Author: Brad Guigar

Sinestro History [CBR]: Superman has Lex Luthor. Batman has the Joker. Hal Jordan of the Green Lantern Corps has Sinestro — but not just Hal Jordan; the entire Green Lantern Corps fears the renegade Green Lantern and his yellow power
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Top 13 Super-Villain Teams To celebrate the first Friday-the-13th of 2007, Evil Inc is proud to present a list of the Top Thirteen Super-Villain Groups in comics. Super-villain groups have matured from lame plot-device to gripping drama. Instead of throwing
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Sinestro Corps Special #1 [Newsarama]: …[Ethan] Van Sciver and [Geoff] Johns are reuniting for a 64-page one-shot in June that promises to take the Green Lantern universe to yet another level. Called Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1, the comic
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Greystone Inn archives: Lightning Lady and Keagan move-in together ‘Round about this time in 2005, Lightning Lady and Keagan were taking a Big Step in their relationship. Cohabitation comes with its fair share of pitfalls. Cohabitating with a super-villainess means
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2007 Convention Schedule Here’s a list of the conventions I’m planning to attend. I’ve also listed the conventions (in grey italics) that I’m considering, but haven’t committed to. The bad news is that Chicago is officially a scratch for 2007.
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Johnny Hart, creator of “B.C.� and “Wizard of Id,� dies at 76 [Associated Press] Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.� comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76. “He had
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Happy Birthday to Me! I’ve got the best wife in webcomics! After an amazing steak-and-baked-potato dinner, my wife presented me with an early birthday present. It’s a polymer clay macquette of Miss Match by ‘N’Toonz! Click on the pictures for
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Con Report: Emerald City Comic Con — Sunday Sunday started with breakfast — this time with Howard Tayler and one of his children. The kid could put away waffles like a champ. I was envious of his metabolism. The Kurtzes
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The Best of Lightning Lady Check out the April edition of Previews magazine and you’ll see the latest offering from Greystone Inn Comics: The Best of Lightning Lady! This book is the genesis of the Evil Inc comic strip. Consider
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Con Report: Emerald City Comic Con — Saturday After I passed out in my hotel room (from exhaustion) Friday night, I awoke the next morning ready to venture out into Seattle to find breakfast. I got up early and planned
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Con Report: Emerald City Comic Con It’s official. I have been spoiled for any other comic convention I will ever attend. I can’t imagine I will ever be treated this good again, and it’s hard to envision my having as
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The Supervillain Book [Jennifer M. Contino / PULSE] If you’re bad to the bone, chances are you make an appearance in Visible Ink’s The Supervillain Book. If you’re a fan of those despicable dastardly characters, then you’ve got to check
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On Sale Today: Green Lantern #18 Star Sapphire Written by Geoff JohnsArt by Daniel AcunaCover by Ivan Reis & Oclair Albert The Star Sapphire has plagued Green Lantern throughout his career. But where do its origins truly lie? And why
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Emerald City Comic Con Emerald City Comic Con is this weekend! I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle on March 31st-April 1st. And so will the creators of the following comics: Sheldon, PvP, Penny Arcade, Starslip, Schlock
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52 #46 Y’know… Silver Bullet’s Jim Beard makes a really good point about DC’s 52. The idea to gather all of the “mad scientists” on Oolong Island is pure genius. Evidently, the brainy bad boys get their turn to shine
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Emerald City Comic Con I’ve got another big convention appearance coming up at the end of the month. I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle on March 31st-April 1st. It’s my second convention appearance of the year,
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Site Features Time for the periodic review of the features of this site. If you’re a new reader, you’ll want to give it a quick skim. Blog: Register with Blogger, and participate in the discussion! It’s free! Google search engine:
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On Sale Today: The Brave And The Bold #2 Written by Mark WaidArt by George Pérez & Bob WiacekCover by Pérez Green Lantern and Supergirl are off to Ventura on the trail of the bizarre case that began in issue
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A Marvel Theme Park… In Dubai? [CBR] United Arab Emirate-based Al Ahli Group and Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL) announced today a partnership that will bring Marvel’s full library of Super Heroes — including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Incredible
