Derrick Goold's Blog, page 141
January 5, 2012
5/365 the spoils from Bill's on Broadway, including Bo...
5/365 the spoils from Bill's on Broadway, including Bo Jackson, Rocky Hockey and a still true Denver Z's bumper sticker.
January 3, 2012
A few words on my New Year's resolution, my attempt to...
A few words on my New Year's resolution, my attempt to make correct a terrible habit with the books above, and the unlikely event I actually pull off a year without books. Sort of. See, I'm already making exceptions.
January 2, 2012
Law imitates art as the legal system must determine whether the...
Law imitates art as the legal system must determine whether the X-Men are human or just simple plastic, and Wolverine is legally described as a possible "future evolution" of the human condition. Makes sense. He is Canadian.
The United States Government Debates Whether the X-Men Are Human Beings… In Real Life
By Chris Sims
If you've ever read Marvel's X-Men comics — and let's be honest, you have — you're probably already aware that the central conflict of the story involves the...
January 1, 2012
1/366/2012: A New Year begins where the previous year ends...
1/366/2012: A New Year begins where the previous year ends — with the boy wonder mimicking his father by typing away on the laptop. (Taken with instagram)
December 23, 2011
Boy Wonder rewrites a Christmas classic
The holiday spirit has its claws in Ian, my 5-year-old son, and he has embraced a favorite seasonal song. He can't get through it without laughing. You know it. It starts: "Jingle bells, Batman smells/Robin laid an egg … "
But this being Ian, the boy wonder and superhero fanatic, if there's one Christmas song about superheroes that makes him chuckle well then why not four, five or six more. The other night as he fought sleep, Ian decided to invent additional verses for the "Batman smells"...
December 21, 2011
COVER OF THE HOLIDAYS: Daredevil No. 7, by Paolo Rivera. For the...
COVER OF THE HOLIDAYS: Daredevil No. 7, by Paolo Rivera. For the hard-earned money I set aside to spend each Wednesday, there are other artists whose interiors I'll pop to buy no matter the cost. John Romita Jr. comes to mind. Sergio Ramos. I'm digging Greg Capullo's Batman run. But Rivera has emerged as the master of the cover. Every month, the cover of the Daredevil reboot sings with depth, creativity and simplicity. This one captures the whimsy of the season, with Daredevil doing a snow...
December 20, 2011
"The Greatest Comic Ever." That's what...
"The Greatest Comic Ever." That's what Baseball Prospectus called the DC Comics issue that included the above panels. It's got baseball. It's got superheroes playing baseball. It's got superheroes playing baseball against super-villains! Why, of course, it's the greatest ever. DC Super Stars No. 10 was published in 1976, and the cover story was "The Great Super-Star Game." The cover itself featured Superman and Batman superimposed over a baseball and slugging their arch enemies while yelling ...
