Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat amongst yourselves.

Eminem/Punisher #1

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Batman: Odyssey, volume 2, #7

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He pulls out the comic book, and there's this blonde, Anglo-Saxon gym teacher from the Midwest. I said, "Okay, see, it's sort of my point, Julie."

"What's wrong with this?"

"A blonde Anglo-Saxon white guy from the Midwest. Julie, do you ever watch the Olympics? How often have you seen three white guys, you know, gold, silver, bronze, [standing] together? Usually there's a white guy, a black guy and an Asian guy, or two black guys and a white guy. Three white guys, you don't really see it. Maybe in archery. I'm thinking archery we'd see three white guys."

He says, "What your point?"

I said, "I'm just saying if the ring goes out it's just as likely to find an Asian guy and a black guy, and it is not likely that it's going to find another white Anglo-Saxon protestant guy. That doesn't make any sense."

"You want to draw a black Green Lantern don't you?"

"Well, yeah, that's what I was thinking."

He said, "Will you draw it?"

I said, "Yeah, I'll draw it. No problem."

He said, "Fine, I'll get Denny [O'Neil] to write a script."

"Make him civilized, Julie, you know, not a gangster or anything."

"We'll make him an architect."

"Fine, make him an architect. Out of work. Things aren't so good for out of work black architects."

"Okay, fine, get out of here. Get out of my office. I want it dark in my office again."

So then [Denny] does this script, and I read the first page. Sure enough, he's a black out of work architect, and he's defending a couple of guys on the street from nasty cops. And I read the name of the guy, and the guy's name is Lincoln Washington. Oh, Jesus. So I go to Denny O'Neil, and I go, "Denny, look, I know the answer to this question, but I just have to ask you, Lincoln Washington?"

He says, "Not my name. I didn't do it."

I said, "Who did it?"

He says, "Julie."

"Okay, fine." I go to Julie's room and I close the door.

"What is it? Get out of my office."

"Julie, Lincoln Washington?"

"What's wrong with that name? I know lots of guys with names like that."

- Neal Adams, reminiscing on the creation of John Stewart

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The Dark Knight Strikes Again #3

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"On this project, I have the opportunity to show heroism from different points of view, politically and otherwise. With Ollie Queen I have a left-wing radical. With Bruce Wayne, if anything, he's a bit of an idealistic anarchist. I'm gonna use The Question, and it's gonna be Steve Ditko's Question. No Denny O'Neil/Alan Moore- I'll-use-this-guy's-own-creation-against-him approach here. I want to have Ditko's Ayn Randian point of view as part of my story. Meanwhile, on the Establishment side, I'll have Superman who's in a very compromised position, to say the least. You'll finally understand why he was playing along all that time in the first Dark Knight."

- Frank Miller


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The Killing Joke with Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy confirmed

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It's finally confirmed that Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill will both be doing their respective roles in 'The Killing Joke'. Tara Strong and Ray Wise will be playing Barbara and James Gordon respectively. Hamill posted the first image above.
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The devil's lot is the bad.

[thanekos]

Michael Minetta, hitman and family man, was one of those.

His end came to him.

He was hung by the neck until he died, died, died; he went to hell, hell, hell.

There, he met the master of the place, who let him know where he was.

The devil regretted that he wouldn't be able to do to Michael what he wanted.

" .. unfortunately, the home office has other ideas. "

" .. home.. office?

The devil pointed up.

" Are you talking about.. heaven? You mean, you.. work for heaven? "

( The devil crossed his arms. )

London Super Comic Convention - Art accumulation

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I realise it's beena while since I posted a Fanart Thursday kind of a post, and also I never got around to posting the pieces I picked up at last months London Super Comic Convention

I was sort of selfsoulfriend-centric this time around, but there are some exceptions, and I'm very pleased with my crop! :)

( Artist Alley Assortment ASSEMBLE! )