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Broken Frontiers Interview T Campbell was nice enough to interview me for Broken Bubbles, the five-times-weekly webcomics podcast over at Broken Frontier. Twenty-five-minute spectacular… this was just too good to cut. The prolific cartoonist discusses his three latest projects (Evil
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Sinestro Corps Update [NEWSARAMA] GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS SPECIAL #1Written by Geoff JohnsArt by Ethan Van Sciver and Dave GibbonsCover by Van Sciver The stellar creative team of the sell-out GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH miniseries — Geoff Johns and Ethan Van
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Wizard World LA News Sounds like there was quite a bit of noise at Wizard World L.A. Here’s a brief roundup: DC: Booster Gold and Infinity Inc. DC Universe Mondo Marvel Marvel: X-Men Marvel: The Initiative Loeb & CO on
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Stan Lee Media vs Marvel… vs Stan Lee? This one broke over the weekend, but it’s still worth noting here. Stan Lee Media is suing Marvel for ownership of characters Lee created while at Marvel. Stan Lee himself opposed the
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Jay Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of King Features Syndicate, Dead at 50 [King Features] Jay Kennedy, editor in chief of King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst Corporation, died March 15, 2007, while on vacation in Costa Rica. He was 50 years
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Look What’s Big In June…And A Sinestro Corps Cover, Too DC is previewing two big covers for two big projects that are scheduled to ship in June. [NEWSARAMA] We’ve gotten our hands on two covers form major DC projects coming
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Animated “JLA: Countdown” parody This one made me chuckle. It’s a very well-written parody of DC’s “Countdown” series. More animated parodies by the same author: House of M, part one House of M, part two House of M, part three
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Marvel Preview: ‘Avengers: The Initiative’ Dan Slott’s new project, “Avengers: The Initiative” has already sold out through Diamond, and a second printing is being rushed through. The title is due to appear in bookstores April 4. Slott is a terrific
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Gyllenhaal To Play Captain Marvel? [TEEN HOLLYWOOD] Executives at Hollywood film studio New Line are desperately trying to sign Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal as Captain Marvel in Shazam! The studio is looking to bid on a big franchise along
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Colbert gets Cap’s Shield [NEWSARAMA] As Marvel hinted yesterday, Captain America’s shield made an appearance on last night’s The Colbert Report. The shield showed up at the end of the show; with Colbert first taking back his criticism of Cap
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Watchmen movie update According to the Hollywood Reporter, there are even more reasons to feel good about the success of Frank Miller’s 300… [HOLLYWOOD REPORTER] “Who watches the Watchmen?” was the tagline of the seminal 1986 Alan Moore miniseries about
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Another One Bites the Dust… Another comic strip, this time Bob Harrell’s charming Big Top, is calling it quits after a short time in syndication. Blondie, however will continue to be carried by the vast majority of American newspapers. Bob:
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Wizard: Guilty of Insider Trading? [NEWSARAMA] CBarger of Wonderworld Comics …questioned whether one eBay seller might have been given information that other retailers were not, as Wizard Universe, which is owned by the same company as Wizard Magazine, sold hundreds
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Medieval Friday From the Ugly Hill Web site: Do you stare longingly at the protective breastplate hanging in your closet every morning? Perhaps you long mount your mighty steed and gallop off to your afternoon meeting? Do you have trouble
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VILF shirts I still have a few VILF shirts available for sale. I have regular T-shirts and babydoll shirts. The T-shirts are $15 and the babydoll shirts are $20. Shipping and handling included. Buy ’em for you or buy ’em
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…huh…? [ASSOCIATED PRESS] Captain America has undertaken his last mission _ at least for now. The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the Daily News reported. On the new edition’s pages,
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On Sale Today: JLA #6 Written by Brad MeltzerArt by Ed Benes & Sandra HopeCover by Michael TurnerVariant cover by Adam Hughes DC’s super-hit cuts loose as best-selling author Brad Meltzer and artist Ed Benes unleash an unstoppable foe on
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Greystone Inn archives: Toxic Lad Having just wrapped up a look inside the Evil Inc Day Care, I thought I’d draw some attention to the Greystone Inn storyline that inspired me to create the day care in the first place.
