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Friday, July 10, 2009

Books Today In Ridiculous Comic News

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:28 PM

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An explanation and a collection of other bad ideas after the jump

From Newsarama:

According to Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, he's writing a two-issue Lobo comic for DC that is being drawn by artist Sam Kieth for release this fall.

I swear to God, one of these days I'm gonna go cold turkey on comic books. Why bring back Lobo? And why put him in the hands of a shitty, shitty guitarist in a shitty, shitty band?

Why not ask Donovan to write a new Aquaman book, DC? That I would read.

In other news that makes me want to quit reading comics, Marvel is bringing back the Spider-Clone and digging up the rotten corpses of the X-Babies.

WHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!

Dogpoop via Brownfido.com

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The new Deadpool series is pretty good. Knowing marvel though they'll give it like a 20 issue run and then shitcan it for a 13th spiderman dimension shift.

Posted by Joh on July 10, 2009 at 4:35 PM

anthrax is fucking sick. scott ian is a major badass.

my 2 cents

Posted by bill unt on July 10, 2009 at 4:39 PM

A friend of mine used to date Scott Ian. She said he was actually really smart and funny. I think it could be fun.

A few years later she fucked Seth Green. Then he got famous.

The end.

Posted by Matt Hickey

on July 10, 2009 at 5:16 PM

@ 2: bill, do you mean that in a good way?

Posted by ...'cause I'm not sure from what you wrote... on July 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM

Ryan Reynolds is going to play Hal Jordan in WB's Green Lantern movie, just announced

Posted by nerd news u can use on July 10, 2009 at 6:51 PM

Scott's a badass guitarist and a funny guy. As far as the comic book goes, I don't know. That shit is way to nerdy for me. I've always been more into girls.

Posted by steakhaus on July 11, 2009 at 6:13 AM

Love that Simon Bisley cover there. Was my favourite artist when I was a comics obsessed teen.

I had no idea he went on to do american comics. How do they compare to Slaine, ABC Warriors et al ?

Posted by Stowe on July 11, 2009 at 7:31 AM

@7, Bisley's work in the US was mostly confined to painted covers and occasional fill-ins for DC/Vertigo & Marvel until he did some Lobo miniseries that I really can't recommend. His covers for "Doom Patrol" in the 90s were pretty trippy, back when Grant Morrison wrote the title and the team had its headquarters on a sentient, transvestite street and fought Dadaist villains and childrens' nightmares. I think the coolest/weirdest thing he did then was a fully-painted, four issue miniseries that teamed up Judge Dredd and Batman, versus Judge Death and the Joker.

Bisley fell in with the guys at Mirage Studios (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle guys) for awhile, and worked on development of the incredibly forgettable "sequel" to the Heavy Metal movie. He also did some stuff with Frank Frazetta's character, The Death Dealer, I think for Verotik? I don't know who published it (Dark Horse), but he did a one-off comic called "Bad Boy" with Frank Miller that was okay about ten years ago, maybe.

His UK work is still the standout of his career. Slaine was incredible.

BTW, here's a peek at Sam ("The Maxx") Keith's art for the Lobo project:
http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/files/2009/…

Posted by Peter F on July 11, 2009 at 8:41 AM