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For whatever reason, my super short and super sweet comic book reviews went a little longer this week. So, instead of “two line reviews,” they are now “few line reviews!” See how fun rhyming is?!
Here’s round one for this week’s books (“this week” being in reference to books that dropped on April 29, 2009), enjoy’em after the jump and then come back in a day or two for more!
Continue Reading “Quicker Hits, aka “Few Line Reviews””
After drawing up my swine flu comic and feeling as if I had spent more time on it practicing perspective and scenery than actually on the characters and the humor of it, I really felt I needed to draw and post something a bit more…well, awesome.
Here’s what I came up with, and I think it turned out pretty darn good…
Continue Reading “No stranger to danger!”
I don’t like to make a habit of posting videos here without some sort of interesting and detailed post to explain them, but I saw this on guilty pleasure celeb gossip blog dlisted (I’ll explain why I even check that site in an upcoming post) and it was too damn catchy and amuse not to post here.
And now, I want a mutha luvin’ Slap Chop
I won’t claim to know much of anything about this whole swine flu thing, but—like everyone else, I’m sure—I keep hearing the name bandied about left and right. Anywho, a weird little concept spinning out of swine flu mania
…and if that doesn’t completely undersell it, then I don’t know what does?! I best just let it speak for itself and hopefully people get a few chuckles out of it.
Continue Reading “Watch out for these little piggies in your market!”
This one’s all about the nostalgia.
It’s not the most striking image, but I think the reason this cover deserves to be among the entrants in CCC (my Choice Comic Covers!) is because I saw so little of it that it as a kid that it became somewhat a novelty. When I flipped through my comic collection, this classic cover would always remind me of the last time I pulled it out, read it and loved it. I was normally so engrossed with the interiors that I never thought much about the cover, till I’d be searching through my comics again weeks, months or years later and it’d call out to me. I picked it back up so many times during these shuffles through my childhood comics, giving it another go with each rediscovery, that I literally read the cover right off my copy of Uncanny #308
Continue Reading “Choice Comic Covers: ‘Uncanny X-Men’ #308”
Hey folks!
I’m going to start using jumps on my posts from here on out in hopes of a little more front page organization and a little less scrolling through some of my more massive posts when you really just want to get to the short one right after that. So, when you see the little orange text blurb at the end of a post on the front page that says, “Read the rest of this entry →,” click on it!
Try it out right now…
Continue Reading “Jump up, jump up and get down!”
Earlier today, I was scrolling through my Google Reader and I came across a link on The Beat that struck my fancy. It seems there’s a Kitty Pryde tribute art show called “Full of Pryde” where some modern comics artists are doing their take on the X-Men’s phasin’ vixen and it’s all a fundraiser for the Oregon Hemophilia Treatment Center.
This, I like.
Now I’m no art critic and would never claim to be one, but as I guy who reads a ton of comics I’d like to think I’m at least entitled to a “I may not know art, but I know what I like” opinion after poring over pages and pages chock-full of panels. And it’s that propensity for comic art ogling that makes me pretty partial to any sort of “fine art” (whatever that means, right?) that has some of it’s roots in pop culture or fantasy.
Continue Reading “Arty Party!”
Last night I finally got a chance to sit down and finalize some of the storyboards I had been working on for Enemy of Peanuts: The Webcomic, so here’s the first two panels. I’m running a few different versions here because I still haven’t perfected much of anything (including my own artistic skills, so more versions put out means more chances to slightly impress someone, right?!). Right now, I’m shooting to deliver at least a few panels to a full sequence a week (anywhere from the meager two panels here on to five or seven bits of a fight scene), and I’ll try to post them each week on Sunday night or Monday.
Thanks for checking it out, folks! Any and all feedback is welcomed below!
When I drew these two comic strips poking fun at the “Watchmen
Sun splaying out from between tree branches and splashing across a patio in the late afternoon as a pitcher of cool wheat beer, adorned with several lemon slices, sweats on the table.
If the above fits your description of an ideal night of drinking, than you’re my kind of beer lover.
The weather here in Northern New Jersey has turned toward summer and my taste buds have been calling for a pint of chilled wheat to fight off the heat, so I’m kicking off my Reviews of Brews with three summer beers that hopefully will be the perfect filler for that soon-to-be sweating pitcher: Victory’s Whirlwind Witbier, Long Trail’s Belgian White and High Point’s Ramstein Blonde Hefe-Weizen.
Continue Reading “Reviews of Brews: Spring and Summertime wheat beers”