What you should be reading

(before this starts, let me just say: these aren't reviews but just short reccomendations. Full reviews will be posted later, if at all)
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa: One of the best comic books I've ever read and I'm not a real reader of Manga or Science fition. With great charecterazation, Pluto is exciting, well written, beautifully drawn and just getting better with each volume.
A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi: I liked this book a lot and would recommend it highly for anyone interested in writing in any form.
Cecil And Jordan In New York by Gabrielle Bell: I enjoyed how this book distilled stories that could have filled full books of there own into short beutiful suggestions.
The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim: Three interesting (and well done) stories about fantasy and reality.

"bit by bit, putting it together"

as I thought y'all might enjoy this I thought I would show you the process I use to make a comic book using art from my new comic (i won't tell you what it is though).

step 1: blank page
I downloaded this blank with balloons setup from http://www.dccomics.com/minx/?action=blab

step 2: art
drawn in B&W with lettering just so that I can see what the words are. So basically awful lettering. occasional margin notes


Step 3: Lettering and SFX
now I add in the words and special effects on the computer using Comic Life


step 4: Color
the fourth and final step is coloring it using photoshop

Comic Book Reviews

This week I was able to get a few good (and bad) comics.
1985:
Surprisingly good, nice to see Marvel poke fun at itself a little. Good art but a few small flaws with the writing, I will follow this one.
Verdict: 4 stars

Final Crisis:
Surprisingly bad, despite good art. As with many crossovers it is too complex to really follow. Although I must say, good for DC for making DC Universe Zero actually have something to do with this.

Super Heroes is a trademark jointly owned by DC Comics and Marvel Characters, Inc.

Looking at the information of the MET's superhero exhibit at the bottom of the page it says this

Super Heroes is a trademark jointly owned by DC Comics and Marvel Characters, Inc.

Can anyone tell me what the heck this is about. I do not really think that any company does or can own that. Superhero is a genre. Not a trademark.


Note: for those interested, the website I found this on is http://www.metmuseum.org/special/superheroes/index.asp

Buffy is...

I must admit for me as mere reader of the comic book I felt no huge degree of shock while reading the latest issue of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have to say I did not have any clue what was going on and would have to say I do not recall the storyline that Joss Whedon said in the N.Y. Times article on the story that this had

evolved naturally

I would have to say it was just a good old school bit of making the charecters as uncomfortable as possible as per romantic comedy rules.

Note: this is my 70th post. I just thought you might want to know!

Amulet

using this website http://www.scholastic.com/amulet/makeyourown/index.htm I made the comic book seen above