TeleHulk
Monday, November 12, 2007
Bahahaha! Seriously… I just can’t get over how sad Hulk is. Whether it’s cartoon, comic, movie, or television series …. Just yikes.
Merch
Monday, November 12, 2007
I was teased today for wearing a Marvel comics shirt. I didn’t care– I love that shirt.
For awesome comics merchandise check out these sites:
Just In Case…
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
It’s sad, but I think a lot of comic fans are like this. I know I am…
For more of this awesome humor, visit xkcd , the Web comic of “romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”
WOOT
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Ok, this doesn’t really have anything to do with comics, but my future brother-in-law is getting married this weekend and I just wanted to post a decent “woot” for him. (And when I say future brother-in-law, I mean I’m seriously engaged. I don’t mean I’m some crazy woman who pretends that she will one day marry into her ideal family. These people exist. I think I have only proved myself ridiculous.)
WOOT.
Comic Lost
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Think Marvel houses your dream job— even though you aren’t comic-knowledgeable at all? Well, that’s okay, you don’t have to be. Marvel Entertainment goes above and beyond, and they aren’t always specifically looking for “comic people.”
Here’s a great article of an example of great Marvel employee who wasn’t particularly comic-savvy before her time at the company: Things I Didn’t Know About Comics When I Started Working Here .
Marvel Internships– Capture the Dream
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Interested in a Marvel internship or future job position? Yeah, they’re out there. You just have to apply online. Now if you’re thinking that with how many comic geeks there are surfing the Web, there’s no way you’ll get picked for even an interview– well, think again. I myself applied last year for a summer internship, just for the hell of it. My GPA is not superb, and I heard that only twenty get accepted each semester. Yeah, yikes. But I got a call for an interview. The human resources representative asked if I could be in New York for a week… and of course I said yes. Now, I didn’t get the internship, but the experience alone of just being invited up to the Marvel floors of building 417 (yes, you seriously have to be invited– they buzz you in) was mind-blowing. The whole time I was there I just wanted to steal stuff. I don’t doubt the guy who interviewed me saw that greedy look on my face every time I glanced at a new wall or the Marvel action figures positioned in various fighting poses on everyone’s desks. So, go for it.
- Marvel Internships
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Marvel Careers
- Even though it leads you to monster.com for the actual application, it has great job descriptions available.
Villain Shame
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Marvel Walrus. “Marvel” for favorite comics distributor, “Walrus” for favorite Beatles song “I Am The Walrus.” This has been explained before, yes… But I have come across something that makes this title quite sad. A Marvel villain called Walrus .
Enemy of Spider-Man, he was supposed to have the “proportionate strength, speed, and agility of a walrus.” That’s not really villain-terrifying so much as it is pathetic and disturbing. However, writers felt he was a good enough character to place in at least three issues in the mid-80s.
Walrus even gained himself a partner in crime, The White Rabbit
. She was a psycho with a gigantic robotic bunny and a posse of killer bunny rabbits. The evil duo was known as the terrible two. Yikes.
Gamer Comics
Thursday, November 1, 2007
I’m a big fan of Web comics. I’m not talking about the digital issues of usually tangible comics provided by the major distributors (although those do rock). I’m talking about those that follow the more Saturday-morning-funnies-section-of-the-paper style. The majority of internet comics that I check at least weekly are issued by popular gamer sites. They just tend to have the best stuff. Also, these sites have great information about upcoming video games… obviously.
Check these out:
- Penny-Arcade : Gamer site that streams out hilarious comics as well as great info. on games and console releases.
- VG Cats : Gamer-blog that updates comics about once a week.
- XKCD : A self-proclaimed “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.”