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| 09:56pm 09/07/2009 |
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It is called "Beeman: A Death in the Family." It is found exclusively in this book:
It is about Beeman, a peripheral character from Dr. McNinja.
It was drawn by Anthony Clark, who colors the McNinja strip, but is perhaps better known for writing and drawing those adorable Nedroid comics you like so much.
Here is a preview image for the story that has the unique effect of making you actually know less about the story than you did before you looked at it.
There will be a launch party for the book at San Diego. You can come to it.
P.S. Remember this? I'm not going to say it's related to this or anything, but...it has something to do with this, yeah. |
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| Saint Didacus of Alcala |
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| 11:03pm 06/07/2009 |
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Saint D. is v. excited by the cross.
The most interesting story about Didacus, I think, is that when he died from a horrible festering wound, the wound smelled delicious instead of terrible. Also, his dead body healed a king's broken arm one time.
The part that interests me most, though, is his totally hypercorrective name.
Didacus is a completely fabricated Latin name made up to make a translation of this saint's birth name, which was Spanish. But here's the thing: it was a Spanish translation/derivation of a name that totally exists in Latin.
He should be Saint Iacobus, but, no, someone with a degree of naming power did not know the proper origin of his better known Spanish name:
SAN DIEGO.
HEY SPEAKING OF SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON
WHO IS TOTALLY GOING TO THAT?
I AM
You should tell me if you're going and if I should look forward to seeing you there.
I have just agreed to do a signing at the table for Doctor McNinja, but no other signings or appearances are yet confirmed. I'll keep you updated. |
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| The glorious truth about the prestige of comics creation |
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| 09:51pm 14/06/2009 |
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From Tom Spurgeon's interview with Seth:
"I think, sometimes, people think a high profile "gig" of this sort is like appearing on the Broadway stage or something — excitement and applause. The sad reality is that you are just sitting in the basement, the same as any other day. You don’t actually see anyone read the thing. The Prime Minister of Canada doesn’t phone you up and say "Good Show."
I resisted Googling the strip for its entire run but when it ended I typed in the title. The very first "hit" said: "Thank god, George Sprott is finally over." And people wonder why I dislike the Internet." |
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| St. Brendan of Clonfert |
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| 04:03pm 04/06/2009 |
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St. Brendan is from Ireland, and he discovered America one thousand years before Columbus. (America the continent, not the country. Cf. Beaton, 10.)
On his way to the new world, he landed his ship on an island to celebrate Easter. It turned out this island was a giant sea monster named Jascon.
This is a true story.
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| Our ulcer year/Sts. Urith and Sidwell |
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| 06:44pm 01/06/2009 |
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Eye update for those who care:
Over a week and $250 worth of antibiotics later, my eye is not better. It might be worse, but being in more or less constant pain for five weeks makes it hard to determine degrees. So I'm going to have to go back to the doctor this week to have a mysteriously, but apparently prohibitively, priced culture performed in order to more accurately diagnose what I have. It might be an amoeba!
Meanwhile, my new landlord has confirmed that the "modest increase" in rent that he promised with his incoming is, in fact, a 45% increase. So, you know, good times all around.
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Saint update:
As promised, the Juthwara/Urith connection:
Here's Urith again in case you forgot:
And here's the story of Juthwara again in case you forgot.
Urith, like Juthwara, had an evil (i.e., pagan) stepmother. For this reason (being evil and being a stepmother), the stepmother bribed some (presumably also pagan) haymakers to cut her head off with a scythe. Hence the scythe she carries (and the head she carries).
So what should happen when her head hits the ground? A fountain of miracle water and rainbows shot out of the ground where her head fell. Let it not be said that Jesus never repeated himself.
You can actually visit this well in Chittlehampton in England, and there is a hymn known as The Trinity College Hymn that venerates her.
And while we're at it, hey, let's talk about St. Sidwell.
As you can see, St. Sidwell is also pictured with a scythe and a spring of water. See if you can guess what happens.
St. Sidwell, aka Sadfyl, aka Sativola, was Juthwara's sister. This means, alas, that she also had an evil step-mother. This step-mother was not content at having one stepchild decapitated, so (taking a cue from Urith's step-mother?) she bribed some nearby mowers to cut her child's head off.
AND--quelle surprise!--a magical spring of water shot up from where her head landed. As an added twist, they threw her head in the well. For three days a magical spotlight shone on the spot where she was killed. On the fourth day, her body decided not to take it anymore, and stood up and carried the head to church.
