Six Comics That Should Be In 3D

 

 

I’ll be honest with you, folks: Even though I recognize how it’s done well and ties into the themes of stuff like Superman Beyond and Black Dossier, I could live happily without ever seeing a 3D comic or movie again. And I paid full price for Spy Kids 3D.

But if we’re going to have it, then my philosophy is that anything worth doing is worth doing well, so slap on your glasses and get ready for a headache as I count down the six comics that actually SHOULD be in 3D!

A Brief History of Fatman: The Human Flying Saucer

 

 

Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m celebrating the fact that I recently finished out my run (with help from Andrew) by throwing the spotlight on a comic that’s even more obscure than my beloved Herbie: Otto Binder and C.C. Beck’s Fatman: The Human Flying Saucer.

If you’ve never read it — and the odds are pretty good that you haven’t –it’s the perfect synthesis of Golden Age insanity and mid-’60s camp, and it’s absolutely amazing, especially when you consider the technical achievement of Beck doing all the art and lettering for 50-page comic every other month. So go read up on the craziness, because I think with this article, I’ve just rounded out my resume by becoming the Internet’s foremost Fatmanologist.

Super-Hero Wikileaks

 

 

As someone who watches both Conan O’Brien and Craig Ferguson every night, I’ve become passingly familiar with the Wikileaks scandal, and I’ve got to say, they could’ve organized those things a little better. Despite all the filters you can apply to browse the leaked documents, there’s no option to just see the interesting ones.

Fortunately, I’ve done the work for you, and today at ComicsAlliance, you can read diplomatic cables about the USA’s relationship with Latveria and more!

Chris/Cross: Sims vs. Haley on the Young Justice Cartoon

 

 

Last friday, Cartoon Network aired the one-hour pilot of Young Justice. I thought it a misbegotten abomination, Chris Haley thought it was the height of storytelling, and, this being the Internet, we had to fight about it!

Okay, that might be overselling your standard point-counterpoint article a little, but we’re each so convinced we’re right that we can’t even begin to fathom the other party’s point of view, which hopefully makes for a fun discussion. And either way, I think we can all agree that at least it wasn’t written by Peter David, and is therefore free of terrible, terrible puns.

FunkyWatch: Tom Batiuk’s Most Depressing Strips For November

 

 

Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m back to keeping track of the month’s most depressing Funky Winkerbean strips, but this time around there’s one slight difference: I’ve expanded to cover the relentlessly horrible Crankshaft, too!

So head on over and check out the boundless despair! Unless you’ve got that Seasonal Affective Disorder. In that case, you may want to either buy an extra lamp, or just wait ’til March to check these out.

Ask Chris #35: The Hip-Hop Connection

 

 

I made sure to eat turkey, catch Santa in the parade and celebrate my annual tradition of watching Road House, but I also spent some time on Thanksgiving answering your reader questions in this week’s Ask Chris!

This time, I do my best to tackle the connection between hip-hop and comics, and finally — finally — explain my feelings about that piece of shit The Big Bang Theory in a way that is both concise and reasonable.

As always, if you’ve got a question you’d like to see me answer, just tag it on Twitter with #AskChris or shoot an email to ComicsAlliance at gmail.com with [Ask Chris] in the subject line!