Wednesday Runaround – The Obvious Insult

Published Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:00:19 -0500

Last updated Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:19:28 -0500

MarvelWatch: X-Men Schism #2 gets previewed… lots of standing around with no speech balloons does look odd. And we like Rogue's X-marks-the-breasts look.

AnyFulKnoWatch: Gary Groth talks to CBR.

Someone like Ronald Searle is not as well known as he should be. He's one of those guys who I would have loved to have interviewed. I think he's still alive. He's a great English cartoonist. He influenced a whole generation of cartoonists like Arnold Roth and Ralph Steadman. He worked in the thirties and maybe even the twenties. He had that beautifully playful, decorative cartooning style that you see most evident in someone like Arnold Roth. He was fantastic. He's one of those guys I would love to do several books of. He's not as widely known as he ought to be.

His St Trinian's still lives on in films though Gary – anyone want to film a Molesworth?

CyclopsWatch: Kieron Gillen on the motivation behind the Cyclops team in X-Men Regenesis.

For the last couple of years the X-Men have been trying to act more like super heroes and make people hopefully like them more. So now they're going to take that to the highest level by aspiring to be the most important and public super hero team on Earth. They're going to try and change world wide opinions of mutants in that way. At the same time they're still being feared and hated. So There's an implicit threat in the existence of my team. This is a very powerful group and their feeling is, "Yes. We're going to save the world, but fundamentally we're a group of nukes. You don't want to mess with mutants ever again."

ConWatch: The Tr!ckster Bar running opposite the San Diego Comic Con, you first read about on Bleeding Cool, gets some LA Times coverage.

"We're not a convention, we're not anything that Comic-Con really is," Morse said. "They're a nonprofit, we're for profit. We're looking at Tr!ckster as a venue to promote our own work and really, as a way of reinvigorating inspiration."

The event will depend on a rotating crew of 15 or so volunteers, friends and family to execute, and Morse expects some disorganization. "A lot of people are putting their hopes and dreams into this, which is great. But it's not a huge event space and we're gonna mess up," he said.

There are big plans for Tr!ckster's future, however. The "pipe dream" vision is for Tr!ckster to become self-sustaining and nomadic, traveling to cities in Europe and to large arts festivals throughout the U.S. like South by Southwest and Coachella. Morse hopes it will one day incorporate additional storytelling genres, like puppet shows and even dance.

TrutherWatch: The Huffington Post runs a political video about the 9/11 Truther Image comic The Big Lie by Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine which gives me a real revelation. Is that how you pronounce "Veitch"? And we learn that "The series was originally conceived of by Brian Romanoff, who set up Truth Be Told Comics in order to help raise funds to pay for the comic. He also runs the 9/11 Truther site NorCalTruth.org."

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.

LEGION & Relauches: PAUL LEVITZ Talks DCnU Revamp & LSH

"The guys have done a fair amount of planning this time, at least from what I can see. They're trying very hard to use this to address not just creative issues of the DCU and re-arranging assignments and writers and artists to get a good balance, but they're trying to use it to get a good jump on the schedules and make things smoother on that front."

Marvel/Disney … sent a team of investigators to Canada. And they interrogated a lot of people in the office of the other film I was working on. They were trying to find the IP address of the person that put it online. It was crazy.

Supergods – Grant Morrison interview – Grant Morrison describes his journey to become one of the world's leading comics writers | The List

"The fears are what it's all about. When I was doing Justice League, the writing was all about how you can marshal these forces of the human imagination against your depression, and against your fears for the world. It was very therapeutic for me. I feel better about life now, but I still use my characters to talk about the way I feel, and we feel, collectively. Moreso after 9/11, in that dark world that followed where kids were cutting themselves and the soldiers were dying."

Geoff Johns gives crash course in his own Hollywood history | Hero Complex – movies, comics, fanboy fare – latimes.com

We'll be revisiting some festival moments with video highlights. Today, DC Comics writer and executive Geoff Johns revisits his time as the "Superman" director's assistant.

EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Millar and Yu's "Supercrooks" – Comic Book Resources

"Supercrooks is such a simple idea – the guy that runs Marvel, Dan Buckley, said to me once "You're the master of the obvious idea", and it took me about an hour to figure out that it was an insult."

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