God bless Mary Elizabeth Winstead for being a Hollywood actress with actual legs, not bony sticks.

"GRRAAAAH!

Excelsior!"

While I may have been slightly succumbing to the Cera haters, I just watched Arrested Development in its entirety.  That kid has chops and it appears that he's upping his game for the Scott Pilgrim movie. 

In regards to vol. 6, it should be arriving at my awesome library soon.

Vince, you sounded so proud when delivering you Karen Gillian's labia line.  

And good to know about the Who spoilers.  I'm watching it on BBCAmerica and have somehow avoided knowing anything about the finale.  I'll come back to the discussion in two weeks.

Wait...what?

Oh, just saw the other thread.  Haven't been on in a few days.  Nevermind... 

You guys rock!  I hope you like issue #3.  I like how both stories turned out.

Woah, totally forgot about this.  It's been almost a year since I did my page, right? 

Too bad.  I had fun working on it.  Especially working in such a different style.

Hey everyone,

Just giving a heads-up to the going-ons with my webcomic Oceanverse.  

Today brings about the end of the first act of a HUGE three-part story.  The nefarious Fish Lord (first mentioned all the way back in strip #48) has kidnapped Ben and used him to release the ancient guardians of England and turn them against the surface-dwellers.  

The giant monsters are headed toward London and the crew of the Red Herring is almost completely pinned down.  Almost.

Act two begins on Monday.  Here are some teaser images:

Dan Slott's Thing #1-4. 

Damn, I wish that book wasn't canceled so soon.  It was so fun.  Action matched with characterization perfectly.

Can't Slott write everything?

I had no idea about the cause of Gene's hospitalization.  Sad, sad stuff.  Like Frazetta, no one at that age needs to have their life turned into a soap opera.  I just hope Gene finds comfort in his life so he can ride into the sunset at peace.

A very, very long time from now.

I have no idea.  I read the first volume and quite enjoyed it.  I always intended to keep reading, but I guess it fell off the top of my mind. 

I feel like if I buy this, I have to deliver my money via collection plate.

I was just at my local library the other day and discovered that they have vol. 1-4 of the Invincible Ultimate Collection. 

Now I'm just deciding when to dig in!

C'mon guys, David says "taint" TWICE and he gets nothing?

Yeah, Scholastic also published Smile by Raina Telgemeier.  She was also at the show and was super-nice.

And the book is fantastic, too.

Amulet is by Kazu Kibuishi, who is awesome.  http://www.boltcity.com

Do you have a good library nearby?  You can read a lot of free trades that way.

Here a scan of the Gonzo sketch I got from Roger Langridge over the weekend.  He was charging TEN BUCKS!  What a steal.  I absolutely love this:



This is getting framed and put up in my son's room.

Zeck is at his best when the characters he's holding are holding guns.

Bonus points when the character is firing the gun wildly toward the right side of the cover.

I'll be there, Katie Cook will be there, you should be there, too!  Bring along some kids (hopefully ones you know) and come say hello.

I mentioned the DC animation licensing work toward the end of the conversation.  The way he explains it on his site is I guess most licensing companies use this sets of images/designs that he (and presumably others) drew up as the base for their licensing efforts.

Wood is right.  DC/WB sends out style guides full of character artwork, backgrounds, logos, and other graphic elements to be used for all the licensed products.  

As a t-shirt designer, we have TONS of style guides here at work.  The DC stuff has always been amazing, especially the core Batman and Superman lines.  And now I know why:  They're drawn by MIKE ZECK!  

I've been using his artwork for YEARS and never knew it was him because WB does not name the artist in their style guides.  

I know Ryan Sook does a lot of licensing stuff, so I thought most of that stuff was him, but I guess I was wrong.

Thank you Wood.  You've answered one of the great nagging questions in my life.  It's like you named 100 song titles that were JUUUUST on the tip of my tongue.

To everyone else:  http://www.mikezeck.com/pages/licensing/batcore.html

And tell me that's not some of the finest constructed figure work you'll ever see.  They look even better with fully-rendered coloring.