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Sunday, September 04, 2005
Comics invade the real world
Well, comic creators that is. Here are two examples I've found.
Mark Evanier blogged about a revival of What's My Line? going on in L.A. (I love living in San Francisco but there are many times that I miss Los Angeles). Checking out the schedule of upcoming shows I see a very familiar name in one of the guests to appear. On Sept. 14, Oct. 12 and Nov. 4 Len Wein will be one of the panelists for the game. The man co-created Swamp Thing, Wolverine and one of the greatest Justice League of America stories ever and now he's helping bring back that game show goodness.
Hell, on Oct. 12 you've got Wein, John Waters regular Mink Stole and former TV Geek on Beat the Geeks Paul Goebel on one panel (one of the few Beat the Geeks connection this incarnation of What's My Line? has). That's a nice chunk of pop culture goodness right there.
A combination of Swamp Thing and game shows of yesteryear. Why do I think this was created especially for Mike?
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But wait, there's more! If it weren't for Justice League of America #100-102 we wouldn't have Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers project going on. Maybe that's what Morrison was thinking of when he and Frank Quitely designed the artwork for the new Robbie William's CD. You've got sigils and tarot cards going on so it makes sense that those two would be drafted into the proceedings. Or maybe Williams just enjoyed Morrison and Quitely when they "did comic strip Judge Dredd." I know Morrison did a few Dredd stories although as far as I can research Quietly never did one Dredd story. I'm simply shocked, shocked!, that an article in a relatively mainstream news outlet would get their facts wrong about comics. Lord knows they couldn't do the eight minutes of research I just did through Google when there are stories of Destiny Child's award winnings to be done.
I actually saw Williams when Grant Morrison appeared at Meltdown Comics (I told you I miss L.A.!). It was cool to see him there...until he kept bugging Morrison with questions about how his New X-Men run fit in with the previous stories by Chris Clarmemont. Jeez, who knew the shining star of Take That was such an anal-retentive fanboy?*
A combination of Grant Morrison and Robbie Williams? Why do I think this was created especially for Dorian?
*WARNING: The related event might be made up in the vain hope that something funny might come out of this blog. So far results look dim.
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