*eye twitch*

For what I hope (but I know will not) be the last time.

COMICS IS NOT A GENRE.

IT IS A MEDIUM.

Super-heroes, mystery, noir, fantasy, romance, etc ARE GENRES.

Comics, books, film, etc ARE MEDIUMS.

PLEASE LEARN THE DIFFERENCE.

Thank you

Fanboys

For those not in the know, the above is a new Mary Jane statuette coming out. Which has already apparantly sold out. This baffles me. I'm a hetersexual dude who owns stacks of actual porn. And megs of virtual porn. Who even pays a monthly fee for yet more porn. And I can't wrap my head around the people who buy these statues. I can barely comprehend buying the TASTEFUL ones. The ones that don't earn you shameful glances from your mom. These statues cost anywhere from a hundred to five hundred dollars. And the most popular ones seem to be those like the MJ one above or the White Queen one or the travesty of a Big Barda one (where they make her a bikini clad sex kitten, rather than one of the most powerful bad-asses in the DC 'verse)...

I mean the statues aren't even GOOD porn! Do you know how much girl-on-girl smut I could get for the cost of one these things? I don't know either, but I bet its a lot...

Happy Day, Kaloo Kalay!

And a happy birthday goes out to kinglerer! Plus of course a happy Mother's Day to any and all moms on my f-list...

Sunday Trade

Two trades this week. American Century: Scars & Strips and American Century: Hollywood Babylon

Writer: Howard Chaykin & David Tischman
Pencils: Marc Laming
Inks: John Stokes
Letters: Ken Bruzenak
Colors: Pam Rambo
Seperated: Jamison
Covers in the first trade are by Chaykin with John Van Fleet on the second

American Century is based on the true-to-life story of one Harry Kraft, though a few of the names have been changed. Harry, a WW2 pilot fakes his death when he gets drafted to fight in Korea. And then ends up in South America. The book says Guatemala, but the story matches pretty closely with events in Peru for 1949. So Harry works flying a plane for a smuggler while a revolution starts. And after that Harry is dodging revolutionaries, the CIA and pro-government forces...

"Hollywood Babylon" has Harry back in the US, working as a night watchman for "Quality Studios". Paramount maybe? Who had a super-hero show on in the air in 1951? Anyway Harry has to deal with Commie hunting Congressmen, feuding celebrities, gossip columinists and gangster Mikey Roach...

The books are packed with two-fisted action and hard, gorgeous dames. Noir sex & violence with Chaykin (and partner Tischman) at the top of their games). Sadly the series from Vertigo lasted less than 20 issues and the remainder have yet to be colledcted in a trade. But for fans of the noir genre or Howard Chaykin these are both must haves...

Sharpe's 10: Sharpe's Siege

This episode probably departs the most from the original book. Ditching the entire Navy/Army confict. But still it has Fredrick's, the ugliest English officer in all of creation. And Harper yanking out his OWN rotten tooth with a pair of pliers as part of a ruse. Also for the 5th or 6th time, a noble who is supposed to be on the British side, but who is a spy for Bonaparte...

I mean if this were an rpg I were playing in, I'd just gut every "friendly" noble I get introduced to.

"Major meet the Count De.."

SLASH STAB HACK

"Major!"

"What? He was a spy. They're ALWAYS spies!"