The Weekly Listening Thread (16nov09)

Had more wine now , so am listening to Paradise Discotheque by Crime and the City Solution , which will result in much more wine. I blame JonCarpenter.

Jon Stewart Enlists Pro-Wrestler Mick Foley To Protect 10-Year-Old Gay Marriage Activist

Yeah but it'll be copied all over the place.

Choose your Apocalypse

If we settle for the end of the human race rather than the physical destruction of the planet, I'd have to go with runaway global warming and associated ecological collapse.

For total annihilation, I'd go with a nearby (ca. 50 lightyears) supernova or gamma ray burster. Either one would fry the entire planet with a mix of charged particles and extreme radiation. We have pretty much no idea what causes the gamma ray bursts so we have no way of predicting how likely it is one might occur near us.

Shamus invades New England!

Gareb Shamus has purchased another convention, the New England Con in Boston. According to the PR, it’s a 35-year-old show run by Larry Harrison, owner of Harrison’s Comics & Collectibles, and Jimmy Tournas and dates will be announced. Given Shamus’s recent track record of aggressive competition with existing shows, it would seem the move to [...]

FLIGHT Volume One — where are they now

Speaking of Kazu Kibuishi, he has a nice post up examining what the contributors to the anthology FLIGHT #1 have done in the five years since it came out. At the time, the fresh new cartoonists within were hailed as a new force in the industry — and they have mostly gone on to [...]

Random universe, random links — 11-20-09

§ Tucker Stone is at it again. § Is someone making a book of Stan Lee’s tweets? They should. The reason I always say “good night” is I don’t want you staying up for hours denying yourself sleep, desperately waiting for my next tweet § Jog examines the ORIGINAL Astro Boy. § Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is also doing [...]

ComicBookLover Beta Testers

ComicBookLover is the Pick of the Week!

Migrating ComicBookLover to Snow Leopard