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Morrison's All-Star Superman

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15:16 / 31.08.05

PLEASE SCANS! OH BABY, PLEASE!

D Terminator XXXIII

15:18 / 31.08.05

He said he is currently 4 pages into issue #2 of ASS.

This reads so wrong for a single reason.

15:25 / 31.08.05

even better if it's "Frank's hard at work in Morrison's ASS".

WIZARD #168, right? [or is it #167?] trying to find it...

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

16:55 / 31.08.05

168, yeah.

I don't know, man. The more I read it (and it seems like that's all I've done this afternoon) the more I really quite enjoy it. When I just sit down and take it for what it is, the first three pages especially are incredible. And all the storytelling is top notch. It's really just a few instances of sketchiness that still squick me out. Other than that, it's quite golden.

And, yeah, there's no way even if I wasn't at work I could take the time and energy to scan this stuff in and then convert it and shrink it. How do people find the time to do that if they don't get paid for it? Also, it'd kill this one double splash page. And I can't be a party to that.

18:08 / 31.08.05

I'll scan it if nobody else does. I gotta run by the shop and pick up SK #4 and the new Astonishing anyhow. Might as well see if they have that copy of Wizard too.

Keith, like a scientist

18:31 / 31.08.05

Birdie, is it possible it's just a bad printing job on Wizard? Maybe they didn't specify a dense black (dense black is made up all 4 colors, making it deeper and darker, regular black is just one color, black, which isn't normally very black).

18:35 / 31.08.05

"How much more black can it be? ...and the answer is 'none, none more black'"

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

18:37 / 31.08.05

Quite possible, Keith. I've of course not given up hope in the least. You'll see when you you see the pages, it's more like crosshatching that's clearly pencil when maybe a nice hard black area might have been better suited.

Dancing about architecture at this point. You'll see what I mean, especially the last page Supes reveal.

Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER

21:37 / 31.08.05

Scans: best I can do are here, with no 2/3 double spread. Looks very, very wonderful, and for some reason the tone reminds me a lot of the Imperial NXM issues, especially the dialogue in the sun-capsule. Could just be the sci-fi vibe, though.

22:11 / 31.08.05

hell yeah!!! thanks, man...

this - not surprisingly - will be the opposite of ASS BATMAN: a good comic! and supercompressed as it should be. loved everything I saw.

suspect it was digitally inked straight from Quitely's pencils, hence the lightweight line work. no problem there, in my book.

[can't scan the double splash page? just grab the separate pages and slap them together with an image editor].

Jake, Colossus of Clout

22:44 / 31.08.05

Thank you very much.

I can't wait for this. Quitely draws a mean Supes, and I like the new S-shield, unlike some ravening fatbeards over on the Byrne forums (I like to check in with them. It's like watching FOX News).

Once again, many thanks. Now I don't have to buy Wizard.

00:03 / 01.09.05

Oh gawd. I counted at least four mad ideas in a single page... This is crazy. I love it.

Yes, the blacks could use more filling in, the S-shield could be more triangular, Supes' face could be a bit better, but it's Morrison, it's Quitely, I'm there, man. This is Superman.

12:49 / 01.09.05

Very cool stuff - Morrison takes the now-all-too-familiar concept of the suicide bomber and gives it a sci-fi twist. 'Scooping up a handful of the sun' - I love it.

The first page where he re-introduces the Supes concept in a few panels was fun. ("Doomed planet, despearate scientists, last hope, kindly parents = SUPERMAN!")

Supes has the infamous slightly-too-big Quitely chin in the final page of the preview, plus I see what you mean about the shading on his face looking a bit scratchy. But overall this looks fantastic.

Sam Lane was even in it! Is Luthor about to kill Lois' dad??

D Terminator XXXIII

14:16 / 01.09.05

"Lex?

Are you talking to yourself again?"

Hysterical *SQUEAL*. This I will be so getting.

14:51 / 01.09.05

I just love what Grant's doing. Feels like when i was a kid and used to love to see the preview trailers on the big-screen. That flashy, condensed, suggestive form of language

I'm pretty sick and tired of those huge "now Ennis POV preachin' going through the characther" balloons like in Preacher (and more recently, in "Y The Last Man"). Or even huge balloons to "situate" the reader.

17:21 / 01.09.05

wow. I think this Quitely art is poss best ever, was envisaging blurry bgs like Flex from what you was saying Ben, but well.

No.

17:38 / 01.09.05

Oh, scans.

18:35 / 01.09.05

I like that the sun-bound vessel is called The Ray Bradbury, as a tip of the hat to "The Golden Apples of the Sun."

I thought some of the linework was a little sketchy too, it definitely is more obvious as scanned pencils, as opposed to the razor sharp work in We3, but its still fantastic.

I met Quitely this weekend, what a nice guy.

