by John Holbo on April 30, 2009
I’m on this private list (a thing consisting of a set of private tubes or private trucks) on which the question arose: occult detectives? History of? I suppose it starts with Poe (where else?) Some interesting names were suggested. This site was linked.
But, tragically – sinisterly, even – no mention was made of possibly the greatest occult detective of all. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you …
He appeared in a 1940 issue of Jungle Stories, available in this volume
[ amazon].
Not to give away the ending, but …
Fero, Planet Detective:
Turn-offs:
Long walks on the beach
Women
Turn-ons:
Detecting planets
Stamping out vampires of Pluto that have invaded the earth.
by John Holbo on April 21, 2009
Now back to comics-related matters! Readers who missed last week’s thrilling installments should be made aware that I have started a webcomic of sorts, “Squid and Owl”, which I am updating weekdays as a Flickr set and at J&B. Naturally, I crave your attention. Today, for example, I make an Anthony Powell joke.
In other webcomics news, the first two chapters of Chris “the ISB” Sims’ “The Chronicles of Solomon Stone” are up. Half-vampire skate detective, with unsteadily Cockney sidekick/love interest vs. volcano island lair dinosaur ghost witches. I would say it is quite amusing.
In actual whatchamacallit comicscomics news, the Eisner nominees have been announced. [click to continue…]
by John Holbo on April 16, 2009
We’ll just make it webcomics week for me, here at CT. If you don’t happen to know, “Hereville, How Mirka Got Her Sword” is a great read. It’s a complete story, nice art, peculiar setting, apparently part of a larger graphic novel in progress. (Page 36 is particularly nice, compositionally.)
On the other hand, if you are like me, you probably figured they’d done about as much damage to the Howard the Duck franchise as they were likely to do, at least by means of that 1986 movie. We were wrong. The DVD
[amazon] just got released – and they Photoshopped the poor guy’s stogey off the cover. Compare: [click to continue…]
by John Holbo on April 14, 2009