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Two New Sponsors of Evil Please welcome two new Sponsors of Evil! The first if Bunky Nuglets. Bunky is a tightly-drawn personality-based comedy by Anthony Orr. From the creator’s blog on the first day of posting the comic: The idea
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WonderCon Roundup WonderCon wrapped yesterday, and it seems there was a lot of news made. Here’s some of the best stories from the weekend. DC’s Great Expectations Panel: [CBR] After Friday’s DC Nation panel, Dan Didio returned to Wondercon on
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New York Comic Con 2007 Con Report My first convention of 2007, the New York Comic Convention, was a tremendous success. I sold almost everything I brought to sell and met a truckload of nice people. All in all, it
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A Justice League movie? [ROTTEN TOMATOES] Now here’s a dream project that should fill the comic geeks and the movie nerds with much excitement: Warner Bros. just hired a husband-wife writing team to pen a “Justice League” movie. Read the
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Back in Black [NEWSARAMA] Spider-Man changes his look! Fans go crazy! And the best-selling singles that spring are by Van Halen, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins and Lionel Richie! That’s right, kids. We’re talking about when Spider-Man changed his clothes. With
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New York Comic Con: Feb 23-25 The first big convention of 2007 is this weekend! Make plans to be there immediately! Fellow BLCer Paul Southworth and I will be out there, but it won’t be the same without you! I’ll
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Greystone Inn archives: Mardi Gras Since Mardi Gras is here, I figured I’d dig up this storyline from the Greystone archives. It was based on a trip that my wife and I took to New Orleans in 2001. The hotel
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Creators Syndicate’s Torture Chamber Just when you think an institution can’t sink any lower… Check out the latest post on the Daily Cartoonist: Today, Creators Syndicate posted the first strip of a new feature that they have under development. The
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Wiki Watch: Starslip Crisis Riddle me this: When is a defeat really a victory? No one but the ultra-creative Kristofer Straub could have come up with this: There’s been a little bit of a furor over Wikipedia and its inclusion
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Wiki Watch: Ugly Hill Victory Paul Southworth posted some great news on his Ugly Hill Web site. Once again the fans have rallied around a comic that was threatened from being deleted from Wikipedia — and saved it. There’s been
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Seven Years! Today marks seven years of producing a daily comic strip for me! I launched my first comic, Greystone Inn seven years ago today. Greystone ran six-days-a-week (with few exceptions) until June 21, 2005. The next day, of course,
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Foglio’s ‘Girl Genius’ Comic Book Resources has an excellent interview with Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the fabulous Girl Genius. [CBR] Everybody loves a mad scientist. Well, okay, maybe not the villagers with the torches and the pitchforks, but
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New York Comic Con: Feb 23-25 The first big convention of 2007 is just under two weeks away! If you’re not making plans to attend this one, you really ought to consider it! Fellow BLCer Paul Southworth and I will
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Hey Wikipedia! It’s the Beevnicks! I have to tell you, Owen Dunne always manages to make me laugh. I truly think he’s a genius in every sense of the word. And one of my very first pieces of fan mail
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WikiWatch: Still ‘Ugly’ If Wikipedia spent less time trying to delete valid webcomic entries (like Ugly Hill), they’d have more time to ferret out actual problems such as those that arose when Anna Nicle Smith passed away.

WikiWatch: Getting ‘Ugly’ Moments after the dust settled on the Evil Inc/Wikipedia fracas, the Wikipedia entry for Ugly Hill entry has been flagged for deletion! The creator of the strip, Paul Southworth, was one of the first people to alert
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Greystone Inn archives: Prehistoric strips As I approach my seventh (seventh!) anniversary of daily comic-stripping on the Web, I thought it would be fun to review my very first attempts at Greystone Inn.

WikiWatch: Fini I just wanted to take a minute and thank all of you Evil Inc henchmen, lackeys, thugs, and goons. Your response to the Wikipedia situation was truly incredible! I could only wish that every cartoonist had people like
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WikiWatch: Un-Un-Un-Deleted! Thanks to the strong response from readers and right-minded Wiki-editors, the Evil Inc entry in Wikipedia has been restored — and much improved! But the battle is not over! First of all, anything that can be un-un-un-deleted can
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WikiWatch: Un-Un-Deleted! In an astounding display of hubris, the Wikipedia editors have deleted the entry for Evil Inc a second time! The vindictive move came mere hours after the entry had been reported un-deleted. It was also made in the
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