Monday Memes #2

I thought about sticking with one theme (I should say meme as that's what I'm calling these things - damn my alliteration addiction!) per month but then thought what the heck, I'm just going to throw whatever out there.

Last week was Homage, this week something I'm calling You Need Hands:

Big hands, to be honest.

Sometimes, as above, with various heroes trapped in their grip, but mostly it's all about the hands.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #112

Ah, Hourman - how often have I felt like that?

DC start their run of gorgeous, minimalist covers and what do I do? Go and splash a whole bunch of text over them.

Friday Night Fights - The Dynamic Duel

It's a New Year, a time for resolutions and things to change but not over at Spacebooger! Oh no, the New Year simply means new fights to that guy.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #111

Is it wrong to find a centuries old immortal blue man throwing up funny?

Christmas and New Year delayed me getting hold of my comics hence the bumper delivery today!

More Rings Than You Could Possibly Imagine

And more news from the DC Source blog: a new Red Lantern ongoing book will debut in 2011.

That, in itself, came as a bit of a surprise - I have to wonder how long an ongoing series based around characters who are little more than big balls of mindless agression can be sustained. When there's only one character in the Red Lantern Corps who can actually put a sentence together (the others make do with GRRR! ARRRGH!) you have to question how this is going to work.

For me, though, the big disappointment was the announcement that the writer is going to be Peter Milligan. The last thing I read by him was Infinity, Inc. back in 2007. I lasted the first three issues before I ditched it as it simply didn't work for me.

This puts me in a quandry: I'm a Green Lantern fan but I don't have an inexhaustable supply of money and I don't like the writer.

Think I might try out a few issues and see how it goes.

Letter Columns To Return

Read some great news on various sites yesterday, not least the DC Source blog: letter columns are returning to DC books!

They were always a good read back in the old days, even when you had to take into account the fact that they were referring to things that happened two or three months before the issue they appeared in and I applaud their return.

Monday Memes #1

During last summer I had a bit of fun looking through my cover scans and posting my favourites every Monday.

This year I'm going to throw out covers which share a theme or an idea, hence Monday Memes. First up: Homages:

Nothing is sacred to Ambush Bug and I thank heaven for that - not even the cover of Superman #1 excapes him.

Nor the cover of Flash #123 which introduced the world to the DCU Multiverse, spawning either a hugely rich vein of imaginative storytelling possibilities or hideous over-complication depending on your point of view.

You know what? Despite a bunch of mini-series, a handful of specials and currently appearing in Doom Patrol, I still think there's not enough Ambush Bug in the world. Just saying.