My brain’s been looping back around to the screen-shown production of Merrily We Roll Along again. Which I suppose could just be interpreted as my own obsessiveness, but which I prefer to think is a good sign about the meat for chewing in the show. In any case, I spent a fair chunk of the …
Maybe there aren’t coincidences, but it certainly seemed an odd bit of synchronicity that two non-linked (in the way of the internet link, that is) things happened nearly on top of each other during my online time wasting t’other day. First, via Gail Simone’s twitter, came Lily Tsui’s excellent list titled “Signs You’re a Shitty …
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Amy Reeder’s posted a great look at her personal coloring process: I’m not an uber-experienced colorist and I have no idea what the standard technique for coloring is—so maybe this is common knowledge—but there’s something new I’ve been trying occasionally when I really want to play with opposing hues as light sources. And I thought …
Something of a sequel to the original Pan Wanted Promo. Seems only fair: The base layers are recycled from the other image, obviously. Hook himself is a newer experiment. I got Manga Studio during a crazy-cheap online sale. I’d been reading / hearing in several places that it was great for digital inking, so it …
(Images from Power Pack #1 and #50. Art by June Brigman / Bob Wiacek and Jon Bodganove / Hilary Barta, respectively). Probably one of the better twists in Simonson’s run on Power Pack was the infamous Power Switch. Sure, super-heroes had swapped bodies before, and people with external powers like armors or rings had passed …
I’ve listened to songs from Merrily We Roll Along quite a bit. And, like a lot of Sondheim, I love it to pieces. But since no one ever seems to do it (because, as they always point out, it’s never before been much of a commercial success), I’ve only ever had a Wikipedia-style notion about …
I just finished listening to Kieron Gillen’s recording of the “Comics Are for Everyone” Panel from the Dublin International Comics Expo. As Gillen points out in his intro, it’s a panel on diversity. Appropriately enough, the discussion ranges in a lot of different directions, all of which are worth hearing. Go. Listen. Me, I’m going …
Gail Simone’s question of the day reminded me that I’ve been fairly cranky of late. And, honestly, since the snark is all intended toward the betterment of … betterness and suchlike, it’s probably time I gushed about something other than a series that’s been cancelled for over a decade. Just in time, I finally succumbed …
My father is a retired police officer. Which, let’s start out, doesn’t qualify me as any kind of expert on law enforcement. We’re not playing that game. However, it does mean that I heard more than once the following ideology (paraphrased, because it took a lot of forms, and I can’t promise the veracity of …
There are a lot of points worth discussing in the ongoing debate about the minimum wage, especially as it relates to the nation’s fast food workers. But when faced with questions about wage policies, what’s the response of the company’s president?: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpePh4Cal58] “I’ve been here 40 years.” Let’s give the man the benefit of …