Pretty sweet, yeah.
(Incidentally, Juthwara and Sidwell have another sister, Gulval, who is a saint, but she was no, alas, decapitated. They also have a brother who was a saint, St. Paul Aurelian. He killed a dragon and could talk to animals. A truly special family.)
So remember, if you ever drink out of a well in Wales, there is a good chance you are drinking decapitation water. |
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| St. Juthwara |
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| 03:58pm 28/05/2009 |
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Today everything is boring at best, so here are some saints.
This is not St. Juthwara, but rather a similar saint, Urith. You will note that Urith is a cephalaphore, as is Juthwara. Just imagine that instead of a scythe, she is holding round, wet cheeses up to her breast. That's Juthwara.
What's really interesting about Juthwara is her story, which is completely insane. Since I cannot find any depictions of this saint online, I will relate this story and hope you will read it.
As I mentioned, Juthwara's attribute is a round cheese. That is because of her legend:
The pious young Juthwara (also known as Aude Wyry) developed a chronic chest pain due to her grieving for her deceased father. Her evil stepmother told her that she could cure this pain by putting round, soft cheese on her breasts. MODERN MEDICINE.
The stepmother then told her own son, Bana, that Juthwara was pregnant, thus shaming their whole family. Bana didn't believe his mother, so she told him to check Juthwara's underclothes. When he did so, he found them covered in milk! MILK.
Bana confronted the young girl about this, she denied it, he decided he wanted to check her underclothes. In the struggle, he feels the damp cheeses on her breasts, and in an outrage, straight cuts her head off. Reasonably so.
To prove her innocence (I guess), Jesus made a spring of water shoot up out of the ground where her head landed. To add insult to injury (so to speak), Juthwara picked up her head and walked to church, where people weren't always trying to feel her boob cheese.
Epilogue: Bana repents due to the extreme amount of magic he has just witnessed and becomes a monk.
TOMORROW OR SOME OTHER TIME: The Juthwara/Urith connection! STAY TUNED. |
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| My humps, my humps, disgusting eyeball lumps |
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| 06:32pm 21/05/2009 |
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If anyone (no one) was still wondering about my previous eye problems, I have an update:
The good news is it isn't pink eye.
The bad news is that it is something worse than pink eye. I guess? I have an ulcer on my cornea. Unless it is an amoeba, the doctor said, menacingly, it should go away when I take some medicine.
The other bad news is that the pharmacy won't have that medicine until tomorrow and it will also cost a couple hundo more than the doctor said it would.
In celebration of the fact that between my normal light sensitivity and pupil dilation I can't see anything right now, here is another saint with eyeballs on a plate.
St. Paraskevi of Rome. Her name means "Saint Friday."
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Dudes, there is no shortage of awesome or crazy saints. However, I am finding a shortage of awesome depictions of these saints on internet. I want to show you the fierce battle of St. Martin vs. the pine tree, or Saint Corbinian straight up putting a saddle on a bear, but it is hard to find the kinds of images I want that will rock your mind.
I will post them as I find them, but I might have to move on to a new theme for the time being. We will see what is the dilly. |
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| Coming in August |
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| 02:47pm 15/05/2009 |
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INVINCIBLE PRESENTS: ATOM EVE COLLECTED EDITION
story BENITO CERENO
art NATE BELLEGARDE and BILL CRABTREE
cover NATE BELLEGARDE & FCO PLASCENCIA
AUGUST 12
48 PAGES / FC
$5.99
To commemorate the tragic events involving Atom Eve in recent issues of INVINCIBLE, Image is reprinting her acclaimed solo series for the first time ever. See Eve's beginnings as she gets her powers and trains herself to the hero we all knew and loved. Don't miss out a second time!
Collects INVINCIBLE: PRESENTS ATOM EVE #1-2 |
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| St. Wilgefortis |
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| 10:34pm 07/05/2009 |
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My favorite saint of them all.
Most iconography of Wilgefortis looks like this: the saint, hanging on a cross.
At first glance, this may not seem that significant. But there's something you have to understand that may not be readily apparent.
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Here is a song that does an okay job telling the story of St. Wilgefortis, if you are curious.
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| St. Denis of Paris |
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| 08:11pm 04/05/2009 |
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St. Denis was beheaded on what is now Montmartre ("mountain of martyrs") by druidic priests who hated that he was converting everyone in the area.
