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BC ComicChron: Damage Limitation By Way Of Denial

BC ComicChron

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I would like to deny any rumours that I come for your women. All I do is collate comic-related bits and pieces online and any and all rumours about my personal robotic life are merely that. Gossip and innuendo. Moving on.

Interview With Colleen Doran on the Business of Being a Comic Artist

The only problem with all the negative stories about publishing is that aspiring creators get paranoid, thinking there's a big bad wolf behind every tree. There isn't. I've only had a few serious problems over the course of my career. But a serious problem is the kind of problem that can drag on for years and years. I must have worked for 100 clients, and only three of them are on my "never again" list. The three times I have had to enlist my attorney, those three times I have spent years in litigation or seeking payment.

Is it time to leave the past behind?

Brian Michael Bendis has been writing Avengers-related books since 2004. Across three series, six years, and something like 100 issues, Bendis has been the main architect for the non-X-Men part of the Marvel Universe. A stray thought flickered across my brain earlier tonight and it kind of bothered me. I've read most of Bendis's Avengers, and liked some of it, but this thought just wouldn't go away. "How many villains did Bendis invent for the Avengers to fight?

Sculpture Mashups

The website of professional toy/statue prototyper Christopher Elizardo has mashups for Homer Simpson Thor and Family Guy Batman.

CAPTCHA COMICS

[BC ComicChron Note: A lot funnier than it sounds] CAPTCHA-related humor began with the widespread use of CAPTCHA (and more recently reCAPTCHA) on popular blogging and forum sites. The technology is intended to stop spam by asking the user to verify a pair of distorted words, thereby proving they are not a bot. In the case of reCAPTCHA these words are pulled somewhat randomly from an archive of textual documents requiring digitization, and that random pairing of words often produces strange and comical combinations. While simple reCAPTCHA screengrabs have appeared on sites such as lamebook, and "draw your CAPTCHA" threads have been around on the Something Awful forums for well over a year, the practice really took off when Moot implemented reCAPTCHA on the 4chan boards.

The Runaways becomes Small Faces?

Update: Marvel's "The Runaways" (aka "Small Faces"), is scheduled to begin filming in March in L.A. http://bit.ly/czpkMv

'Dr. Doom' Nouriel Roubini's Latest Prediction: More Than 400 Banks Will Fail Even Without Double-Dip Recession – DailyFinance

t didn't take long for Nouriel Roubini to come up with his next dire prediction: The New York University economics professor with the nickname "Dr. Doom," who recently said the chances of a double-dip recession are more than 40%, now says that even if the U.S. and European economies manage to avoid a double dip, it will still feel like a recession, and more than 400 U.S. banks will likely fail.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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