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Welcome to the new home of Comic By Comic! I finally took the plunge and redirected the blog here, importing all the old posts to boot.

I’m having a couple of issues with updating my old permalinks so that they point to the new wordpress blog, but I’m sure I’ll break it down eventually.

In the meantime, please update your blogrolls to reflect the new URL- any feedburner feeds should update automatically (he said crossing his fingers) but any help is welcome!

You probably came here from www.comicbycomic.com, my regular blog – although it hasn’t been too regular over the past few months.

Anyway, it’s a new year if not a new decade (look, it’s not okay, don’t get me started) so I thought I’d make some changes. More to come over the next few days – and hopefully even some posts!

It’s a pretty small week this time round (thankfully!) and it may be even smaller than I think.

PS There’s a full post to come soon, honest!

RED ROBIN #8 – This continues to be a solid book. I stand by what I said some years ago about Tim Drake being one of the best characters that DC has (look, I can’t be bothered to find and link to it, but I’m sure I did, round about the time that One Year Later was rolling out) – and although the new direction has its share of detractors, I think its a good progression for Tim.

SUPERMAN: WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #11 – As the series winds down to what, no doubt, will be an open-ended conclusion to allow for Brainiac and the LSH and the following War of the Supermen, the book continues to surprise me – because it’s still enjoyable, engaging and shedding new light on the character of Superman after over seventy years of publishing.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN PRESENTS: JACKPOT # 1 – Like the last few Spidey mini-series that have come out, I’m letting this one pass me by. I’ll pick it up at some point but probably when it’s in the back issue bins.

DEADPOOL TEAM-UP # 897 – This continues to be indefensible, I’m aware of that. I’m sorry.

SIEGE # 1 – Maaaybe. The temptation to skip this and pick it up in trade, probably at less than the cost of the full issues, is pretty tempting. The thing is, that will be kind of like a watershed; I probably won’t be picking up the single issue Avengers books if I wait for the trade on this, and, well, that’s a big thing for me. So I’m not sure.

X-MEN: ASGARDIAN WARS HC – Ok, not only do I have the paperback trade of this that came out donkey’s years ago, but I also have the single issues now. But I’d still recommend this to anyone who likes old-school Marvel; the X-Men, the New Mutants and Alpha Flight all bound up in a Loki revenge plot. And as an added bonus, you get Rachel Grey and Maddie Pryor, too.

X-MEN: MUTANT MASSACRE HC – Again, I have most of the issues but this is damn tempting. This was a crossover when a crossover meant something. For X-Factor, Angel’s near-crucifixion lead to his attempted suicide and conversion into Apocalypse’s Death; for the X-Men, the injuries sustained to the team cut their numbers as several members left for an extended period – and Wolverine and Sabretooth threw down for the first time before it happened every other month; for the New Mutants, it started them going out on their own as they realized the senior team couldn’t do everything. Throw in Thor, Daredevil and Power Pack and you’ve got a good collection here.

Well duh, I seem to have heard that advice before.

Recently I’ve been getting a little disaffected blogging every day over at the regular blog, Comic By Comic. I was putting stuff up there virtually every day, more than often more than once. And it’s not that I don’t love the comics. It’s that writing every day about them, even if it’s just for a couple of paragraphs was kind of wiping me out.

Here’s the thing; I’m no John Scalzi. Clearly. With, you know, not having published any awesome books (well, any books), not being a creative consultant on any TV shows (although call me, I can free up some time) and not having a blog read by what I imagine to be…well, a lot of people every day.

My point is that Scalzi writes on his blog almost every day in addition to all the other stuff he does. Quite often, these aren’t fluff pieces; they’re hundreds of words long. They’re essays. They’re thought-provoking. It’s depressing. It makes you feel a tiny wee bit inadequate. But then I remember – he’s a professional writer.

This is what he does for a living now. He doesn’t have to sit at a desk doing a regular, boring ass job for nine or ten hours a day. I do – and what that means is that the limited time I have to write (and, yes, I say that although some of my blogging is done at work) has to be productive.

And that means that I’m scaling back on the comic blogging – and since I started doing that last week, I’ve actually found that I’m more productive in the screenwriting. I have twelve pages of a screenplay done since I pulled back on the blogging – and that’s included a couple of days when I was under the weather.

So I guess I’ve finally learned my lesson – write every day, just not necessarily on the blog.

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Just a quick update – I’m back in the UK for a week or so, so updates are going to be few and far between in all likelihood.

The Source has a preview of Titans Blackest Night.

The art is by Ed Benes.

Can you tell?

I’m not actually knocking Benes’ cheesecake art; I’m all for it – I just find it funny that he can’t go three pages without a butt shot.

