Trapped by 3 feet of snow; random oddities

Being so close to the New Year, there’s nary a whimper of real news.  But that doesn’t mean the net is any less entertaining, oh no… which is great because I’m snowed in right now in Colorado.

By the way, I forgot to mention that AG 47 also shipped this week along with the Winter Teaser, so they should be available everywhere… unless you’re in Colorado. 9_9 

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MangaBlog has a baffling quote from a Toronto Globe and Mail article on the Archie redesign which seems to insinuate that manga is characterized by “skimpy clothes, teen sex, or violence.”  The writer clearly has neither visited a manga rack at a bookstore lately, nor the spandex sections of a comic book store in the last, oh, 20 years?

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Ed’s relentless, unflinching smackdown of manga companies continues.  Bandai a C+?  ADV an F+!?  Jeebus.

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A little tiff is growing between Journalista, which reported on some alleged shady payola activity (similar tactics have actually been suggested by retailers and publishers at places like The Engine and elsewhere) on the part of Platinum Studios, and DJ Coffman, an artist currently under Platinum’s employ, who took the coverage very, very personally (and also believes that time heals all wounds and forgives all sins.)  Joey Manley finds DJ’s diatribe unprofessional.  DJ threatens to sue.  Whom or under what pretext, I don’t know for sure… it kind of got lost under all the swearing.

Just further proof that no one in comics… you, me, creators, fans, etc… deserve to be on this wonderous gift of communication and knowledge that is the internet.  So offended am I by our regular collective soiling of it, in fact, that I’ll be contacting my lawyers to see if there’s some way we can all be banned from it, for the good of humanity.

Nah, I’m kidding.  This is freakin’ great.

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Behold the coming of the lizard messiah.

Between this, the one-eyed kitten, and the Brazilian cat-dog, I’m ready to join a doomsday cult.