Creator: Clive Barker
Editor: Marc McLaurin
Asst. Editor: Tom Daning
Consulting Editor: Malcolm Smith
Exec. Editor: Carl Potts
Editor in Chief: Tom DeFalco
Designer: Joe Kaufman
Cover: Tristan Schane/Vito Incorvaia

Sorry for the late post today! You can blame Spore. The videogame has me hooked. What can I say???

As you all may know, I am obsessed with any and all things horror. So when I busted into my comic for today, I had high hopes as it’s created by Clive Barker. Too bad I didn’t realize it was just a preview issue!

Razorline: Superheros from the mind of Clive Barker, is an interesting preview into four separate comics including Hyperkind, Ectokid, Hokum & Hex, and Saint Sinner. It gives two to three pages of a few of the comics spurred from Barker’s demented imagination. In case you’re unfamiliar with Barker and his past work, he’s the creator of one of my all-time favorite movie series (and I can’t pick a particular one since they’re all awesome) HellRaiser.

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Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Cover artist: Ken Steacy
Pencils: Ernie Colon
Inks: Alfredo Alcala
Letters: Dan Nakrosis
Color: Clydene Nee

Today I chose to read Ultraman! And I’m not going to lie…it’s pretty freaking sweet. Ultraman is a 300 foot tall superhero from space who travels to inhabited planets and fights whatever ugly, over-grown monster happens to be attacking civilization. The issue I read is #1 in the series and therefore gives a kind of background on Ultraman.

We meet Ultraman in space as he fights the evil, vagina-shaped Gudis; purveyor of disease and attacker of cities. Apparently Ultraman was originally born in Japanese children’s TV in 1966. Thus, he’s kind of like the human equivalent of Godzilla: he fights monsters the size of sky-scrapers and essentially saves the day while the rest of us lowly citizens run screaming from the city. (more…)

(ed. note: today Eric Kimzey fills in with a review of Batman RIP. We’ll be back on track starting Monday with one of my favorite Dark Horse comics . . . -Dalton)

Batman #679
Writer: Grant Morrison
Art: Tony Daniel and Sandu Florea 

Ever heard the term, “bat-crazy”?  The term could be used best to describe Grant Morrison’s newest take on our favorite Dark Crusader.  The Batman RIP line is as crazy as they come.  Morrison is known for taking us down the road to crazy town.  From his runs on Animal Man to his own series such as WE3, Morrison is as eccentric as it comes in mainstream comics. 

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(ed. note: Subbing in for Wil today is a friend and reader, Serra Sewitch. We should have things back on track next week. Enjoy! -dalton)

Fun Home
Alison Bechdel

Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is very different from any graphic novel I’ve seen. That’s probably why it won crazy amounts of awards and was voted Best Book of the Year by scads of periodicals including Time, Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, People, SF Chronicle, Village Voice, etc etc.

It’s a memoir. It’s a “tragicomic”. It’s a lesson in literature. It’s a coming out story. It’s a girl struggling with getting to know her distant father. I don’t know if Alison Bechdel herself coined the term “tragicomic” but it definitely fits this book. (more…)

Exciting stuff on the horizon at Unflappings. I won’t be doing a normal post today because I’ve recently been hit up with an addiction called Mario Kart Wii and wasn’t expecting Wil to be out for the week. Yeah, Wil’s going to be away for the week attending to some other work / waiting for a new batch of comics to arrive in the mail. 

But it’s okay because we’re going to have a couple guest writers for Thursday and Friday, so please make them feel at home. I’m excited to see what they’re going to write about!

Also, the site is going to be undergoing somewhat of a facelift over the next week. Little things, but they should also be noticeable, so I hope you enjoy them. And we’re also planning on making some sweet benefits for our members, so those of you registered for the site, it’s time to get a wee bit excited!

Again, sorry for the lack of a post on hump day. Hopefully you’ll have some comics to read to pass the time.

Our job really isn’t to report, but I came across this article on comicbookmovie.com and thought you might get a kick out of it. Could be a rumor and completely false, but Johnny Depp? Phillip Seymour Hoffman? Sign me up!

Wait, nvm, rumor squashed: http://comicbookmovie.com/news/articles/5008.asp

I’ll let you decide!

Captain Marvel #24
Writer: Peter David
Art: Pat Quinn and Chris Sotomayor 

Okay. I’m never doing this again. So I bought this issue from a bargain bin last week, and I figured it’d be fun to post on it since I seem to be on an inadvertent Captain kick. That wasn’t the problem. The problem was that 1) I had a miniscule amount of prior Captain Marvel knowledge going into this reading / knew nothing about the other characters who pal around with him and fight him and 2) this is the conclusion issue to something called “Odyssey.” The whole time reading this issue, I had absolutely ZERO idea what was going on. Now I know what Wil must feel like. (more…)

Once again, our good friends at www.grahamcrackers.com have brought us the list for new releases this week. I might be checking out the new Deadpool series. What about you?

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Captain Atom Issue #24: “Captain Atom, Sir!”
Writers: Cary Bates and Greg Weisman
Art: Pat Broderick, Romeo Taghal, and Shelley Eiber

In the middle of this old school comic is an add for a very old school hobby: collecting coins. I feel like I don’t hear about many people collecting coins these days, which is kind of sad I guess. On that note, collecting in general simply seems to be down. That kind of makes me sad. Remember the good ol’ days of stamps, baseball cards, and, well, coins?

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The Death of Lady Vampré
Written and Created by: Bruce Schoengood
Pencils by: Dave Gutierrez
Inks by: M.A. Moussa
Colors by: Fred Galpern
Letters by: Harvey Hirsh
Front cover by: Mike Mignola & Fred Galpern

So I read a horror comic for today that suggests perhaps vampires were involved in the American Civil War.

Um, yeah, that’s what I said. And yeah, it’s a comic that’s thus totally fictitious but…really? (more…)