Comics can predict the future....sorta

Somebody did a lot of research for this article. In it, it explores the phenomenon of how comics have quasi-predicted the future. It's a great read and kinda creepy how accurate they can be.  My favourite is the attack on the Twin Towers ( not that the event was my favourite, just that nobody saw this coming, or won't admit to it. A similar prediction happened on the TV series Lone Gunmen)

That Superman comic from the mid-'70s may not have anticipated the 9/11 attacks ... but this one from September 12, 2001, did.

The issue showed the aftermath of an alien invasion on Metropolis, and it included the following panel:

That's right, that image appeared in a Superman comic that came out on the day after the attacks. That's actually supposed to be Lex Luthor's LexCorp building, which is a single tower with a top floor shaped like a giant L.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18836_6-eerily-specific-world-events-predicted-by-comics_p2.html#ixzz15NVXAcBn

Batman: A retrospective

Harvey Pekar

CBC News - Books - Harvey Pekar

In comics circles, cranks are king.
Harvey Pekar was the king of cranks. He was a born contrarian, a writer whose ironically titled comic-book series American Splendor was a compendium of personal grievances, largely about human nature and its failings.

Pekar, who died Monday at the age of 70, was a product of Cleveland, his blue-collar hometown. His disillusionment with the American Dream and its diminishing returns echoed his city’s decline as a manufacturing centre, and he found an outlet for his frustrations in comics.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/07/13/f-harvey-pekar-appreciation.html#ixzz0uWi3j09v

D.C. Comics Legend Dick Giordano, Dead at 77 - Superhero Hype!

D.C. Comics Legend Dick Giordano, Dead at 77 - Superhero Hype!

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Superhero Hype is sad to report the passing of D.C. Comics great Dick Giordano (1932 - 2010), who began working at the company in the late '60s as an editor, but whose popularity hit its stride when he inked Neal Adams' run of Batman and the classic Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-up series of the '70s. Giordano also inked the very first Marvel/DC inter-company crossover Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man in 1978 and inked Adams on the even more unconventional one-shot Superman vs. Muhammad Ali.  

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Comic Book Writter on NY times best list.

Check out the link for the original article.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/the-nifty-50-geoff-johns-comic-book-writer/

“I like taking the characters that aren’t necessarily Superman and Batman – though they’re great, too – and propel them into the mainstream,” says Geoff Johns of his work for DC Comics. Nowhere is this approach more evident than in his revitalization of Green Lantern, a hero whom Johns brought back from the dead in 2005 and is now starring in “Blackest Night,” a top-selling storyline affecting all DC heroes.