a particularly terrible Pride and Prejudice comic, where all of the Bennet sisters looked like Barbies), but none were as well-done as the First Comics series. I wonder why they went out of business...Labels: Comic
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