toasted!zine – January 27th, 2003
by : Brandon Schatz

'Ello, 'Ello, 'Ello

It's funny. For months now, DC would put their solicits online about on the Monday a week before Previews hits the stands, Marvel would post theirs on the Monday right before Previews hit the stands, and the other companies would release information whenever it tickled their fancy.

And the month that we announce we're going to look at the solicits in their entirety... that's when they all come late. Marvel isn't listing theirs until Wednesday. Buggers. *ahem*

So, a large chunk of what we've been working on for a week is gone. Not cool.

Add to that, the fact that a huge cold snap has hit, taking temperatures down to –50°C without windchill being factored in, and you got yourself some problems with my car not starting. My car not starting in turn leads me to have problems getting to my job, unless I stay at my grandparent's house for the week. Being at my grandparent's house for a week means there is a potential that I will not be able to use the internet for days (until the weekend, at most). Unless, they left their internet password somewhere accessible for me before they left for Arizona for a month.

Ugh.

So, you'll have to be content with a meager offering this week. All I have for you is a very big, roomy set of Toasted News Boxers, and... well, nothing else until next week. So... sorry. I really did mean to do better.

Now, before I continue, I'll have to thank Craig "Hero of the Indy Comics" Reade for posting this for me. You... are going to post this for me, aren't you Craig? Craig??? Nope, sorry dude. Won't do it

Here's hoping.

Oh. And remember...

Stay lightly toasted!

-b.

Toasted News Boxers

Broadcasting across the world from Studio 8¼ in Nanuktuk Center, it's Toasted News Boxers with brandon schatz and Amy Johnson.

brandon: Hello and welcome to Toasted News Boxers. Here are this week's top stories.

Amy: X-treme X-Men will be cancelled with issue number 46, leaving author Chris Clairmont to take on Uncanny, X-Men: The End, and another title (presumably the confirmed Excalibur). In a related story, videotapes of internet trolls simultaneously cheering and weeping are due to be on America's Funniest Home Videos in the near future.

brandon: Joe Quesada will be writing and drawing an upcoming Daredevil mini entitled The Father.

Early insider reports say the series is about Daredevil chasing down an insane pop artist who goes about dangling his children outside of windows.

Amy: The hefty price tag of DC's New Frontier has come into the spotlight. Darwyn Cooke has come out on various internet forums and told everybody that he had always meant for the series to have a $4.95 price tag, having requested no cardstock covers or glue backing in order to save money.

When contacted by TNB a DC representative's secretary stated that said representative couldn't come to the phone right now. He was too busy rubbing hundred dollar bills all over his body.

brandon: The Pulse will be beginning to ship bi-monthly, thus saving Mark Bagely's (the series' artist for the first arc) head from exploding.

Amy: Alex Ross was recently asked when or if he would stop hating Kyle Rayner (the current Green Lantern), and his response was "I hate to tell you this, but I don't have to!...WE WIN!"

Ross is apparently very excited, because his long lost project, Kyle Rayner Gets Eaten By An Angry Cantaloupe just might see the schedule.