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Yesterday on hearing the King Kong prequel news, I started posting some possible prequels and sequels that I’m sure nobody thought of – and it wasn’t long before others started adding their own suggestions…

We ended up with roundabout 100 – and culled here are the ones that I’d want to see (obviously I’m biased towards mine…)

(And I’ve handily linked to the inspiring film/TV show where I can)

In the early 1900s Kong and his friend Mighty Joe work as boardwalk carny barkers to find true love: KONGING TO AMERICA! RichL1

An exiled young prince grows to apehood and must face his complicity in his father’s death to dethrone his uncle in: THE LION KONG RichL1

An overweight ape married to an improbably attractive woman takes a job as a deliveryman in the hilarious KONG OF QUEENS RichL1

A young gorilla stages a desperate bank holdup in KONG DAY AFTERNOON. aboynamedart

A mild-mannered police gorilla must defend his neighborhood in HONG KONG PHOOEY aboynamedart

Tired of his people being oppressed by the British Empire, one ape preaches non-violent civil disobedience in KONGDHI danfaust

An ape who’s life seeming passed him by wishes he was never born in ITS A WONDERFUL KONG thepeterpixie

A middle aged ape puts up with his wacky family and neighbors – but that’s okay because he’s KONG OF THE HILL RichL1

When a disgraced tribal god gets burned, he ends up in Miami trying to avoid the hunters in KONG NOTICE aboynamedart

A gorilla. An Orangutan. And one more fight. Clint Eastwood stars in EVERY WHICH WAY BUT KONG. aboynamedart

After a night of debauchery Jeff Bridges and Jack Black search for their missing ape in DUDE WHERE’S MY KONG? boxwatcher

Kong, the Mighty Joe Young, Cheetah and Clyde star in the touching documentary WHEN WE WERE KONGS RichL1

Robin Williams defects and hosts a troop-inspiring radio show in GOOD MORNING, VIETKONG … er, wait. aboynamedart

A simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving apes suspect one of them is a police informant in RESERVOIR KONGS thepeterpixie

All you need to know is it’s a Guy Ritchie film with Jason Statham & young Kong twins: LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING KONGS khuxford

Kong‘s messy, out of line attitude conflicts with his by-the-book partner, but when they’re both falsley accused, look out! in TANGO & KONG jason1749

A female assassin looking to quit seeks revenge on her ape mentor for trying to kill her: KILL KONG khuxford

The ape starts dealing pot with his buddy in CHEECH AND KONG: UP IN SMOKE. boxwatcher

The best and the brightest young apes compete to be king of the tribe. Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer star in TOP KONG. aboynamedart

The last thing Kong ever expected was for his one night stand to show up on his doorstep eight weeks pregnant… KONGED UP scottking

A young villainous ape shares his plans for evil and pines for Felicia Day. NPH stars in DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG KONG aboynamedart

A naive young ape is drafted into the comedic world of pro ten pin bowling in: KONGPIN RichL1

A devastated DJ tries to help a distraught ape put his life back together after a violent incident he incited: THE FISHER KONG RichL1

Transvestite apes. Nuff said. TO KONG FOO THANKS FOR EVERYTHING JULIE NEWMAR RichL1

G0rilla07 is out to stop a worldwide banana disaster in THE KONG IS NOT ENOUGH aboynamedart

Fay Wray’s parents are outraged when their daughter brings a giant ape home in GUESS WHO’S KONGING TO DINNER? RichL1

Joe Pesci & Danny Glovers are two apes out for a nice day at the lake in KONG FISHIN’ aboynamedart

Nia Vardalos is a young Ape who falls in love with a non-ape in MY BIG FAT KONG WEDDING. thepeterpixie

An invalid ape overhears a murder plot thanks to a crossed line in SORRY, KONG NUMBER RichL1

An ape who’s message is peace is hung out to dry in THE LAST TEMPATION OF KONG thepeterpixie

In Scorsese’s KONG OF COMEDY, King Kong kidnaps a Johnny Carson-esque talkshow host in the hopes of getting his big break. AlertNerdMatt

A feared ape shows his new doctor just how horrific he can be in THE LAST KONG OF SCOTLAND RichL1

An undercover monkey uncovers more than he bargained for, both in the streets and in the precinct in STREET KONGS j_macfarlane

Kong‘s girlfriend dumped him. his job sucks. And now here come the zombies! Simon Pegg stars in KONG OF THE DEAD aboynamedart

Kong is a murderous psychiatrist giving advice to an up and coming FBI agent in SILENCE OF THE APES j_macfarlane

Terror in the mountains! Eliza Dushku vs. a giant cannibal ape in KONG TURN aboynamedart

Geena Davis thinks she’s a typical housewife until her past as a giant ape comes back to haunt her in THE KONG KISS GOODNIGHT aboynamedart

Ricardo Montleban is an ape in search of revenge in THE WRATH OF KONG! thepeterpixie

As Frodo’s journey to Mordor reaches the end, one giant ape must embrace his destiny and rally the forces of man: RETURN OF THE KONG aboynamedart

In the mid 1980′s Kong finds a new land to conquer: NYC’s drug kingdom. Walken is Kong in KONG OF NEW YORK aboynamedart

Captured and imprisoned, Kong finds that the true measure of a monkey is how free he is in his heart in: THE KONGSHANK REDEMPTION RichL1

Kong finds an unlikely love when he takes in a schoolteacher in a charming romantic musical: THE KONG AND I RichL1

Whiling away the hours in the local arcade, Kong finds himself in a bitter battle to top the high score table in THE KONG OF KONG RichL1

Kong and pal travel to Skull Island and becomes worshiped by the natives only to find that divinity has a price in THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KONG RichL1

Falsely imprisoned, our young hero finds himself on a plane full of criminals in KONG AIR. danfaust

Wandering the world, a young ape finds his center and masters the art of zen in: KONG FU. RichL1

Seriously, this is how we spend our time…

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