I neither know nore care much about basketball, but this guy was apparently a friend of my grandfather, Hardy Pearce. They both attended George Washington Univeristy, and are both GW Hall of Famers.
Oct 31 2006
Midnight Sun #2: In Stores November 8th
Coming out a week later than expected (surprisingly, for resons having nothing to do with me!) Midnight Sun #2 will be in Comic Book Stores Wednesday, November 8th.
Oct 25 2006
Lucas vs. Diesel Sweeties
Here’s an interesting page some folks have been linking to, in the aftermath of the Lucasfilm “cease and desist” letter to Richard Stevens, creator of the webcomic Diesel Sweeties as well as vendor of some admittedly Star Wars-ey merch (note: images of said merch will likely be gone in a few days).
Re. the page: I’m never sure what to make of these sorts of things. Lucas (and pretty much everyone else doing work in the visual realm) either consciously or unconsciously borrows bits and pieces of things here and there, and I think it’s pretty easy to select a few striking similarities, selected from a vast pool of very very unsimilar things, and then count on people’s norirously poor understainding of statistics and probablity (any believers in the “hot hand” in basketball out there?) to make the case for swipiing. But, it’s interesting to see at any rate:
Oct 25 2006
Briefer’s Monster of Frankenstein
Amazon.com: The Monster of Frankenstein by Dick Briefer
This volume appears to have been out since July, but I–like many folks–seem to have been unaware of it until just today. Dick Briefer is one of my favorite artists, albeit one whose work I own precious little of, so I’m definitely going to pick this up. If I had to pick an incarnation of Briefer’s Frankenstein character to see collected, I’d have admittedly prefered the more comedic 1940s version to the straighter version from the 50s that’s collected in this book, but, hey, I’ll take what I can get…
UPDATE: So, apparently this is some print on demand thing, which would explain it’s appearance “off the radar.” The print quality of this sort of thing is sometimes pretty dodgy… so I hereby ratract my Briefer excitement and will hold it in check until there’s a decent complete collection of the 40s incarnation of the character.
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