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Review of The Silver Six and Tommysaurus Rex

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Receiving two new graphic novels from Scholastic is usually a good day at the X-house.  (Yes, DISCLAIMER!!! Scholastic provided review copies of both THE SILVER SIX and TOMMYSAURUS REX to me.)  More and more I rely on the X-girls’ opinion of such books as a baseline for whether or not they work.  Still can’t get them to actually write the reviews for me, but I haven’t given up hope on that completely. I haven’t written many reviews myself this year — I glanced over at the ComixTALK homepage today and realized that the last update there was end of last …

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Fund the Third Spacetrawler Book

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[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/654744622/spacetrawler-book-three width=599] Christopher Baldwin is running a kickstarter for the third and last book collecting his science fiction webcomic Spacetrawler.  If you’re not already reading this comic — go now.  We’ll wait.  Still here? Look Baldwin is like your favorite indy film director who has done some amazing work that you, person of taste, distinction and erudition appreciate and love.  Now he’s done a take on a genre with his same intelligent and emotionally compelling approach as always.  It’s a more accessible, more exciting and still just as much depth as his past work. The past books looked great …

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Booster Dude and Blue Beetle Jr.

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Two of my favorite characters from the Keith Giffen run on Justice League are Booster Gold and Blue Beetle.  So forgive me if I got a big kick out of the most recent JL8 webcomic installment.  Nailed those characters as 8 year olds perfectly. Also I cannot understand why DC doesn’t just hire this guy to do this comic for them officially.  It’s the most original take on these characters; it’s completely kid-friendly and yet is genuinely funny in a way that can appeal to multiple age groups.

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Guilded Age Kickstarter

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[kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/philkahn/guilded-age-vol-2-and-animated-shorts width=599] Probably should do what Frigg tells ya.  Guilded Age is a pretty funny, manic adventure tale crafted by Phil Kahn and T Campbell with art from current artist John Waltrip.  This Kickstarter is to publish a second collection of the webcomic archives.  It’s a funny, well done comic from two guys who have written a number of comics previously.

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Seattle Is More Like Raincoat Weather

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I blame Gary for recommending another comic — this one by Strip Search Season One-er Amy T Falcone (related to James T Kirk?) and called Cardigan Weather.  Amy’s comic is a slice of life strip that is only about 33 installments deep in the archives. This one in particular may not be the first time a comic has been about the author’s love and hate relationship with comics but I liked it:

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Battle of the Beards

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English Facial Hair Versus American Facial Hair!  Comics Curmudgeon Versus Music Mensch! There is a great article on Rick Rubin in the Daily Beast. Rubin has produced an eclectic range of bands — his most recent effort producing the new Black Sabbath album.  I remember hearing about this guy when the first Beastie Boys album came out and there was a swirl of comments about how much he did on License to Ill versus the Beastie Boys themselves.  He’s gone from rap to rock and back again — he’s not only produced Sabbath but Kanye’s latest album.  This guy produced Adele …