(crossposted from my regular site)
I’m in the mood to have a contest.
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Here’s how it goes. I grew up on the Muppets, I think “The Muppet Show” was groundbreaking in terms of TV and I love that they’ve remained in the pop culture dialogue for so long. I have a lot of really fond memories of watching them and various other Muppet-related stuff like movies and cartoons as a little kid.
So, I want you to write me a short paragraph telling me which is your favorite Muppet and why you like them. My fiancee and I will be deciding which entry is our favorite, and deciding a winner.
Email me at costakout (at) gmail (dot) com with the headline CONTEST YO! with your answers. We will be accepting entries up until midnight of February 9th, EST. That’s one whole week.
What do you win? Well, besides bragging rights, you’ll get copies of Summer Fences by Castevet and Stay Home by Transit on CD, as well as a one-of-a-kind MAYHEM & CUDDLES or WAFFLES strip, whichever I feel like.
So fire up your nostalgia engines and dig deep down into your memories about The Muppets, “The Muppet Show”, and “Muppet Babies”, and write in!
I found this at “Comics Should Be Good” @ CBR, it’s an alternate cover for an issue of Jonathan Hickman’s SHIELD I think. Or maybe a real cover. Or just some promo art. I don’t know, it looks badass regardless.
The official first trailer for the big-screen adaptation of The Losers is up now, and I am so fucking excited I could piss my pants. You can check it from MSN.com at ComicBookResources (dot) Com, and you should, because it looks amazing.
The original Vertigo series is amazing (and all 5 volumes are floating around, easy to find), Andy Diggle and Jock are two of my favorite creators…shit, this whole thing is amazing.
Seriously though, check it out.
“Detroit” by Fireworks, from All I Have to Offer is My Own Confusion
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Because I still can’t embed it, here’s a link to the version that got censored for some wussy reason.
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If you’re a fan of my work outside of this site, you can now check out the webcomic Mayhem & Cuddles on Facebook. You can also check out the strip I do that shows up on my regular site, Waffles, on it’s own site via Tumblr.
‘Cause I know I am!
All I can say to wrap this up is FUCK YEAH. Atomic Robo is totally something I’d love to see animated, I think it’d make a great TV series or series of short films like they did with Hellboy.
Marvel announced the new Avengers lineup as their post-”Seige” and “Dark Reign” titles, falling under an informal “The Heroic Age” banner, is set to begin.
I have to say, seeing Gorilla Man (Ken Hale) in there makes me sad because that means he might not be in Agents Of Atlas anymore. Also, I’m assuming that Hawkeye here is Clint Barton in his old togs, which means no more Ronin (again, I’m bummed, I liked him in that identity). The Thing’s an odd choice considering how reluctant Marvel seems to end or “break up” the Fantastic Four, but Beast is a classic Avenger, and Black Widow and Spiderman are good choices.
However, the biggest shock (not to me) is that the Big Three here are not quite who people thought. The solicitation for Seige #1 shows Thor, Steve Rogers as Captain America, and Iron Man.
Notice who’se weilding the shield in this new promo though? Also of course Iron Man’s rockin’ the new and improved threads, which I think are slated to show up in the new few issues of Fraction’s Invincible Iron Man.
Anyway, we’ll see how this goes…
D.I.Y America Ep. 3, “Skate and Create: Part 2 Perseverance (The Art of Falling Down)”
I’m not going to say who’se in this because it’ll make your brain explode, but check it out. Thanks to Punknews for bringing this up.
A) Hey, a Grant Morrison book I’m actively excited for!
B) Thanks to Brian Wood for bringing this review to my attention of the new Grant Morrison/Sean Murphy comic Joe The Barbarian, from Vertigo. I initually was a little bit interested in this because I’m a fan of Murphy’s work ever since stumbling across him on DeviantArt, because normally, I’m not really a huge Grant “I’M A GODDAMN FUCKING LSD MAGICIAN” Morrison fan.
Now after reading that “review” (and I use that term loosely…Jesus shit, CBR, way to go letting something like that hit the Web loosely associated w/your name) I’m definitely excited for eventually reading it. Because all the things that the reviewer is talking about in terms of pacing and layout are what I think makes great comics, especially in a book that takes place in the realm of imagination and its overlay with reality.
Being a fan of of Bill Watterson and Scott McCloud and the general art of combination art/word literature (comics), you can’t just fill every panel and every page with action and dialogue. I mean, I don’t think you can, because to me, pacing is just as important.
Whatever…I just thought it was a hilarious “review” not to mention ill-written. Also, I wanted to mention it on any context because Sean Murphy is an amazing artist and and more of you should be aware of him.
I saw this and laughed…
“Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Boo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.”
You can see it here c/o Geeks Of Doom.
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Announced today at Newsarama;
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It’s like a weird cosmic Web Circle coming ’round…
Costa
