Comics Make No Sense: Whatever Happened to Adam?
Dear Ones, I’m sorry for the abrupt conclusion to this blog. 10 years of blogging is a long time, and I thought I could keep it going after the hiatus,
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SHUT IN THEATER: Weekend Reading 150
One-hundred fifty weekends later (give or take) and the Beat Elite are still spending our Saturdays holed up in Stately Beat Manor for Weekend Reading 150! It’s been a long
The Underrated “Book Love” by Debbie Tung
“Book Love” Book Cover by Debbie Tung Okay I know that this should be a manga column, but this happens to be a e-graphic novel that I discovered the library
The Anime Almanac » Blog Archive » The Five Anime that Defined My Decade
It’s fair to say that the past decade has been a little light on the Anime Almanac front. I burned out on the blog mid-way through 2010 and then life
Daily webcomic by Dave Kellett
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APE 2014 Photo Gallery | Comic-Con International: San Diego
For APE 2014 exhibitors, the show reallys started on Friday evening with an exhibitors-only mixer at the Last Gasp Warehouse in San Francisco. Co-sponsored by Comic-Con International and Last Gasp,
Superdrol Cycle Dosage, Results, And Side Effects
A designer steroid, Superdrol is an extremely popular oral steroid that is used by many athletes. Since It was first released as a prescription drug, Methasterone has become one of the most
kids rule while parents, in comparison, are the non-ceremonial seat of all actual power
archive – contact – sexy exciting merchandise – cute – search – about← previousAugust 26th, 2013nextAugust 26th, 2013: This weekend my dog Chompsky met Meredith Gran’s dog Heidi so if you’re so into comics that you know cartoonist’s dogs then my friend have I got a link for you.One year ago today: i’m not sure why i used the word “nightmare” when the word “frightmare” was sitting right there– Ryan
The Impact of Women on Gendo Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Have you ever noticed how men tend to act differently when they are around women? Compared to when they are not near or are influenced by them, men become gentler and/or may become crazier. In Neon Genesis Evangelion, one of anime/manga’s most memorable fathers, Gendo Ikari, falls right into this shell. He treats his son, Shinji Ikari, like garbage while treating one of his soldiers, Rei Ayanami, like a goddess. In addition to that, Gendo’s actions throughout the series have been motivated by his dead wife. His story is quite a look at how men transform when a women is involved in their lives. Gendo’s story revolved around his manipulation of a variety of people in order to wipe…
comicsreporter: marie severin, 2013; photographed by Irene…
comicsreporter: marie severin, 2013; photographed by Irene Vartanoff Happy (Belated) Birthday, Mirthful Marie! Living up to your Bullpen nickname even at 84! (Go buy the book about her, everyone)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Casts Cressida, Lionsgate Reveals Victory Banner
Although The Hunger Games: Catching Fire doesn’t hit theaters until this November, director Francis Lawrence is quickly getting the sequel ready for November […]
(Tapastic link) JoT #1892: Ballmer’s surprise send-off
Early JoT time! Our Monday comic, presented a day early, sponsored by Tapastic. From those who left before… Comic is now up on our regular site, with the JoyPoll.
9th Art Winner – Gigantic Beard takes the prize
The inaugural 9th Art Awards at the Edinburgh Book Festival’s Stripped event were announced last night, with Stephen Collins’ excellent ‘The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil‘ beating out considerable competition from the other books on the shortlist: Gigantic Beard follows the life of ordinary Dave, who likes nothing more than a night in sketching the everyday life passing by in boring monotony and predictable order outside his window. He lives in a world of order, on the perfectly shaped island of Here, where everyone looks inwards, always the same, monotony and order leading to a life of boredom and conformity. Until the beard comes along. The evil beard. The book is…
Celebrating ESP-DISK’ : 50 Years of Unimaginable Sounds – Imagined
In 1963 a record label began on the 12th floor of 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City by releasing its first LP. Bernard Stollman, a 34 year old jazz fan with a law background, had been working with some rhythm and blues and jazz musicians, helping them with copyright and contract issues. Bernard Stollman and one of his early ESP logos. Stollman had also learned the "International Auxiliary Language," Esperanto and recorded an album of songs and poetry all spoken in Esperanto, which he had hoped would further promote the language. Read more »
Watch This: Early Unused Avengers Animatic
I love seeing the tricks and effort that go into “movie magic.” Concept art, early animatics, CG tricks, anything that shows how they create the amazing stuff you see on screen. That’s why I was super interested to see on The Awesomer a link to an early animatic for The Avengers, focusing on Iron Man’s introduction. It’s way more exciting and interesting than the one we got, but I can understand why it was ditched: why do we need to be introduced to a villain right away that we’ll never see again? Still, if you’re like me and love seeing this behind-the-scenes work, check it out below.
The Enthusiasm of a Five-Year-Old, The Arteries of a Corpse
How do you like your bacon? Fake is an acceptable answer.
SyFy "Eats Up" the Summer
What can I say, I had a bit of a bump between my last post and this post. Doesn’t mean that I had given up on my enjoyment of “B-Movies.” To be honest, some of them don’t even deserve a “B-Movie” Rating. Just last night, I was laying down to catch up my kingdom (in “Kingdom Age”) on my iPad, when WA-LA – there was “Piranhaconda!” I had to watch! While not the campy gore of Sharktopus, Piranhaconda offered a semi-serious story of screaming botoxed women. Men are usually not botoxed on SyFy. Prinhaconda offered plenty of gore, but in some cases, the people…
VICE Creates Animated Kung Fu Lessons To Promote Wong Kar-wai’s “The Grandmaster”
VICE has produced three short animated pieces as a promotional supplement for the release of Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster, a fictionalized account of the life of Chinese martial artist (and Bruce Lee trainer) Ip Man. Each of the shorts, animated in a limited moving-comic style, explains a specific martial arts style: Wing Chun, Hung Gar and Ba Gua. The design and animation was handled by Erie, Pennsylvania-based MoreFrames.
News: Original Hardcover Volume One and Two Limited Editions
Clearing through some boxes a few weeks ago, I came across one in particular that I thought contained paperback Volume Three. In fact, it held an old personal stash of the original hardcovers for Volume One and Two, from back in 2005. Given that I clearly didn’t remember that I had these, and I have my own copies, I’m going to make these available to anyone that wants to pick them up. These are extremely limited in quantity; I have nineteen copies of Volume One, and nine copies of Volume Two. These books feature the original covers, and there will never, ever, be more of these printed. These are just leftovers from the 2005 run. These books are signed with a 2005 signature (I always put …
COMICS: Free Captain Ultimate Side Story Available
The Captain Ultimate creative team announced today via their blog that you can get a free side story in PDF form from them starting today. If you haven’t read Captain Ultimate yet, you’re doing it wrong. You can grab the free PDF here, you can also purchase Captain Ultimate issue 1 from Comixology here. Cover by Taylor Stauft Thomas Winkley is the Video Game Editor for Big Shiny Robot! You can find him on twitter @thomaswinkley or via email thomas@BigShinyRobot.com
