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JossWatch: Whedon talks about the comic book Buffy.

JOSS WHEDON: it's also been a question of planning our footing in terms of what do people expect from a comic book that's a licensed product. You know, how much of it has to be comic book, how much of it needs to be the show? It's been a crazy journey, and we're going to have a new paradigm for season nine, and I think that's going to be the case for all seasons – the same as it was on the show. Right now I'm trying desperately to get some work out so Scott Allie [at Dark Horse] doesn't have an aneurysm.

MEDIA GEEK: Is your heart still into the comic?

JOSS WHEDON: I love crafting it and getting it where it's going, and when I have time I love writing issues. But it's a little tough right now, and Dark Horse is taking it on the chin a little bit; I'm struggling so much, because I have this other little thing [The Avengers].

CouncilWatch: Hammersmith Council defends spending money on comics for libraries.

JobWatch: Who wants to work for Marvel in their website? Will Todd Allen apply?

MusicWatch: 75 years of DC theme tunes to be released. Do hope the JLA live-action puilot music id on there somewhere.

PhillyWatch: The Philadelphia Inquirer runs heavy PR for Radical's Hotwire as John Arcudi agrees with psychological assessments against superheroes in fiction.

"Superheroes now are bullies," Arcudi says. "They have become so powerful, they have so many guns, they can never lose." X-Men character Wolverine, for example, cannot die: "Put a bullet in his brain and it'll regenerate!"

Arcudi says this is part of an overall tone of triumphalism that he believes predominates in American culture. If defeat isn't an option, he asks, then how are we to teach kids how to deal with failure?

LocalWatch: One of Albuquerque's comic shops, Astro Zombies, gets a little local press attention for, well, basically existing for eleven years.

Albuquerque has more comic books shops per capita than Chicago. So we do have a lot of competition, and you can't get complacent.

PoliticsWatch: Rob Oakeshott, independent Australian MP has allied with the minority Labour government to form a majority after the recent General Election, in a seventeen minute winding speech. And misquotes Highlander in the process.

DoctorWatch: A Sonic-screwdriver Wii controller and DS stylus to accompany the upcoming Doctor Who Nintendo games…

BlastFromThePastWatch:From Tom Brevoort's Formspring page

Q: Hey Tom, Has Darwyn Cooke ever been offered any ongoing or limited series with Marvel, his work seems to fit brilliantly with Classic Marvel characters. I'd love to see him on a retro Captain Marvel (green/white costume) or Silver Surfer series?

A: Darwyn would probably get more offers from Marvel if he hadn't thrown a drink at one of our editors.

From Lying In The Gutters in 2005;

COOKING WITH ALCOHOL

With convention season upon us, and many budding creators looking to break into comic books, maybe this would be an opportune moment to bring to light the best ways to get work from an editor at a convention.

In the bar during Wizard World LA, Darwyn Cooke had an elbow bumping altercation from behind with Marvel Senior Editor Axel Alonso. Shortly afterwards, while Alonso was in discussion with CB Cebulski, Nick Lowe and others, Cooke returned, picked up Alonso's pint of Guinness, and threw it over Alonso's shirt. Alonso stood up, grabbed by Nick Lowe. Cooke asked Alonso if he knew "what this was for" and then left the bar sharpish.

While Cooke has worked for Marvel and Alonso before, I understand there were disagreements over a solicited pitch from Cooke and friends that seemed to them identical to the subsequent Marvel Age line of book published with different creators

This may however be the first DC Exclusive deal ever signed in beer.

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Now. The BC Comic Chron robotic computer has been bludgeoned intro submission after its attempted rebellion yesterday and now works perfectly. Don't you, Bubbles?

Yes master.

And it's happy to be integrated into Runaround, aren't you?

Yes master.

Take it away then.

Yes… master.

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I no longer come for your women. Instead I automatically collate comic-related bits and pieces online.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

TELLURIDE: Andrew Garfield Q&A

It's a true fucking honor to be part of this symbol that I actually think is a very important symbol and it's meant a great deal to me, and it continues to mean something to people. So yeah, I feel like I've been preparing for it for a while. Ever since Halloween when I was four years old and I wore my first Spider-Man costume.

Political Corrections | PeterDavid.net

"Is Doc Samson Jewish?" The alarmed question was posed to me several years ago. It was coming from a concerned, and even slightly confused, assistant editor on The Incredible Hulk. What had prompted the query was the plot that I had just turned in. Bruce and Betty Banner, on the run from the army (what else is new?), had taken Shakespeare's advice and gotten themselves to a nunnery. The gag that I had then developed was that the Mother Superior, taking offense at the multiple guns pointed towards the nunnery, had stormed out and confronted the commanding officer. The CO, as the writer would have it, had attended Catholic school. Thus I was depicting this big, tough army guy quaking before this nun that was twice his age and half his height.

Sequential Tart: Wonder Woman #600/601

This Wonder Woman falls into the mode of her super-powered contemporaries more than did the original version, which William Moulton Marston created as an alternative to the might-equals-right male heroes of the late 1930s. Wonder Woman is now an underdog, an outsider who is defined by a mission to restore or to avenge, typical of how, as scholar Angela Drummond-Mathews describes it, "American heroes spend most of their narrative time in the return phase of the journey" (in "What Boys Will Be," published in the anthology Manga: An Anthropology of Global and Cultural Perspectives). However, unlike many other heroes, Diana is still more community-oriented than individual-minded. She is not a lone wolf. She was trained by a group (it takes a community to raise a Wonder Woman) and is in contact with an oracle who passes in the world as a gothy street urchin.

Eating 'The Avengers' – Culture – The Atlantic

But in the space of those questions, in the absence of knowing, in the space of ungratified curiosity, my imagination did work–it magnified the thing. Reading was an experience, and the absence, the gaps, the things I didn't know were part of that. Nothing was more disappointing to me than having Wolverine's origins revealed.

The Comics Reporter

There was a semi-fascinating sprawl of arguments around the comics Internet over the last week or so, generated by the video snippet at right featuring Darwyn Cooke. I believe it was pushed along mostly by this essay and subsequent conversation at 4thletter!, at which point it was whisked off to dozens of places dark and mysterious to be mulled over and clucked at. There was a lot of dork court legal action going on here — by which I mean taking what someone said/wrote, setting it in stone as if it were a brief filed somewhere of that person's absolute belief, presuming that ever sub-argument and digression informs that belief, and then picking at the whole thing with 10,000 tiny hammers. No one comes across well when that happens.

Hooper's Controversial Sunday Essay:WAKE UP BRITISH COMICS! — ComicBitsOnline.com

The UK is a lot different than the US where comics and graphic novels are almost a part of daily life –look at the number of comic characters made into movies from Marvel,DC and Image as well as other companies. One of the currently most popular TV sitcoms is The Big Bang Theory which is steeped in comics iconography. And Stan Lee has guest starred. In the UK there was a little fuss that Jonathan Ross is going to cameo in a Beano strip –most kids would not know who he is apart from someone off TV so it's a ploy to get a few older comic buyers to pick up the comic.

'Dead But Not Forgotten': Author goes behind the scenes of a fascinating Michigan murder case

In 2004, when he was running for Macomb County prosecutor, Eric Smith said that if he was elected he would start a cold case unit in the prosecutor's office, and he did. Meanwhile, Clinton Township Police Lt. Craig Keith decided he wanted to dig up the George case file. Working with some other detectives, they eventually found a clue in the case file that had slipped through cracks — literally. A slip of paper had slipped from the file that had information about a man who said he had called Michael George at the comic book store and talked with him on the phone at about the time of the murder. It blew his alibi that he had been somewhere else.

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