His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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Not a lot I felt like spending an entire column on this week. Topics linger in my notes like Miyamoto Musashi in pop culture, Tsukasa Hojo’s transvestite sitcom manga F-COMPO, the sociopolitical nuances of the anime movie SUMMER WARS, the sublime technothriller pulp of UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, but I’m just not in the mood to tackle them at the moment.
Thankfully, my filmmaker friend and former film schoolmate Olly sent along this link:
Shout-out: Olly Blackburn co-wrote and directed the cult thriller DONKEY PUNCH, which is a slasher flick without the slasher, since the story proves that dumb pretty people are perfectly fine at killing each other horribly, sometimes even on purpose, without the help of a homicidal maniac. You should rent it for shits and giggles.
So anyway, the Democratic Representative of Manchester, New Hampshire, Nick Levasseur is in the shit for posting on his facebook page that Anime is proof that two nukes weren’t enough. Apart from being another silly sausage who doesn’t understand how online privacy doesn’t really exist, this is a rare case of someone actually getting into trouble for being an internet troll. Just google him and see how many pages he and his remarks are now on. But there are big questions left unanswered here:
Which anime did he see?
That’s what I really want to know. Did he recoil at the slave-owning subtext of POKEMON? Was he shown the pedophilic creepiness of Moe? Did he snap when he discovered how interminably long INUYASHA is? Was he exposed to 90s Tentacle Porn? Did FIST OF THE NORTH STAR turn out not to be the gay porn he desperately hoped it would be? Or maybe it did? Once again, lazy and indifferent American journalism has let us all down by not asking the important questions. In this day and age, we can pretty much expect politicians and pundits to completely not get pop culture the young ‘uns like, especially the really young ‘uns and if it’s foreign, because foreign is Other and Unfathomable. Just look at the media and politicos’ hysteria over video games in the UK right now. But what I wonder about Levasseur is whether he really didn’t understand anime or whether he might have understood some of it a little too well.
Well, if Levasseur has to leave politics, he can take heart in his career prospects. His remark is exactly the kind of thing the meglomaniacal foreign (often American) villain would say in Japanese manga and anime. He can immigrate to Japan and start an acting career playing the Gaijin villain in Japanese thrillers. They’re very tolerant in Japanese show business – acting ability is entirely optional for white actors there. Or failing that, Levasseur can try for a consultancy job at Tokyopop.
In slow weeks, comically indiscreet idiots like Levasseur prove once again that they were put on this Earth to entertain us at their own expense.
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Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
