Sunday, June 5, 2011

Lazy Links About Comic Books Sunday

You know about this, right? The complete text of Alan Moore's unpublished pitch to pull a Dark Knight Returns on the entire DC Universe--in the form of a letter to the higher-ups at DC.

This guy goes through all the DC Who's Who and all the Official Handbook To The Marvel Universe and also is an angry genius.

These guys manage to keep me enthralled for an hour every other week talking about comics I will never read.

And if you're ever like "Wait, who?" you can usually look somebody up here. I can read the "comments" sections under each entry for hours. It contains such gems as:

"The Sacred Ball has no known connections to

  • Bouncing Ball of Doom - weapon built by Mad Thinker @ Strange Tales I#131
  • Shalla Bal - Zenn-Lavian, former lover of Norrin Radd @ Silver Surfer I#1
  • Speedball - AKA Robert Baldwin, superhero @ Speedball#1
  • or any other "Sacred" or "Bal-" characters/items"
Stuff about Green Lanterns. All of them.

This is Patton Oswalt and an Alan Rickman soundalike giving us a glimpse into what General Zod's meeting with his court-appointed defender was like. It contains both the phrases "Weaponers of Qward" and "Never fuck Asians".