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The Bum's Rush

by Paul Milligan

The Bum’s Rush #1 What is The Bum’s Rush you may ask? Well, the dictionary defines it as “forcible ejection from a place.” And that’s exactly what this weekly column will be: the forcible ejection of my ideas, thoughts and other nonsense, from my brain onto your computer screen. So first off, who the hell am I? My name’s Paul. Nice to meet you. I am a comic book creator, or at least I’m doing my best impression of one. I started Stumblebum Studios with my good friend and creative partner (and pirate) Aaron Hall, who is writing a few columns of his own on this site. We’ve been friends for quite some time and finally put our money where our collective mouth was a year or so ago and wrote a comic book called Twilight (which you can read about here). It was pretty clear that promotion was a big key to success so we decided to for Stumblebum Studios, a place where we (and our friends) could pimp our various projects and ourselves. Stumblebum Studios v.2 is here to further our pimping needs, bringing you as much bang for your (non-existent) buck as possible, with columns and other features just like this. But what, you may ask, is this column really about? Like a few of the other columns on this site The Bum’s Rush will be random, with no real discernable focus from week to week, aside from the obvious – comics, me, me and comics, etc. Oh sure, I’d like to say there’s a main focus behind this thing, one theme or topic that I will discuss from various angles and with varying degrees of success. I could say this will be a rumor column, but that wouldn’t exactly be the case. I could say that this will be a column about how I, as a writer, approach the craft of writing funny books, but that wouldn’t be accurate. Maybe it’s a place where I discuss, at length, whatever grievances I have with the industry that I love. Yes and no. Perhaps this is simply a column that will approach what it means to be a comics fan turned comics professional (i.e. wannabe) with intelligent discussion and well-reasoned thoughts and logic. But that, my friends, would be an outright lie. No, The Bum’s Rush is simultaneously none of these things and all of them at the same time. More accurately it is a great big pile of crap that happens to be on my mind at any given time, most likely relating to comics and writing, sometimes not. Sometimes you’ll only see little snippets of information, bullet points of stolen headlines that have piqued my interest or tiny little thoughts that haven’t existed long (or are deserving) enough to be greatly elaborated upon. Other times I will likely go on a wild, meandering rant that will border on nonsensical as I struggle to get my point across about “why did this have to happen” or “what are they thinking” and perhaps “what is the world coming to when . . .” Example? • The best writer’s working in comics right now? Grant Morrison and Dan Slott! • Read GLA!! It’s one of the best comics that sounds like it should be one of the worst comics ever! • Am I the only one who is more excited about All-Star Superman than All-Star Batman? • Marvel’s House of M? Pass. • Almost everyone’s probably already seen this   (http://www.superherohype.com/news/featuresnews.php?id=2834) but HOLY CRAP!! You get the picture now right? Right. This is the melting pot for my thoughts on comics, writing and life. Hopefully you will be entertained, or else what’s the point. Hopefully you will be informed, though I can’t promise anything on that front. Hopefully you will laugh, but only when you are supposed to. And hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up week after week. I’ve tried it before, you know. Several aborted attempts I have made into the field of der “weekly comic book column.” But I have a feeling this time will be different. For one thing, this is my website; I have to do a weekly column, don’t I? This whole weekly column thing was my idea in the first place. If I can’t do it, then that means it was a bad idea and therefore a wrong idea and, well . . . I’m never wrong . . . so there you have it. Also, there is a great big hulk of a man named Dana Place that will kick there ever-living shit out of me if I fail to meet the deadlines that I have set for everyone, myself included. That’s reason enough to stay on task isn’t it? There’s your impetus to keep coming back and reading this column. If you don’t and I become discouraged I may slip and then . . . boom, Dana pile drives me through a coffee table. It’s self-preservation at this point. Read this column or we’ll pile-drive this writer through his desk. NEXT WEEK: Who Mourns for The Blue Beetle? Superman 2: The Good Version and much, much more. And monkeys. Send me hate mail at  thesuperleezard@yahoo.com Read more stupid crap I write at www.livejournal.com/users/superleezard End of Line