You say it's your birthday...

Today is April's birthday!

Woot!

If you've got her phone number or e-mail give her a birthday shout there!

If you don't have either of those, feel free to leave her happy birthday wishes here or over on her blog!

I'm not cryin'...

I love this blog.

Now your life's in great danger..

Batman Sues Miller for Defamation of Character.

Despite all the complications..

My apologies for not being up to my usual posting standards this week, I feel like Frank Miller draws.

Burn.

Be sure that he's dead..

I think this newly released shot from the set of The Spirit sums up what Frank Miller is doing to the character perfectly.
Plenty more here.

I'm going to tell..

I'm sorry, but Edward Norton coming out of the Hulk's butt is funny to me.

Who's this crazy wise guy..

It Never Stops Raining will be returning shortly.
We promise.

Hometown looks so gray..

Curt is hell of soft and plush.

It's always better on holiday..

Speaking of things I'd like to own, I'm not sure why, but I really want these quite badly.

They're hell of expensive though, so I doubt it'll ever happen.

Come on and..

Awesome.
Not $40 awesome, but pretty awesome.
Ryu, Chun-Li, and Guile can be seen here.

EDIT : Oops! I didn't know John had already posted about these guys over at Super Punch. I assume most of you check out Super Punch on a regular basis, so sorry if you're seeing this a second time.

Go get them..

Producer James Tucker talks about the end of Legion of Super Heroes as well as what's to come with Batman : The Brave and The Bold.

Kick it wicked nice..

I don't mind telling you I have absolutely no confidence in Frank Miller.
I think Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit is going to be awful.
I will be absolutely delighted to be proven wrong and if it's not awful I will sing Miller's praises far and wide, but he does not get the benefit of the doubt and a "let's wait and see how it is before we start naysaying" attitude from me.
G.I. Joe gets the benefit of the doubt because that picture of Snake Eyes was awesome.
The pictures I've seen from the set of The Spirit fill me with nothing but dread.
How much dread? Sufficient dread to make me think the movie is going to be not only awful, but awfully ridiculous.
Prove me wrong, Frank.
Please.

I know you don't need the confusion..

Apparently July is known as "The Month Dark Horse Finally Gets My Money".

And this stuff is just the start.

You know what's wrong..

Does anyone have the song "Man, It's So Loud In Here" by They Might Be Giants?
If so, would you like to send it to me?
I'd sure appreciate it.
I can't find my copy of the album ("Mink Car") anywhere, and that song has somehow disappeared from both my work computer and my home computer.
I'd just buy it off iTunes, but apparently that album is unavailable.. thank you very much, Apple.

I waited for your call...

Skrull Bart Allen!
I drew this way back last year when Bart died, but never got around to posting it for some reason.

It makes me feel so fine..

You know, you can say whatever you want about Alex Ross, and I'm well aware people do, but I think this cover he did for X-Men #500 is completely awesome.

A scarecrow from high school..

Anyone else playing around with Pandora?

I'm enjoying it.

Life is officially too depressing when the lady at the Taco Bell drive-thru tells you not to look so sad.

If there's nowhere, I wanna go there..

I'm about to tell you about the best comment I've read all day.

During a discussion on whether or not Batman should kill the Joker, Cole Moore Odell said this :

What I really want to know: Should Batman kiss the Joker full on the lips, tenderly, souls entwining forever?

I think we all know the answer.

I don't know that this is a very good example..

Werewolf vs Zombie - 4. Basketball

GO TIGERS!

From this day on..

The never-ending (legal) battle continues!

Thanks to the new American..

While I've got Batmania induced posting fever, did you guys (and gals) see this variant cover Frank Quitely did for All Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder #10?
Geeeeeez!
Wow.
Now that's a book I'd buy even if it only came out once a year.
Oh, but I would want Grant Morrison to write it.. not Frank Miller.
Anyway, there's also a great interview with Mr. Quitely up at CBR.

Storm the gate!

The internet continues to be ablaze with talk both for and against this new Batman cartoon.

Comic and animation industry veteran, Mike Manley is a character designer on the show, and he's got words for the "babymen".

The Absorbascon weighs in on the matter as well as the matter of comics littered with corpses.

So many I wish I could..

Newsarama has a full recap of Cartoon Network's recent event where they gave the advertising world the skinny on all their plans for the new season.
These plans include Jay Stephens' The Secret Saturdays.
Which looks awesome.
These plans also involve the new CGI Star Wars : Clone Wars cartoon as well as that Brave and the Bold cartoon that's got the internet in a tizzy.

PS I love Jay Stephens.

I say I've got my best shoes on..

Let's get to work, people!

There is a light that never goes out..

“Hal’s a regular guy. You hear people say, ‘Ah, Hal Jordan is too perfect.’ Are you kidding, me? This guy makes mistakes all the time. And he mistakes for the wrong reasons. He has this fire inside him where he’s got to prove to himself that he can do this. And sometimes he’s so intent in overcoming fear; everything else falls by the wayside. And that all stems from him as a kid hearing, ‘You’re not going to fly like your dad did.’ ‘Yes, I am.’ So he’s always having to prove himself. With Parallax and everything else, he is still doing it. At that same time though, he’s got a confidence about him. ‘I can do it. Just let me try. Please let me try. I may screw up one way, but I’ll get it done.’ And I really respond to that kind of character.

