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Friday Runaround – No Plane Ticket Attached

Published Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:03:39 -0500

Last updated Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:32:14 -0500

CreditWatch: Comic shop clerk who co-wrote the Cowboys And Aliens comic talks about seeing his name in the credits for the Cowboys & Aliens film. Even if he didn't get any of the cash.

Foley was invited to Los Angeles to see Cowboys & Aliens at a special movie screening recently. "I received the invitation … and there was no plane ticket attached," he said.

Foley opted instead for a free pass from Happy Harbor Comics that got him into a screening Wednesday in Edmonton City Centre mall.

LegalWatch: The creators of Villains & Vigilantes, the super-hero roleplaying game first published in 1979, have filed a federal copyright suit against longtime publisher Scott Bizar. They claim he has no legal right to publish the game or related products.

ReCastWatch: What if Mark Hamill had played The Joker in The Dark Knight?

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GodsWatch: The Independent jumps onto Supergods.

Morrison is, of major current UK creators, probably the one who believes in superheroes as a worthwhile topic most whole-heartedly. Alan Moore has burned out on his love to the point of denying them; Neil Gaiman was only ever moderately interested and tends to make them over into his own gently ironic image; Warren Ellis is torn between intellectual disdain and the money; Martin Millar sees them as essentially political counters with which to make ideological points. Morrison actually thinks of them not as a way of satirising America but of talking about human potential. This seems to me to be an approach that pays proper respect to what superheroes have always been for.

WillinghamWatch: The James Bennett cover to Vertigo's Bad Doings & Big Ideas, the collection of Bill Willingham Vertigo projects over the years, now that Fables is a big success.

I miss Coventry...

IndiaWatch: The origins of the oft-covered World Comics Network;

Sharad Sharma, a social activist based in Delhi, stumbled upon the idea of "grassroots comics". Simply put, these are drawings by socially active people, including children. And they are giving a voice to the voiceless. These comics dramatise specific issues – such as education, gender discrimination, employment woes, etc. – and bring them to the fore within the community, inspiring debate and dialogue.

Working with disadvantaged communities, Sharma employs comics as a development tool. Using local languages, local visual culture and local metaphors, activists raise local issues in the form of a story. These comics end up as wallpaper, on posters and photocopied for mass distribution. Sharma reports that both the young and old in target communities participate in the drawing of these issue-based comics with equal zeal. And local schools, libraries and community centres are enthused about disseminating the comics, and thus spreading their messages.

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

SRBissette.com – More on Jack Kirby/Marvel Comics; A Brief Overview

I am arguing and asserting that there are moral issues at stake; that there is a need to assert those moral rights, and to question why was and is it that, in the case of the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee cocreations in the Marvel Comics universe, that one co-creator (Stan Lee) has been granted exalted stature, protections, earnings, and benefits above and beyond those granted the other co-creator (Jack Kirby); and, furthermore, to argue and assert that Kirby's heirs have a moral (and legal) argument of merit.

JMS Wonder Woman Concept Art and Tarzan Production Sketch | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran