It’s Friday, and that means it’s time for another installment of Ask Chris! This week, I answer a question about my feelings to a genre that encompasses both Anita Blake and Hellblazer, do my best to think up something good about comics in the ’90s (which wasn’t actually hard at all), and then move it down to the increasingly in-jokey quick hits.
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Woo-hoo! Thanks for answering my question, Chris!
Your post is missing a link to the actual article on ComicsAlliance.
It’s the picture.
It’s always the picture.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t routinely click on graphics.
Hey Chris, can I ask you some non-comics questions here?
I know you’re a wrestling fan- do you watch WWE, TNA and/or ROH currently?
What do you think of the Raw “celebrity” guest hosts?
Who are your current and all-time favorite wrestlers?
Cheers. :-)
I watch Raw most Mondays because there’s really nothing else on, but the stuff I really enjoy lately has been PWG and Chikara DVDs.. Does ROH have a TV deal now?
I think the guest hosts would be great, if they’d actually DO anything with them instead of just pre-taped skits that are really remarkably unfunny.
All-time favorite is the Rock. Currently… That’s tougher, as there’s only a hanful of guys in WWE–Punk, Christian, Jericho–that I really enjoy watching that actually gets any airtime (Poor, poor Shelton Benjamin). In the indies, I love El Generico and pretty much anyone else in Chikara or PWG who puts on a good show. In TNA, I really like a lot of the X-Division guys, especially Sabin, Joe, Daniels and Styles, I think Sonjay Dutt is probably the most underrated guy working today. But even so, there’s nobody that I’m like “I HAVE to tune in to see this.”
I’m sure you’re right about Batman winning, but Superman might be a better rapper than you think…at least if Newcleus’s “Jam On It” is to be believed. Apparently, one time he went on a lyrical rampage that could only be stopped with a 12-inch cut called Disco Kryptonite (spoiler alert).
I don’t know about the Bat’s music affinity, but Superman has been noted to be a pretty big Metalhead. If this were a thrash contest, the Big S would whup Bruce hands down.
ROH is on HDNET, a channel I just got access to this week. One someone else’s TV, but it’s something! Well, that and it’s up on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ROHBrazil
aw, man, pre-empted with the planned Jam On It comment.
This:
“I mean, Waid loves the Silver Age more than anyone, and yes, “Kingdom Come” is as close as comics can possibly get to an old man yelling at kids to get off his lawn and turn down that hippity-hop, but his run on “Flash” used the past as a springboard rather than a straitjacket, and the same goes for Morrison’s “JLA.” Even “Starman,” a book that was both literally and metaphorically about looking back at the history of super-heroes, told stories that used nostalgia without being nostalgia. “
is the best thing I’ve read all day.