Between The Staples

This one goes out to William S. and the fact that I went and procured a few books (yes one is a D&D book, the other may surprise some old cult fans) last week and this weekend to feed the roleplayer in me.

Snagged from Blog@Newsarama (I have dropped the whole Nu Newsarama rambles, if you want to see more on that check this out here) that Mightygodking.com put up these great ads, you can see more here:
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/06/09/from-the-slushpile/

Also those who remember my rant about Final Cri$i$ and World War Bunk, well check this great article up on Comics Should Be Good!
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/06/13/fridays-editorial-conference/

Thanks for the heads up on this by a great editor and cohort at Z2H, Andrew Foley on his Zeros 2 Heroes blog post:
http://www.zeros2heroes.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,Who-s-Responsible-.html/Itemid,110/
Great article regarding the editorial decisions (or lack thereof) regarding Final Cri$i$ and Chuck Dixon no longer working for DC.

Lastly, I will get to any solits when they come online (I am hearing they will be up tomorrow) otherwise I am dog as a sick, offline and still crying in my tea about the loss of Captain Linden and Czech out of Euro’08. PS - I did not misspell colours, I just spelled it like us Canucks do. Stow your flames.

I missed this on the Nu Newsarama website but Morrison talks Final Cri$i$ #1 and explains the death of Orion. Here is a snippet:

Grant Morrison:
Orion’s appearance on the docks and the Guardians’ response in Final Crisis #1 was written and drawn first. Jim Starlin then created Orion’s death scene in Death Of The New Gods to lead into the War God’s appearance in Final Crisis #1, so we refer back to Jim’s scene in Final Crisis #3. When I wrote that scene, Orion’s terminal injuries were a result of the mysterious bolt of light which Jim hit him with in Death Of The New Gods #6. By the time Countdown #1 came out, I was working on Final Crisis #4 and #5 and JG was drawing #3, so we were already well into our own story and unable to change it to match Countdown.

Forgive me but what th f**k did the the Editor do here? Remember when you were reading a comic and it had the little box telling you “This happens before Blah #X comic” from the editor? This was done in the books to avoid readers going WTF and being confused? IF — by Morrison’s account, DC / editor KNEW that this would be the case, why not tell the reader this RATHER than having us readers need to read this in an interview?! Are the editors / companies just getting lazy or what? This is about as a bad as World War Bunk when Dr. Strange had to go drink ZOM and fans were like WTF until the writers filled them in on an interview. Is that was we are to expect these days? Writers come in and fill in what happens if you too wacked out on crack to figure shit out like a Morrison script.

You can read more here on Nu Newsarama (if you can find it rather than being bored by all the crappy movie news):
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080609-MorrisonFC01.html

Lots of news from the Wizard World Philly. Some hi-lights are the Marvel Mondo saying that Dr. Strange is not going to be involved much in Secret Invasion which was disappointing news (or bullshit) & a new Kraven after Spider-Man. DCU: CRISIS NOW! talking about all the various bits and pieces spinning out of Final Crisis along with the rumor that Tony Daniel designing new Batman and Robin costumes. Check it out, lots of news / bullshit was being dished up at Philadelphia…

Newsarama coverage
http://www.newsarama.com/Philly08/WWPhillyindex.html

CBR a Cup O’Joe @ WW Philly
http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=16624

Alright. I know this too a while to get going on this but let’s get into the next edition of our Yahs & Nahs! We got Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men, Batman, Final Crisis and New Avengers to get thumbs up or down!

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