Post-Crisis

Is David Finch Married to a Bond Transsexual?

2005-11-11T14:28:00.000-08:00

Alexandre Grati asks David Finch marries transexual?

i read this online today, "Caroline Cossey married Canadian comic book artist David Finch in 1992, and as of 2003, they were still married and living in Atlanta, GA, USA"

For those of you who dont remember, Caroline Cossey was the transgendered bond girl with Roger Moore 007 film, "For your eyes only"

I dont really care, but i was just wondering if it was the same david finch, who i deeply admire artistically, david finch. ultimate x-men, david finch.

just wondering.

Judging from the responses, I don't think anyone really care who Finch is married to. Nor do they seem to care if the poster "dave finch" is actually David Finch or not. But they do seemed confused about the difference between a transsexual and a hermaphrodite.

Your Comic Book Girlfriend

2005-11-07T04:12:00.000-08:00

Philosophical graduate or the hardest core geek online? theprimedreamer asks Comic Books Personified - What type of lover would it be?.

So visualize this with me. Let's put what we like and hate about comic books and collecting comics, and the stories, the art, the cheesecake - all of it and stuff it into a person. And let's make comic books a person. And say this person was your significant other. What type of lover would Comic Book be? Would Comic Book be a lover of great passion that comes every so often and leaves you with burn marks? Or is Comic Book a lover that you know like the back of your hand?

So what is it? What type of lover would Comic Book be?

Later, Moonbeam gets raunchy:

He'd be incredibly creative in bed, wowing me with the variety of skills he demonstrates and responding to my desires by arousing in me an amazing number of climaxes and uncontrollable emotional reactions.

But I'd only get it once a month. And he'd leave me hanging at the end of each session, wanting more.

... Until February, at which time I'd suddenly get it weekly.

Dangerous Beans makes an important point.

PAPER CUTS!!!!!!

Free Illicit Music Through Newsarama Members

2005-10-28T15:42:00.000-07:00

After complaining about how bad Madonna's new album is before listening to it, Jesse Newcomb said this in response.

You're right. I've been acting like an asswipe. I'll give the album a full listen to.

And if anyone is interested to a Hung Up remix, I got access to one. Just give me a PM and I'll e-mail it to you.

Contact the asswipe in this thread to get your free Hung Up remix.

Just Smurf It

2005-10-11T11:04:00.000-07:00

In case you missed it, The Beat has the skinny on an interesting new Smurfs video from UNICEF.

While UNICEF is definitely a good cause, you do have to wonder about the use of the Smurfs in this one. I mean, they are so 1980s ... couldn't they have blown up Dragonball Z instead?

Just Doom It

2005-10-11T11:02:00.000-07:00

Via Progressive Ruin, Dr. Doom's top ten euphemisms for sex. I think "Unleashing the Doombots" is my favorite.

The Incredible John Byrne

2005-10-11T11:00:00.000-07:00

John Byrne comments on Incredibles:

…and it was pretty much everything I was afraid it would be. Some good characterizational moments, yes. Some fairly spectacular superheroics, to be sure. But an overall disdain for the genre that came thru in almost every scene. The impression was that there were two groups of people working on this movie -- one that liked superheroes (and had obviously read a lot of back issues of FANTASTIC FOUR*), and one that had no love for the concepts.

Hey Gail, wanna read my fan fiction?

2005-08-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

Not since the glory days of ManoftheAtom have creators feared message boards like they should after reading this thread:

Ever buddy-listed comix pros to see what they're up to? I do. For example...

we now know why Rob Liefeld is always late with his art: he's constantly surfing Newsarama on a daily basis.

Geoff Johns has replaced BENDIS as the most frequent writer to visit Nrama (though Peter David, Gail Simone and Kurt Busiek are all giving him a run for his money).

Marc Andreyko needs more titles to write (because he's here so much).

Artists are busier than writers; I see them online (save Liefeld ) much less than I do the writers.

Either BENDIS is really busy these days or he has me blocked from watching him anymore. (damn you, Bendis!! )

Dan Jolley, wherefore art thou anymore?

