* On Robot 6 today I put up a big round-up of Batman-related news that included the departure of Grant Morrison from Batman and Robin after issue #18 and this pretty sweet Frank Quitely cover.
* Here’s an interesting piece by Chris Butcher on the ground-level science-fiction manga series Twin Spica and how its cover is alienating its logical audience.
* I like the message of Douglas Wolk’s guide to Comic-Con for Techland: Do a little smart preparation and go in with reasonable expectations and the show will exceed them. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* Real Life Horror Headline of the Day: “Giant human-wounding plant invades Canada”.
* Straight-out racist, this Ghostbusters t-shirt is, simple and plain.
I can’t deal with that Green Lantern costume. It looks like he was skinned and his muscles are glowing green.
CLIVE BARKER’S GREEN LANTERN
CLIVE BARKER’S GREEN LANTERN
I don’t think it’s racist! Egon, Peter and Ray were all professors at Columbia together (presumably of Paranormal Studies), and Winston wasn’t.
The movie wasn’t called Paranormal Studies Professors, it was called Ghostbusters. Winston’s a Ghostbuster. Recognize.
That preview for Thanos Imperative #3 is AWESOME.
Re: Winston being left off the shirt
The original idea behind these shirts was the
John&
Paul&
George&
Ringo
shirt so leaving off Winston doesn’t even fit the original “format” the shirt is copying!. So even if it’s not racist, it’s lazy.
See: http://www.experimentaljetset.nl/archive/t-shirtism.html