Tags: Picture of the day, Transformers
Tags: Picture of the day, Transformers
This one is just weird. It’s gritty electronica hip hop with rapper LEIF(kolt) who tends to spit, growl and hiss more than rap, and San Diego producer Dusty Nix.
Get the EP as a digital download here.
Here’s a vid of the best cut off the EP.
Tags: Extended Player (EP), Hip Hop
It’s funny because it’s true.
Duh. The headline is that 25 years after-the-fact, DC finally decided to snatch the money off the table. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen is the bestselling graphic novel of all time, and there’s good reason for it: It’s a piece of art with mystery, politics, philosophy, and (of course) action and violence, told using characters with depth and weight.
So why do prequels and fuck that all up? Simple. $$$
Yeah, there’s a lot of talent attached to the seven 4-issue minis that will each focus on a particular Watchman, but I can’t imagine why this story needs to be told. Dave Gibbons graciously calls the project a “tribute” to the originals. As you can imagine, Moore hasn’t been as kind—he calls it “shameless…confirmation that [DC Comics is] still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.” Fans of comic history will recall that it is this precise book that led to Moore’s exit from the “big two” once and for all when DC stopped paying him royalties. 15 years later, still angry, he rebuffed DC’s offer to give him back the rights to his (entirely original) characters if he would take up the prequel/sequel project. He refused because he’d done what he wanted to do with the Watchmen characters and didn’t want anyone else playing in his sandbox either.
I’m not saying I agree with Moore: When, as a creator, you agree to sign with a publisher and create stuff for them, it ain’t yours no more. Can you imagine if Stan Lee threw a hissy fit every time someone worked with Spidey? Or what if Alan Moore himself hadn’t rejiggered Charlton Comics characters to create the Watchmen in the first place? Or what if they stopped using American Gothic knockoffs in commercial projects? (Okay, he’s got me there.)
Moore’s kind of a nutbag. Genius, but nutbag.
So now, DC has finally decided that they don’t need no stinkin’ Alan Moore. I pray they’re wrong, but I’m practically certain that they are wrong and they do need him.
Here’s the lineup on the various books.
The only ones I’m really interested in reading are Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan (because I want to see how JMS handles that). Oh, and Silk Spectre. Because I’ll read Amanda Conner drawing just about anyone’s boobs.
Now hit the break for more news you can’t use, about X-Men First Class 2, Spider-Man and the Avengers flicks, Robocop, and more….
Tags: Comic books
Ocean City Defender is distributing their new EP on Bandcamp at the “Name Your Price” rate (which includes, of course, zero bucks). If there was a category of music called “indie 1980s,” it would fit. The mellow waves flow like Simple Minds, New Order (but smoother), Yaz, etc.
Good stuff!
Tags: Extended Player (EP), Free Album!, Indie Pop
It really looks like he’s saying “Bitches…”
Tags: More goddamn cats on the internet?!!, Picture of the day
As a kid, I loved (adored!) Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz’s Moon Knight book. It was absolute dark-hero bliss, and everything I wanted Batman to be but, at the time, what Batman simply wasn’t. Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s Moon Knight book is at least the seventh “reboot” of the title since the first one, and now this one is ending at #12. I haven’t loved this run, but I haven’t hated it, either. And at least it was different. Previous reboots have tried to make the character into various levels of dark/violent/psycho. They haven’t all been bad (but several were), but those that weren’t bad weren’t all good, either.
5. Early Appearances. Moon Knight started in 1975 as a guy with parachute sleeves who hunted Werewolves. Designed by Doug Perlin, the character had a ways to go appearance-wise, and he wasn’t developed very much in these early appearances. Still, even in these developmental early days he
If you buy a collection of old MKs, make sure it also reprints the covers...
immediately stole the show; he was one of those side-characters for whom you’d buy a comic just to see him. See: Werewolf By Knight #32-33; Marvel Spotlight #28-29; Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man #22-23.
4. Moon Knight Vol. 6 (ongoing). This is Bendis and Maleev’s complete reimagining of the character. It’s fresh, it’s different, but it just isn’t as innovative as what Moench did thirty years earlier.
3. Moon Knight Vol. 5 (2006) #1-13. Charlie Huston came the closest to matching Doug Moench in terms of writing about a character rather than a concept, and it didn’t hurt that he had David Finch on the art. But this is a very, very dark and psychological comic. Be warned.
2. The Hulk! Magazine (backup features). The first glimpses of Moon Knight sold comics, so they made him a back-up feature in the oversized, overpriced Marvel magazine. These stories were more in depth, and we got to learn a lot more about the character. The stories were also ahead of their time in terms of their depth and weight. Moench wrote them all, and Sienkiewicz drew most of them. Clearly, they are the masters of Mark Spector. See: Hulk! Magazine #11-15, #17-18, and #20.
1. Moon Knight Vol. 1 by Moench and Sienkiewicz, issues 1-25. This was the first book to be pulled off the newstands due to low volume sales and sold only directly to comic book stores. Even that couldn’t save it, and the book died at issue #38. I’m only including the first 25 issues because after that the book did begin to wane significantly. Also, I’m recommending you actually go purchase the individual issues or that if you buy a collection you make sure it’s got Bill’s amazing covers. Whenever this book came out, I’d hang it on my wall. Just about every cover was frame-able art.
Just for giggles, I’m making naming Shadowland: Moon Knight #1-3 here. Because I can’t miss a chance to call out anything with Shadowland in the title. Worst event ever.
Tags: Comic books, Moon Knight