Ed Brubaker is slacking---Johns, Busiek, Simone and PAD have much higher post counts than him!!

Newsarama posters respond:

Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalker!

That's one creepy post, bud. People like you is why I choose the invisible option. What motivates a thread like this?

Only Howard Porter and Kurt Busiek have responded to me (I'm probably on Peter David's Ignore list ) so I doubt if any others would except Fabian Nicieza. He looks at my posts to get Deadpool's dialogue right. It's true.

Seriously now, there was a poster that used to come to Newsarama, and everytime she came to the boards, someone would keep PMing her, even if she didn't post. It can be pretty disturbing to have someone watch your movements like that.

The original poster responds as only a fan could... with Bruce Banner references:

I have my reasons. None of them involve trying to visit these people at their homes or trying to send them presents in the mail or anything of that nature. To lump me in with those people (instead of say, someone like Pascal for his obsession with PAD) is something I do take personally... so all of you taking that attitude need to find someone else to harrass. Because you don't wanna make me angry.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. So take this thread as the tongue-in-cheek joke it's supposed to be... because if you take it too seriously, I'm going to take it too seriously.

And nobody likes it when I do. So don't.

Yes, veiled threats are always a good idea when trying to prove you aren't an insane stalker.

Sideshow Mel: Tell them they'll live to regret this.
Sideshow Bob: YOU'LL LIVE TO REGRET THIS ... oh thanks, now I look crazy.

Bendis Wants A Barbie

2005-08-23T07:53:00.000-07:00

An Ella Enchanted one to be specific.

And it's for his daughter.

Kinda cute.

 http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=28782

Saluting the Troops

2005-06-07T14:23:00.000-07:00

Over at Newsarama, President Kang has posted the cover and some interior art to Marvel's special New Avengers/Fantastic Four comic designed exclusively for the U.S. Military. Kang says:

Wow, this comic is shit. Even by Bendis standards. I think its so bad, troops in Iraq should send it back. If they're going to do an entire comic just for the military, you think half of it wouldn't involve characters standing around babbling about how to open a friggin door. Hell, you'd think for a comic meant for US servicemen that Bendis would put Captain America at the front. This comic doesn't inspire anything in the readers, save for boredom.

Hope He Never Coaches Little League

2005-06-06T21:35:00.000-07:00

In a thread titled What does Marvel have To Do poster DrTzinTzin gives his opinion on what Marvel needs to do in order to be the best in the industry.

To put it bluntly... Marvel should just give the fuck up.

That's right... The current number one seller in the industry should just give up. Pack up the bags and move on. Great advice, no?

Well, it beats the "What does 616 mean?"

2005-06-04T21:59:00.000-07:00

Apparently a title alone can say a thousand words. In that notion, from the Bendis board (and be warned this thread contains adult discussion) -

Soooo... anyone ever experienced squirters?

They Say That Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

2005-05-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

But apparently it's easier than having a comic creator leave a book, as Newsarama's VocalRiot points out.

This is the worst news I've heard since my girlfriend of two years broke up with me a week ago. I am so sad. Damn.

Long live the Flash. God bless Geoff Johns.

It's okay when it involves people in spandex

2005-05-11T11:32:00.000-07:00

As posters at newsarama react to the group editor of DC's manga imprint leaving, one poster puts DC's editing of Tenjho Tenge into perspective:

I'd totally forgotten that DC had a manga imprint. Then I remembered that there was that controversy about them editing a rape scene in one of the books. Then I remembered that when I'd originally read about the controversy, I wondered why they didn't just have Rags Morales draw Doctor Light into those panels, since that seems to work for the mainstream DCU. Then I forgot again that DC had a manga imprint. - Robot H Brian

I wonder how Grant Morrison feels about Doom Patrol

2005-05-10T12:02:00.000-07:00

John Byrne on Miracleman:

...with fond memories of MarvelMan behind me, I did not much care for Moore's take on the character. The "everything you know is a lie" approach is a card that should be played with great caution, and usually works best as a story arc, with all things restored at the end, rather than as a "big reveal".

