Babbling Point

“They can’t stick to walls. They can’t summon thunder. They can’t fly. They’re just HEROES” --from Marvel Comics’ HEROES HEROES , as some of you already know, is Marvel’s tribute to the fire fighters, policemen, and emergency medical personnel who died during the September 11 attack of the World Trade Center. Proceeds from the sales of this “poster book” will go to the families of those who died. The book contains 64-pages of art from Marvel artists of every generation. Veterans like Joe Kubert, John Romita Sr., and Neal Adams were joined by the likes of Frank Miller , George Perez , J.Scott Campbell and Humberto Ramos. Writers like Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Kevin Smith contributed essays, poems, simple words to accompany some of the visuals. It was also nice to see people who’ve left Marvel, like Todd McFarlane and Jim Shooter, come back to contribute something to the book. As I flipped through the book, looked at the art, read the words, I start...

ALAMAT COMICS is back online!

What a way to start the week. Got to work 10am. It's already 3:46am and I'm still here. Wonderful. Mark's site is active again. And the net just became a little more insane. Chaos rules, baby! :) Here's something Mark emailed, part of a Neil Gaiman interview: Whenever I do things because I want to do it and because it seems fun or interesting and so on and so forth, it almost always works. And it almost always winds up more than paying for itself. Whenever I do things for the money, not only does it prove a headache and a pain in the neck and come with all sorts of awful things attached, but I normally don't wind up getting the money, either. So, after a while, you do sort of start to learn [to] just forget about the things where people come to you and dangle huge wads of cash in front of you. Go for the one that seems interesting because, even if it all falls apart, you've got something interesting out of it. Whereas, the other way, you ...