Editor of Eisner and Hugo Award-winning comics and NYT best sellers like Wonder Woman Historia, Far Sector, Harleen, Omega Men, Batman ‘89, Doom Patrol & more.
Conversation with female friends about dating. I said I liked dating, even bad dates, because dating can be a kind of adventure. Worst case, you learn something about yourself.
Female friend said something like, "No, worst case is I'm raped and killed."
That's when I got it.
Last night I saw one of the craziest damn things I’ve ever seen in all my days. This guy rides solo up into the arcade, walks up to TIME CRISIS II, and plays the game start to finish on one coin — using both guns. That means he’s players 1 and 2 at the same time.
What people actually mean when they say they want “non-political” comics like when they were kids is that they’re devastated to have woken up one day as an adult, read a comic book, and realized they’d grown up to become the kind of person their childhood hero punches in the face
For the people trying to poke holes in this, you can’t. Dating is more dangerous for women than men. Living is more dangerous for women than men. Outliers are just that.
The answer to sexual violence isn’t for women to do X or Y. It’s for men to stop committing sexual violence.
This is FANTASTIC. Arnold talks directly to white supremicists.
“Your heroes are losers. I knew the original nazis. Growing up I was surrounded by broken men. The ghosts you idolize spent the rest of their lives living in shame, and right now they are resting in Hell.”
He made it a fully physical performance, taking the time to mime in-character action like holster, draw, and reload his gun during the course of the game. It was...beautiful. As my fellow witness
@alex_antone
remarked, it was like watching Mozart.
Notice how he looks at one screen while actually shooting at the other. He’s signaling to the observer that he knows what’s going to happen; that he’s lived through this crisis of time again and again in a relentless pursuit of what I can only describe as pure enlightenment.
This illustrator asked Aaron Carter to stop using his work without permission or payment and Carter told him to get fucked. Any IP attorneys out there want to spank this twerp? Contact the artist below.
I love everything about this opening title but nothing more than the fact that it doesn’t even have a title. They knew this thing was so money they were like FUCK THE TITLE IT’S BATMAN THEY WILL GET IT
Pivot to Video was a scam perpetrated by Facebook, who produced false data to persuade publishers that users engaged with video at astronomically higher rates than text/graphics. Thousands of people were fired and millions of dollars was spent on video content nobody wanted.
Truly don't understand "pivot to video." When I get excited to read a piece and find out it's a video that I have to watch for several minutes in real time, I click away. I almost never spend more time on a page where there's a video as opposed to something I can quickly read.
No disrespect to Conan but this is absurd. Podcasts are a grassroots phenomenon. That Hollywood and larger media are participating now is a consequence of the revolution that new talent created.
My final project as a DC staffer, BATMAN '89. A continuation of the cinematic vision of Batman from the Tim Burton films.
An all-new adventure written by SAM HAMM, screenwriter of the original films, and drawn by master storyteller JOE QUINONES. Edited by Andrew Marino and me.
Possibly controversial: Hot Fuzz is funnier than Shaun of the Dead. It’s 3:30 in the morning and I’m laughing in the dark just thinking about moments from Hot Fuzz.
This man died after launching himself fewer than 500 feet in the air in a hideously misguided attempt to prove the earth is flat. It’s likely one of the most tragically stupid things that’s ever been filmed, and a breathtaking example of how dangerously ignorant Americans can be.
BREAKING: JK Simmons will reprise his role as J. Jonah Jameson from Sony’s Spider-Man trilogy in the new Spider-Man film, appearing alongside himself as J. Jonah Jameson from Marvel’s Spider-Man trilogy.
It’s nearly impossible to overstate how badly AT&T fucked up. Tens of thousands of people with combined centuries of experience building some of the most — and in the case of HBO, the most — successful enterprises of their kind, dismissed or otherwise driven out. For nothing.
Apparently the term “bottle episode” is the latest to be completely rewritten by the internet. What it actually means is an inexpensive episode using existing sets etc. The easiest examples come from Star Trek; when the whole episode takes place on the ship, that’s a bottle show.
First time the Batman makeup is acknowledged on screen, rather than treated as an illusion. Speaks to the hand-made vibe the film seems to be going for.
Also, somewhere in 1996, goth teenage me just felt someone walk over his grave...
Not sure who said this but it’s a bad take and betrays a misunderstanding of how “giant corporations” work. No one is getting “covered” if a book doesn’t sell. If comics aren’t profitable, they’re cancelled. People get laid off. Piracy hurts everyone at every level and size.
You know, even if you think the remake wasn't great, it's important to recognize it was enveloped in one of the nastiest, most hateful and misogynistic trolling campaigns of all time. Comments like those quoted below give satisfaction to those jerkoffs. Boo.
RIP comedian & actor Richard Belzer
In 1984, Hulk Hogan choked out Richard Belzer on live TV to prove wrestling isn't fake
Belzer was seriously injured in the stunt, and sued Hulk for damages which he won
From the
@nytimes
today. THIS right here is the crux of the issue: We have a consistently profitable business, but that doesn't matter anymore because we've sacrificed everything at the alter of 'exponential growth.' It's a false idol. It's insanity.
#wgastrong
DC readers: what you’re seeing this week is the first round of DC Universe stories unleashed by an editorial staff freed from the constraints of the recent past. The visions of tremendously talented and truly passionate DC storytellers are on display in these Future State books.
When I hear there are still serious 'Marvel vs DC' people out there, I'm reminded of those poor Japanese soldiers they found hiding underground who thought WWII was still happening years after it ended.
Jor-El and Lara didn’t lose their baby, nor did they abandon him. With explicit purpose, they *sent* him to America.
Clark Kent’s not just an immigrant, he’s a refugee.
As an editor I’m completely in favor of comic book artists doing their work on live streaming platforms. Drawing is lonely and distractions can be many. If having an audience who asks questions and cheers you on helps get the work done and keep you sane, fucking do it.
@kibblesmith
This is something my colleagues and I discuss more and more. It feels like there's a real schism in what audience want. Some want a story, some want a list of best practices.
John Malkovich turned down the role of Green Goblin in the original
#SpiderMan
movies.
"If I'd have loved it, obviously I would have done it, but those sort of films aren't art films, they're business propositions." (via
@empiremagazine
)
#QuarantineWatchParty
If you’ve ever found yourself asking “What happened to my favorite website, it used to be so good?” the below is an extremely likely answer. I certainly dealt with this when I was in the business, and I’m willing to bet sites like The Dissolve and Grantland were touched by this.
If you missed it: today it was confirmed that Facebook massively & knowingly inflated its video-view statistics, which had the DIRECT consequence of 90% of media orgs firing writers in favor of expensive video producers, who also got fired when it turned out video was worthless
I'm a pretty good comic book editor. My educational background: art school dropout, no degree. I know editors who studied acting, math, theology. To say there's a degree someone needs to be a good comics editor is like saying there's a degree they need to be a good comics creator
I’ve edited more Suicide Squad comics than anyone in DC history. These are the rules I developed:
-It sucks being in the Suicide Squad.
-Captain Boomerang should be as stereotypically, cartoonishly Australian as possible.
Get those down and everything else falls into place.