* I believe it was Louis Seize who said Apres Preview Night, le deluge. N’est-ce pas?
* The Onion AV Club speaks to Grant Morrison about this and that. He does some more public proclaiming of his desire to work on Wonder Woman, for one thing. But this was the money quote for me:
///I don’t know much about what’s going on in the global comics scene these days, I’m sorry to say. I have to confess I’m not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. Apart from the absurdist comics like Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed To Thrizzle and Steve Aylett’s The Caterer, I just like superhero stuff. I’ve never paid a great deal of attention to the undergrounds or the indie scene.
Isn’t that depressing? What alternative comics or manga or webcomics or anygoddamnthing that isn’t Marvel or DC would you suggest Grant Morrison read? Tell me in the comments. Let’s find Grant his gateway comic! I’ll start: Acme Novelty Library #19! (Link via Whitney Matheson.)
* Speaking of Morrison, here’s some of his very very early work as a writer-artist. Bee ay en ay en ay ess. (Via Dirk Deppey.)
* Gosh, there’s a sneak preview of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds at Comic Con?
* Here are Tom Spurgeon’s Top 50 Comic Con Panel Picks. I sort of felt like there weren’t a ton of things I was dying to see this year, but ymmv.
* Chris Mautner reviews Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of Richard Stark’s Parker novel The Hunter from the perspective of a Cooke skeptic, particularly regarding his slickness and tendency toward nostalgia, a perspective I share–thus making me look forward to reading the book myself.
* Vice’s comics issue features interviews with Anders Nilsen, Chip Kidd, Chris Onstad, Gerard Way, Gary Panter, and more. (Via Whitney Matheson again.)
* Anyone else think it’s weird that MGM’s upcoming 3-film Hannibal Lecter Anthology blu-ray doesn’t feature the three movies in which Anthony Hopkins plays Lecter, instead including the Hopkins-less Manhunter rather than its Brett Ratner-directed Hopkinsy remake Red Dragon? I didn’t say “bad,” mind you, just “weird” from a major studio.
* This is interesting: Friend o’ the blog Sean B. notes in the comments that the solicit for James Robinson’s Justice League: Cry for Justice #4 makes it sound like the issue, unlike the series’ debut, will tackle the morality of torture by “the good guys” head-on. Seriously, it makes it sound like this is in fact the whole point of the series. Um, wow? Of course, now the problem is one of potentially overdoing the sociopolitical stuff in the fashion of countless genre works pandering for relevance with critics who use such sociopolitical content as their sole barometer of genre-art quality, but whatevs.
* Last night I had a very detailed and convincing nightmare about working for Wizard magazine. My friend Chris Ward, on the other hand, has actually lived several very detailed and convincing nightmares while working for Wizard magazine. Today he recounts one of them, and it involves interviewing Margot Kidder.
Has Morrison read Cold Heat, Powr Mastrs or Ninja? God, you think those books, with their mix of mainstream genre pastiche, raised consciousness, concentrated body horror, pop-culture humor, etc, would be up his alley; if not I would be terribly disappointed. Also, I believe I read a comment by him regarding Chris Ware that, if not quite a dismissal, was not overwhelmingly positive either. I could be wrong, though.
I’ve got more horror stories coming. You should share yours!!!!