Yet Another Comics Blog - Details

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Title: Yet Another Comics Blog

Description: Writing about anything and everything related to comic books.

Category: Entertainment : Comics

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listed on: March 30, 2008 09:16:59 PM

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Monkey Covers - 2008-11-16 09:23:00

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover! Chimps, monkeys and apes with guns? They must be guerillas! It's Brahm Revel's cover toGuerillas#2(2008). (Standard disclaimer that not all gun-toting primates are monkeys applies.) Image courtesy of theGCD. Click on the image for alarger version.

Friday Night Fights: Marion Ravenwood vs. Indiana Jones - 2008-11-14 19:30:00

FromMarvel Super Special#18 (1981). Art by John Buscema&Klaus Janson. Script by Walt Simonson, from the screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, from the story by George Lucas&Philip Kaufman. (click pic for larger) Ka-Pow!?Krak!

Gold Digger #100 - 2008-11-12 13:26:00

I thought it worth noting that today sees the release of issue #100 of Fred Perry'sGold Diggercomic. It's actually the 154th issue ofGold Digger, as there was an original four-issue mini-series and a fifty-issue black-and-white series prior to the current color series. Gold Diggeris (as far as I know) the longest-running creator-owned comic series by an African-American; and also one of the longest-running creator-owned and -created series ever--to my recollection only Dave Sim'sCerebus(300 issues) surpases it, and Erik Larsen'sSavage Dragon(142 issues and counting) is in the same longevity league. Fred does all the writing and art (including color) for each issue, and it comes out (mostly) monthly. That's in addition to various side projects Fred engages in as well. With its sprawing cast, dense backstory and mythology, and heavily-stylized artGold Diggermay not be for everybody. But if you appreciate a long-running monthly adventure comic with a singular creative vision, you may want to give it a try (There are numerous manga-sized collections available from the publisher,Antarctic Press.)