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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Random crap from a crap blogger
Two blogs enter, only one leaves. I'm glad Melrsoe, Greeling and Costello are still blogging, it still gives me hope for this stupid blogosphere. I've been thinking about Melrose's final statement on his old blog, how getting so deep into the wild and wooly world of comic book politics can suck out the enjoyment found in the medium. I often get that feeling, as if everything I read I have to review here (although I seldom do reviews) or just he plain malaise one gets sifting through companies going for short-term successes based on “event” comics and reactions to them. If things get too bad I just know I can go to certain works that will restore my faith in comics, not unlike how Melrose and Co. start a blog about what they dig. I read some of Kirby's New Gods books, Love & Rockets or something by Derek Kirk Kim and I feel all better.
That and I've trained myself to see how people act in the comic book business as darkly hilarious. It's like a suicide set to Benny Hill music.
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Flying Southwest airlines over the weekend I found something in their Spirit magazine that I had to share with you good people. The way they described the creator of Sin City sounded just a bit cheeky: "Basin City (nickname, 'Sin City') is a dark and violent town created by comic book icon Frank Miller. Let's just say, the man's got issues." Oh snap!
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You know what I'd like to see? I’d like to see an in-depth and honest book on the history of Marvel Comics. It would go over their books, their creators, all their business ups-and-downs and everything else. Tom Spurgeon and Jordan Raphael's Stan Lee books come the closest but it's just about one man. Les Daniel's book, from what I've seen, is hardly as penetrating as it should be. I haven't read Comic Wars by Dan Raviv, but I do know it's only about one era of Marvel. I want the whole story of this American company. Perhaps I'll write the book myself, although I can't possibly do it now considering where my life is at currently.
Let's hope the next posts aren't so scattershot.
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