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So last year I did a post I really enjoyed, about my 12 Birthday Wishes, since my She Has No Head! column fell on my birthdate.

While recording 3 Chicks this week, Sue asked if I was doing it again, and I said no.  I didn’t do it again because A) my column didn’t fall on my exact birthday and B) it was a lot of work, and I was tired.  But in looking at the post again I realized that I ALSO didn’t do it because of secret reason C) which is that it was “too depressing”  – i.e. short of Stumptown #4 coming out and me buying myself some things, pretty much NONE of my birthday wishes came true.  I guess you could make an argument that #11 sort of came true since Marvel did the excellent Strange Tales this past year, but short of that, all my awesome wishes remain painfully unfulfilled.  So sad.  Head on over to the original post to check those awesome unfulfilled wishes out.

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…to have really talented friends that draw comics.  Cause then you get birthday presents like this!

MOST. ADORABLE. ROGUE. EVER.

Courtesy of my good friend and supremely talented writer and artist Ross Campbell.

Thanks Ross!

xoxoxo, Kelly

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ARGH!

I have been nursing (and nurturing) a really great idea for a while now…an idea I’ve fallen head over goddamn heels in love with.

But it’s also an idea that nobody is going to let me do for quite some time…unless I do it as a novel (note to self: see if there’s a way to do this as a novel) and I’ve just realized that one of the base elements, a big part of the basic concept (which I have always slightly worried was a bit too close for MY comfort to Fables, is also being mined HERE (Grimm) and HERE (Once Upon A Time).

Bah!

Grimm actually looks good, probably because David Greenwalt – and other Buffy and Angel peeps are involved.  I think my idea is quite different than Grimm…but I think it’s also too “the same” for anyone to give it a go…certainly any time in the near future.  Once Upon A Time looks not so good (but only based on the two previews I saw) and seems very far away from my idea.  But even so it still treads in the familiar “fairy tales/fiction-y” ground that I think is going to be over-mined before I can get my idea out there.

SO…GODFUCKINGDAMNITTOTHAT.

I’m so sick of losing great ideas by being just two steps (or a billion) behind.

I was going to have a little mock funeral for my idea, so I could attempt to mourn it and move on…but now I think I’ll pillage it and see if I can turn it into a series of novels…

Funeral temporary postponed…until further notice…

In the meantime, here’s a sketch from my possibly dead, possibly resurrected idea! C’mon life, give a girl (me!) a series of awesome breaks…PLEASE.

Tessa Battle and her axe 'The Black Dove'

 

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You can buy from Ross at TCAF…!

Also, check out my advance review (plus preview pages) of the SiL on Comics Should Be Good

AND squint really hard and you can see my name on the back of SIL…!  So cool!

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No freaking contest people.

Skottie Young, boy genius, or something like that.  Check out this Ozma of Oz #6 goodness!

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Because I needed it today, and because I love you all and wanted to share the wealth…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrICRGIZRF4?rel=0&w=640&h=390]

Thanks to Thought Catalog for the discovery.

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Lifted from DC Women Kicking Ass who totally discovered it first.  But I couldn’t help myself.  So hilarious.

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Every once in a while I enjoy some funny bit of writing so much that writing wins out over art and takes panel of the week (or in this case, page of the week).  This is from Kieron Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men #535.  The art, which is lovely as always, but not some crazy mindblowing something (talking heads rarely are) is Terry and Rachel Dodson.

I just love Dr. Nemesis* and his bitchy little better than everyone else attitude…which must just be a thing I like, because it’s one of the reasons I enjoy Emma Frost so much as well.   In fact, it might just be the writer in me knowing how deliciously fun those characters are to write.  Suffice to say that when Dr. Nemesis and Emma trade witty bitchy barbs I am in HEAVEN.  Anyway, Gillen nails it here, as Dr. Nemesis talks to Magneto in a way almost nobody talks to Magneto.  I love when comics are fun.  LOOOOVE IT.

Bonus points for use of “Nazis”, “Science sticks”, “Foolish Space Tin”, and referring to Cyclops as “The one-eyed visir” all in one awesome page.  HI-LARIOUS.

click to enbiggen!

PS – Ross, this is Dr. Nemesis!  😉

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Sometimes you just gotta pick the simplest panel that is the best example of great storytelling and great character work.

When an artist can tell me the internal thoughts of a character in just a single expressive panel – in this case a tiny sliver of a character’s face – you have to realize you’re dealing with an insanely talented artist…the kind of artist that makes comics worth reading, worth loving.

As is the case with Phil Noto on this week’s Wolverine and Jubilee #3.

Take a look:

So goddamn good.  Thank you Phil Noto!

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Any week that The New York Five comes out is a rough week for anyone else to win cover of the week as I am just loving Ryan Kelly’s covers for this series.  There’s honestly nothing I haven’t adored about each issue’s cover so far, and issue #3 is one of my favorites, check it out:

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