Milkfed Newsletter
say it loud and there's music playing say it soft and it's almost like praying
*|fname|*! i'll never stop saying *|fname|* *|fname|* *|fname|* *|fname|* *|fname|*
*|fname|* *|fname|* *|fname|* *|fname|* *|fname|*
- matt fraction -
and away we go...
on a related note, this, from the Times Magazine this past Sunday, is almost like a real-life SATELLITE SAM only if most of the characters involved were more or less healthy? Or at least healthier, anyway.
I had to pause the benediction lap on SAM contrary to what I said the other week to put out a few other fires; I dot some i's and cross some t's on a TV thing today and send it off to some incredibly patient people all over the world and then SAM gets put to rest. By Friday it'll be all over for Michael White and the gang.
- kelly sue demonic -
Been turning a topic over in my head like a Rubik's cube for the last two weeks. I can't quite find it. Something about the fragmentation of our media and its relationship to what feels like an increasingly poisonous cultural partisanship. The fading imperative to cross-identify heralding the death of empathy.
...But I need it to not sound like an academic paper nor a tremendous bummer. Somehow.
La la la. Let's talk about pretty things that don't hurt.
Here at Milkfed Headquarters, I share my office with Kit Cox, whose business card actually says "Lt. Trouble." Kit and I had a spontaneous dance party yesterday, by which I mean Kit had a spontaneous dance party while I shrieked with joy and made a video. I desperately want to embed the video here because it makes me very happy, but I fear she might hold a grudge. She knows where I keep the taser, so I'm playing it safe. Still. I want you to know it exists. I'm trying to start some kind of "our office is better than your office" war with Fraction and Lauren. Consider this the opening salvo.
Got a bones bunny necklace from Fraction as an early Valentine's gift (hat tip to Karon Flage for pointing it out). Bought a jacket that I had no business buying, but that I dearly love. I have a speaking engagement in NYC in the spring and I'm thinking seriously about getting a bespoke HBIC suit made. I'm vaguely concerned that I'm not tall enough to pull it off and that I'll think I look like this, but in reality, I'll look like this. (Fun Fact: Danny Devito and I are the same height.)
Still reading LOUDER THAN HELL and OVERWHELMED: WORK, LOVE AND PLAY WHEN NO ONE HAS THE TIME. (I'm a slow reader.) I just got to the Death Metal section in the former. Not coincidentally I have recently developed this weird tic wherein I can't stop myself from bringing up Norwegian Death Metal at parties, so, you know, I'm about to become everyone's favorite dinner guest. Or there might be restraining orders pending. Definitely one of those two. I want to read LORDS OF CHAOS next, but I suspect it might make me hate myself the way reading true crime always does.
I HAVE THREE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK!
AND NONE OF THEM ARE TRUE CRIME!
In no particular order:
CAPTAIN MARVEL #12 - Part 1 of 2, co-written with my favorite comic book writer and one of my favorite humans, Warren Ellis. It has the phrase "warp bear juice" in it. Warren is a goddamned genius.
BARBARELLA AND THE WRATH OF THE MINUTE-EATER - You guys, I don't know what to tell you except to say this book is BATSHIT INSANE and I am INSANELY proud to have had the opportunity to write the first ever English adaptation of this volume! First EVER! It features a fish man with a pet carnivorous ear. Yesssss.
PROMETHEUS: FIRE AND STONE OMEGA - 44 page finale! If you haven't been following the full event, you can still pick up this book -- it functions both as a end piece and as a stand alone. This was probably the most ambitious project I've been involved in to date (though an argument could be made for Pretty Deadly) and I have Scott Allie to thank for including me. Thanks, Scott. I think we stuck the landing. I love this book.
Next Wednesday: Bitch Planet #3: The Secret Origin of Penny Rolle.
#ICYMI
"Thing High Atop The Thing, I'm in love with De Landro's art." Bitch Planet #2 Review on The Rainbow Hub.
"Getting Under the Covers with Sex Criminals: A Sex Criminals Primer" at the Mary Sue.
"Uncaging Bitch Planet #2" at Atoll Comics.
Erin Perry on Bitch Planet #2 at The Dinglehopper.
Our friend Marc Mohan interviews Patrick Stewart on The Match at Oregon Live.
Casanova Acedia #1 Review at The Beat.
tl;dr
February 11 - Satellite Sam #11, Captain Marvel #12, Barbarella and The Wrath of the Minute-Eater and Prometheus: Fire and Stone--Omega on sale
February 18 - Bitch Planet #3 on sale
February 18-21 - ComicsPro Annual Meeting in Portland, OR
February 19-22 - KS at Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend
February 25 - ODY-C #3 and Bitch Planet #4 on sale
March 27-29 - Emerald City Comic Con
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