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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Norrin Radd in ur movie house



Logan took this picure when we went to see Spidey. This is extremely cool. I wonder who gets to keep it after the movie opens?

Friday, May 18, 2007

Interview with me at Popsyndicate!

The absolutely fabulous Chris Williams has interviewed me and it's posted today:

50 Episodes Later

He says stuff about me like "In fact, the internet community devoted to comics can easily be considered an industry unto itself. There's a lot of ground to cover in comics; a challenge Lene easily manages" and I don't know if even I believe that.

However, you should all add the feed for Chris' column to your bloglines. He sure can write, and he's funny, too:

http://www.popsyndicate.com/column/atom/chrischris/

Podcast coming soon. MJ statuette will be discussed.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Other podcasts featuring me!

In case you can't get enough of me and my opinions (and frankly, I can't imagine a world where that's the case, but let us forge ahead anyway), check out these other fine podcasts:

Bruce Rosenberger's Comics Podcast Crossover #13 - The Other Ten Percent, wherein several of us do segments on comics that don't suck. I talk semi-coherently about Love & Rockets.

Derek Coward's Comic Book Noise #76, in which Derek plays clips from several shows, including yours truly's, and outclasses all of us by promoting other people's podcasts.

Check 'em out!

YouTube time wasters!

Courtesy of Logan, the Boy Wonder.

Superhero Birthday Party, Marvel Style
That afghan on Professor X? My mom knitted that in 1968. She still has it.

I'm a Marvel, and I'm a DC (Mac/PC spoofs)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

I'm a Marvel and I'm a Batman
Part 2, post Spidey 3

Part 7

The Mac guy in the TV commercials? He IS Peter Parker. (He was also Brandon in Galaxy Quest.)

I'm a Mutant and I'm a DC
The funniest one, in my opinion.

Pausing here on its race around the Intarwebs

A very nice response to the awful, AWFUL MJ statue, by Nacey:



Of course, if it had been me, I would have added nipple rings or something, just to up the freak factor.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

New Doris Danger! Whee!

DORIS DANGER SEEKS WHERE URBAN CREATURES CREEP & STOMP #1!
Unbelievable First Issue!

In stores July 2007! 64 pages/B&W/humongous treasury-size 9"x13"/$11.95
DIAMOND ORDER NUMBER: MAY07 3695

Click here to see a complete Doris Danger adventure!

Featuring front AND back covers by SHAG! Giant monster pin-ups by MIKE ALLRED, GUY DAVIS, SAM KIETH, JOHN SEVERIN, DICK AYERS, DAVE GIBBONS, PETER KUPER, HERB TRIMPE, PETER BAGGE, SAM GLANZMAN, MICHAEL LARK, JH WILLIAMS III, AL FELDSTEIN, RUSS HEATH, ESAD RIBIC, and MORE??????!

Starring everyon'e favorite Tabloid Journalist, as she encounters the Monster Liberation Army, scuba-diving hillbillies, men disguised as robots, menacing mannequins, a Fez-wearing cult, and more! Over twenty pages of brand new excitement! And as a free bonus, it will ALSO collect both 16-page "pamphlets," "Doris Danger Greatest All-Out Army Battles" and "Doris Danger in Outer Space!" That means 64-pages of non-stop giant monster action!

"The title alone, ‘Doris Danger Seeks Where Giant Monsters Creep and Stomp’ should have warned me off, but I read it anyway. Somehow, Chris Wisnia had performed the amazing feat of taking the minor masterpieces that Jack Kirby and I had done and looking at them through a carnival's distorting mirror. I wanted to write the sort of thoughtful, philosophical blurb about "DDSWGMC&S" for which I'm so justly famed, but after getting caught up in its weird and wacky contents, no mere words of mine could truly do it the injustice it deserves. Therefore, I'll just add the one sentence that applies to any horror or monster tale—'Read it at your own risk!' "
- Stan Lee

"The penultimate Kirby-style giant monster comic."
- Mike Mignola

"This book has giant monsters that outshine even the ones from WUTHERING HEIGHTS! Enjoy!"
- Adam Hughes

"A fantastic hoot! Great pin-ups, too..."
- Dave Gibbons

"Who doesn't love big monsters?! Well, I do, and if you do too you need to crack open this book and take in all the monster love."
- Mike Allred

"Giant Monsters in Diapers..."
- Michael Kaluta

"...Dude, you know I love the magazine and think it rocks..."
- Tim Bradstreet

"A big, bristling, bombastic, black&white, blockbusting buttload o' fun!"
- Matt Wagner

"I rank you with the very best of pencillers, Chris."
- Dick Ayers

"...Throw reason out the window...laugh-out-loud homages...Told with tongue wedged so far in cheek that I’m surprised Wisnia can breathe...Enormously entertaining goofiness (and that’s a big compliment)."
- Newsarama.com

"For some reason that I can't quite explain, I laughed out loud...big damn fun..."
- Johnny Bacardi, "The Johnny Bacardi Show"

"Demented footnotes, conspiracies, double-crosses, triple-agents, a woman in peril, crazed and paranoid Army Generals and giant robots all combine to ensure that no possible speck of discernable sense makes its way out of these pages...Plotlines switch tracks in the blink of an eye, sometimes within the confines of a single speech balloon...very funny."
- Comixfan.com

"If you're after nuanced storytelling and naturalistic dialogue this isn't the book for you. If, on the other hand, you're looking for enormous monsters creeping and stomping, plotting that seems to spring directly from the mind of a lunatic with A.D.D. and dialogue such as 'Redneck fools! You've doomed us all!' you're in the right place."
- a completely different review at Comixfan.com

"...Hilarious...a very good laugh...rollicking elliptical balls of confusion highlighted by monster-fearing military men, monster-loving guerrillas, monster-hating spy organizations, monster-manipulating secret societies, and, of course, Giant Monsters, as well as robots, aliens, assassins, double-agents, triple-agents and hapless boyfriends..."
- Steven Grant, Permanent Damage

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Show #50 - May 5

Show 50 on MP3

Spider-Man 3 Review!

Join me, Logan, and our special gues Dangermarc as we geek and laugh over Sam Raimi's latest.

Bonus: The cool new Harry Potter trailer.


A proud member of the Comics Podcasts Network!

This podcast is sponsored by Comic Relief, the best comics store ever, and the Lincoln Heights Literary Society - Ontology On the Go!

Music, as always by Ginger Mayerson