Via Comics Worth Reading, an excellent site Gone and Forgotten features articles on comics like a Captain America anti-drug comic produced with the FBI, a marvel comic about trucking, the first teen president, and the late unlamented legionaire Karate Kid
Over at Ninth Art, an interview with Jonathan Lethem on his novel Fortress of Solitude. This is in my “to be read” stack, after Quicksilver. I’m really really hoping that I’m going to be able to get halfway through Quicksilver over Thanksgiving Vacation. I figure at some point my laptop batteries will give out, I won’t be able to watch X-1999 or Scrapped Princess on the plane forever, and I can settle in to reading about crazy crazy Isaac Newton.
Via Lying in the Gutters, Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe!
4:54 pm on November 26th, 2003 1
[In case I haven't bugged you to read the Dark Tower series recently...]
Speaking of comics showing up in odd places, there’s some Marvel-related stuff in King’s Wolves of the Calla. Plus Harry Potter and Star Wars. Woo!
7:49 pm on November 27th, 2003 2
I will have you know, missy, I read the Gunslinger on the plane and I also have a copy of the Drawing of the Three with me.
And I finally got past page 200 of Quicksilver.
I know how to party!!!!
8:55 pm on November 27th, 2003 3
Woo! Gunslinger’s the weakest of them–more like a prologue than anything else. Drawing of the Three introduces the rest of the main characters. Lovely stuff.