The Bum’s Rush #81
WARNING! None of the news or rumors you see here in The
Bum’s Rush should be considered FACT until it actually
happens. It might never happen. How do you know I’m not just
making all this crap up? I could, you know. You’ve been
warned!
Not So Much News, Not So Funny
Books
You know, maybe it’s me, but there doesn’t seem to be a
whole lot of interesting news or rumors coming down the pipe
as far as the funny books go. I’ll admit that over the past
few months my interest in comics, especially in the
mainstream, has become significantly diminished. Perhaps
this has led to my inability to find any news that is
exciting or compelling enough, at least to me, to write
about it in this column.
Granted, I have been extraordinarily busy working on several
projects including Round Two, 24 Hour Comic Day, the
redesigning of this very website while simultaneously
preparing for a number of exciting new projects for next
year. It could very well be that I am too busy making
comics to get overly excited about reading them.
It could also be that things I desire in a good comic simply
cannot be found where I once looked for them. Superhero
comics, which have held sway over me since high school, are
becoming painfully predictable and boring. Mega-events,
which continually fail to deliver on significant any level,
are chipping away at my once boundless enthusiasm towards
the big-name companies. Hype is destroying my sense of
anticipation and my faith in the creators that do the
hyping.
I’m just not having as much fun reading comics as I used to.
And what’s the point if it’s not fun? I suppose I’m trying
to find a new path as a comic book fan. I guess this column
is as good a place as any to explore that path.
And Yet…
And yet this is still a column for comic book and industry
news, ain’t it? So enough whining and introspection about
why the funny books don’t do it for me like they used ta.
Here’s a couple of interesting stories I scrounged up from
around this electromatronic global communi-ma-bob we call
the Internet:
- Last week in Newsarama’s weekly Marvel Puff Piece,
a.k.a.
New Joe Friday’s, Joey Q revealed that
Underworld actor/writer, Kevin Grevioux will be
writing one of the new titles set to spin-out of
Civil
War.
-
Viper Comics has
announced that, after a yearlong search, they will be
adding five new web-comics to their site. The five
web-comics announced are Bob the Squirrel by Frank Page,
Brinkerhoff by Gabe Strine, Ugly Hill by Paul Southworth,
Small Wonder by Worth Gowell and Muffin Time
by Bryan Chojnowski. They will join the publisher’s
current web-comics
The Horrible Pirates and
You’ll Have That
over the next few months.
- Over on Warren Ellis’ online forum,
The Engine, the mighty Ellis started a thread asking
fellow professional comic creators what projects they
are planning for 2007. You can check out the thread
here.
- A couple items of note from that thread:
- Artist
Scott Chantler
revealed that he will be the regular artist for an
ongoing
Hawaiian Dick series from Image
Comics.
- Dean Haspiel is already planning an
unnamed sequel to his
ACT-I-VATE web-comic,
Immortal.
He’s also working on an adaptation of an R.L. Stein
Goosebumps story,
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
for
Scholastic Graphix
upcoming graphic novel anthology called Scary Summer.
The Most Important Convention You Will
Attend… EVER!
As I mentioned last week, The Stumblebum Crew will be out in
full force at this weekend’s
Wizard World Texas convention. We
just got our shipment of Round Two from the printer and they
look sweet so make sure to stop by Booth #2150 in Artist
Alley to pick one up. In attendance will be Dana Place,
David DeGrand, Dave Sherrill, Kevin Steele, A.C. Hall and
myself. Ours will be the table surrounded by hot girls and
jealous fanboys, adorned with the best looking comics you’ve
ever seen in your life and guarded by a cranky luchador with
a lisp who demands to be called El Bastardo Atractivo.*
*Portions of the above statement may be categorically untrue
and not at all likely to ever be true.
In Case You Didn’t Know…
52 and Civil War both suck. Why are you still reading them?
The “A.C. Hall Is A Liar!” Contest
Most of you probably noticed that a few of the stories that
A.C. wrote about during his guest stint were, in fact,
complete (and completely hilarious) fabrications. See, A.C.
is one heck of a talented writer and sometimes writers are
given to wild and fancy flights of artistic tomfoolery
(commonly referred to as lying by normal folks). Hey, that’s
why there’s a disclaimer. The thing is he wrote these
stories so well that some of them are completely
indistinguishable from the stories that were based on actual
news and events.
So my question is, can you guess which ones are fake? Cause
if you can then you’re probably going to want to enter the
“A.C. Hall Is A Liar!” *
Contest. The first person to correctly name all of the fake
stories will win a complete set of Stumblebum Studios
comics, including the upcoming Round Two! anthology,
plus a few other goodies from the
Stumblebum Store.
Okay, a few hints:
There are a total of six fake stories.
Two of the guest columns contain no fake stories at all.
The fake stories are complete fabrications so don’t look for
stories that are mostly true but have an element of
silliness or contain jokes about said story.
So to enter the contest, first go to the
Bum’s Rush Archives
and check out column’s 72 through 79. Then just send an
email with the title “A.C. Hall Is A Liar!” to
thesuperleezard@yahoo.com with your six choices and your
physical address so I can send you your prize should you
win. Good luck to you!
*For the record I don’t
really think A.C. is liar. He’s just
very good at telling stories that are not at all true.
The Only Comics That Matter
Last Week –
Midnighter #1 by Garth Ennis, Chris Sprouse & Karl Story
Superman Confidential #1 by Darwyn Cooke & Tim Sale
Fantastic Four: The End #1 by Alan Davis & Mark Farmer
This Week –
Batman #658 by Grant Morrison, Andy Kubert & Jesse
Delperdang
Stormwatch: PHD #1 by Christos N. Gage & Doug Mahnke
Doctor Strange: The Oath #2 by Brian K. Vaughn, Marcos
Martin & Alvaro Lopez
Y: The Last Man #51 by Brian K. Vaughn, Pia Guerra & Jose
Marzan Jr.
Next Week –
Astonishing X-Men #18 by Joss Whedon & John Cassaday
Casanova #6 by Matt Fraction & Gabriel Ba
Godland #14 by Joe Casey & Tom Scioli
If you have any interesting news, rumors, lies, etc. about
comics and think I should know about it too just email me at
thesuperleezard@yahoo.com.
Read more dumb crap written by me at
www.livejournal.com/users/superleezard.
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