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1. Due to the excellent Hammered Horror podcast, I ended up watching the live action Scooby Doo movie, because they're covering it next episode as Mr Ash's revenge against Mr Paul for making him watch Monster Dog. While bouncing around, I discovered there was a second series of the excellent Scooby Doo:Mystery Inc, so going to be catching up for a lot of this week. Also grabbed the whole original Scooby Doo as with the way things were shown growing up, I've probably seen most of the episodes, but some of them only once and some of them six or seven times.
2. A discussion about the canon and continuityof the UK Dennis The Menace (which debuted five days aftr the US one and is a lot more anarchic) led to me reminiscing a bit about DC Thomson comics, there's an excellent documentary mostly about them and their main rivals IPC that's on YouTube -
3. Related to this, my favourite thing about the Dandy comic in it's last few months before being cancelled with its 75th Anniversary issue was Phil Corbett's Korky The Cat, which was radically different to what I grew up reading in the seventies and early eighties, but I loved his style and his website has a bunch of his Korky stuff to read - http://www.philcorbett.com/projects/5497859 - and as a bit of an attempt to cheer myself up, I've switched my default icons here and in a couple of other places to Korky.
4. The big mahoosive universe ending nothing will ever be the same again event is happening in Marvel right now. They did a really good job of bulding it up over the last few years and escalating things more and more as they went on, but on the whole...I really don't give a toss. I'll be interested to see how they streamline the Marvel Universe afterwards, I'm just hoping that really good comics like Ms Marvel, Black Widow and Hawkeye are made.
And that next week, in the last issue of Superior Iron Man, hoping Pepper hands Tony Stark's arse to him on a plate.
Also, it was precisely this sort of universe changing, renaming all our books for a few months thing that stopped me reading Marvel comics at the end of 1994 and I didn't come back until I read Grant Morrison's run on X-Men in 2002.
5. Marvel's new Star Wars comics continue to be excellent and they just released a remastered and recoloured edition of their original movie adaptation, which looks absolutely bloody gorgeous and despite me buying 99% of my comics digitally now, going to be ordering the hardback of Star Wars. It'll be about the fifth copy I've owned of the comic and they're giving EMpire and Return similar treatments in August and November.
2. A discussion about the canon and continuityof the UK Dennis The Menace (which debuted five days aftr the US one and is a lot more anarchic) led to me reminiscing a bit about DC Thomson comics, there's an excellent documentary mostly about them and their main rivals IPC that's on YouTube -
3. Related to this, my favourite thing about the Dandy comic in it's last few months before being cancelled with its 75th Anniversary issue was Phil Corbett's Korky The Cat, which was radically different to what I grew up reading in the seventies and early eighties, but I loved his style and his website has a bunch of his Korky stuff to read - http://www.philcorbett.com/projects/5497859 - and as a bit of an attempt to cheer myself up, I've switched my default icons here and in a couple of other places to Korky.
4. The big mahoosive universe ending nothing will ever be the same again event is happening in Marvel right now. They did a really good job of bulding it up over the last few years and escalating things more and more as they went on, but on the whole...I really don't give a toss. I'll be interested to see how they streamline the Marvel Universe afterwards, I'm just hoping that really good comics like Ms Marvel, Black Widow and Hawkeye are made.
And that next week, in the last issue of Superior Iron Man, hoping Pepper hands Tony Stark's arse to him on a plate.
Also, it was precisely this sort of universe changing, renaming all our books for a few months thing that stopped me reading Marvel comics at the end of 1994 and I didn't come back until I read Grant Morrison's run on X-Men in 2002.
5. Marvel's new Star Wars comics continue to be excellent and they just released a remastered and recoloured edition of their original movie adaptation, which looks absolutely bloody gorgeous and despite me buying 99% of my comics digitally now, going to be ordering the hardback of Star Wars. It'll be about the fifth copy I've owned of the comic and they're giving EMpire and Return similar treatments in August and November.
