I finally got around to framing a original page from CHEW #2 today. I bought this from Rob Guillory at San Diego Comic Con. I had it matted with my issue of the comic it is in. I hate that getting something framed costs as much as the art you put in it sometimes, but I guess it did turn out pretty good.
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The whole family went to Marymoor Park for The Flaming Lips rock show tonight. I think it was a pretty great first show for Claire, Carter saw Radiohead for his first show, so yeah, the Peterson kids are pretty hip. This was my 5th time seeing The Flaming Lips and they always put on a great show. Lots of balloons, confetti, smoke, and uplifting orchestral pop songs, what’s not to like. Wayne Coyne has a great stage presence, and really seems to want his crowd to have a good time.
They played a song or two from their upcoming album, mixed in a bunch of their more popular radio cuts, Yoshimi, She Don’t Use Jelly, Race for the Prize… Saving “Do You Realize” for the last song of the encore. The first time I saw The Flaming Lips was in MOES on Capitol Hill ~15 years ago. The scope and scale of the show has changed and the music has matured (a lot), but they still are a great live show.
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This here is a list of the movies I have seen in a theater in 2009. The funny thing with the list is that there are a lot of really good films and lot of really shitty films on the list. You can probably figure out which are which, but if I had to pick a top 5 right now it would probably be: Star Trek, Up, Brothers Bloom, Moon and Hurt Locker. That list is in no particular order and I left off The Wrestler and Slumdog because they actually came out in 2008. I would like to hit ~50 movies for 2009, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen at my current rate.
The List:
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Pretty big day at the comic book store (Arcane Comics) this week. 9 monthlies and a trade paperback. Marvel is taking in most of the money this week, as usual. I also went to a Ed Brubaker signing at Barnes & Noble yesterday and picked up the new Captain America hardcover. I am also starting to go back and dig into Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men run. I am just old enough to not really give a shit about the X-Men, but Fraction has consistently brought the good writing (Casanova, Immortal Iron Fist, Iron Man) so I am giving it a shot.
Carter and I mentioned that we have both covers of the Dethklok vs The Goon comic signed by Eric Powell, to Jeremy, the super cool guy that runs the West Seattle Arcane store. He didn’t realize that there was an alternate cover and wished he had got one. Jeremy is super nice. Jeremy knows our names. Jeremy talks to us, tells us what’s good, what to avoid, just a cool guy. Carter, Claire and I ran back up to Arcane and gave him our signed alternate Dethklok book. He said it made his day. Cool.
I am probably most interested in the Ultimate Avengers by Mark Millar, with Carlos Pacheco Pencils and Manny Miki inks this week. The first book I will hit is going to be The Walking Dead though. That book is just consistently good, icky, sick shit. I love it. FYI – AMC is going to be adapting it for TV, AMC brought the Mad Men, so I have high hopes.
Carter is really into the Green Lantern stuff right now, he has started with the beginning trades from the Geoff Johns run and has been working forward. Carter is all about the Blackest Night. No Tiny Titans for Claire this week. Sad.
Brubaker at Barnes and Noble. Ed told Carter and I a story about how he signed so many books at a recent convention he pulled a muscle in his chest. Apparently Captain America #25 sold somewhere around 400,000 copies. Ed is pretty sure he has signed them all. Yeah, my Cap #25 is signed. Thanks Ed.
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