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Fascinating infographic by Tim Leong about comics on the NYT Bestselling list. High fives all around for indie comics in general, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard, and Oni and Image in particular, on fully dominating this list.
(via ComicsAlliance)
Calling all Marvel Comic fans…
Marvel Films announce their next five movie projects including ‘The Inhumans.’
(Photo: Marvel Wikia)
“To find out what higher dimensions might look like, all we have to do is study the relationship between our 3-D world and the 2-D comics. A 4-D creature could look “down” on us through our walls, our clothes, even our skeletons. Our world would be a Cubist X-ray, and perhaps even our thoughts might be laid bare to their gaze.
As comics readers gazing down from a higher dimension perpendicular to the page surface, we can actually peer inside our characters’ thoughts with balloons or captions that provide running commentary. We can also control time in a comics universe. We can stop on page 12 and look back to page 5 to check a story point we missed. The characters themselves continue to act out their own dramas in the same linear sequence, oblivious to our shifting perspective. They can go back in time only with the help of supermachines, like the Flash’s cosmic treadmill, but we can look at 1928 Superman next to 1999 Superman without colliding the two stories anywhere but in our heads.”
– Grant Morrison, Supergods (via reavers)
I just read ULTIMATE COMICS: SPIDER-MAN #1. (On sale tomorrow in paper and digitally.)
I really really really liked Ultimate Peter Parker. I thought he was a wonderful character and was sad when I first heard he was going to die and even moreso when I read the book. But he’s gone and we have a new Ultimate Comics Spidey in Miles Morales.
This issue takes place before his first appearance in ULTIMATE COMICS FALLOUT from a month or so ago, and it reminds me of the first ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1 from 2000, at least in tone—Miles ain’t Peter. It’s more about getting a feel for the characters and the world and setting up the boy who will be Spider-Man. And it does it wonderfully.
I can’t really give an unbiased review seeing as how I’m A) not a reviewer and B) this is a Marvel book & I work for Marvel. If I didn’t like it, I simply wouldn’t talk about it. I won’t lie and shill if I don’t believe in what we’re putting out. But, man, I really dug this book. Bendis is in fine form, but Sara Pichelli? Good lord, she—and the rest of the art team—just destroy with this issue. I really like where this is going and that last page is a fine little cliffhanger.
I hope you guys pick up the issue and enjoy it as much as I did.
Done deal. Picking it up.
How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in…:
How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.
I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to look at…
