COMIC BOOK ITEM TO PROVE THAT MY JOB IS TO MAKE COMICS:
Ummmmmmmmmmmm…oh! Ok, here’s the cover for FRANKLIN RICHARDS: APRIL FOOLS by Chris Eliopoulos and Brad Anderson. And just because it’s still fun, here’s the cover for FRANKLIN RICHARDS: DARK REIGNING CATS AND DOGS, which we’re wrapping up this week.
Special shout-out to whoever writes whatever DARK REIGN is, which allowed us to make a cover featuring dogs playing the part of precipitation.
Moving on…
There’s no college football on.
This is what a junkie feels like when they go off the…um, Kool-Aid. (hi kids!)
I don’t have time to set a theme or anything. I’m in rehab. This is what I did last night:
-Watched recorded 60 Minutes segments that featured USC coach Pete Carroll and Texas Tech coach Mike Leach. (how friggin’ awesome is Leach? He likes pirates and Geronimo. Jeez, I wanna hang with him)
-Read three chapters of The Maisel Report: College Football’s Most Overrated and Underrated Players, Coaches, Teams, and Traditions. Maisel’s the senior college football writer for ESPN, and he likes to pontificate on the beauty and ridiculousness of college football. I highly recommend his podcasts with Beano Cook, all of which I’ve saved and am relistening (not a real word) to while I run to keep from…I dunno, crying, or even worse, having to think about baseball.
-Listened to The B.S. Report With Bill Simmons podcast. He went on for an hour and a half about the dumb, depressing way that the NFL playoffs have been so far. Agreed. Made me miss college football more.
-Watched "Slumdog Millionaire" again. Good movie. My girlfriend can’t stop talking about it. I think her Facebook profile thing says “So excited about Slumdog winning Golden Globes” or something.
By the way, did you know that Facebook is ridiculous and no one with any type of controversy in their past should even think about being on it, for fear that someone will do a background check on you and find out you did nothing in college but sniff glue and drop frozen Hot Pockets from tenth-story dorm rooms onto cars? And if you HAVEN’T done anything controversial, what’s the point? Why do you want to see what people you don’t care enough to see or call are doing? Facebook is almost as dumb as having a blog on a popular comic book website where you never talk about comics.
-Read four New York Times articles by Michael Lewis (writer of Moneyball and The Blind Side, two of the greatest books ever) about Mike Leach, Bill Parcells, kickers, and the hypocrisy of calling college football players “student athletes.”
-Rewatched part of the Ole Miss/Texas Tech bowl game. Ahhhhh, bless you, Houston Nutt.
-Fell asleep watching the Ricky Gervais HBO special. The parts I was conscious for were funny.
I can do this. The season’s only eight months away.
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About this blog: By day, he’s a mild-mannered comic book editor! By night, he’s an obsessive sports fan!
By early morning, he drinks coffee and then runs! He’s Nathan Cosby, and he has thoughts about things.
This is them.
About the author: When Associate Editor Nathan Cosby is not thinking about football, he edits Marvel’s All-Ages books, including the Marvel Adventures line (Spidey, FF, Avengers, Super Heroes), X-Men and Wolverine First Class, Franklin Richards, Mini Marvels, and Power Pack, works on the Marvel Illustrated and Stephen King books, does the Custom Comics, and runs Super Hero Squad. There’s like 20 other things he does, but he’s bored with typing this.
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