Okay, I will let your paranoid conspiratorial cuckoo crazy speak for some of the other crazy in my ask box.
do you think that I would waste my time writing the X-Men EVERY SINGLE DAY if my publisher wasn’t interested in the X-Men? if I thought I was writing into a publishing vacuum where my publisher didn’t care?
do you think that my publisher would put, not to be bragging, but one of their franchise players on the X-Men if they were not interested in making the X-Men as interesting and commercially successful as possible?
do you think I would be allowed to team up with the very best artists in mainstream comics on the X-Men if the publisher wasn’t interested in the X-Men?
just because Marvel announced an avengers related announcement that’s ready to be announced doesn’t mean that there isn’t stuff coming down the pike for X-Men that will blow your mind. very clearly what is going to happen in the last will and testament of Charles Xavier is about to blow the doors off of the X-Men franchise in a very exciting way. and when we are ready to pull the PR trigger we will pull the PR trigger.
it is truly amazing to me that no matter how much online gossip that you find out ends up being completely not true or warped to the point of not true that some of you guys STILL just flat out believe whatever you read.
look at the facts.
A source tells THR that the actor, who reprises his role as Han Solo from the original franchise, was injured by the door of the Millennium Falcon, the spacecraft that his character pilots in the original films. The spaceship looks to be making a return in the sequel.
Seriously, this viral marketing for Star Wars has gone too far. Stop hurting the elderly, J.J. Abrams.
I wish they’d show this in prisons…I know people in prison have cable, but I can’t speak to whether they have Netflix! [Laughs] For inmates to see their lives reflected back at them like this, though…I think it’d make a difference. I’d hope it make some people on the outside stop and think, too: “Do I really want to end up here? Do I really want to be doing this?”
Amazing interview with Sharon Jones on how apparently accurate OITNB’s depiction of prison is (she was a guard at Riker’s). (via likeapairofbottlerockets)
More reason for me to love Sharon Jones.
Most notably I’d say anything by Jeff Smith. His old series Bone and his new series RASL. It’s a real side that Jeff is beginning to explore. He’s out-charmed everybody, now it’s time for him to try something else. Other comics I read are Hellboy by Mike Mignola, and lots of the new stuff, lots of the work of people like James kochalka. He’s one of the new herd that are approaching comics without the prejudices my generation came in with. So because they are making all sorts of things that my generation would call mistakes, that were trained not to do, these are young artists without prejudice and I would say (to be fair) they do about 80% of it wrong and about 20% of it brilliantly. I’m learning all kinds of things from ‘em.
Frank Miller talks about what “modern comics” he’s reading, during his Reddit AMA.
Jeff Smith’s “new series” RASL launched in 2008 and finished in 2012, and James Kochalka is a 47 year old man who has been producing comics professionally since… 1998 or so? I’m not so sure he can be called “the new herd” anymore.
The rate at which these events occurred went from approximately 1 every other month between 2000 and 2008 (5 per year) to more than 1 per month between 2009 and 2012 (almost 16 per year). The authors’ tracking also indicates that this increased rate has continued into 2013—more specifically, there were 15 events. While it is possible that this increase is an artifact of the search strategy (perhaps, archiving of the news reports has improved in recent years), the authors believe that the observed rise represents a real increase in the number of events in recent years.
From an FBI bulletin about mass shootings in the U.S. from January this year. Much more at the link.