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MOSTLY FOOTBALL
2008-11-20 16:00:16
“It has been one month since your last post. You are officially a pathetic blogger.”
--My sister
“Your blog is hilarious.”
--Former Marvel Intern
“No it isn’t.”
--Nate Cosby
FINE! Gahhhh. No one reads this thing, and yet people around me ONLY bug me when I’m not posting. So here, I’m starting a new feature, called “Mostly Football.” This is similar to “This Week In Thought,” which was a previous feature, but I don’t feel like hiding the fact that, sorry, I’m mostly thinking about football.
MOSTLY FOOTBALL
1. BIG HERO SIX #3 - Jordan D. White, who now sits at the desk I used to sit at over in Mark Paniccia’s office, had to fill up a bunch of pages at the end of BIG HERO 6 #3, and since the issue featured a football game well-drawn by David Nakayama, he asked me to participate in a “Nate Explains Football To Jordan” sequence. Head down to your local comic shop (if they still have those) and read it in the store (you don’t have to buy. Comics are expensive these days).
One note: I didn’t want to embarrass Mr. Nakayama, but the double-page spread I’ve attached here features the two teams set up outside the hash marks. Sigh. I didn’t have the heart to explain it to Jordan; he’s too busy grooming his increasingly-scary mustache.
2. BARACK OBAMA – I’m apolitical. But MAN, did you SEE 60 MINUTES!?!?!?!?!?!? OBAMA WANTS A COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF SYSTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome. Destroy the economy, put me on food stamps, go to war with Canada, do whatever you wanna do, Mr. President. But you get us an 8-team playoff system in January, and I’ll actually…wear a button with your face on it. Or something. OH! I know: If you make this happen, I will forever name my Fantasy Football teams the Fighting Obamas. Or the Barack Battalion. Whichever you prefer, Mr. President.
3. X MEN NOIR – Put this book to bed last week. You should read it. It’s the best book I’ve ever edited. It’s the best story Fred Van Lente’s ever written. It’s the best artwork Dennis Calero’s every produced. After this book, they’re both gonna be too big for me to work with, and Noir will become too confusing for me to play in, so I’m just gonna enjoy this one mini. There are little nods to the X(dash)Men in it, but X(no dash)Men Noir is a genuinely good story on its own terms.
4. UTAH VS. BYU & OKLAHOMA VS. TEXAS TECH – Oooooooooooooooh. Big games. The Utah/BYU one will be interesting, especially with the 7:30pm state curfew (Utah joke!!!!!)
5. NOVA – I work right beside Bill Rosemann. Good man. He has funny glasses and always eats a banana before noon and sometimes speaks like a carnival barker (“HELLO FRIENDS!!!!!”). And he asked me to read over a couple of his books in the past couple weeks, while his assistant was on vacation. I was lucky enough to read the soon-to-be-published Nova #19…and dadgum, it’s GOOD! I mean..seriously! I haven’t read a Marvel comic in about 6 months, but this was accessible, and interesting, and the dialogue was zippy, and Darkhawk was there…well done, Mr. Abnett/Mr. Lanning, and Mr. Rosemann. Best compliment I can give is that it was as much fun as the original NEW WARRIORS series by Mr. Nicieza & Mr. Bagley.
6. COLLEGE BASKETBALL – I live about five blocks from Madison Square Garden. This would be good if the NBA didn’t suck. But wouldn’t you know it…the NBA sucks. So I’m going to make a commitment this week to try and watch college basketball, so that the eventual depression I’ll enter when football’s over won’t be so painful. Sigh. I’m already getting upset.
7. PUPPY – So…I want a bulldog. My girlfriend and I have, like junkies, been heading to the same street corner twice a week to see a 9-week old English bulldog that we’ve named Winston Churchill (note, there is a hat on me, but my girlfriend put the hat on Winston Churchill with some computer program. Dunno, she’s smarter than me). We can’t afford him, but that doesn’t keep us from going and taking pictures and cuddling. Sigh. I’m trying to convince her that we need to get a girl bulldog and name her Aretha Franklin. ALSO: I forced Chris Eliopoulos to give Franklin Richards a puppy. He's Lockjaw's kid, and his name's Puppy. The life of an editor is TRULY rewarding.
8. PIE – I like it.
9. A NEW MINI-SERIES THAT I CAN’T TELL YOU ABOUT YET – Frog Thor’s in it. That’s ALL I can say.
Hey Nate
I read this! Get to work on it already! Also, what happened to the "Jordan explains (...) to Nate" feature?? That was the best. You should do more. There's tons of comics you could do here..
Posted by VenomFlossin1985 on 2008-11-22 07:22:52
Wow
I see nobody else is posting here... I expect a shout out to your one loyal reader in the next entry, Nate!;)
Posted by VenomFlossin1985 on 2008-11-24 10:33:29
Forced me?
Forced me? I don't think so. I told YOU I was putting him in. Get your history right, young man.
Posted by Eliopoulos on 2008-11-30 12:57:36
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Ha! Lies... In the Mighty Marvel Manner. You guys should fight now.
Posted by VenomFlossin1985 on 2008-12-03 11:51:25
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