YOUR INDY WEEKLY: SUPER REAL #1

Ryan dips into the indy well again, and this time finds some honest to gosh superheroes in Jason Martin's Super Real #1.

Ryan Stuff From The Past Week

BEST YOU'VE NEVER READ: SENTINELS
Ryan McLelland takes a look at an indy superhero title you've probably never read, but you might want to give a try...

YOUR INDY WEEKLY: UPTOWN GIRL #31
Ryan McLelland is back with his indy spotlight, this time casting it on Bob Lipski's quirky and funny Uptown Girl...


NEWSARAMA HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE (My 3 recommendations for the holiday season):
Ryan McLelland says…

(1) The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - Sure it may seem a bit pricey at $150 but how can you put a price on one of the best comics ever? EVER. With 3 hardcovers that total 1,440 pages you get to read every single Calvin and Hobbes comic ever done. Think you'll get bored reading? I don't think so. Think you'll never want to reread them? I think not. Think they'll be something you can enjoy over and over again? Absolutely.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...=books&v=glance

(2) Uptown Girl DVD - Local Minnesota filmmaker Ben Mudek decided to adapt Bob Lipski's Uptown Girl comic book into a short film. The result was a combining of two actual issues of the comic and made into a great 25-minute feature. Uptown Girl is one of my favorite indy comics and the film brings nothing but love to the 'small screen'. The DVD includes commentaries by Mudek, Lipski, and the cast, deleted scenes, outtakes, and more. Seeing an indy comic on screen has never been better.
http://www.smallpressswapmeet.com/product.php?ID=627

(3) Ranger Danger T-Shirt - Clerks is one of my top 10 movies of all time (easy since I'm from Jersey and once slaved in a video store). Now Kevin Smith has gone and filmed a sequel to the movie that started it all for him. In the film sequel Randal, played by Jeff Anderson, wears a Ranger Danger t-shirt. Ranger Danger has been the long talked about sci-fi project that Smith has been talking about doing. The t-shirt itself brings out a great retro Flash Gordon feel that simply looks...cool.
http://www.jayandsilentbob.com/rardatfrcl2.html

Ryan McLelland is a staff writer for Newsarama.com and author of the upcoming series Philly.

New Stuff...

It's a classic issue for bargain hunters that Ryan's found this week - Quantum and Woody #1. Come on in and bask in the gloriousness...

Read mostly one type of comic, and you'll miss some great stuff - case in point: Runoff by Tom Manning. We caught up...[

New Quarter Bin and More...

Jim sent me over the first five pages of issue 2...it is looking GOOD. I'll post a tiny preview tomorrow. Raph SHOULD be done the inking/coloring today...so hopefully the book will be on its way to being lettered this week.

Alot of my articles didn't run this week except the Quarter Bin: Remember the '90s? Sure you do. Remember Warriors of Plasm #1 from Defiant? Ryan does. Should you?...

More tomorrow...glad to be back in Jersey. Here's who I was chillin' with this past week. You know Rev Run??? Well I do. ;)

Kazaleh - Short But Sweet

On vaykay still down in FL but I was checking my e-mail and got this from Captain Jack's creator Mike Kazaleh - who let me use his infamous indy cartoon cat in Wise Intelligence issue 1. Mike wrote:

Ryan,

Thanks for sending your comic along, it looks swell. Congratulations on its publication.

Best of Luck,

MK-


Looks swell...hell yeah. Glad to have used Captain Jack (and Cerebus!) in the book.

Gone For A Week

I'm outtie for the next week. Gotta luv vaykay.

In any case Philly #1 should be inked/colored by the 13th which only leave the lettering courtesy of our letterer Jim Reddington. With that completed Philly #1 is in the can and we are off to the publisher!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Check out Newsarama next week for Warriors of Plasm #1 covered in 'It Came From The Quarter Bin', Uptown Girl #31 covered in 'Your Indy Weekly', and hopefully new articles on Sentinels and Runoff. When I get back I'll put up some easy to click-on links.

IT CAME FROM THE QUARTER BIN: VENOM #1

Cast your mind back to the '90s - Venom and mullets where everywhere. Ryan checks out one while keenly analyzing the other....

Read about how people love comic characters with mullets!

YOUR INDY WEEKLY: BROKEN #1

Ryan takes a look at Lonny Chant's Broken, pitched as High Fidelity meets Mallrats. Does it stand up? Ryan takes a look...