13:21 / 02.09.05

Who do we think the woman is who says 'he's through the corona' and such? Lois Lane? Some random person who will be revealed in the full issue?

13:39 / 02.09.05

I was thinking she was one of the solarnauts at first, but from what we briefly see of them, she doesn't seem to match.

That pg 2-3 double page spread? Perfect.

I cannot wait for Solaris!

14:10 / 02.09.05

ooh yeah, forgot that Solaris would be in this.

I wonder how obvious it will be that Grant is formulating the 12 issues around the '12 labors of Hercules' concept.

I like how Supes seems to be straining a bit (in his facial expression) in the double-page spread.

Yeah, Luthor does look a bit Makolvich here. The "he's not getting older and I am" moment was nice, dripping with villainy.

19:17 / 02.09.05

If I pull out the spread and make it a beauteous poster (assuming teh burd allows) will my four squid have been well spent?

P.S. Robbie Williams' new album art is done by ASS team; Grant presumably on the conceptual side. It was in (someone else's) Sun today!

20:51 / 02.09.05

This looks awesome. Superman! Inside the Sun! And at the very end, Superdad shows up in all his saviourness.

I hope Grant comes up with a novel spin on just why Lex hates Clark just as much as he does.

... what's with the baseball bat?

20:59 / 02.09.05

Oh, and: General Lane.

Is Lois' father in the military?

21:13 / 02.09.05

Yup, pretty much.

04:23 / 04.09.05

Robbie Turns To Tarot

Robbie Williams has become obsessed with tarot cards - and I've got the pictures to prove it. He is so fascinated by the spiritual world that he has based the artwork for his new album on it.

My main picture shows the cover for Intensive Care – out on October 24 – as well as three of the pictures inside the sleeve. In one, the cover picture shows a “sigil” on his fingertip, a symbol which is a magical seal or device.

Apparently it can be used to summon angels, demons or spirits – and lets face it Robbie has plenty of those. In another picture Robbie is lying naked with his arms crossed and his eyes closed.

It all sounds a bit barmy to me, but he’s obviously found a happy medium (sorry couldn’t resist that one).

The artwork was designed by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely who designed comic strips The Invisibles and Judge Dredd.

Robbie met them at his LA home and was heavily involved with the symbols and design of his eight tarot cards. Tripping, the first single to be taken from the album. Will get its premiere airing on Chris Moyles Breakfast show on Radio 1 at 8am on Monday. It is released on October 3.

Robbie is launching Intensive Care with a gig at Berlin’s Velodrom on October 9. Tickets go on sale on September 5 and I’ll keep you posted on how to get them. The one off concert will be shown on TV in the UK at a later date.

The album will be Robbie’s first without his previous songwriting partner Guy Chambers.

Instead he worked with Eighties star Stephen Tin Tin Duffy on the CD, and I hear that his label EMI are thrilled with the results.

06:29 / 04.09.05

as a consumer, quite honestly, I wouldn't go for those images... And quite frankly, i'd ignore Williams as some other "showbiz loonicy" like madonna with her yoga & cabala, tom cruise and his dark side of the force, dot dot dot

I think he'll be dismissed like Raul Seixas (a famous 70's brazilian singer, friend of writer Paulo Coelho, who inspired some of his lyrics on Crowley). Just some pseudo-crazy artist thing we can't even imagine and that just sounds dull nowadays...

But i swear i'm curious about what kind of music he is doing for this album... i just hope it won't be "rock dj" combined with kula shaker...

i don't know. I hope it's a hit, but what do i know. i'm just simply pissed drunk.
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but goddamn, i want to read this ASS.

08:49 / 04.09.05

Cap: are you from Brazil? the Coelho connection was the first thing to spring to my mind too.

I doubt Robbie is into Chaos Magick now as much as, you know, Seixas was into Black Magick in the 70's. moreso that Grant was not involved in the songwriting.

this seems more a case of GMWord consulting on Magick Pop Corporate Design than anything else, which is cool. some ideas might also make their way into a video, who knows.

16:02 / 05.09.05

the missing splash, sans bottom part [dunno what happened when the guy scanned them]:

ass2and3

ass2and3

16:09 / 05.09.05

Gleeeee.

20:13 / 05.09.05

Ooo.

Frank is drawing Supes older than the prelim sketches, it seems.

20:46 / 05.09.05

uh miso horny!

18:12 / 06.09.05

>> ... what's with the baseball bat?

I wondered the same thing. Helps with the virtual reality ass-kicking, maybe...?

21:20 / 06.09.05

When I first saw Luthor's little room, I imagined that's how Grant must do most of his rituals... I don't know why i thought that (maybe cause it seemed like a few of my own). Maybe the bat has a function on that (or maybe he'll just bash mr. Lane head in).

00:08 / 07.09.05

A spoonful of the sun?

Why, that must weigh a tonne!

hee.

m.

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