Well I’ve met to post this for a while now but it’s pretty bloody obvious that this blog is on a hiatus now.
This blog has a history that was tied to a certain comic book store in Vancouver, Canada (You know, where the 2010 Winter Olympics were) called ELFSAR COLLECTION COMICS & TOYS. Sadly Elfsar had to close down in May so in many ways, it’s closing has also put the final nail into the coffin of this blog. If I had ANY thought of returning and sparking this sucker up, it’s all gone now. Elfsar was the spark that had me start REALLY bad reviews over on Happy Harbor Comics website. That went on for a while until I thought, why not just start my own blog doing the same thing and ranting about whatever else I wanted. So I did and BtS was born. It went through many looks & feel until finding the latest incarnation. Now don’t get me wrong, I do miss it at times but overall I think running this blog took a great deal out of me in ways I haven’t still realized. I managed this blog almost as much or more than working 8 hours a day and that got to be too much in general. That and I feel my appreciation for comic books lately has been at an all time low so I have little to talk about.
I know many friends I know wished I kept the blog up and running but never truly understood it was like feeding a forever hungry zombie… and I FUCKING HATE Zombies!
So for now the blog is again on a Hiatus. If you feel the fucked up strange need to listen to my rambles, you can catch me on Twitter here:
http://twitter.com/RobertParizek
I’m not closing up shop as I like the digital footprint this leaves so feel free to browse and lick the carpet, you might find something you like. That said, I’m closing the comments now for the entire site and all older posts.
Click on it before it goes away!! Here is the Iron Man leaked trailer from Comic Con. Big thanks & kudos to Zeek for this!!
Bender Rocks!
More photos from Comic-Con are on Comic Book Resources.com Photo Parade 5 here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11521
Great fun to go through and enjoy the geek! Plus you get to see the creators behind the names which is always fun to say “Oh thats So and so…”. Hmm.
This is being put up mainly for me so I can remind myself to watch this later…
snippet from Chud.com:
Do you have like 90 minutes to kill? If so, you’re in luck – IESB.net has put up the entire Masters of the Web panel from San Diego Comic Con. This was the mega-event that sold out Sunday*, the panel that brought together a dozen web writers to talk about what it’s like to sit around in your underwear online all day… professionally!
View them all here:
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=11280
yeah this is late…
2007 Eisner Awards Winners
I don’t know why this does nothing for me but I am happy with some of the winners:
Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team
Mark Buckingham/Steve Leialoha, Fables (Vertigo/DC)
Best Cover Artist
James Jean, Fables, Jack of Fables, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo/DC)
Best Lettering
Todd Klein, Fables, Jack of Fables, Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall; Pride of Baghdad, Testament (Vertigo/DC); Fantastic Four: 1602, Eternals (Marvel); Lost Girls (Top Shelf)
Check out all the winners here:
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.shtml
Comic Book Resources has a nice description of the Eisner night:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11376
Well kids. Looks like the San Diego Comic-Con is done for this year. Here are some sites doing wrap-up of the entire thing. To me it seems like a mixture of lots of news and not a lot. Kinda bitter sweet.
Comic Book Resources
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11303
Newsarama
http://www.newsarama.com/Comic-Con_07/sdcc07index.html
Also I forgot to mention this – All The Rage had coverage of his SDCC adeventures. Good reads as they made me wish I went this year, check’em out:
ATR at SDCC Day 3 – Sunday, July 29
ATR at SDCC Day 2 – Saturday, July 28
ATR at SDCC Day 1 – Friday, July 27Â
Steve Wacker revealed the new creative teams on Amazing Spider-Man (taken from Newsarama):
Steve Wacker: Here’s our launch teams:
Dan Slott, Steve McNiven, Dexter Vines and Morry Hollowell
Marc Guggenheim, Salvador Larrocca and Jason Keith
Bob Gale, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning and Jeromy Cox
Zeb Wells, Chris Bachalo, Tim Townshend and Antonio Fabela
The title is adopting a “thrice-monthly” shipping schedule later in 2007. I know I should cut down on my attention to Dan Slott but this will likely get me reading Amazing Spider-Man now! Newsarama has more:
http://www.newsarama.com/Comic-Con_07/Marvel/Wacker.htmlÂ
Is this really the first type of armor that Tony Stark will be wearing in the upcoming Iron Man movie? At SDCC Joe Quesada, Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr. and Stan Winston were all on hand for the reveal!
Check out the photos here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11394
and here:
http://www.newsarama.com/Comic-Con_07/Marvel/InsideCrate.html
