IS THERE AN ECHO-ECHO-ECHO IN HERE?

April 11, 2008 on 2:23 pm | In Uncategorized

Let me start with an admission: I never really Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise.

I had a co-worker/roommate (hey, Jodie!) who LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Moore and his work on that book; she had the Katchoo in the bathtub statue and everything! Me, I came too late to the game and never really got into it.
I effed up.

I’ve checked out the first two issues of Moore’s new book, Echo and have thoroughly enjoyed not just the sci-fi/adventure plot (Julie Martin’s a young woman photographing landscapes in the desert when an experimental military battle suit is destroyed overhead, raining some new liquid alloy over her body; intrigue ensues!), but also Moore’s gorgeous black and white art, which is gallery worthy.


It’s so simple but so beautiful to look at; it’s packed with detail, the line work is extraordinary, the storytelling and pacing is dead-on, and the acting in his characters is second to none. And as an old-timer raised on black and white movies, I don’t miss the color for one second; in fact, the art’s so good, I can’t imagine it in color, nor would I want to see it that way (except for the covers).

In Julie Martin, Moore’s created an engaging lead who’s in the vein of a female Peter Parker—she’s in the midst of a painful divorce, she’s going broke and can’t pay her bills and the only things in her fridge are hot dogs and lettuce. Now throw in this intrigue she finds herself in, and her mundane life becomes anything but. And of course, Moore throws in a badass female assassin (Ivy), who’s also a loving mom.

With all that going for it, I just had to give a shout-out to Echo. Do yourself a favor and pick it up now. Only the first two issues are out, and they shouldn’t be hard to track down. Get in on the ground floor now; that’s how the cool kids do it.

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ONE HELL OF A GOOD EGG!

April 3, 2008 on 7:16 pm | In Uncategorized

So, last weekend was Easter, and it’s taken me a bit of time to get my pics back, but I thought you’d want to check this out:

So my girlfriend’s family does something called “Egg Wars” every year at Easter; everyone in the family decorates an egg, then you go around the table and smash your eggs together. The one that doesn’t crack is declared the winner, and the last man (or woman) standing has his or her egg displayed in the family china cabinet until next year when it’s retired and buried in the backyard.

Being a rookie, I didn’t have much of a chance. But you know what? I love being the underdog, so when I whipped out my Hellboy Egg—based on Mike Mignola’s signature creation—I was understandably mocked for using a comic-inspired decoration.


Also, it seemed ironic (and a bit blasphemous) that I would enter a demonic-tinged egg into the competition on a day reserved to celebrate Christ rising from the grave.


Until I won the whole damn thing, that is.

Now, my Hellboy Egg is proudly displayed in the family’s china cabinet until next year…which may call for a Liz Sherman or Abe Sapien Egg as a companion piece!

So, while you bask in the glory that is my Hellboy Easter Egg, please make sure to go and check out all of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy and B.P.R.D. comics. There’s a new Abe Sapien book out now, “The Drowning” that gives the amphibious adventurer his first starring role (the most recent issue hit Wednesday); while the BPRD: 1946 book takes a look back at the post-World War II origins of the monster-hunting band of heroes (think “The Dirty Dozen” meets “The X-Files”).
Go read ‘em now!


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