Avi and I just caught the Superman: The Animated Series episode in which Dan Turpin dies, and is buried in a Jewish ceremony. My question is: Is he canonically Jewish in the comics or is this a DCAU thing? Anybody know? I might just have to swot up on him and come up with a fic ( Read more... )

Besides my annoyance at Dan DiDio, I actually read a lot of comics yesterday :D

Blue Beetle: As always, this issue contained 500% of your RDA of awesome (tm odditycollector, I believe). ( Read more... )

Okay, did I miss it or has nobody commented on the fact that DC's biggest scumbucket Executive Editor Dan DiDio once again proved that he couldn't find a clue with a map and a flashlight he's a jerk? I just got around to picking up comics and found that in DC Nation (his column at the back) he's put together a "holiday wish list" for various ( Read more... )

Thanks to eiluned, I've just had the pleasure of reading Progressive Boink's post on The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings. ::dies laughing:: The scary thing is that I own some of these issues :D In any case, this is hysterically funny ( Read more... )

Stop what you're doing right now and go read How the Bitch Stole Comics, by odditycollector.

You can thank me later, after you stop laughing hysterically :)

Okay, back to work now.

'Twas nice to see folks and meet folks and get to talk geeky comic stuff. It was especially awesome to get to meet three new people. Yay!

For those of you who weren't able to join us this afternoon, here's a quick summary. (Please note, all quotes are paraphrases. Feel free to correct me!):

• "For some reason, he thought I was interested in Danes ( Read more... )

I hope that lots of local folk can join me next Saturday at 2:30 pm until whenever for a comic/manga/music/movie exchange. Bring any geekish materials you're tired of and hang out with fellow geeks ( Read more... )

All the locals are invited to my house in Rockville, MD on October 13 at about 2:30 p.m. for a comic book (and movie/music/book) exchange ( Read more... )

As akire_yta notes, whoops, they did it again. Who, exactly, thought we needed a "Schoolgirl Witchblade" statuette? This is up there with the Mary Jane laundry statuette for bad bad bad design ( Read more... )

Thanks to scans_daily and weirdweb, I've resumed buying Blue Beetle. Why in the name of Darwin did I stop buying this book? Please tell me. Anyway, I just spent an enjoyable period of time catching up on the last 10 issues (although I'm still missing a few before that) and I'm ready to join the ranks of people who insist that this might be the best book DC is putting ( Read more... )