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Wed, 31 Oct 2007
Alan Moore recites ode to Ditko
It's a pretty well-known fact that the design of Rorschach in Moore's epic book The Watchmen was fashioned after Steve Ditko's character The Question. What's less known is that the character of Rorshach is drawn more from Ditko's later objectivist work Mr A.
Moore even mentions this later when he explains what he had heard what Ditko thought about Rorshach. Moore quotes Ditko as saying "Rorshach is like Mr A. Except he's crazy!"
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Tue, 30 Oct 2007
Check out this New York Times article about real life super heroes in Manhattan. Thrill to the adventures of Red Justice, Direction Man, The Cleanser, Street Hero and The Super, all lonely people on a lonely mission.
Mon, 29 Oct 2007
What I want for Christmas this year
Just in case you were wondering what to get me this year, I'd really love this scale model of Uncle Scrooge's money bin. Click on the link for a full gallery of pics including fully detailed interior floors complete with office space, boobie traps and oodles upon oodles of miniture coins to swim in.
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Wed, 24 Oct 2007
I've been receiving lots of neat little packages in the mail lately full of magical trinkets. Alone, they're totally useless, but if you take the trinkets and arrange them just so, they'll let you tell them what to do. Naturally the first thing I thought to make was a tank.
I built this little puppy from some Tamiya kits I assembled and attached to an Arduino, an open source microprocessor controller board that you can program to do all kinds of stuff. This little guy has no sensors at the moment, but it's got an integrated electronics breadboard making it easy to add sensors and stuff without having to solder.
It's currently being powered by my computer's USB cable, but it can be hooked to batteries or an AC adapter when I'm ready to cut the cord.
Mon, 22 Oct 2007
Please take a moment if you will to vote in the Webcomics Idol poll over there on the internet somewhere. Take a look at all of the entries and vote for your favorite.
Personally, I'm voting for Shi Long Pang by Ben Costa, a young man with a future in comics and great taste in local comic book stores!
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Fri, 05 Oct 2007
giving something back to comics
I'm pleased as punch to announce that until the end of the year Hijinx will donate 10% of all online graphic novel purchases at ComicBookShelf.com to The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and The Hero Initiative which I view as two of the most important comics related charities. If you're not already familiar with the work of these two great organizations, click on their links to find out about the special work they do.
You can also click here to read the official press release.
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Here's a sneak peek at the new Hijinx bookmark designed by Debbie (Bumperboy) Huey. It's double-sided, so click the link to see bigger versions of both sides.
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Tue, 02 Oct 2007
Like something from a fever dream I had when I was 10 years old, here is a mashup of the Adam West Batman characters with dialogue from Frank Miller Batman comics. Beautiful!
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