Connections

2005-05-10T10:12:00.000-07:00

Poster ali-sama "need favor" and figures there's no better place to ask this than on the Pro colorist forums:

i need to deliver a letter to a cast member in smallville. if any of you have connections and would like to help. Please contact me.

After all, we all know, those digital artists are always rubbing shoulders with Hollywood.

UPDATE:
Forum Administrators deleted the thread and replaced it with this locked thread.

Lights on, lights off ...

2005-04-10T08:47:00.000-07:00

Ah, what could have been ... comic writer/artist and enemy to internet fanboys everywhere, Chuck Austen, started a blog at the end of March, but apparently pulled the plug a few days later. Unles he's kidding, like he was with his April 1 entry. Or in his post on Craig Thompson and Blankets:

I don't get Craig Thompson. I really don't.
Some people pass out when they meet him at a comic book convention. I swear, I've seen this happen. This one girl, over in Chicago, she broke down in tears the moment she shook his hand. She just wouldn't stop crying.
Others worship the ground he walks upon. They want to kiss his feet and have his love child.

But why? For God's sake, why?
What's the big deal about Craig Thompson? So he wrote this book. Blankets, it's called. It's a blubbery blubfest about a nerdy guy who desperately wants to get laid with this girl, who desperately wants to do other stuff but humors the nerdy guy because he reminds her of a dying puppy or whatever. Then they break up and the nerdy guy whines about it for about six hundred pages.

I write stuff like that in under thirty minutes. Every. Single. Month. And yet, you don't see people worship the ground I walk upon or beg for my love child. Really, I write stuff like that during breakfast. Only with more sexual innuendo in it. And big-ass fights. Every good comic book has to have big-ass fights. Craig Thompson's comics don't have big-ass fights. QED.

At least I assume that's a joke, because it's funny as hell.

Dead means dead. Just ask your grandma.

2005-04-10T08:38:00.000-07:00

If you're looking for something to read besides YET ANOTHER Infinite Crisis at the House of M hype story or fanboy complaint thread, Kung Fu Monkey delivers the goods in the form of an interview with God on Infinite Crisis on Actual Earth (that would be your world and mine ... well, mine, anyway).

John: A long series of weird deaths --
God: Reagan, Arafat --
John: Johnny Cochran
God: From that great run on "I Can't Believe It's the Justice System".
John: Prince Rainier, Saul Bellow and more, then a bizarre wife-murder crime run, followed by reintroduction of old villains the Avian Flu and Ebola Outbreak, plus crossing the line on peak oil production --
God: Wow, you noticed that one. You are a fanboy.

*snip*

John: Any regrets?
God: Never should have let Millar write the Schiavo thing.

Warren Ellis Reopens Forum for 12 Hours

2005-03-18T06:35:00.000-08:00

Warren Ellis reopened his legendary message board earlier today; it will be open for 12 hours, so if you're interested in checking it out, do it fast:

http://warrenellis.suddenlaunch3.com/

On his email list, Warren said: 12 hours. I realise everyone on the old WEF is cast to the four winds now, but I'd really like to hear from as many people from the old place as possible. And if you weren't around before, fuck it, come in and say hello anyway.

Pepsi Girl Digs Comics

2005-03-17T17:03:00.000-08:00

Seen the Pepsi/iTunes commercial where the brunette opens a Pepsi and dances to Gwen Stefani's "Rich Girl?" The brunette is Mandy Amano, daughter of comic artist Jeff Amano and a former model for Billy Tucci's Shi character.

Read more about her here, and be sure to check out the blog created by her biggest fan.

Image Hack Confirmed

2005-03-11T10:47:00.000-08:00

Post-Crisis now has confirmation that the Imageboards were hacked.

Mike Avon Oeming, from his newsletter:

This is just a message to spread the word that the Bendis board is now located at:
JINXWORLD :: View Forum - BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS

It has been relocated after some ass hacked into the Image Board and wiped it out.

