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  1. You've GOT to see this guy

    06/05/08 14:06:18 | 0

    Those of you who played the ARG, may remember two videos at Gotham City News which talked about an Art of the Dark Knight exhibit at Sale Gallery, and then did a "Where Are They Now?" feature on one of the artists a few months later. Let me introduce the spectacular real life artist behind the Gotham one:

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    Brian Jones of Gotham Enterprises

    His sculptures and costumes are simply spectacular, and today he's just uploaded some spectacular screenshots of his Dark Knight Command Station to his DeviantArt Gallery. Be sure to check them out.
  2. Two more wonderful blogs

    05/07/08 06:56:43 | 0

    There are two more blogs I really enjoy. Brace yourselves, both men work... in comics! Yes, I am about to single out two people who actually pour their God-given talents into the making of comic books, and declare them to be superior human beings.

    Javier Grillo-Marxuach has been keeping a blog on livejournal since at least when he was writing for Lost (although if anyone rates an independent site rather than slumming on some low-rent social network, sheesh. Javi, you do not belong in the 10-items or less line at K-mart, you send your people to Bloomingdale's to pick up whatever you need). Anyway, Javi has written several things I don't know about for Marvel, but the important one is his own creation The Middleman, recently picked up for a series at ABC Family. A fair number of his blog posts are now about those developments, but it never comes off as crass promotion. It comes off as...
  3. Garbage In, Garbage Out

    04/20/08 07:03:30 | 0

    2 of my ex-clients are their own worst enemies. In one case, it might be deliberate. One of those subconscious self-destructive tendencies that there is no cure for but therapy. If someone is out to sabotage themselves, they'll succeed and there's nothing anybody can do. All you're going to get if you support, forgive, and overlook the behavior is to wind up on the list of things they have to drive away or destroy to achieve the alone-and-miserable status they think they deserve.

    The one ex-c, as I said, is a question mark on that score. The other definitely is not, and that's good news/bad news territory, because GOOD-it can be fixed. BAD-if it isn't, then he too winds up in the alone-miserable-failure heap when he doesn't need to be.

    The failing both ex-cs have is GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. They tend to hire crappy people who come cheap - and there is a very good reason for that. It's like...