Mentioned online comics/dotcomics in the comments a day or two back. I left out Dark Horse's eComics, because I don't think I was aware of them. Or I have a brain disease, but let's go with the former explanation.
There are several Buffy eComics, which normally I'd be interested in. The one I randomly started reading, Haunted, starts off with cameo appearances by Angel and Faith, which should make it even more interesting to the fans. The few who, y'know, heard about any of it.
Although there is a Printed Matter category over at WHEDONesque (and I was all ready to bitch about them linking to the Chicago Tribune registration-required version of a story originally from the Washington Post, until I tried finding said story on the Post's site. . .), it's fairly sparse. Which seems odd, since the comic is often written by the show's actors, writers or, y'know, creator.
Maybe the folks at WHEDONesque don't care for the art, either.
Or comics just get no respect.
Or I'm not awake yet.
Know at least one of the comics -- and I suppose I should dig around to find out which one -- dealt with the fun-filled, Dawn-fueled issue of retroactive continuity:
Retroactive continuity is a phrase coined by comic book historian and writer Roy Thomas (in All-Star Squadron #64) to describe instances in which previously published comic book history is contradicted. A simpler way of defining it may be "revisionist history." Since its introduction in the Eighties, the term retroactive continuity has become so common place that it has even been abbreviated simply to retcon (a word even used as a verb, as in "DC retconned The Black Canary...").
Any comics fans out there, who are also following developments on Birds of Prey, care to explain slowly, and without making my head go 'splody, exactly who Black Canary used to be and currently is?
You can't, can you?
Not without that head 'splody thing kicking in.
See, this is why comics get no respect. Ok, one of the many reasons. . .
Apropos of nothing, the Smallville comic ships next week.
Its the art in the buffy comics, I think.
I've just never been happy with it. That and the writing is far cheesier. The dialogue anyways.
Going to the comic book shop is on my to do list today though...I hope there's one open close by. I don't want to have to go all the way to melrose to visit golden apple.
Dude, insomnia + 24-hour newsstand that tosses unsold comics in a bag with a 99 cent price tag on 'em == bad combination. Didn't realize I already had the last issue of the Haunted mini until I got halfway through the eComic.
Yeah, the art is very much of the "well, the redhead must be Willow, and the guy with the glasses looks vaguely Giles-ish" school. At least in that one, the women haven't all had implants stuck in.
Use the Comic Shop Locator Service! Or just call 1-888-COMIC BOOK.
Since I doubt anyone else ever has.
The dialogue in Fray isn't that bad, once you get past the mildly-annoying SF future slang thing. Hopefully, Joss got it out of his system and won't be putting it in Firefly. . .
Black Canary is the daughter of the old Black Canary, right? One of the more straightforeward post-crisis origins, ior did Dc fuck with it again?
Oh and Retcon and retroactive continuity were in use far earlier then All-Star Squadron #64.
I used to like All-Star Squadron.
Crisis? What Crisis?
Y'know, I'd read that as "All-Star Comics #64" since I knew the name of the other book, which you can't abbreviate on a family site such as this, made no sense.
And you gave the short version of Canary's current history. You left out the bits involving Earth 2, mother-daughter memory transfers and stealing material from Alan Moore's Watchmen for no particular reason.
I know not this Crisis you speak of, and ask that you do not elaborate. Again, head, 'splody, not wanting that.
Stan Lee re-interpreted the Crisis in his current little fun project with DC that I almost bought all of the copies of including the secret origins book if they didn't have the steep 4.95 price tag on them.
And don't worry, you'll get the full details of my experiences at Golden Apple 2 Comics in a little ditty i'm about to write right now called "Aaron's an ass."
And I don't mean All Star Comics.
At what point did I become the source of all evil and suffering in the world? You said you liked the comics. . .
Haven't picked up any of the "Just Imagine Stan Lee with DC Comics taking all your damn money" books myself.
The Virgin Megastore on Michigan in Chi-town just got the "Crisis on Multiple Earths" graphic novels.
I know I haven't been keeping up with this lately at all, but when the bleep did "Infinite" become "Multiple"??
And yet no "Secret Wars"... Maybe requests for it are but flies to the giant corporations...
Meanwhile, because I'm such a Good Person, a guy bought me a copy of the print compilation of the web comix at
PVPOnline
http://www.pvponline.com
Wa-hoo!
Don't take it personally, Aaron. Jason tells me I am evil as well.