Blogosphere Random Shuffle
“‘Look at all that stuff Kirby came up with,’ [Dean Haspiel] says. ‘Kirby just INVENTED on paper, he didn’t bother to build any of it. He already thought of it. It was enough to just think of it — he was just blueprinting the future…’
“‘Sometimes I feel like all science is doing now is reverse-engeneering Jack Kirby. All the iPhone is is a retarted Mother Box,’ I declare.” -Paul Pope, on Jack Kirby
“At a time when most mainstream comics were a brutal embarrassment, garishly drawn and written at subliterates, all reacting to an explosion that was, at that point, half a decade old, there came this Jagger-mouthed and Ashcroft-cheeked madman from Ohio, wearing girl’s jeans and running his own photographs and drawing goofy inkbursts and loping left-hand comics from Mars.” -Matt Fraction, on Paul Pope
“It’s Independence Day, yes, when we here in Great Britain celebrate our Great Project — creating an entire country for comedy purposes in the guise of ceding America its independence. Thank you for giving us literally hundreds of years of laughter.” -Warren Ellis