Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Comic Books The Legend of Neil: Sandeep Parikh

by Dustin Downing
July 26, 2010 - 10:33 am

San deep Parikh

The iconic video game The Legend of Zelda was co-created by one of the industries most respected artists, Shigeru Miyamoto.  Its design was meant to wax poetic on the misadventures in his childhood home of Kyoto, Japan. In kind, the hugely successful symbiotic online sitcom The Legend of Neil was created by a guy who plays a stalker on a hugely popular web series The Guild, Sandeep Parikh.  His concept is based on a guy getting all shit housed and wanting to wax the ass of the fairy in The Legend of Zelda, whilst using the controller wire as a means of autoerotic asphyxiation, who then becomes magically transported into the game world.  You say tomato, I say tomato.  But don’t scoff what ever you do, because it’s good. Really good.

I recently talked with Sandeep (for a few minutes of yelling at each other over the crowd at Comic-Con 2010) and these two stories are all I gather from said garbled audio recording:

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Comic Books Indie Art the Do-It-Yourself Way: Make Comics, or Die!

by Jeff Nau
July 25, 2010 - 5:53 pm

Tony Millionaire says: Think with your fists

“Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light”
– Paradise Lost

Sure, the burning flames of Hades are no doubt uncomfortable — but ask any struggling artist and most of them will give you their own version: walking around the exhibitor hallways of Comic-Con for eternity, forever seeking acknowledgment in the unofficial 10th circle of Hell. Milton’s prose is equally applicable to the long, arduous task of making headway in art.  Judging by the amount of fanboys and souls anxiously awaiting judgment at Comic-Con 2010, competition is fierce, and most people are looking for some way, any way in the door… really.  A fair share of these guys would sell their respective souls to get noticed, maybe even force a loved one into slavery, if it meant selling a comic or drawing — even if it’s something buried in a Cracker Jack box or Bazooka Joe wrapper.  Let’s face it: No matter who you are, you’d just as soon not be taking orders or slaving away in a cubicle somewhere.  If you really want to make it as an independent artist, the bottom line is that you can’t afford to be messing around.

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Comic Books Evan Dorkin – Beasts of Burden, The Mask, Predator

by Aaron Colter
July 25, 2010 - 4:43 pm

Evan Dorkin

Evan Dorkin is probably best known for his underground hit ‘Milk & Cheese’, but he’s been doing work for Dark Horse Comics since the early 90′s and has even penned a strange ‘Hellboy’ tale. His recent collaboration with famous water-colorist Jill Thompson on ‘Beasts of Burden’ has earned him nothing short of absolute praise, and garnered the creative team several industry awards including an Eisner. The hardcover collection of ‘Beasts of Burden’ is set to be released this August.

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Comic Books Ben Stenbeck – Witchfinder, Baltimore

by Aaron Colter
July 25, 2010 - 4:25 pm

Ben StenbeckBen Stenbeck is an established illustrator from New Zealand who first starting working with Dark Horse on President Mike Richardson’s series ‘Living with the Dead’. Since then, Stenbeck has gone on to work with ‘Hellboy’ creator Mike Mignola on ‘B.P.R.D.’ and the series ‘Witchfinder’. This fall he teams up with Mignola again, and novelist Christopher Golden, on ‘Baltimore’.

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Comic Books Featured The GOON Throws a Wrench in the Works

by Dustin Downing
July 25, 2010 - 4:11 pm

The Goon

Do you like Zombies? How about mad scientists?  What if I throw in some large fella with mob ties who beats people/monsters with a large wrench…?  SOLD!  But, If you were dead for the last 12 years or, Buddha forbid, not into comic books; then you might not know I’m speaking of the other worldly comic series The GOON. Or as series creator and 5 times Eisner Award winner Eric Powell describes it, “A dark comedy about a street thug, in a world of monsters.” Ah, Quaint.

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Comic Books Green Lantern, Harry Potter, and Zack Snyder’s Sucker-Punch Vie for Audience Love: Comic-Con 2010

by Jeff Nau
July 25, 2010 - 3:07 pm

Reynolds as Lantern: It may work out after all

The only other film really matching Tron 2 as far as hype is, of course, Green Lantern.  And yeah, maybe that new Harry Potter film, which literally sent the girl sitting next to me into orgasmic spasms, clutching herself each time a new trailer scene popped up. And what better place to hold panel conferences for such overly-anticipated films than Magical Hall H, next to which people are known to camp out all night or at least wait in line for a good 4 hours to check out maybe 2 minutes of footage, only to get rejected when you’re about 50 yards from the door? Green Lantern is being helmed by Mask of Zorro/new James Bond director Martin Campbell, and judging by the footage, looks every bit as f&%ing rad as the crowd was hoping it would be, despite Campbell’s insistence that what was being shown was mostly rough and early FX.

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Comic Books Featured Kevin Smith’s Filthy Dirty Happy Hour and Smodcast: Comic-Con 2010

by Jeff Nau
July 25, 2010 - 2:46 pm

Smith and Mewes

If anything, Kevin Smith’s happy hour and Smodcast was a thankful reassurance that he, Jason Mewes and Scott Mosier are really just replicants of their on-screen counterparts — so if you’re easily offended by any dialogue or language from his movies, stop here. Then again, one might ask: why the f**k would you be reading this?

But I actually didn’t even find out about the live podcast until the last minute — getting into it was a bit cloak-and-dagger, but made it seem more worth it just because it was a bit of a challenge.  To get your ticket you had to:

1)check the Smodcast Facebook page at certain times of the day,
2)get to a certain divulged location within 5 minutes, and
3)say a password to one of Kevin’s pals at ETNIES who were sponsoring the project. It was being held at the SE Hotel downtown, a mile or two from the convention center — so after getting the password (“Silent Bob”) I grabbed my sh*t and hauled ass down to the SE.

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Comic Books The Misadventures of “Axe Cop”

by Dustin Downing
July 24, 2010 - 5:26 pm

Axe Cop

I remember the first time I wrote my name. I was 5 years old, sitting in kindergarten class, and I do recall being quite proud of myself for accomplishing such a feat. Now let me introduce you to Mr. Malachai Nicolle, AKA my “buzz kill.” He is 5 years old and in kindergarten, but HE is a renowned author of a hugely successful comic book franchise titled “Axe Cop.”  yep, no shit, it’s the truth.

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