Daily Archives: March 9, 2011

Deadpool to get the McNinja treatment

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As mentioned by Grey in the comments section, Marvel’s Deadpool — a character created by Rob Liefeld, played by Ryan Reynolds in the Wolverine movie and perhaps the world’s most overexposed Deathstroke the Terminator clone in history — is going to be written by Chris Hastings (The Adventures of Dr. McNinja) in Fear Itself: Deadpool. Given that Deadpool is a rather wacky assassin who typically breaks the fourth wall, I gotta say that putting Chris Hastings on a Deadpool story makes so much sense it hurts.

Random Quickies: F*ck Yeah Headlines

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Back in 2007, Strong Bad memorably made fun of webcomics, including one sort where you just “ask for input from your viewers and rip that off for content. Pfff. What a cop-out.” The Cheat then makes comics based on spam e-mail names the readers send him. (ex: Knowingest J. Drawbridges.)

Weirdly, that’s the first thing that came to mind when I viewed Eric Wedlum’s F*ck Yeah Headlines, which takes newspaper headlines and makes a comic out of them. Like “Australian Brewery Invents ‘Space Beer’” shows and astronaut getting drunk with aliens. It’s really, really corny … but in a way, it’s like a better drawn version of the comics the Cheat was making fun of, and it makes me feel rather nostalgic of webcomics past.

Wait. Is it possible to get nostalgic about something from only four years ago?

Savage Chickens book is now available

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Savage Chickens (reviewed here) is out in book form! And no, it’s not just a stack of yellow Post-It notes with pictures of chickens and such. It ‘s actually available in 144 nicely printed pages (which include 65 never before seen strips) and published by respectable book publisher Penguin. Plus, creator Doug Savage informs me that the Webcomic Overlook was mentioned inside, which is pretty neat admittedly. Anyway, I’m a pretty big fan of the comic (I still have a Savage Chickens strip hanging at my cubicle at work), so check it out when you can!