Monthly Archives: July 2010

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Comic Books Dr. Horrible Exacts His Revenge at Comic-Con 2010

by Jeff Nau
July 24, 2010 - 4:15 pm

Dr. Horrible

What Comic-Con would be complete without a rendition of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog, the live, crazy collage-version of anarchic show tunes sung by Joss Whedon regulars Nathan Fillion and Maurissa Tancharoen?  Well, a year ago, it seemed little other than a novelty, but 2010 sees the cult Internet hit becoming a regular event here at SDCC. I’m sure it’ll be better next year when a mother isn’t changing her newborn’s big poopy diaper right next to me, which in this case tended to accentuate the ‘horror’ part of it all. Awesome.

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Comic Books Geeking Out with the Greatest: Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai, and Grant Morrison

by Jeff Nau
July 24, 2010 - 3:35 pm

Stan Sakai

Spoiler Alert: This is nothing more than pure geeking-out over two of the comic industry’s (random) best and brightest talents, and a somewhat inhibited attempt to delve more into their demented minds (or as far as they’ll let us, considering audience question time is limited and we were jumping from one event to the other). We were able to get a few words with Stan Sakai, the legendary writer and artist behind a lethal and cunning bunny rabbit living in 17th century Japan, Usagi Yojimbo. It’s is an ongoing, 23-year serial that follows a floppy-eared samurai warrior as he wanders the earth, earning his living largely as a Ronin, or mercenary, and chopping into tiny animal parts anyone who wrongs him. Read on below.

Stan Sakai

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Comic Books Yo Gabba Gabba Crashes Comic-Con, Brings Back the Good ‘Ol Days of Cartoons

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb
July 24, 2010 - 1:26 pm

Yo Gabba Gabba @ Comic-Con

Honestly I had no idea what Yo Gabba Gabba was before today, other than a kids’ show. By name and appearance alone — just because the Con has taught me to judge everyone and everything this way from now on out –  it looked like little else than a lamer version of SpongeBob or something. It was almost like the SpongeBob characters had been crossed with the guys from a Troma movie, like The Toxic Avenger, and maybe a couple from Futurama. But they look neat, which is pretty much the bottom line. And today, the Gabba panel at Comic-Con today proved there could be some cool programming for kids outside a few gems like Sesame Street and Pee Wee and The Electric Company. Yes, YGG is without a doubt one of the hippest, most parent-friendly kids shows to come around since Spongebob, and also infinitely less annoying.

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Comic Books Christopher Golden – Baltimore, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

by Aaron Colter
July 24, 2010 - 10:44 am

Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is best known for his novel ‘Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire’ which featured illustrations from ‘Hellboy’ creator Mike Mignola. Golden was also the writer of several of the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ comics before Joss Whedon took over duties for ‘Season Eight’. Already an accomplished author of several sci-fi and fantasy novel, his creator-owned series ‘Baltimore’, based on his original novel, is scheduled for release this fall.

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Comic Books Gallery A Brief History of “The Con”

by Dustin Downing
July 23, 2010 - 5:57 pm

If you are like myself and are not with the estimated 126,000+ people packed into the San Diego Convention Center presently; you may not fully understand this thing called “Comic-Con”.  Well, pull up here on ol’ DD’s lap, and get ready for a little learnin.’

Sheldon “Shel” Dorf, who passed last year and may THOR rest his soul, started out as a comic book “letterer” after graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago.  Shel helped run a smaller fan gathering in his native Detroit before moving to sunny San Diego in 1970. The move is rumored to have something to do with his affinity for whales [sic].  I digress, that same year he held his first 3-day convention featuring Mr. Forrest J. Ackerman at which almost 300 people attended.

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Comic Books Geek Girls at Comic-Con

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb
July 23, 2010 - 12:24 pm

geek girls at Comic Con

Hypothetically, it’s probably safe to say that a panel with the name “Do Geek Girls Exist?” immediately conjures images of many a scantily-clad Comic-Con goil — and not just in the minds of guys. (One of the most glorious discoveries of this convention was that things really really aren’t so hetero anymore.) Of course a male CC- attendee’s reaction is perfectly explainable: there’s that pesky inner-adolescent that we really never outgrew — that and the fact that it’s all those other CC fanboys are more to blame for putting out countless pictures of fangirl/half-naked Leias and Sailor Moons and Harley Quinns. Thus I am still haunted by the ghosts of Comic-Con past, despite the fact that this year was when I actually got my CC cherry popped. But tonight, at the Geek Girls Exist panel, we had a bunch of brainy broads, and what Marv from Sin City might very well affectionately label “dames to kill for” if he wasn’t so much a big huge lug but a big huge nerd.

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Comic Books Featured Joëlle Jones – Troublemaker, Dr. Horrible

by Aaron Colter
July 23, 2010 - 12:22 pm

Joelle Jones

Joëlle Jones has been hard at work in the comics mecca of Portland, OR with several independent projects. Recently, she worked with ‘Dr. Horrible’ writer Zack Whedon on a sold-out issue revealing the back-story of Neil Patrick Harris’s character. Jones is poised to become one of the industry’s hottest talents with the release of ‘Troublemaker’, written by New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich.

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Comic Books Gallery CREEPY: A Lost Gem of Horror, Back From the Dead at Comic-Con

by Jeff Nau and Zoetica Ebb
July 23, 2010 - 12:11 pm

If you’ve never heard of Creepy Magazine, you’re missing one of the greatest black-and-white pulp-horror comic publications of the past 50 years (which certainly narrows it down) — sort of a bastard love child, and perhaps the result of a tryst between tamer fare like Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror. Under the Taliban-like regime of the Comics Code Authority, that silly little ban on anything having to do with dirty language and naughty bits, though, the twisted genius of Creepy remained largely unknown for decades.

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Comic Books Tron 2 at Comic-Con: Jeff Bridges and Co. Throw a Party — Then Guillermo Del Toro Crashes It

by Jeff Nau
July 23, 2010 - 11:49 am

TRON 2

I’m at Comic-Con for one movie and one movie only, and that’s Tron: Legacy, dammit. It’s been 30 years coming already, but the mere 2 since they screened that infectiously bad-ass trailer have been the most tortuous of all and, in fact, the director is still working on post-production (they had everyone in the audience get involved in a very Spartacus way, read on). There are several factors of awesome contributing to this masterpiece-to-be. Among them: 1.) Daft Punk is providing the soundtrack, which just seems too effing perfect.

Jeff Bridges @ Tron 2 Panel

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