The Grant Morrison Guide To Writing

And if it's okay to poke fun at Watchmen yesterday, then I guess it's okay to chuckle at this bloke:

Heh!

Not Sure What Happened There

A few minutes ago, I was about to reply to a comment someone left on the blog only to find a warning message from Google Chrome (my browser of choice) saying because I had links to the DC Source blog I was at risk of downloading malware to my PC:

Click to make readable

Turns out the DC blog might have been hijacked at some point so, for now, I've removed the link from my blog roll which has solved the issue for me.

Apologies if anyone had the same message and ran shrieking from Crisis on Earth-Prime - I promise I'm not hosting anything malicious here except the occasional opinion.

Kill Your Heroes

Or at least allow them to be mocked and laugh at them:

The Paint Watchmen - excellent stuff.

Justice League Detroit - Rebirth

Over the next few weeks on a Tuesday, I'll be working my way through the Justice League of America titles from 1985 to 1987, trying to work out if the Justice League Detroit era really was as bad as we think it was. Why? Why the hell not.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #233 - #236, Rebirth, Parts 1 to 4, written by Gerry Conway with art by Chuck Patton, Bill Anderson, Mike Machlan and Rick Magyar.

Picture the scene: you're Gerry Conway, you've just relaunched DC Comics' flagship team title in its recent annual and you need a storyline worthy of you're new team, something that will stretch them and prove that they are worthy of being known as the Justice League.

You start your first issue with a one page prologue, showing an ancient disaster, hinting that something or someone was behind the extermination of some of the first complex life forms ever to evolve on Earth billions of years ago. It's not a bad start - a foreshadowing of what's to come.

And then you have your first two-page spread, pages 2 and 3 of issue #233. What are you going to do, how will you introduce your new heroes, the new League?

Monday Memes #26

And here we are, the halfway mark of my year of Monday Memes!

I love these - not only do they feature the title of the comic within the cover image but they both feature comics within comics!

Secret Origins #50 is still one of my favourite covers and while Suicide Squad #4 could have ended up in the Homages section, I thought it worked well here.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #135

Police protection? Never heard of it.

Geography Lesson

Just a quick note about Flashpoint: Lois Lane And The Resistance:

Was it too difficult for Eddie Nunez to just Google "map of britain"?