It’s all about having the guts to just say, ‘Alright, you know what. I am going to go and if I screw up, I will screw up and fall on my face, but at least I am trying.’ He always does that. This is happening, ‘Well let’s go.’ ‘What’s the plan?’ ‘I will figure it out. I will probably figure it out a second after I should have but hopefully it will happen.’ And to me, that’s Hal Jordan and I think that’s pretty admirable.” - Geoff Johns on Hal Jordan via CBR

I think that's pretty admirable too.

On a wave..

This is the kind of awesome shit you've been missing if you haven't been checking out Destination : Blog! as of late.

It also means you haven't seen the new daily series I've started over there called "chrishaley loves comics every day!". Every single day there's a new post from me showing an example of why I love comics. Think of it as a daily reminder of how awesome comics are. It's like one of those page-a-day calendars.. except it's comics not the wit and wisdom of Larry, the Cable Guy. And this is in addition to all the other great stuff Curt and Joel are doing over there. (Their posts are better than mine, so I have to make up for it with quantity.) So yeah, go check it out, and of course, don't forget that I'm fanatical about the alternate text over there as well.

The major key..

Warner Bros. animation director Brandon Vietti shares his thoughts on the upcoming new Batman cartoon he's involved with.

Everybody wants to rule..

Jack Kirby could see the future.

A startling Kirby creation I hope does become a reality came to us courtesy of OMAC #1 (1974).

Why did I do that..

So here's the first poster(s) for Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit.
I actually like the image, but I'd also like to slap Frank Miller.
It's a dream of mine.
I get the feeling this movie is going to be the exact opposite of what I want it to be.
I guess we'll see.

You didn't listen..

Could someone please tell me how I should feel about this?
Keep in mind this is the show that's meant to take the place of Justice League Unlimited, The Batman, AND Legion of Super Heroes.
That's a tall order.
Sure JLU has been gone for a bit, but we just lost The Batman, and the LoSH series finale is this weekend. Legion should have been moved to Cartoon Network in addition to this new show. I really think it would have found a bigger audience there than it was able to on Kids WB.
And why on Earth would they go back to Ollie's old "Christmas costume"?
Don't get me wrong, looking over the show's credits, it all seems to be people I think are very talented.
I don't know.
I hope it's awesome.

In the end of my decline..

These are hilariously fantastic to me.
Or fantastically hilarious.
Either way, what I'm saying is I like them.
More here.

With every step you take..

Apparently, you can't take Superman X.

How my fool heart aches..

A very happy home...

Though not an official "comic" in the series It Never Stops Raining, this visit with Composite Superman was still brought to you by Curt Franklin & chrishaley.

I never thought..

The new Wired has an article on the new Iron Man flick and "the Evolution of the Exoskeleton."
You might enjoy reading it as you get yourself ready for the unveiling of Project Rooftop's Iron Man : Invincible Upgrade contest winners.
Oh, and to a lesser extent, the movie itself.

Outside the norm..

This guy makes outstanding custom figures.
He made this Legion of Super Heroes Superman X that is probably as close as we're ever going to get to animated LoSH figures.
Sigh.

I want to go home..

Reasons To Keep Living


July 29, 2008.
For real.
Never let it be said that rock 'n roll dreams can't come true.
Exciting to a lesser extent are the same day releases of Tiny Toon Adventures : Season 1 Volume 1 and the WB's live-action Birds of Prey : The Complete Series.
If you're into watching commercials for DVDs, you can watch one for Tiny Toons and Freakazoid.

Tears would make love grow..

Robin is a friend of mine who moved away to Boston.
However, this does not mean she is any less of a Memphis girl at heart, or that she has lost one iota of her "Tiger Pride".
She has started a new blog called Dirty South, Displaced.
She's been writing about what the Tigers' basketball season means not just to her personally, but to the city itself and all of us that are a part of it.
This post (entitled I am going to throw up on my shoes) is especially well written and poignant and would be a great thing to let friends who aren't from Memphis read to understand what it's like to be from here a little better.

It Never Stops Raining

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It Never Stops Raining is brought to you by Curt Franklin & chrishaley.

Under the million twinkling lights..

Blog announcement time.
Images around these parts will more than likely start carrying alternate text around with them.
Some already do.
Just giving you a warning.

Is there time enough for peace..

It refuses to stop with the raining here in Memphis, so I turn to the wit and wisdom of KC Green to sort it all out for me.

I need somebody..

No It Never Stops Raining today as I left my art stuff at home by accident.
To make up for it, I give you this terrible, un-colored, and hastily done on a Post-It Composite Superman.
Is he flying? Leaping? Ballet-ing?
I have no idea.
I'm sorry.

Bite all the sharpened tongues..

Superman Red and Superman Blue.
Speaking of Superman figures, I found both of these guys at Target today.
They are also completely awesome.

Sometimes it seems like there's two sides to me..

Even though the series officially ended a week or two ago, that doesn't mean they can't keep making new toys.
Awesome toys.
Like this Superman.
This Superman that I own.
This Superman that I own two copies of... because I need one at home and one at work.