If you read a bunch of Marvel comics from the early '60s, you discover pretty quickly that the writing on the ones drawn by Kirby and Ditko is waaayyyyy better than the writing on everything else, despite them all being "written" by Stan Lee.
For me, when the cover art is both superior to and tonally inconsistent with the interior art, it effectively destroys the whole comic. Every page a new disappointment. A new expectation betrayed.
I just learned on the new episode of Gaslit Nation that the Harlan Crow / Clarence Thomas news comes out like every ten years, makes a bit of a stir, nothing happens, and everyone forgets for another decade. Check out all these results from 2011!
RIP to the immortal Keith Giffen! I'm looking forward to re-reading and re-re-reading Trencher, Lobo, The Heckler, The Legion, Trencher, L.E.G.I.O.N, JLA, and Trencher for the rest of my life.
I broke into comics the same way as everyone else: talking shit on creators. A sweet zinger on Brian Bendis' dialog landed me a gig at Moonstone. Complaining about John Cassaday's photo backgrounds got me into Image. And my material on Chuck Austen's art got me hired at Marvel.
Thanks to everyone out there who has been picking this up! Pretty proud of this thing. IIRC it’s got all of Batman Inc plus that one David Finch issue.
Woo! A new collection of the Rick Veitch Swamp Thing run coming in August!
Quick! Everyone focus their psychic energies on the higher-ups at DC to make them commission Rick to finish his Swamp-Jesus story!
I guess this came out last month and I didn't realize it! The Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus
#3
has all of Batman Incorporated plus Batman: The Return (the David Finch one). It also includes all of the revised pages that I did for the Batman Inc Absolute! Go get it!
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I went a little nuts a few weeks back getting Marvel Masterworks on Comixology super sale, and I came across a few issues that had panels used in How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way. Naturally I thought it’d be fun to see if I could track down ALL the source issues!
#TheMarvelWay
RIP to Juan Giménez, one of the all-time greats. The Metabarons is an astounding artistic achievement and a huge influence on me. I haven’t read The Fourth Power or Leo Roa, so it’s good to know there are still works out there by the master that will be new to me.
Got a letter from my kid’s school saying that there’s a case of whooping cough. For fucks sake. If you’re an anti-vaxxer, please fuck off, unfollow me, and drive your ugly disease-ridden family off the nearest bridge.
@LlcTerrific
I was going to submit GoFuckYourselfMan until I saw the bit about you owning all the submissions. So I’ll just say “go fuck yourself, man.”