The 2003 Everything But Imaginary Awards Part One

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 2003 Everything But Imaginary awards, the comic book award show voted on by the readers of Comixtreme.com! And now here’s your host, the man who would work for the money we offered after Billy Crystal turned us down, Blake M. Petit!

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EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 12/24/03 -- THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS COMICS PAST

The Ghosts of Christmas Comics Past

Well friends, here we are, Dec. 24, my favorite day of the year. Oh, I love Christmas Day too, don’t misunderstand, but Christmas Eve is a day full of potential. It’s a day where it feels like anything can (and just might) happen, whereas ( Read more... )

Originally presented on December 17, 2003

Note: There is something particularly ironic about my statement at the end of this column, considering the events in comics since I originally wrote this. See if you can figure out what that is.

The revolving door in Heaven

When you go into your friendly neighborhood comic shop today (or tomorrow or ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 12/10/03 -- MY SECRET IDENTITY

My secret identity

Superman may have been the first superhero in the modern context of the word, but the concept of a secret identity by no means began with him. Zorro, the Shadow, the Scarlet Pimpernel -- great characters from the radio, movies and literature had been carrying on double ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 10/15/03 -- DOWN WITH DA OG(N)

Down with da OG(N)

These days, comic book storytelling is focusing more and more on the bookstore market -- collected editions, graphic novels, products like that. Some people see this as an evolution of the storytelling form, with comic book tales shifting towards longer arc that are, often ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 9/24/03 -- JUDGING A BOOK BY ITS COVER

Judging a book by its cover

One of those clichés that we’ve all heard so many times that it makes you want to pop the tongue out of the individual foolish enough to say it (or maybe that’s just me) is that “You can’t judge a book by its cover.”

Bunk.

With a comic book, if you can’t judge ( Read more... )

EVERYTHING BUT IMAGINARY 8/13/03 -- TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

Tripping the light fantastic

I became a word-hungry creature at a very young age. Comic books, magazines, novels, I’d tear through anything I could get my hands on. At that stage most of my favorite books were science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, the pseudo-horror of William ( Read more... )

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