Belated Happy Birthday to Joe and the Forbidden Planet Blog, 4 years old this week. It’s a great site with honest reviews and reinvigorated my interest in comics. I’m now regularly dipping into stuff I’d have been unaware of if it wasn’t for the FP blog.
I just saw the new hardcover edition of Watchmen on Forbidden Planet and commented that I didn’t think much of the artwork: the expression on Sally’s Laurie’s face, nippleless Jon, assymetrical Rorschach and Veidt with a mullet. Then I looked again and noticed something: WHERE’S THE COMEDIAN’S SMILEY BADGE??? It’s only the most important motif … Read more
I went to town as Dr. Manhattan last night. Only one person actually said, “oh, there’s Dr. Manhattan”. I thought loads of people would have got it at this stage with the movie coming out next year. One girl on the street said “oh, wait, you’re that guy from the Watch thingy”. Other guesses were … Read more
Embedded from RTE.IE I somehow missed this interview with Alan Moore on Radio 1 from the 3 July. Oh yes, it’s because I don’t listen to it. Eoin Sweeney did a good job considering who he was talking to, by which I mean the man’s reputation would make jelly of most knees, but as you’ll … Read more
I see I’ve joined some illustrious names on the Irish Comics Wiki. I wonder if I actually count as I contribute a single panel cartoon to the Connacht Tribune each week, rather than contributing to a comic per se. Maybe if I throw some stuff Bob Byrne’s way for the next issue of the Shiznit…
Via Boing Boing is Evan Shaner‘s What if Charles M Schulz created the Watchmen? Look at Snoopy/Rorschach. Classic!