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Check out this Bad ass Jersey, looks like a real NFL jersey, doesn’t it? But it’s not; it’s a GFL Jersey, the Galactic Football League. And the Team is the Krakens that, team that Quentin Barnes plays for in the awesome Podcast Novel The Rookie by Scott Sigler. It’s an awesome story that, if you’re not listening to already, You should be. I’m not really a big fan of football, but this story of a Cocky jerk from the Purist Nation Football League (Purist Nation could be equated to the deep south during the segregation years) moving up to the Big Leagues and trying to become the greatest QB ever just has me so enthralled, I can’t wait for the next episode. Listened to all 15 episodes and bonuses in 4 days. (would’ve been three but I didn’t have them moved to my mp3 player yet.) And look at that Jersey, doesn’t that look so bad ass? I want one If anybody wants to buy me one, or just check out the other bad ass Krakens gear, go take a look.

I think I’ll have to settle for a magnet to put on the car until tax return time.

Possible Civil War Speculative Spoiler:

I have to mention it. It’s already all over the place. And it was up on amazon, but has since been removed. I don’t believe it. 1. It looks like a poorly photoshopped image, though my opinion of Silvestri’s art may bias that a bit. But it would be no problem to delete the shield and recolor it to a more traditional color.
What the amazon page claimed, through a fan review was that the Steve Rogers we know and have loved for the past 40 years of so was actually a clone made by Tony Stark to lead the Avengers and TOLD he was frozen in ice for 20 years. You know, the more I think about it, it is semi-plausible, especially with the way Tony Stark has been portrayed over the last 3 years or so; cold, scheming, and manipulative. But I really don’t think it will play out that way.
“Clor” (I hate that name by the way) was bad enough, I don’t want to see another Clone story spin-off, Maximum Cloneage 2, anybody?
I am beginning to strongly think that Captain America’s life is at risk in the Civil War, though. And I’m not sure how I feel about that.
But please, No Iron American.

Is that a little surfer we see? Was someone at the CGI studio having a little too much fun? Was that Sensor suit a little too tight? Or just a trick of the eye? This picture has it fairly well standing out, but if you watch the trailer, it’s not quite that well defined, but a definite something that moves away from the leg, but doesn’t appear in other scenes.

Warren Ellis linked to a statement that Bit Pass is closing down. That’s a little upsetting, Bit Pass was one of those good ideas with no great way of implementing it. It was basically the idea behind itunes before itunes. Instead of someone paying $10 for a subscription to a website. You would have say $10 in an account and make micropayments, maybe a quarter here and a dime there. And Bit Pass while it had the good idea of centralizing, that still defeated the purpose by putting all your money in a centralized area.

I can’t wait to see what comes next. maybe using my Lindens on a website?

I’ve mentioned before I have an unhealthy obsession with Transformers, mostly Optimus prime, and can I just say I’m jazzed by these Leaked Prototype images. Even Megatron looks fairly badass this way.

Hero By Night #1
When Jack King finds the lair of a vanished superhero in his apartment building, he decides to auction off some of the hero’s memorabilia. But Jack’s efforts to cash in attract the attention of the hero’s arch-enemy–a villain even the Hero By Night couldn’t destroy.
Full Color 32 pages $2.99 #1 (of four)

Deep in the thread about Rick Olney being a fibber somebody posted this comics from Comic Shop News 686 and I just thought it was so cool, I had to share it.

You know, that title is one I never thought I’d write. But Jeebus, people how about a little professionalism?

First a new Dinosaur is discovered, possibly, (I still remember when the brontosaurus was a dinosaur and not a screw up), which is absolutely awesome. and then they go and name the thing the Dracorex Hogwartsia The first part, I don’t mind. There’s a slight dragon-ish aspect I guess, so they could justify Draco. But, Hogwartsia?!? as in the school that Harry potter and pals going flying around on their brooms while being raped by Pedophile extraordinaire “He who shall not be named.” (Father Malloy?) Give me a freaking break.

Oh, but if that’s not enough, this week, they find a new fish. And it has kind of a yellowish skin tone and a almost black W on it’s tail. So, what do they name it? Otocinclus batmani referencing Batman from DC comics. Lucky thing DC put that stupid yellow ring around the Bat symbol or they may have never found a good name for this fish.

It’s not a star fish, It’s a CapAmericus Symbolis. That’s not just any spider it’s a Neogenics Parkeris.
And I want to wrap up this post with some kind of pun on Large mouth Lance Bass, but just can’t put it together, I’m done for the night.

This has become quite a meme to the comics world, so who am I not to propagate it further.

Awhile back a man named Rick Olney, started the hopes of a Comic Company called TightLip Entertainment, not a half bad looking website. But he maked a mistake like many of us have and forgot to pay his bill. Unfortunately that bill was to some high profile creators, namely Gail Simone and Chuck Dixon, and they’ve both been known to not back down from a fight. So they took the issue to Rich Johnston’s “Lying in the Gutters” Column, where Rich has become sort of an advocate for unpaid creators, running numerous stories of who owes whom. Then more voices came out saying that Rick also owed them money. All, the while Rick cried out that they are violating their NDAs and now he will seek legal ramifications against them.

Eventually it all amounted to One Hell of an Interesting Thread, that is, as of this post, at 263 pages, and seems to add another page as soon as you can finish one. Apparently somewhere along the way (I’ve only read the first few and then the latter 100 pages) Rick Olney decided to break down, making himself a true comic book villain, going so far as making cracks about Gail Simone’s weight, implying that Mark Waid is gay, and randomly insulting others, because of what others have said about him. Later, even some of the people that Rick was calling friends early in the thread turned on him, revealing his NDA, and overall, throwing him to the wolves. Then Mark Waid stepped up in Grand Fashion vowing to pay out of his own pocket for any creator who wanted to pursue legal action against Rick, but couldn’t fit the bill himself, and apparently has already cut a few checks.

Meanwhile Rick Olney refuses to say the name of his lawyer, no one that has actually been paid by Rick will step forward (if they actually exist) and Rick says he will not pay until his lawyer gives him the go ahead, although the issue of breaking the NDA would have no reflection on whether or not any of the creators are compensated.

It’s really amazing. First I recommend reading Ronee Bourgeois’ Open Letter to Rick. Then If you have free time, I recommend you watch the meltdown in action especially look for the posts by Rick “orcafresh” Olney himself. Here’s hoping that all of this can be resolved in a way that is beneficial to all parties involved. And if Rick Olney invites you to do work for him, Get the money up front, from various reports, he is paying advances just not monies for services rendered.
Maybe he and Micah Wright can start a foundation for those Ostracized from comics.