Email from Dead Poets

So I got a spam messages this morning from Elizabeth Browning, telling me that I need to buy a penis enlargement pill. This is so wrong on so many levels... I know Elizabeth is a romantic poet and all, but to endorse enlargement pills? *sigh*

The New Frontier

I picked this up yesterday at the comic shop as well. Finished reading it tonight. The first volume took me a few days to flip through; this one only took a few hours. I'm a long time DC fan, but even there were some character references that threw me. King Faraday for instance... just looked him up on Wikipedia. I loved the reference, but didn't know how he fit into the DC universe. Excellent book... I kept waiting for Hal Jordan to met the crashed alien and gain the ring... been waiting for it to happen with the first volume. It paid off for me. The artwork is great and the story was great. Well worth the read.

Rate: A

Champion of the Worms

Just read this at lunch. Picked it up from the comic shop I blogged about earlier. It's a nice read, the jumping point into Mignola's Zombie World project... the origin story, if you will. The artwork is good; a little too cutesy for me. I really like Mignola's Kirby-esque artwork. And the dialog was a little too cutesy, the bad-guy didn't see evil enough to make the overall story convincing for me. But overall: B+

Store sponsors Civil War mock protest

So, I go to this comic shop that put on a Civil War mock protest. The last time I went into the shop, I overheard the protest organizers talking with a co-worker about last week's staged protest -- it was hilarious -- fortunate for the comic shop it was spring break at the college, otherwise they would have been swamped with protest. :)

To quote Newsrama:

The Orlando Sentinel covers the Superhuman Registration Act “protest” organized by A Comic Shop to promote the release of Marvel’s Civil War trade paperback. More than 30 comic book fans showed up for the event, many dressed as Marvel characters and holding signs for or against registration.

You can view video from the protest on the store’s MySpace page. Photos from the event can be seen here.

Sinister Forces

Sinister Forces
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Gems from the Collection.

Very cool collection of pulp sci-fi covers and art. I'll be using it for reference material for the LEGO micro moonbase that I'm suppose to be building... :)

Captain Marvel

Since I read Jeff Smith's take on Captain Marvel (very good, btw), I've been thinking about how Alan Moore has corrupted the character for me. Here is a list of moments on his Miracleman runs that just completely mind-blowing:

1. Michael Moran relearns his magic word in the middle of a terrorist raid on an atomic research center.
2. Miracleman's power are scientifically explained; the body-swapping technology is also addressed.
3. Child birth in a comic book???
4. Miracleman kills his maker, Dr. Gargunza; his origin is retold in a way that isn't just an orphan gains magical powers, but an orphan is kidnapped for a military research project with alien technology.
5. Miracleman kills Kid Miracleman.

Kimota!

Gaiman's Eternals

Picked up #6 of 7 of Gaiman's run on the Eternals... Now I'm not a Marvel Zombie; I'm a hard-core DC fan. I've been reading Lee and Kirby's run on the Fantastic Four in trade and I'm enjoying it. I know a little about the Marvel-verse, but I'm not familiar with Kirby's Eternals run. You would think before Gaiman did his run on the Eternals, that Marvel would release Kirby's run in a trade-paper back format. And when I started Gaiman's run, it was #1 of 6... #2 of 6, now it's #6 of 7? Did Marvel forget how to count? Just silly... Aside from Marvel being a bunch of idiots, the series is great... typical Gaiman. I just wish I knew a little more of the back story or the history to really appreciate how he puts it into the Marvel-verse.