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Friday – Inside The Doctor Who Screening, On Stage With Jimmy Fallon, At Home With The Romitas And On The Block For Half A Million

Published Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:49:10 -0500

The preview press screening of the Doctor Who: Waters Of Mars upcoming special has just finished. My man in the audience, a cynical world-weary media type text messages to tell me;

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that's up there with the best of them. Oh yes.

Can't wait. Except I'll have to.

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Comic artist Afua Richardson appeared on Jimmy Fallon's show on Monday, as a backup singer for Har Mar Superstar (left).

Richardson draws Genius for Top Cow and has a Captain Marvel strip in the works for DC's Holiday Anthology.

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John Romita Jr gave an interview to The Times newspaper, where he talks about the moment with his father, John Romita Sr, that got him into comics;

Late in 1965 I remember going up to visit him and I saw him doing brush work for what I believe was his first work for Marvel, the cover of Daredevil No 12. I was shocked by what was on the page, so I asked him, 'What is that? What's going on?' I know my eyes must have been like saucers. He said, 'This is a character called Daredevil and he's a superhero and he's blind. 'What? Not a chance, he can't possibly be blind. How's he gonna fight'

…how working in comics strengthened his bond with his father;

I grew up with Spider-man. Then I started drawing him and I had to constantly ask my father's opinion. We have a great relationship and Spider-man has made it that that much better.

…the trauma of drawing Amazing Spider-Man #36;

My office was plastered with so many pictures of ground zero, and I updated them nearly every other hour because things changed so quickly on the ground. I brought it upon myself. My wife Kathy used to say me, 'Get away from the death, walk away.' I would leave the desk in tears. This is my city, I took it personally

…and the justification for the extreme language in Kick Ass.

Now I know that a 11-year-old New York City girl, even a foul-mouthed one, is not going to use that word. The C-word is such a shocking word to Americans. We'll use every other foul word in existence but that one — wow, women will shoot you if you say that word. I told Mark this and he just said, 'I want to use that word because it brings the UK in.'

As well as how he prepared his father for reading it…

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Out in St Louis, a house clearance has unearthed a collection of 1960 Marvel Comics including Avengers #1 and Amazing Fantasy #15 – with that issue expected to sell for more than the house it was found in is worth, and the collection espected to fetch up to half a million dollars. Who says there's a recession?

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And on the day that Marvel announce their comic line on the iPhone, new Gareb Shamus/Stephen Shamus site GeekChicDaily instead leads with the story that you can now get… horror voiceover clips on your iPhone. Mmm.

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