CR Sunday Magazine

Go, Read: An Interview With Joe Casey



This is an update to my very, very long interview with the comics writer that appeared in The Comics Journal in 2003. We discuss his recent projects, pet rocks, the Serpent Crown, and why comics in the 1970s are better than comics now.

Go, Look: Saelee Oh



There's a ton of art here, including some oddly beautiful cut-out work.

Initial Thought of The Day

I may not own a bunch of action figures, nor is there a pull box somewhere with my name on it, but I stand with most comic book fans in that while I may have a hard time remembering who my congressperson is, I can remember individual panels of a dopey comic book I read 30 years ago.



As I recall, the most disturbing image in the lead story from the above wasn't dead Santa there but Green Lantern Chuck Yeager cracking his head in the shower and the ring bailing on him for the back-up. This was scary because minus the ring getting in and out of the shower was something I did, and I was pretty certain I could fall and crack my head any second thanks to this comic. I believe the story also had one of those great Phantom Stranger walk-ons, which were notable because Phantom Stranger would literally walk on, like it was a sitcom. He would almost wave at the audience.

The Justice Society back-up had some great sentimental nonsense about growing up as a street tough and then warned kids away from gang violence via a big youth gang vs. youth gang action scene that had the opposite effect. I immediately began calling my friends 1940s nicknames like Short-Time and Knuckles in the hopes that we would get together into one of these anti-violence violent gangs. The Zatanna story was probably in that big crossover I can't quite remember; great superpower, though. Even in that tuxedo, Zatarra was so skeevy that even at five years old I figured there was a chance his daughter couldn't find him because he was sleeping one off somewhere.

CR Readers are the Best Readers I Know

Longtime CR supporter Gus Mastrapa wrote in this week to promote his recent article on Nintendogs -- it makes me wonder if it's possible for comics to ever do something quite that sociable. He says the article in-print at Minnesota Monthly contains an illustration by Terry Colon. Gary Dunaier writes to remind me that he was the one who alerted me to the DC superheroes on stamps thing back in August. Thanks, Gary! Dan Lacey at Faithmouse took the occasion of my borrowing (*cough*) of a Carl Giles image he had uploaded to point out that the place of origin I linked it back to is a well-connected conservative Christian cartoon and blog. Who knew? Speaking of the Lord, I've noticed via a few e-mails and Mark Evanier having mentioned it that industry veteran Buzz Dixon has finally found a partner in publishing for his studio's Christian OEL manga project, Serenity (some characters pictured above). I hope when I get caught up with the my criminally overcrowded interview docket to ask Buzz about that unique market.
 
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