Variants! Variants! Variants! Coolest of the Week (12/11/13)
Aw, the hell with it. I’m not even gonna pretend anymore. I dig variants. Because I am a bona fide sucker. Chris Burnham told me so. Here’s the best this week!
10 Great John Buscema Covers
Big John Buscema would have been 86 today. Here are 10 great covers:
APES WEEK: Unpublished on the Planet of the Apes — Dark Horse and More
Rich Handley’s riding the Hasslein Curve into a strange, yet familiar world of great, unpublished Apes comics.
HOT PICKS Gift Guide Special: Pop Nation Picks
Ed Catto is, as they say, a friend of 13th Dimension and a kinda-sorta regular contributor. He also writes a column, Pop Nation, for a pub in New Jersey called Main Street Magazine. This month, he did a gift guide. And here it is, reprinted in all its glory:
GODZILLA TRAILER!!!
There’s probably a clearer image of the Loch Ness Monster compared to the glimpse we get of the king of the kaijus at the end of the latest trailer from Lendary Pictures. Godzilla is a walking 9-11, and the attention to detail is chilling.
APES WEEK: Corinna Bechko’s Five Silliest ‘Planet of the Apes’ Moments
Corinna Sara Bechko is the writer who, along with her artist-writer husband Gabriel Hardman, engineered perhaps the best POTA run ever in comics, at Boom! Studios. Here, she lists her Five Silliest Moments in Apedom.
GOTHAM TRIBUNE: From the Batcomputer
Normally, I have some sort of fancy Batfeature or interview at the top of the GOTHAM TRIBUNE column, while at the bottom, I throw in my three cents on which Batbooks are looking interesting that week. Today, I’m doing it a little differently.
APES WEEK: Unpublished on the Planet of the Apes – Malibu Graphics
Rich Handley’s exploration into the Forbidden Zone of comics publishing — those great Apes comics that never were — continues with Malibu Graphics’ ’90s run — and some unpublished art!
NEAL ADAMS INTERVIEWS: Adams Defends ‘Batman: Odyssey’
Neal Adams explains why he thinks his critically panned Batman epic is the best work he’s ever done.
HOT PICKS Gift Guide #18: Art by Steve Rude
Y’know, you don’t have to buy a book or an action figure or a whatever. How about buying some art from one of the most talented guys of the last 30 years or so?
Cool Event Alert: Critical Glitch
If you’re in the New York area next week, check out Ouchi Gallery’s second comics exhibition, “Critical Glitch.”
APES WEEK: Unpublished on the Planet of the Apes – Marvel Comics
This week, Apemeister Rich Handley takes you on a fascinating journey through the Greatest Apes Comics That Never Were! Today: Some of the greatest — and strangest — Marvel Comics stories that never saw print.