OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT

Still finishing up the letter E for A to Z and a coupla top tens, but that's neither here nor there. Because I'm about to blow my own soul wide open. You ready for this shit?

SHOWCASE PRESENTS: DIAL H FOR HERO TP
Advance-solicited • On sale APRIL 21 • 288 pg, B&W, $9.99 US
Written by DAVE WOOD
Art by JIM MOONEY & others
Cover by JIM MOONEY
The quirky series from HOUSE OF MYSTERY #156-173 is collected for the first time in this title introducing teenaged Robby Reed, whose discovery of the H-E-R-O dial leads to costumed adventure!

LET IT BE KNOWN ON THIS DAY THAT I AM FUCKING PRESCIENT! I AM THE ULTIMATE GOD! I HAVE THE POWER!


And that I'm buying the shit out of this when it's out. And so will all of you, else there will be pain.

Why Yes, I Have Gone Quite Insane

Consider this a temporary interlude to both share my madness and to hide the fact that I'm having trouble finding a decent replacement series for the letter D in light of not wanting to tear up Dark Blue.

... Save me.

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.