OK first things first, I liked the Wolverine movie. It wasn’t great, but it was a lot better then I expected. Some things were silly and unnecessary, like the boxing match, but Liev Schreiber was excellent and it makes me think how bad Tyler Mane was in the first X-Men movie. There’s talk of a sequel (or two more, really) and there’s a rumor of a Gambit movie. If the latter is true, I’d like to see Ryan Reynolds reprise his role as Wade Wilson and without giving a way any spoilers, there is a way they could do it.
As for Free Comics Book Day, I took the kids, up to the LCS and we were able to pick up Blackest Night #0, The DC Kids Mega Sampler and Star Wars: The Clone Wars. I also purchased a Marvel Adventures Avengers Digest for Patrick and a Hanna Montana Digest (I’m not kidding) for Erin. A sale was going on in the store and I was able to find a mint condition copy of the 2008 Eisner Award Nominee for Best Anthology Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened, edited by Jason Rodriguez (Villard), for 50% off. I thumbed through it last year, but never bought it. I even thought it should have won, but it lost out to 5, by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Fabio Moon, Vasilis Lolos, and Rafael Grampa (self-published). I’ll doing my annul FCBD recap later in the week on the podcast. Now on to some links:
- Later this month the family and I are going to see The Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform Star Trek meets Star Wars. I’m very much looking forward to it.
- Aspiring graphic designers have until June 8 to submit entries to the 2009 Design Scholarship Challenge to compete for the national prize, an opportunity to work with DC Comics on an upcoming marketing campaign for Absolute Justice and a $25,000 tuition scholarship to one of the sponsoring design schools.
- Andrew Wahl, Comics Bronze Age editor, asks What are your favorite Bronze collections? Does Green Lantern/Green Arrow Hard Traveling Heroes count?
- The artwork for this week is a 3D mockup of You Have Killed Me! by Jamie S. Rich and Joelle Jones (Oni Press). Be sure to check out the 36 page preview, too.
- L.E. Becker, owner of WARP 9 in Clawson, Michigan, writes in to share his frustration regarding the ever increasing number of late comic book titles from big name creators. WARP 9 is an excellent store that I have shopped at in the past. It’s not too far away from my house and I should really try to get there more often.
- Fantagraphics reports that a page from Dash Shaw’s story in Mome Vol. 14 was accidentally printed out of sequence. Dash explains on his blog.
- Lastly, the Collected Comics Library was featured on The Comic Book Podcast Show – 4/12/2009 to 4/18/2009. My thanks to my friend Derek Coward for showcasing my work.
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