Comicflipper Returns, Is A Little Prettier

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!

You mean I was actually going to come back?!

I thought that was just an excuse to run and hide without admitting failure!

Anyway, welcome back to the new and improved (in the eyes of the few) version of Flip The Page, now purely known as COMICFLIPPER!

So yes there are some obvious changes visually here, whether it be the Chamber x2 banner or the bigass buttons down the left hand side to navigate, everything's been made more friendly and/or personal.

As for content, reviews are going to largely be big no-nos for now, with the focus being on things like Thoughts On and That Is Why for the foreseeable future.

With that welcome to the new look site and hopefully you'll stick around!

Flip The Page / Comicflipper Reboot

Followers of my TWITTER will by now be aware that I've been trying to do two things lately: 1) write a read-along review thing of New Mutants as a regular feature and 2) reboot this journal into a less schizophrenic and far more organised model (especially as my time for the journal will be freed up in the coming weeks).

1) has been completely abandoned as far too difficult just for the entertainment value of completely ripping off the invincible super blog and my own lack of ability to make jokes about something I frequently make super-sized bum love to and 2) is.... this.

Welcome to the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end.

Throughout this period of change I'll be preparing such basic things as a decent archive and regular features. With any luck they'll be good too!

In the meantime I remind you I have a TWITTER and TWITTER TWITTER OH LOOK A TWITTER and I'll make some posts about what things will be appearing in the reboot and general progress reports. Ya know, for hits!

(oh and comics-wise: I'm making a Fumetti comic for a presentation evening thing soon. It sucks arse but hey you might see some similar stuff around here for portfolio stuff or summat. That and I LOVE Fumetti. Dunno why.)

Wha...

Nimoy... Tartan Metal Cowboy... Shatner... Golden Spider-Man... PAIN

From This Is Photobomb

News: Kirby sues Marvel, Sony, Fox, Universal, Paramount etc

The estate of the late artist and creator Jack Kirby is suing Marvel (and Disney) along with most of the big movie studios. Kirby's family apparently want to negotiate a new deal for the use of characters that Kirby helped to create for Marvel comics - including the Fantastic Four, the original X-Men, and many classic Avengers such as Captain America, Thor, Black Panther and Iron Man. If this legal action is successful, it probably won't affect the use of these characters in future comics and movies at all. Rather, Marvel/Disney and the companies that own the relevant film rights would probably readily make a deal with Kirby's estate, if it was the only way to continue exploiting the lucrative franchises that characters like Iron Man have proven to be (see last year's box office). Of course, this legal action may well not be successful; it is, however, being handled for Kirby's estate by Marc Toberoff, the same lawyer that recently won some of the lucrative Superman rights for the Siegel estate, meaning that this could well result in a win for Kirby's family. Watch this space.

News from BleedingCool, a great comic site, found via SlashFilm, an even greater film site.

Two Comics Related Videos To Watch If You Haven't Already

Okay figured I'd waste some space by pointing out this nice behind the scenes at Marvel:


Yeah kinda good eh.

Also famed internet video-bloke Spoony has done a vlog running through his comics collection and talking about 'em. It's worth checking out.

I won't embed that one simply 'cause I'm not a jackass.

100th Post: Robbie Robertson

100 posts in and what have we learnt?

From Wikipedia:

Robbie Robertson (born 5 July 1943 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership in The Band. He was ranked 78th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

as such:

Robbie Advice: Rolling Stone Magazine DON'T KNOW SHIT! I AM THE BEST GUITARIST/PAPER EDITOR EVER! Don't you mess with me boy!

Happy 100 posts! One day we'll be funny! Or informative! Or less offensive! Or less cruddy! Or less lazy! (Ad Nauseum)

Also look at the new banner. Now press F5.

Expect more of those (and for the banner to get prettier) over time.

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Want to see me chat about things that aren't comics (mostly) and inane shit? Well you finally can, as Flip The Page hits Tumblr!

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