Archive for the ‘links’ Category

Who Says Indie Comics Are A Tough Sell?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

From TulsaWorld.com: OKLAHOMA CITY — Some Oklahoma County voters can expect to receive comic books in the mail soon, but the subject matter will have a serious tone. The 16-page publication prepared by Commissioner Brent Rinehart's re-election campaign lampoons gays and criticizes Rinehart's political opponents. It also features an angel who supports ...

Obviously, I [Galactus] Other Things, Too.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Presenting the Greatest T-Shirt In The Habitated World: From R. Stevens, mastermind/provacateur at Diesel Sweeties. (Note that the link doesn't take you directly to the shirts. That's the plan--don't go straight to the shirts, read the comics, which are mighty fine.) Getting this in the mail today drained nearly all the heat ...

RIP Michael Turner (1971-2008)

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Hanging on the wall of my office is an Identity Crisis poster my wife got me for Father's Day a few years ago. It features the art from the cover of issue #1 -- and it's signed by artist Michael Turner. The poster also came with a photo ...

Coupl’a Quick Links

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Two links you've probably seen before if you're at all part of the comics blogosphere, but these seemed like bits and pieces you should know about anyway: • Occasional Superheroine gets tells us exactly what ...

If you have to explain the joke…

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

For those of you might have not quite have gotten Ben's JLA nomination last week (which, um, included me), he was helpful enough to provide us some reference material:(From 1997's thankfully aborted Justice League of America TV pilot.)These catastrophes are all caused by "The Weather Man," the baddie played by ...

Not Quite Done-In-One

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

For those of you interested in such things (and I know this includes all three of us here at Tha J.O.B.), Warren Ellis has a thread at The Engine dedicated to single pages from scripts-in-progress from the writers who hang out there. One particular passage from the page of ...

A Night at the Club

Friday, June 8th, 2007

OK, yes, I'm sure we've all seen some of these "I'm a Marvel/I'm a D.C." movies before, but I hadn't seen this particularly brilliant one and had to share. Enjoy.

Ask Cerebra: Comics Blog Searching Made Simple

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Kevin Church has beaten my too-damn-lazy-to-do-the-work self to the punch and just launched Ask Cerebra, a search engine dedicated just to comics-oriented blogs. It's not foolproof, of course; it would appear he's not yet indexing Tha J.O.B. Of course, being as this is just our second official post, ...