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Thursday Runaround – Sherlocked
SherlockWatch: Josh Adams takes a pen to the BBC's Sherlock again…
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.
Geoff Johns On the New Arab Green Lantern – Speakeasy – WSJ
The cover is kind of a representation of the months ahead and what Simon Baz has to deal with. You'll learn about the mask in issue 13. The gun, the sidearm, is introduced in issue 15.
Any other previews of what's to come?
This new "Green Lantern" is going to join the Justice League of America in February so is going to be fighting alongside characters like Green Arrow, Hawkman and Catwoman. Over the next few months, "Green Lantern" will really be integrated into the DC universe. It's going to be a lot of fun to see how they react to him.
I know I have, of late, taken on the mantle of a "company man," and in many ways I am deserving of the title. Even proud. I am a cog in the machine which is Marvel Comics, and I rejoice in that. When I speak of Marvel down the years I often say "we", as in "We put out thus and such a book …," even if I was a 12-year-old fan when "we" did so. I like working for Marvel. I love being involved in the production of comics, and I am pleased enough with the money I make doing it. If Marvel offered me twice as much tomorrow, I'd certainly take it. In the words of Dudley Moore's "Arthur," "I'm not stupid." But if Marvel were to show me just reason for halving my salary tomorrow, I would also accept that. It's a business, and realistically, if we don't like being involved in the negative aspects of that business, we should get out.
Daleks and Disableism: Steven Moffat on Mental Illness | Bright Green
With the start of a new series of Doctor Who comes the inevitable unpicking of writer and producer Steven Moffat's perceived attitudes and prejudices. Other feminist bloggers will no doubt have plenty to say on fetish boots, throwaway comments about bisexuality, and the extent to which Amy Pond's behaviour is dictated by her reproductive system, so I'm going to put the gender analysis to one side briefly to talk about the other problematic aspect of Asylum of the Daleks: how it deals with mental illness.
Dylan Williams Reporter: Fred Guardineer's 1935-1936 Journal
The story continues from there. Guardineer got involved with pulps, then comic books, where he drew some of the first costumed superheroes for Centaur Publications and DC Comics. He joined the army and was sent, alongside another comics great, Ogden Whitney, to serve in the Pacific. He returned to a host of jobs drawing comics and spent ten years working hard in an industry that became harder and harder to make a living in. He quit in 1955, after being offered what he saw as an insecure job by Will Eisner