A Hack-A-Day

2005-03-10T23:39:00.000-08:00

This afternoon, the Image Comics messageboard have also appeared to have been hacked. Disappearing threads and porn image sightings have been reported by users. The site is currently down with only this simple message appearing:

As you can see, Image took a very simple, cold "no comment" type approach to the problem. Meanwhile, over at Gutterzombie, the admin turned the site into a blog updating users on the status of their site, with more pictures of cute birds.

Two comic book boards have been hit the last two days. Someone must have it out for comics.

Going to the Birds

2005-03-10T06:31:00.000-08:00

Gutter Zombie, a message board for comic colorists, was apparently hacked yesterday. The board is down, having been replaced by a message from the admin:

Looks like GZ got attacked. If I had to guess what happened i'd say some kids found a script that hits known security exploits on older versions of PHPBB. If you're wondering, no, we don't stay right up to date with the latest PHPBB. The modifications we've done to the basic forum software make it a bit of a headache to set it all up again.

*snip*

In the meantime, Here's a picture of my budgie, hopefully she'll lift your spirits.

I have no idea what "PHPBB" means. Cool bird, though.

No Prize for Dan Slott

2005-02-27T09:08:00.000-08:00

Over at Newsarama, Dan Slott lets all the fanboys know that SHE-HULK#12 wasn't a dig, it was a plea for ALL of us to be POSITIVE, CREATIVE, & FUN:

It started when someone sent Dan a private message: But I just dont get your problem with us vocal fanboys. The little digs are turning me off of your work. And prior to them, honestly, I have no problem with your work. Not a single complaint. Care to explain where the unsolicited apprehension stems from?

Dan responds:

Everybody has been takings 3 pages of SHE-HULK #12 out of context. SHE-HULK #12 was not just about those three pages-- there were 20 other pages in that issue (yes, you got an extra page and Marvel didn't raise the price or anything. ...) But those 3 pages were the most salacious fodder for online fans to criticize, so that's what everyone has been focusing on.

But there was a thread running through that ENTIRE issue-- on how trends in comics, creators, and hard core fans are bringing so much NEGATIVITY to comics-- a medium that is SUPPOSED to be about CREATIVITY and FUN.

Barbs poked an EQUAL amount of fun at the DISASSEMBLED arc, excessive violence for violence sake, the killing off of popular/beloved characters for increased sales, and even MY OWN writing.

(snip)

AND if people take the time to actually read the "speech" in its ENTIRITY, that fan is NOT TELLING the snarky fans to be more positive, he is PLEADING with them, CHALLENGING them, BESEECHING them to USE their vast knowledge of comics to HELP OUT.

And when they DO help in the story-- it is ACTUALLY those SAME fans who come up with the solution and SAVE THE DAY! They actually become the heroes of the book!

Holidazed

2005-02-16T06:41:00.000-08:00

In case you missed it, today is National deprogram a DC or Marvel Zombie Day. Not everybody is in a celebratory mood, though:

is it also national "let people read what they want, they're not bothering you, get on with your life and stop being an elitist dick" day, too? because if so, count me in!

I love a lot of Marvel and DC stuff, which I guess would make me a Marvel and DC zombie, but I also love a lot of indy stuff, and ever since I first got into Stray Bullets, I've been very open-minded about various indy (or at least semi-indy stuff) and black and white comics that I never would have checked out before. I don't think it has to be one or the other.

How about just "Get people to read comics and don't worry about what they read?"

And Now, on the crass scale..

2005-02-13T10:05:00.000-08:00

Peter David takes a lot from people who read his political opinions and then decide that because he phrases things intelligently (and often times sarcastic/humorous) they need to berate him on-line for having an opinion...

Therefore, in the interest of fairness -

Ethan Van Sciver on the Bendis Board commenting on writers he is not fond of:

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I didn't read the DaVinci code, because it captured our retarded Christian population's imagination. "Could the 'cup of Christ' actually refer to a woman? Did DaVinci know the truth!?"

Answer: No, because the Bible isn't true.

Okay, so....onto questions of King Arthur's sexuality then

Ah yes... The lovely "retarded Christian population's imagination". Isn't he so eloquent folks? Check out the thread here .