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TUESDAY: Arts and Hobbies

Well, as we embark on the second day of scavenging through my life we make our way to Arts and Hobbies. I'm going to break this down into a couple of different categories and just roll on with links from there. So here's the update on what's going on in the world of comics, webcomics, and movies.

COMICS/MOVIES

Obviously there's a lot more I could talk about in terms of comics and movies both but I'll hit on the biggest thing to hit since the first X-Men movie and that's 03.06.09. Watchmen. Now I've heard a couple of uber-geeks that I trust vouch for it. Wil Wheaton loved it. Ain't-It-Cool was buzzing about it. I just hope that it's all I hope it can be. The good news is that it's getting a lot of attention for comics in general and if it can make just a couple of hundred people go out and read the amazing set of books that make up Watchmen it's worth it.

Speaking of reading watchmen Comic Book Resource has an great set of articles they're running by Atom Freeman & Carr D'Angelo as guest writers that is called Re-reading Watchmen that goes through issue by issue talking about the books in depth which I have found really fantastic.

Also, if you check out this article, you'll see that Zack Snyder is already talking about a director's cut to be released IN THEATRES if Watchmen does well enough to warrant it. So go and see Watchmen four or five times in theaters like me and we'll be just fine.

One other quick note in comics, if you love to read comics, especially if you love Marvel you have to check out their digital comic archive. It's only 60 bucks for a year's subscription (which works out to $5 a month) and it's totally worth it. There's more stuff up every day and it's an invaluable artists resource. I bought a subscription for my brother for his birthday and I poke around every once in a while and couldn't say more about it. A.Maz.Ing.

WEBCOMICS

It's strange how you get into different webcomics. Sometimes I get them recommended to me. Other times I ask the brodukes for something new. Occasionally I just happen to stumble upon one and that makes me pretty happy. No matter how I get to them, here's some comics of varying styles and seriousness that I like to read with a little commentary. This list by no means supersedes my links on the site. In fact, I should probably add a couple of these and give them props they rightfully have earned.

The Perry Bible Fellowship

An Eisner-winning comic strip drawn by Nicholas Gurewitch that used to be a weekly but stopped being so in February of 2008. Word on the street is it's coming back this month. I can't wait. Effing hilarious. LINK

Amazing Superpowers

Description from the blog: "These posts were found strapped to vampire bats ascending from the bowels of Hell and were notarized by the devil himself. Apparently, they tell the tales of the puppetmasters of AmazingSuperPowers, Wes and Tony." A dark humor romp every Monday and Thursday. LINK

Botched Spot

This is one that my brother loves as he's still a big wrestling fan. While I like the stuff that focuses on the characters created for the comic more than the WWE/TNA stuff it does give me a chuckle every Monday/Wednesday/Friday. While it's almost always about wrestling the comic above is from a small storyline where the main character was going to train for MMA. Also, they're nearing their 1 year anniversary in March so give 'em a bump! LINK

The Daily Odyssey

Here's one by Brett Muller, a classmate of my brothers and the Ladies to Pranas' (of Ink Dick fame) Peanut Butter. The art style is always wonderfully playful and the anecdotes well conveyed and humorous. Plus, every once in a while, the brodukes makes an appearance :) LINK

Dude-A-Day/Atomic Toy

Here's a set of a couple of comics drawn by Andy Helms (and Nathan Avery on the Buttlord stuff) that I really enjoy. Essentially Andy draws a different set of characters over the span of a week, one a day from October of 2008 to October 2009. Pictured above is the Ghostbusters span as well as a great picture of all he's done so far this year on his wall. LINK

Freak Angels

In the English tradition of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield deliver a weekly 6 pages of canned awesome. I had a chance to catch up to this one and did it in a day. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't because every week I crave Friday and another installment of Freak Angels. This is a must read. LINK

That about does it for today. Stay tuned for tomorrow: ARCHITECTURE!