DC MAKES WASH POST, TV GUIDE, FLAUNT [Archive]

MattBrady

04-29-2003, 08:49 AM

Press Release

<blockquote>THE WASHINGTON POST DEBUTS ITS NEW POP CULTURE SECTION WITH SUPERMAN: RED SON

The April 27 edition of the Washington Post debuts its new Pop Culture Section "SUNDAY SOURCE" with a review of SUPERMAN: RED SON, including cover art! In the section's "Media Mix: A Quick Take on the Week's New Releases," critic Chris Petropoulos reviews SUPERMAN: RED SON #1, giving it a grade of "B" and writing that the issue will make you nostalgic for your Reagan-era childhood.

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TV GUIDE FEATURES SUPER FRIENDS!: " Justice has never been this fun. "

The May 3 issue of TV Guide features Super Friends! in all its incarnations, including the DVD from Warner Home Video, DC Comics' SUPER FRIENDS!: TRUTH JUSTICE AND PEACE TP and the new SUPER FRIENDS! DELUXE ACTION FIGURE SETS from DC Direct, illustrated by a shot of Cheetah and Wonder Woman. " They were the rat pack of the super-hero world - cool individually, but together ... wow. "

The issue is on sale now.

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FLAUNT MAGAZINE FEATURES PETER BAGGE'S SWEATSHOP

This just in: The press loves SWEATSHOP! Having already been featured in Jane, The Advocate and Spin, Peter Bagge's SWEATSHOP #1 is now featured in the May issue of the hipster magazine Flaunt with cover art!

Flaunt calls Bagge "one of the most brilliant cartoonists of the era," and states that SWEATSHOP, Bagge's hilarious send-up of the comics industry, "...could easily be a satirical depiction of a motion picture studio, record company, or any office. It's a series worth reading, for certain."</blockquote>

OM

04-29-2003, 09:08 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Matty noted:
In the section's "Media Mix: A Quick Take on the Week's New Releases," critic Chris Petropoulos reviews SUPERMAN: RED SON #1, giving it a grade of "B" and writing that the issue will make you nostalgic for your Reagan-era childhood."<hr /></blockquote>...Childhood??

Try college years, Matty.

...Back in those days, we lived expecting full well that by 1988 the nukes would be flying, and all those russian classes I took would come in handy because I'd be able to understand the commie bastards when they showed up glowing in the dark trying to surrender. Punk and New Wave were giving us an energy that would soon be neutered by the arrival of Hair Metal, while Art Rock had sold out to Top 40 and robbed us of the creative aspects of music. But those worthless Mad Mothers hadn't yet got their shit together and screwed with our drinking habits, which by 1986 would result in the drinking age raised to an ethically illegal 21 years of age - old enough to kill for Uncle Sam, too young to drink is criminal any way you look at it. For $3 a night, you could usually find all the booze you could drink during the week, and it helped keep the edge off of your final exams, especially when you've forgotten to bring your D&D dice to help you with those Scantron forms.

Nope, not my childhood, but still some of my more favorite years...

hondo

04-29-2003, 10:35 AM

Amen OM !

IanZL

04-29-2003, 10:56 AM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by OM:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Matty noted:
In the section's "Media Mix: A Quick Take on the Week's New Releases," critic Chris Petropoulos reviews SUPERMAN: RED SON #1, giving it a grade of "B" and writing that the issue will make you nostalgic for your Reagan-era childhood."<hr /></blockquote>...Childhood??

Try college years, Matty.

...Back in those days, we lived expecting full well that by 1988 the nukes would be flying, and all those russian classes I took would come in handy because I'd be able to understand the commie bastards when they showed up glowing in the dark trying to surrender. Punk and New Wave were giving us an energy that would soon be neutered by the arrival of Hair Metal, while Art Rock had sold out to Top 40 and robbed us of the creative aspects of music. But those worthless Mad Mothers hadn't yet got their shit together and screwed with our drinking habits, which by 1986 would result in the drinking age raised to an ethically illegal 21 years of age - old enough to kill for Uncle Sam, too young to drink is criminal any way you look at it. For $3 a night, you could usually find all the booze you could drink during the week, and it helped keep the edge off of your final exams, especially when you've forgotten to bring your D&D dice to help you with those Scantron forms.

Nope, not my childhood, but still some of my more favorite years...<hr /></blockquote><blockquote>code:<hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;"> </pre><hr /></blockquote>This explains a lot OM

CoreyB

04-29-2003, 06:37 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by OM:
 <blockquote>quote:<hr />Matty noted:
In the section's "Media Mix: A Quick Take on the Week's New Releases," critic Chris Petropoulos reviews SUPERMAN: RED SON #1, giving it a grade of "B" and writing that the issue will make you nostalgic for your Reagan-era childhood."<hr /></blockquote>...Childhood??

Try college years, Matty.<hr /></blockquote>Uh... not only did Matt not write this press release from DC, he didn't write the Washington Post review that this portion of the press release cites.

Great to see more high-profile (ie main stream) press for comics!

MyWords