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Battle Pope! Not the Real Pope! Battle Pope!
While this cartoon isn’t quite as funny as the comic, mainly because it’s been toned down a bit, it’s still good for a chuckle:
Cock Load - Cock Load - Battle Pope - In the Beginning
Cock Load - Cock Load - Battle Pope - Genesis of an Ass-Kicking Read the rest of this entry »
Is Garfield Dead?
Came across this ‘Garfield is dead’ flash movie somewhat randomly today.. its a flash movie that is based off a series of ‘garfield’ strips form 1989… they’re rather dark as the feature Garfield being left alone in the house after everyone has moved away, which one would assume resulted in Garfield starving to death…
Interestingly enough,it’s lead to a group of people believing that given that the strips end with Garfield retreating into his imagination that it implies that all the Garfield strips since about 1990 (when Garfield would have starved to death) are now the result of Garfield’s ghost which is trapped in the house and refuses to realise that he’s dead.
Which is a load of bollocks really, but it’s a cool idea. And the strips are wonderfully dark….
While the strips I’m uploading are in colour, the b&w one’s that the flash movie uses are somewhat better so I’d advise people to take a look at that first…
And while we’re on the subject of depressing comic strips - this is actually worse I think and this is another great example of ‘is that actually real and written by the real author’ style comics where Walt Disney has Mickey Mouse trying to kill himself
UpdateThis site has a lot of the information about the strips as well as a really cool animation that is very similar to the actual strip and its story Read the rest of this entry »
America Jr.
I had heard about this webcomic before but never actually had a look at it. But today,having nothing better to do with myself and wanting to have a day where I didn’t do college related stuff ofr the first time in well … ages, I had a look through all 300 odd strips. (Well technically,I tried to do college stuff but was really not into it and decided to give myself the day off). Anyway, they’re pretty good, granted the last few strips befroe it went on a break (where it currently is at the moment) were a bit lacking in imagination, and the insistence they have on archiving all the weekend filler strips (even though most of the time its the same strip saturday and sunday and those same strips keep being repeated … ahhh) is a bit annoying. But the whole thing is pretty funny. Anyway, here’s some samples so take a look.
Gutsville #1 - the full issue
One of the best single comic issues of last year recently became available online here. It’s always good to see such unique and talented voices like Frazer Irving and Simon Spurrier *make it* across in the U.S comic scene. And that final page … Genius.
New Watchmen Photo’s Online
Here are a batch of photos put up for the new ‘Watchmen’ movie based on the Alan Moore graphic novel. I have to admit I’m getting horrible memories of Joel Schumacher’s ‘Batman & Robin’ but hopefully they’ll look better on screen. Some other ‘Watchmen’ related stuff I’ve posted here and here.
‘Pax Romana’ #1 online for free
Jonathan Hickman produced one of the best comic books and general pieces of entertainment I saw last year with his book ‘the Nightly News‘. Thankfully he isn’t resting on his laurels and has got several works in the pipeline. The most recent of which being ‘Pax Romana’. Here is a link to the first issue online. It’s very very good, maintaining the impressive design sense that the ‘Nightly News’ had, while still not seeming too derivative of that work. Granted, the story sounds derivative to those of us who have read too much science-fiction but it’s still done better than a lot of those stories. As a final aside, in an era when many 22 page comics take 5 minutes to read a book like ‘Pax Romana’ is very much value for money in terms of time spent:
PAX ROMANA tells the tale of 5000 men sent on an impossible mission to change the past and save the future. It’s the end of the world: Will they succeed, or will they fail?
Also of great interest is his talking about the first issue in depth here. What he says that I’ll pass on in it is that the internet doesn’t really do his art style justice as the two page spreads are designed to be read as one image rather than two seperate pages. Anyway, I really recommend taking a look and if your that impressed there’s a preview of the second issue here
Steve Gerber is dead
He passed away over the weekend. Certainly one of the ‘odder’ lights in mainstream comics, his Howard the Duck being more like an underground comic than anything else. His ‘Hard Time’ also being a lot of what you wouldn’t expect. Anyway, there’s a pretty good article on his career here and here’s a link to his Howard the Duck, & Omega the Unknown
The new Captain America? Or Captain Colbert?
Joe Quesada on ‘The Colbert Report’ plugging the ‘new’ Captain America (which was a pretty good read btw):
The Sandman Presents: Marquee Moon
A very enjoyable unpublished werewolf tale featuring John Constantine from the ‘Hellblazer’ comics. Though Lying in the gutters has been talking about it for ages - here’s the link. Also for those of you further interested in John Constantine here’s another one of the unpublished stories, the banned ’shoot’.
In case your interested - some sample art from ‘Marquee Moon’:
