NBC launched a new solo urban superhero series, The Cape, last night. And at this point, my professional life interferes a bit with my bloggy life; I have a solo urban superhero concept that a producer is currently trying to find a home for. As such, I lean a bit toward avoiding similar TV fare, because I don’t want anyone saying “hey, what you did with your concept was a lot like what they did there, so you musta took it.” Which is actually not that likely to happen, and it is a concern I would overlook if I had heard great things about The Cape. But I haven’t, so I won’t, and thus I’m not.
Losing sleep the world around
Back in 2004, I founded an annual international festival of comics creation, 24 Hour Comics Day. It honestly wasn’t that international at first… but now? I love seeing photos from Singapore, from Indonesia, from Nigeria of people who all chose to forego sleep to make comics. It’s one of those things that reminds me that people are more the same than they are different.
(Yes, I did take part. Still recovering. Not sure I’ll post my results…)
Comics confessions
I frequently take part in Tom Spurgeon’s Five For Friday feature on his Comics Reporter blog.. frequently enough that when I miss an itneresting one, I feel I miss something. But when I miss the one calling for people’s comics-related confessions, I feel guilty, as if I’m hiding. So here go my answers:
- I stole a copy of New Teen Titans #1 from a library, a couple years after it had been released.
- I enjoyed Floyd Farland, but what little I’ve seen of Chris Ware’s comic work since has left me cold.
- I still owe something in the neighborhood of $17 to people who subscribed to my minicomic The Life and Loves of the Average Panther a couple decades ago, (my Amiga computer ate the subscription list file which was not properly backed up).
- I love the theory of webcomics, but I just don’t enjoy looking at comics on the screen for long periods.
- I have dropped a number of series that I liked because, on my now-infrequent trips to the comic book store, I cannot recall which the last issue I read was. (Is that the cover I had? Or did I see it in a “next issue” ad in the issue I had? Or somewhere online? The multiple-cover thing makes this all the worse.)
