Look: it is the new Tilting At Windmills, and here I talk about Neil Gaiman and Tyrese Gibson and Social Networking and Marketing, and how perfect storms are pretty imperfect after all.
Some months are a long hard search for a subject, but this month was, in a way, a gift as it was 100% obvious what I HAD to write about.
If you don't/won't/can't comment at CBR, well you can say something here (but Jonah'd be more happy if you said something over there, yeah)
-B
I finally set up a Facebook page, maybe five years late, I guess? I mean, heck, my DAD already had one (not that I knew that until I made my own), which really tells you that I am a late adopter... I also have one set up for the store, but I have this sneaking feeling we did something wrong, because people can't be "friends" to Comix Experience, only "fans"? Fuck, I have no idea what I am doing!
I don't really "get" the "social networking" thing -- I mean, is the idea to "gotta catch them all" and to add friends to anyone even slightly connected to your fields of interest? Or are you meant to actually only add ACTUAL friends? I don't really know. I've been limiting myself more or less to people in my address book or that I have some sort of valid personal connection to or communication with, but I keep thinking I should add ANY comics related person. But that seems gauche to me, some how. Opinions are certainly welcome!
What I also really don't get is how you people have time to keep up with all of this -- I mean, it seems to me, if I go the "anyone in comics" route, that I could spend 20-30 hours finding people and adding them, and that's before I even DO anything with MY page, or pay attention to any interest other than the Big One. Do all of these people just sit around at work all day NOT working or something? That's really the only thing that makes sense to me...
Anyway, if you use that thing, feel free to add me as a friend, and Comix Experience as a fan, because everyone likes big numbers, I guess.
Coming in 2014: maybe I'll "tweet" by then (though if I have THAT kind of free time, I'm probably doing something wrong!)
2000 AD #1627
2000 AD #1628
2000 AD #1629
2000 AD #1630
A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #103 (A)
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #5
ARCHIE #596
ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #198 (NOTE PRICE)
ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #15
ATOMIC ROBO SHADOW FROM BEYOND TIME #1 (OF 5)
AVENGERS INVADERS #10 (OF 12)
BATMAN BATTLE FOR THE COWL THE UNDERGROUND #1
BATMAN GOTHAM AFTER MIDNIGHT #12 (OF 12)
CAPTAIN AMERICA THEATER OF WAR BROTHER IN ARMS
CARTOON NETWORK BLOCK PARTY #56
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #10
DARK AVENGERS #4
DARK REIGN CABAL DKR
DEAN KOONTZS NEVERMORE #1 (OF 6)
DR DOOM MASTERS OF EVIL #4 (OF 4)
ENDERS GAME BATTLE SCHOOL #5 (OF 5)
FARSCAPE DARGOS LAMENT #1 (OF 4)
FINAL CRISIS LEGION OF THREE WORLDS #4 (OF 5)
FRINGE #4 (OF 6) (RES)
FULL CIRKLE II #3 (OF 3)
GARTH ENNIS BATTLEFIELDS TANKIES #1
GEARS OF WAR #6
GRAVEL #10
GREEN LANTERN #40
JUNGLE GIRL SEASON 2 #4 (OF 5)
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #26 COVER A
KABUKI REFLECTIONS #13
LITERALS #1 (OF 3)
MAD MAGAZINE #500
MADAME XANADU #10
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #15 (RES)
MARVEL 70TH ANNIV CELEBRATION
MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS #35
MARVEL ASSISTANT SIZE SPECTACULAR #2 (OF 2)
MASQUERADE #3
MS MARVEL #38 DKR
MUPPET SHOW #2 (OF 4) CVR A
NOVA #24
PHONOGRAM 2 #2 (OF 7) SINGLES CLUB
PROOF #19
RASL #4
RED SONJA #43
RUNAWAYS 3 #9
SHERLOCK HOLMES #1
SKAAR #10
SONIC UNIVERSE #3
SPAWN #191
STAR WARS LEGACY #35 STORMS PT 2 (OF 2)
SUPERMAN #687
SUPERMAN BATMAN #59
TEEN TITANS #70
THUNDERBOLTS #131 DKR
TRINITY #48
ULTIMATE WOLVERINE VS HULK #5 (OF 6)
UNCANNY X-MEN #509
UNKNOWN SOLDIER #7
WAR MACHINE #5 DKR
WITCHBLADE #126 SEJIC CVR A
WONDER WOMAN #31
X-MEN ORIGINS WOLVERINE #1
Books / Mags / Stuff
ABC WARRIORS SHADOW WARRIORS GN
ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN FOR TOMORROW HC
ANGST BEST OF NORWEGIAN COMICS TP VOL 02
ANITA BLAKE PREM HC BOOK 01 LC ANIMATOR
ARCHIE HIGH SCHOOL CHRONICLES TP VOL 01 FRESHMAN YEAR
ASTOUNDING WOLF MAN TP VOL 02
BLUECOATS GN VOL 02 NAVY BLUES
CHRONICLES OF CONAN TP VOL 17 CREATION QUEST
CLASSWAR SERIES 1 COLL ED HC
DRAW #17
GREEN LANTERN CHRONICLES TP VOL 01
GREEN LANTERN SINESTRO CORPS WAR TP VOL 01
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY PREM HC EARTH SHALL OVERCOME
HOUSE OF M TP CIVIL WAR
IZNOGOUD GN VOL 03 DAY OF MISRULE
JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #52
JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #283
LEES TOY REVIEW #196 MAR 2009
LITTLE LULU TP VOL 19 ALAMO & OTHER STORIES
MANHUNTER TP VOL 05 FORGOTTEN
MMW AVENGERS TP VOL 01
PATH OF THE ASSASSIN TP VOL 15 BAD BLOOD PART 2
PREVIEWS #248 MAY 2009 (NET)
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS TP VOL 01
QUEEN & COUNTRY DEFINITIVE ED TP VOL 04
RESURRECTION TP VOL 01
SECOND THOUGHTS GN
SPIDER-MAN SPIDER-WOMAN TP DIGEST
STAR WARS ADV TP VOL 01 HAN SOLO & HOLLOW MOON OF KHORYA
STAR WARS KNIGHTS O/T OLD REPUBLIC TP VOL 06 VINDICATION
SUPERNATURAL RISING SON TP
THOR HC AGES OF THUNDER
THORGAL GN VOL 05 LAND OF QA
ULTIMATE IRON MAN TP VOL 02
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN TP BK 02 ULTIMATE COLLECTION
VIDEO WATCHDOG #149
WIZARD MAG #212 TOP 100 GN LAST 15 YEARS CVR
What looks good to YOU?
-B
