The Umbrella Academy strikes again!
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rosiesparkI'm filled with RIDICULOUS levels of GLEE over the news that The Umbrella Academy won an Eisner Award for best limited series. That's pretty damn impressive! Go Gerard Way, comic book author!! I mean, I'm sitting here grinning like an idiot, so I can't even IMAGINE the glee-faces that Gerard is making... I am SOOOO happy for him! ::clasps hands to fangirly heart::
Today's crop of UA links, collected from all over the place and posted here for my own future reference as well as for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fajrdrako's delectation:
- Full list of Eisner winners. Including James Jean for best cover artist and Dave Stewart for best colouring - go Umbrella Academy team!
- interview snippet with Gerard in a feature on Dark Horse comics - he looks both relieved and THRILLED when the interviewer calls TUA "amazingly assured" and "a really cool debut". Rolled up sleeves! Waistcoat and tie - obviously part of his comic book author costume! Though he looks strangely unlike himself - unshaven and underslept, perhaps, but I think something's off in the lighting or his make-up, because he looks fine in the next clip linked below, which was obviously filmed on the same day.
- another video of Gerard talking about the UA as "a postmodern superhero story". Looking hot this time, with bonus flaily hands of glee. ::dies some more::
- Series 2 is called The Scarecrow Blues and apparently reveals a lot more of Number Five's story - hurrah! I have a decided fondness for Number Five. I really like his slightly weird but actually quite healthy detachedness from the others due to avoiding the last twenty years of Hargreeves sibling fuck-ups, and then there's the fact that he's an adult, not to say an old man, who is trapped in the body of a ten-year-old. The latter is sometimes hilariously evident, like when he orders coffees from the rather hard-boiled waitress at a seedy diner in the middle of the night with a nonchalant "Two cups, black, my dear." And he wears shorts, school-uniform shorts, with argyll socks. Because he's ten. ::flails::
- awesome pics bylimmenel from Gerard's ComicCon panel with Grant Morrison here. Looking good, Gee!
- And lastly, a link to a pic posted bynokomis305 of "rumpled absent-minded Professor" Gerard Way clutching his Eisner. GLEE FACES ALL ROUND!!
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Today's crop of UA links, collected from all over the place and posted here for my own future reference as well as for
fajrdrako's delectation:- Full list of Eisner winners. Including James Jean for best cover artist and Dave Stewart for best colouring - go Umbrella Academy team!
- interview snippet with Gerard in a feature on Dark Horse comics - he looks both relieved and THRILLED when the interviewer calls TUA "amazingly assured" and "a really cool debut". Rolled up sleeves! Waistcoat and tie - obviously part of his comic book author costume! Though he looks strangely unlike himself - unshaven and underslept, perhaps, but I think something's off in the lighting or his make-up, because he looks fine in the next clip linked below, which was obviously filmed on the same day.
- another video of Gerard talking about the UA as "a postmodern superhero story". Looking hot this time, with bonus flaily hands of glee. ::dies some more::
- Series 2 is called The Scarecrow Blues and apparently reveals a lot more of Number Five's story - hurrah! I have a decided fondness for Number Five. I really like his slightly weird but actually quite healthy detachedness from the others due to avoiding the last twenty years of Hargreeves sibling fuck-ups, and then there's the fact that he's an adult, not to say an old man, who is trapped in the body of a ten-year-old. The latter is sometimes hilariously evident, like when he orders coffees from the rather hard-boiled waitress at a seedy diner in the middle of the night with a nonchalant "Two cups, black, my dear." And he wears shorts, school-uniform shorts, with argyll socks. Because he's ten. ::flails::
- awesome pics by
limmenel from Gerard's ComicCon panel with Grant Morrison here. Looking good, Gee!- And lastly, a link to a pic posted by
nokomis305 of "rumpled absent-minded Professor" Gerard Way clutching his Eisner. GLEE FACES ALL ROUND!!.
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Date: 2008-08-14 04:24 pm (UTC)I really wonder what the Watchman movie will be like. I guess I won't know till I see it!
Maybe a connection? Well, yes! A theme is a theme is a theme, and some visual themes are more obvious than others - !
I think I've been spoilt by consorting with Dunnett readers.
Truly; fannishness with other Dunnett fans is an extra level of pleasure, whatever the subject at hand. I can recall reading and discussing Watchmen with other Dunnett fans when it came out - I was so thrilled to learn that there were Dunnett fans (like Tovah and Cheryl, for example) who also loved comics and applied the same sort of thinking to comics that warranted it.