Category Archives: Run Around

Monday Runaround – Beating A Dead Marvelman

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Rich Johnston

DOES WHATEVER AN IRON CAN A day in the crime fighting life of what happens when you play at Grand Theft Auto 4 with the new Iron Man 4 Mod. It doesn’t go well. MILLAR TIMES Mark Millar is keeping …

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Tuesday Runaround – Fortunately The Milk Snatcher

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Rich Johnston

MAGGIE MAGGIE MAGGIE This cartoon ran six days ago… not so far off as they thought? By the way, do let me know where Thatcher’s to be buried: I’m busy filling my bladder in preparation. — Page 45 (@PageFortyFive) April …

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Wednesday Runaround – Waiting For Thursday

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Rich Johnston

DAY WAITERS Remember those days when British comic shops got their comics on Thursday and we’d all have to stay off the internet for a day? Well, those days are back! This week at least, where in the UK, New …

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Friday Runaround – When Baby Iron Man Had A Nose

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Rich Johnston

KISSING IN CHURCH Howard Chaykin’s Black Kiss 2 may be banned in Canada., But he’s still going to be speaking there at the Knox Presbyterian Church next month. Will he bring copies, I wonder? BABY IMWAN Dynamic Forces give Baby …

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Monday Runaround – Souls, Sketches And Simone

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Rich Johnston

The River Of Lost Souls by Isabel Greenberg in The Guardian this weekend. PBS on the rise of webcomics. Martin Hand raised £600 for Comic Relief with his “dodgy drawings”. Comics Plus of Macon gets profiled by the local press. …

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Friday Runaround – What Conservatives Can Learn From Comics

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Rich Johnston

SUPERCONSERVATIVE Paul Abbot, senior researcher to a Conservative MP writes for ConservativeHome writes about something that I’ve mentioned, how the essential superhero character is based in conservative politics. He writes; the entire Batman franchise can be summarised: “if only we …

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Friday Runaround – Are You An Adequately Attractive Girl At ECCC?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Rich Johnston

BACKGROUND DETAILS Gerhard is drawing new Cerebus backgrounds for a non-Dave Sim Cerebus comic for a cartoonist workshop… FEARLESS REVIEWER Erica Friedman reads Fearless Defenders. Okay, but, you say, what about the script? It was pretty good, wasn’t it? Fearless …

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Thursday Runaround – Secrets Of The League

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Rich Johnston

ENCOUNTER AT FARPOINT Peter David is back on the convention circuit. We arrived during opening ceremonies on Friday night, and when they announced my presence and brought me on stage, the response was a several minute standing ovation. I was, …

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Wednesday Runaround – The Lettering Graveyard

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Rich Johnston

SONG TIME FUBAR creator Jeff McComsey has released the first panels of his A Song of Ice and Fire mini-comic, featuring the fight between the Mountain and the Red Viper,,, BATWOMAN’S GETTING MAHMUD Mahmud Arsar shows off his Batwoman art …

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Saturday Runaround

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Rich Johnston

NUMBERCRUNCHING Todd Allen looks at problems with the performance of The New 52, wave after wave… while John Mayo also looks at the performance of Marvel NOW to date as well. HE’S THE BEST THERE IS AT WHAT HE JUDGES …

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Saturday Runaround – A Female Atom, New Batwing Armour And A Very Heavy Hammer

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Rich Johnston

FIFTY SHADES OF JEAN GREY From THR: The She-Hulk Diaries focuses on Jennifer Walters (aka She-Hulk), who is trying to balance climbing the corporate ladder during the day with battling super villains at night “all while trying to navigate the …

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Thursday Runaround – Fox, Warners And DC Taking A Gamble

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Rich Johnston

FOX ALONSO There may be no black writers of any ongoing comics at Marvel or DC. But there’s certainly more of a latino prescence… Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso went on Fox Latino to talk about himself and the publisher. With …

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Wednesday Runaround – When Avatar Come To Town

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rich Johnston

AVATAR COME TO TOWN Avatar Comics, owners of Bleeding Cool, are the latest US comics publisher to confirm they’re attending the London Super Comic Con… PRIME POSTER POSITION Okay, who wants a Rodimus Prime poster on their walls? DOWN OVER …

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Tuesday Runaround – Black Cosplayers But No Black Comic Writers

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Rich Johnston

WHY DOES SUPERMAN NEED A MASK? When children’s hospital window cleaners cosplay… STAN ALIVE Heidi MacDonald goes to the Stan Lee Kids Universe launch event. The Kids UNiverse is produced in conjunction with 1821 Productions and thus far includes two …

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Wednesday Runaround – The Return Of Ron

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Rich Johnston

AGE OF ULT RON Ron Perazza has returned to Marvel, after spearheading DC’s digital line (and then leaving rather than move to the West Coast) and working as VP and General Manager of ComiXology for, it seems, a rather brief …

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Sunday Runaround – The Writers’ Room

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

THE WRITERS ROOM Look for more collaborative writer projects from Marvel in the future, according to Axel Alonso; Another thing I learned was the power of collaborative writing. This wasn’t my first rodeo with a big event story featuring multiple …

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Wednesday Runaround – Ornamental Powers

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

DC WOMEN CHRISTMASSING TREES I’m dreaming of a Brown Christmas… THE DISCERNING PIRATE Amazing Spider-Man #700 and Avenging Spider-Man #15.1 have both been torrented. Justice League #15 and Aquaman #15, not so much. GOLDEN AGED Dan DiDio has Facebooked that …

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Thursday Runaround – The Walking Dead Days Of Christmas

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

WALKING ADVENT Every day until Christmas, The Walking Dead iOS game Assault will get another challenge from Roberk Kirkman’s Twitter feed at 11am PST, with rather special Walking Dead prizes. It’s the Nine Days Of The Apocalypse. How festive. EISNERS …

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