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Re: the porn movie they made of Hawkman & Hawkgirl: “This film also features Black Canary (Tasha Reign), Gentleman Ghost (invisible Alec Knight), and Oliver Queen (Ryan McLane) with special sexual appearances by Dani Daniels, Alison Moore, Jessie Andrews, Cassandra Nix, and Evan Stone.“ …Gentleman Ghost… If people want to watch DC superhero porn, that’s fine— I’m in no position to judge, but as a licensed comic critic… Gentleman Ghost???  DC has much sexier villains.  Uhm, Vandal Savage— he used to be a caveman, I think.  The Penguin— who didn’t get a little turned on watching March of the Penguins?  Uh, those Green Lanterns that vomit emotions on people— that’s pretty gonzo.  Captain Boomerang— have you ever seen porn with a boomerang in it?  So have I but I’d see that again.  Egghead from the Batman TV show?  He probably fucked pretty good.  Theres a long list of characters before you get to Gentleman Ghost which… Who wants to see a Gentleman get all sexy?  I mean, I guess Downton Abbey fans, but then, okay, he’s sexy— who cares?  He’s a ghost!  What’s a ghost going to do?  Then you end up with that weird “Whoopi Goldberg is possessed” porn.  That’s … that’s some rough business… Never again (sober).

Re: the porn movie they made of Hawkman & Hawkgirl: “This film also features Black Canary (Tasha Reign), Gentleman Ghost (invisible Alec Knight), and Oliver Queen (Ryan McLane) with special sexual appearances by Dani Daniels, Alison Moore, Jessie Andrews, Cassandra Nix, and Evan Stone.“ …Gentleman Ghost… If people want to watch DC superhero porn, that’s fine— I’m in no position to judge, but as a licensed comic critic… Gentleman Ghost???  DC has much sexier villains.  Uhm, Vandal Savage— he used to be a caveman, I think.  The Penguin— who didn’t get a little turned on watching March of the Penguins?  Uh, those Green Lanterns that vomit emotions on people— that’s pretty gonzo.  Captain Boomerang— have you ever seen porn with a boomerang in it?  So have I but I’d see that again.  Egghead from the Batman TV show?  He probably fucked pretty good.  Theres a long list of characters before you get to Gentleman Ghost which… Who wants to see a Gentleman get all sexy?  I mean, I guess Downton Abbey fans, but then, okay, he’s sexy— who cares?  He’s a ghost!  What’s a ghost going to do?  Then you end up with that weird “Whoopi Goldberg is possessed” porn.  That’s … that’s some rough business… Never again (sober).

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The Why Comics videos of Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. These floated into my head the other day, while I was reading their new BPRD work, alongside the new Mike Mignola comics (which I really just find very wonderful, just in that he’s returned, that his work is better than I remember it being— though that’s possibly more a trick of memory than anything to the actual art itself, I don’t know).  There are two of them (the other one’s got Matt Fraction, Ivan Brandon and Grampá)— though if you’re nerdy enough to like this kind of thing, I imagine you’ve come by these already.  I don’t know.  Just remembered these fondly the other day, is all.

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Interview with Mark Sable about Graveyard of Empires:

I wanted to try something new, so I put together this interview with my friend, comic writer Mark Sable, about his recent “marines & Taliban versus zombies in Afghanistan” comic co-created with art wunderkind Paul Azaceta, Graveyard of Empires.  I wanted to try to keep it pretty straight and really just see if I could showcase the book, like a proper commercial would.  Except for a home movie of my nephews, it’s the first time I’ve ever filmed anything (first time with sound!)— obviously the first time I ever tried to do lighting.  We used a GoPro, and a used Sony camcorder.

GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES is out this week.  Mark said extremely nice things about Paul, colorist Matt Wilson and Thomas Mauer’s letters that I cut for time, but won’t be… cut out of your heart (?) when you look at the comic.

The closing of Comics Alliance this week is a bummer for the number of admirable writers it “orphans.”  But also: while big comic companies may have sympathetic news organs they can use and discard at their leisure, readers and creators of books like GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES have one less route to find each other.  How does a person “promote” a comic without being, like, all gross?  I don’t know that I thought of any interesting answers to that question, but it was interesting to sit and think about that for a little while.  So thanks to Mark, for indulging me.  

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