Comics Are Awesome - Deaths and Resurrections

Upcoming Convention Schedule

A quick (for me anyways) video talking about a couple of cons I'm going to be at in the not-to-distant future:



Gallifrey One
Planet Comicon

Hope to see you guys there and keep getting the word out!

~Jd

A quick note

Hey folks.

Just a quick update on the Captain Britain & MI13 review. I realized a couple days after I posted it that I had segment that was missing a page of art, resulting in me talking over a black screen for a bit (shame on all of you for not pointing it out... awww I can't stay mad at you!). I have since re-rendered and re-uploaded a corrected version.

Also because I have hollow, Hollywood-like pretension, I did a commentary on this episode. I won't embed it here on the site just to avoid anyone getting it confused with the actual review, but if you want to waste another 20 minutes you can find it here!

Comics Are Awesome: Captain Britain & MI13

This is the longest review (not counting the vlogs) that I've done yet, as well as the biggest bear trying to get video to render properly, but it's also one of the ones I'm most happy with as a whole. Please comment!!



Now with commentary!

VLOG 2: "The Cape" & "Young Justice"

Well I get chatty again folks. This was another 45 vlog, and just as rambling as the last one. Oh well. Enjoy if you like!

Amazon referrals

Hi folks.

I kind of want to address a small change I made to this blog. I've added links from Amazon to my reviews. I'm kind of two minds on this.

This show is first and foremost a hobby. I have no plans of getting rich off this, or even becoming even significantly less poor. But I would like to improve Comics Are Awesome as much as I can. And this is a theoretical way to supplement the costs involved in doing that, lights, newer software, props, etc. While I do get revenue from Blip from the ads that run before the videos, it's pretty small and requires a lot more views before I'll see anything from them.

And since I partially started this show as a way to encourage people to read more and better comics. So this could be viewed as simply providing a reminder for that, to help encourage people who are interested possibly giving the comic a shot. So it's win/win right?

But it could also be viewed in a negative light. First off I don't want to come off as begging. This isn't me asking for a handout. I don't want anyone to buy any book I link to from this site out of pity. I also don't want to undermine local comic shops. Amazon, online comic retailers like DCBS, digital comics, etc they're all great resources, but local comic shops are currently the major venue for comics. If they all disappear the comic industry, as it stands right now, will be left hurting in a bad way. So not only do I not want pity purchases but I want to encourage you to go to your local comic store if you have one available to you.

Right now the plan is to leave the links there. I've tried to make them small and relatively unobtrusive as much as Amazon allows. If I get a lot of complaints about them, I will take them off, simple as that.

I hope this all makes sense. I feel borderline uncomfortable discussing money, especially at this time when the economy is maybe just starting to get itself out of the dumps. So again, do not feel compelled to click on anything you don't want to. If you do, that's great, but just don't put yourself out to do so.

Thanks all, and I hope this new year sees CAA reach bigger and better heights, and I wouldn't have made it past that first episode without your help, support and constructive comments!

CAA: My Top 5 New Comics of 2010

CAA: Thor vs. Racism

First time I've gotten angry doing a piece for this show. Let's hope it's the last.

You can read the Comics Alliance article on this story here.

Comics Are Awesome: Starman

Sorry for the delay on this one folks. Hopefully next one will be out sooner.

Please let me know what you think!

Comics Culture

We here at Comics Are Awesome (all one of me) can only produce so much brillant content only so fast. That is to say, I'm terribly lazy.

So today, oh faithful readers, I shall start a new written segment I am calling "Comics Culture" because, if you haven't guessed yet, titles are really hard for me. Also because "Comics Are Awesome" isn't just purely about comic books, but all aspects and permutations like films, video games, shirts and even the very culture of comic fans.

So today I want to celebrate one of the men responsible for me starting this website: Lewis Lovhaug, aka Linkara. Linkara is one of the producers for That Guy With the Glasses , as well as his own blog, Atop the Fourth Wall. And I would almost certainly not be producing my own videos if not for him.

Linkara in many ways is the ying to my yang. The Coke to my Pepsi. The DC to my Marvel. The Superman to my Lex. The clever bòn mót to my overdone, too-long analogy... Err moving along.

Atop the Fourth Wall is, like my own CAA, a video review series for comics. But where I come to celebrate the comics that deserve the praise, Linkara instead takes up arms against those comics that deserve the pain. Linkara seeks out the worst comics has to offer and roasts them until you can make S'Mores by holding up a your marshmallow up your computer screen.

Whether you're new to comics or an established (read: "old") fanboy like myself AT4W is funny and smart, but despite the lambasting, you can also tell Lewis' passion for the hobby come through. This isn't someone who mocks comics because he hates them, but because he loves them.

So go, while you all wait patiently for the third CAA review, and check out some of his stuff. Just please come back when you see how much better he is at this than I am.