The guys over at the Geeks of Doom were kind enough to review the Free Comic Book Day issue of Kid Houdini.

And it’s a good one!

The guys at “Comics And…” just reviewed the Free Comic Book Day issue of Kid Houdini and the Silver-Dollar Misfits.

MySpace is promoting Kid Houdini and the Silver-Dollar Misfits as its ”featured preview.”

Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/comicbooks

If you haven’t caught this podcast about comics, check it out! This week they interview …(gulp) ME.

Justin, Brian, and Tom talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of comics. I do my best to not sound like a dweeb.

Michael Jantze has long since stopped syndicating the Norm comic strip, and I miss seeing it–or any of his stuff–in the newspapers. So, it was nice to hear what he’s been up to lately.

“I thought you’d like a peak at what’s coming…some animated 
works! Go to:

http://www.youtube.com/jantzestudios

to see The Norm as well as two other works I’ve written and directed. 
One is a new character titled ‘Mr. Lux’ and the other short you’ll 
find in the “favorites” box. It’s a ‘Zits’ short I just wrote and 
directed for Jerry and Jim of Zits Partnership. They’re using it to 
promote their new book ‘Jeremy and Mom’…”
 

Already the Free Comic Book Day version of Kid Houdini and the Silver-Dollar Misfits has a preorder of 20,000 copies. If you haven’t done so already, head on down to your friendly neighborhood comic book store and ask for the Kid.

 Also just listed in the April comic book/graphic novel previews, page 354:

Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Misfits!

Diamond Order Code: APR08 4171.

I promise it will be good, wholesome, escapist summertime reading for the whole family!

I know I’m usually a decade behind on things like this (I’m still using a Betamax when the rest of the world is about to switch over to Blu-Ray DVD), but I recently discovered this great animated short based on the comic series, “Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher.”

Directed by Alexander Woo, it won a student academy award in 2004.

Due to technical difficulties, I can’t seem to embed the YouTube video. However, if you mosey over to my Humorous Maximus site, you can view it in all its 2-D animated, red-white-and-blue glory.

Here’s an interesting blog from editor Billy Liggett of the Sanford Herald. It has created quite a backlash in the North Carolina community.

“Dennis the Menace has been a thorn in my side the past few days.
The lovable little blonde terror was cut from our newspaper’s daily comic strips this week because of a placement problem we were having. You see, “They’ll do it every time” stopped production because of the December death of its author, so we were forced to go with something else.
“We had run an online poll last fall asking people what comics they wanted and what they wanted to see gone. One of the ones people wanted was a comic called Zits. So we obliged.
“Unfortunately, Zits is a three panel strip, and TDIET was a single panel strip. So in order to make it fit, we also had to replace TDIET’s neighbor, Dennis the Menace, with another three panel strip. I chose “Get Fuzzy,” as it’s a personal favorite of mine and some on my staff.
“I’ve had a few people tell me they like the new comics (I don’t actually expect people to write me to say they like something), but I’ve had more than a handful of people threaten cancellation of their newspaper if we don’t bring back Dennis.
“Cancel the newspaper? Is he really all that great?
Look, I have nothing against the tyke. I loved going to Dairy Queen and having Dennis appear on my blizzards. I liked the poorly illustrated but pretty clever cartoon from the 80s. I even kind of like the strip … but it’s nothing I’d cancel a newspaper over.
So, for those of you who want Dennis back … there’s good news. We’re looking for a way to make him “fit.” It may take a couple of days, but it will happen. I know many of the people who want Dennis don’t read this blog, so if you do, please pass this on.
“I personally don’t think it’s an important part of the newspaper, but like I’ve said in the past, it doesn’t matter what I think. If somebody wants to cancel because of Dennis, that’s their choice, because they’re our customer.
“Look out in the Herald for the big news on when Dennis will return.”