Comics for January 10 and news
Posted by: Rich Watson on January 8, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Are We Feeling Safer Yet? A (th)Ink Anthology
Keith Knight’s website
The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, where Keef’s throwing a book party/going-away party this Saturday night at 6 (he’s moving to LA)
It’s a new Keith Knight book. What more do you need to know?
Squadron Supreme: Hyperion vs. Nighthawk #1 (of 4)
Amazon link to buy Supreme Power: Nighthawk TP
Marvel’s Superman and Batman analogues get their own “versus” mini-series.
Also this week:
Gen13 #4. Pencils by Talent Caldwell.
Stormwatch PHD #3
Tales of the Unexpected #4 (of 8). Lead story pencils by Eric Battle.
Welcome to Tranquility #2. I picked this up recently and it turns out the main character in this series about a superhero retirement community is black – she’s the town sheriff.
Ant #9
Blade #5. Civil War tie-in.
CVO: African Blood #2
Delete #4. Story and art by Robert Walker. Resolicited.
Pirates vs. Ninjas #1 (of 3). New stuff from Fred Perry (writing only).
IGN reviews Afro Samurai. Can’t guarantee when or if I’ll get a chance to see the show myself, but if I do, I’ll write about it as well.
Emissary editor Kris Simon confirms that they won’t be able to publish past issue six.
The fantasy novel Marvelous World gets picked up by Simon & Shuster and Random House.
2 Responses to "Comics for January 10 and news"
1 | Chris Chambers
Afro Samurai’s interesting; Sam Jackson playing different voices is confusing. Artwork–by basic cable standards–ain’t bad. I thought the forced “black” accents of the badguys was channeled the latent racism of some Japanese…
2 | Fred
Actually, an actor voicing multiple characters in a cartoon is typical in the medium. It’s not like the TV viewers will ever see Jackson in the flesh on Afro Samurai. So, I wasn’t baffled by Jackson voicing Afro and Ninja Ninja in the least.
As for the bad guys’s accents, I wasn’t offensed because Ninja Ninja ALSO has a Black “accent” and speaks in slang. The world of Afro Samurai draws elements from different time periods and cultures so Japanese heavies speaking hip-hop slang makes sense in this context.
