Never Not A Nerd

Okay.  So you’ve been reading Garfield for quite a while.  Since childhood, let’s say.  It’s getting pretty old, right?  The same basic elements seem consistent throughout: the cat kicks the dog off the table, eats pasta and ridicules his owner.  Ah, Jon Arbuckle, you poor, miserable bastard.  Your life really is a monotonous string of torment with that fat, lazy cat as your only companion.  I mean, is it any wonder Liz doesn’t want to date him?  Women aren’t too into the dude with a bad perm that hangs out with his cat all day.  Where was I?  Oh yes.  We’re all familiar with Garfield and how boring he can seem.  But what if there was no Garfield?

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I felt like taking a look at something a little different this week by observing a limited story entitled Josh & Imp.  A story by Jon Bernhardt and art by Diana Nock, it’s about a young man named Josh who meets the teenage sidekick of his city’s Batman-like superhero.  Josh and Imp are out on a date, exploring the details of their relationship and the problems that comes along with trying to be intimate with a masked super-heroine.  Secret identities are tough, especially when it comes to trying to express one’s feelings.

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Not all webcomics are drawings of cheap shots taken at video games.  Some of them aren’t even drawings at all.  Some of them are photographs of blackboards and a guy in a lab coat.  Dante Shepherd’s Surviving the World gives the reader advice on important things that will permit them to keep on going in life.  He throws on his coat and Red Sox cap and does his best to ensure that we’re paying close attention to the things that are most vital in the world.  I mean, when you stop to think that someone would take the time to keep us up on key knowledge like this, we should definitely take the time to give his comic a look.

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I love me some awkward things, and Pictures for Sad Children certainly fits that description.  John Campbell writes and draws an awkward webcomic exploring death, confusion, odd social trends, human and inhuman interaction, and confusion.  He does this in the most peculiar way possible, but doesn’t manage to alienate the reader.  At least, that’s been my experience with it.

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This needs to stop.  Or at least slow down.  Marvel has recently unveiled over twenty variant covers to different Marvel titles.  In wanton disregard for the idea that they’re beating this into the dirt, they’ve pushed the idea that “everybody loves more Deadpool” and refuses to let up.  I suppose after the zombie variants and all the other different themes they’ve been trying out, Deadpool was just a matter of time, but this needs to stop.  Soon.

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The floating head of Abraham Lincoln.  Really, if I explain past that, I’m just ruining things.  But I suppose given that this is a review, I must go further.  The floating head of Abraham Lincoln stars in Thinkin’ Lincoln, a webcomic by Miles Grover.  It details little adventures and jokes about history and wacky situations with Lincoln’s closest friends, like George Washington or Queen Elizabeth II.  Abe just cruises around and learns important things about life, love, and the world in general.  With the help of Charles Darwin and Zombie Mark Twain, he will reach adulthood and learn a number of life lessons.  It may not seem like it fits, but it certainly does.

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I’m not even sure how this cover applies to Siege, but it’s the variant cover to issue three.  You know, the issue that Marvel offered the crazy deal of fifty DC Blackest Night issues for just one of these bad boys?  Yes, the cover by J. Scott Campbell features Deadpool, and as we know right now, he has absolutely nothing to do with Siege at all in any way.  As far as I know, while Siege is going on, Deadpool is going to be busy chilling with Hitman Monkey.  So why this is happening, I have no idea.

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Mark Millar, creator of Wanted, Kick-Ass, and the yet to be released Nemesis is already talking about a Nemesis movie. On his website MillarWorld.tv message boards he drunkenly says he has been talking to a director that threw out the names Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis as potential stars. The unnamed director is supposedly friends with one of the mentioned actors.

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The short answer is a bad-ass. The longer answer is a bad-ass from the future who single-handedly stood up to an ‘unstoppable’ machine to protect the future of mankind and the woman he loved. That whole ‘woman he loved’ thing is a little weird, because if you think about it, according to whatever Terminator based timeline you want to follow Sarah Connor died of cancer either before Kyle was born or when he was a little kid. Ahh, time travel, how many crazy situations you can make.

Anyway, Zack Whedon, younger brother of ‘nerd-god’ Joss Whedon, is writing a 3-part series for Dark Horse with Kyle Reese as its protagonist. It’s going to be called simply “The Terminator” and will be about Kyle Reese’s life in the weeks leading up to him being sent back in time by John Connor.

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If you know a good deal about the movie deals that fell through with Kevin Smith in his earlier days as a filmmaker, you know that The Green Hornet was one of the films optioned to Smith.  While Smith’s idea obviously fell through, there was still plenty of content from what Smith wrote in drafts to do Dynamite’s new Green Hornet series.  And luckily, the book isn’t about to fall into the habit of other Smith books with unmet deadlines due to the scripts of all ten issues being in already.  Now we can sit back and see a monthly comic written by Kevin Smith.  Something I never thought I would see.

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