My anitpathy for Valerie D’Orazio is one of the comics blog circuit’s worst kept secrets, but this week, I was able to put aside my all-consuming spite for an act of self-promotion so shameless that even I was shocked by it: an interview on Occasional Superheroine about Solomon Stone and the Action Age. Once again, my loss of integrity is your gain, as we discuss ROM: Spaceknight, The Hard Ones, and the many ways in which I threaten Matthew Allen Smith.
But that’s not the only place people are talking about Solomon Stone:
- Mike Sterling calls it the World’s Most Perfect Comic, but since it doesn’t involve any swamp monsters, we can safely assume that he’s slightly exaggerating.
- The Poor Mojo Newswire calls it “the most fun webcomic on the internet ever. Seriously.”
- Jimmy Olsen’s Blues says TCOSS is “so long-awaited that your grandfather got sick of waiting for it and went off to fight the Nazis instead!”
- John Chidley-Hill of Alternavox calls it “a masterpiece of re-constructionism.”
- Fleen gives it a recommendation based solely on my “writing about comics,” thus proving once again that standards have never been lower.
Expect even more from the Action Age Hypaganda Machine as we head to the final chapter of Solomon Stone #1 next Wednesday!
You know, I should pick up on your spite, but I didn’t…plus you guys shared a love of ROM.
But oh well, you gotta get the word out…no shame in that.
Well, THAT was an interview I never expected to see conducted. Did she not remember making fun of you for living in your mom’s basement after you jokingly pointed out she misidentified Jakeem Thunder and you called her a…what was it…”racecar-ist” a while back…?
Totally worth it for that sweet image at the top of this post though. I hope CoSS makes it onto buy-able paper somehow someday, because I’d really like some Matthew Allen Smith art outside of my computer.
That image is beautiful.
I want that image as a t-shirt, please?
“Mike Sterling calls it the World’s Most Perfect Comic, but since it doesn’t involve any swamp monsters, we can safely assume that he’s slightly exaggerating.”
No swamp monsters yet. Yet, right? RIGHT?
I just can’t get past the fact that the tryannosaur in in Solomon Stone has three fingers on each forelimb. Such a glaring error in an otherwise frighteningly realistic story just pulls me right out of the comic.
Unless… the third finger is where the magic lies…
Haven’t you read the latest T-Rex studies?
Turns out they did have three fingers. It’s just the third one is really tiny.
Always up for more Spaceknight content! I love how the interview just went South the minute Rom was mentioned :).
It’s true, my father did go off to WWII muttering something about how he was tired of Jughead’s hat and Wimpy’s hamburgers. Then in the 1950s, God invented the Shmoo because even he was tired of waiting around for Sol.