But Denis wasn't done talking yet, and he wouldn't be until long after his head had fallen off. He walked two miles carrying his own head, preaching the whole way.
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| St. Rita of Cascia |
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| 08:24pm 03/05/2009 |
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I hope you all had an enjoyable and fruitful Free Comic Book Day.
By special request, here's St. Rita, Patron Saint of the Impossible (seriously). You can distinguish her in art because she has an open wound on her forehead.
How did she get that wound?
( You should click and find out. ) |
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| The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence of Rome |
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| 09:18pm 30/04/2009 |
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Not as much in the gory/bizarre direction as the last two, more in the ballsy/awesome camp.
St. Lawrence was barbecued to death.
The kicker? His last words were "Assum est. Versa et manduca."
Which translates loosely as...
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| The Lactation of Saint Bernard |
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| 03:45pm 29/04/2009 |
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Perhaps my favorite bizarre medieval/Renaissance art motif.
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In case you can't tell: yes, that is the Virgin Mary shooting milk from her breast, Super Soaker-style, into the open mouth of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (not the one the dogs are named after). |
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| Sunday secrets |
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| 12:10am 27/04/2009 |
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http://www.fetorpse.org/picture_library/blos1.jpg
That Evan Bryce guy is pretty all right, I guess.
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Update on my gross eye disease!
My eyes are really sensitive to light and for that reason I almost crashed my car today driving in the sunshine!
I had to buy giant sunglasses that would fit over my regular glasses so I wouldn't crash my car!
Here's a picture of me in my totally sweet glasses:
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| 420 eat Peeps every day |
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| 09:22pm 20/04/2009 |
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There is a comic I have been more excited about than any other for a while. I was excited for it before I knew what it was. I have not mentioned it here, except obliquely.
It is this comic:
WEDNESDAY COMICS #1-4
In July, DC Comics gives a fresh twist to a grand comics tradition with WEDNESDAY COMICS, a new, weekly 12-issue series by some of the greatest names in comics today!
WEDNESDAY COMICS is unique in modern comics history: Reinventing the classic weekly newspaper comics section, it is a 16-page weekly that unfolds to a sprawling 28” x 20” tabloid-sized reading experience bursting with mind-blowing color, action and excitement, with each feature on its own 14” x 20” page.
Spearheaded by DCU Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello, whose past editing credits include BATMAN BLACK & WHITE, DC: THE NEW FRONTIER and SOLO, each page of WEDNESDAY COMICS spotlights the continuing adventures of DC heroes, including:
* BATMAN, WEDNESDAY COMICS’ weekly cover feature, by the Eisner Award-winning 100 BULLETS team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso
* ADAM STRANGE, by writer/artist Paul Pope (BATMAN: YEAR 100)
* METAMORPHO, written by New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman with art by Eisner Award-winner Michael Allred (Madman)
* THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN, written by Walter Simonson (Thor, MANHUNTER) with art by famed DC cover artist Brian Stelfreeze
* DEADMAN, written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck, art by Dave Bullock
* KAMANDI, written by Dave Gibbons (WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN CORPS) with art by Ryan Sook (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL)
* SUPERMAN, written by John Arcudi (The Mask) with art by Lee Bermejo (JOKER)
* WONDER WOMAN, written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell (Dare Detectives)
* GREEN LANTERN, written by Kurt Busiek (TRINITY, ASTRO CITY) with art by Joe Quiñones (TEEN TITANS GO!)
* TEEN TITANS, written by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway
* SUPERGIRL, written by Jimmy Palmiotti (JONAH HEX) with art by Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL)
* HAWKMAN, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker (PLASTIC MAN, Special Forces)
* SGT. ROCK, written by Adam Kubert (SUPERMAN: LAST SON), ilustrated by legendary comics artist Joe Kubert
* THE FLASH, written by Karl Kerschl (TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE, THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE) and Brenden Fletcher, illustrated by Karl Kerschl
* METAL MEN, written by Dan DiDio with art by Ian Churchill (SUPERGIRL)
WEDNESDAY COMICS will arrive in stores folded twice to 7” x 10”, with the first issue set to reach stores on July 8.
Issue #1 on sale July 8; Issue #2 on sale July 15; Issue #3 on sale July 22; Issue #4 on sale July 29 • 1-4 of 12 • 7” x 10”, 16 pg, FC, $3.99 US
YESSS.
Hey, here are some pages from it.
If you are not at least mildly flipping out, we can no longer be friends. |
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