Fanboyplanet.com on “Marvel Nemesis” Issue One, which hit stores Wednesday:
Marvel does a videogame crossover that could be just a cheaply hyped book. But they put Greg Pak on the writing and the mysterious Renato Arlem on the art, making for something creepier and more clever than it deserves to be.
IGN.com gives “X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong” Issue Five this week’s “Sweetest Cover” prize and offers the following review:
The swansong for this saga is certainly the best issue of the five and is handled quite nicely. It’s a tad sentimental, but then, so is every great comic-book drama.
ComixFan.com has included Greg Pak’s four issue “Warlock” miniseries in its list of the Top Ten Trades You’ll Never See. A quote from the article:
With so many comics featuring a bleak view of the world, and so many that pretend at philosophy without truly saying anything, it�s a shame that this quietly philosophical gem remains forgotten.
“X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong” has scored four and a half stars in an advance review from Comixtreme.com. The comic book hits stores on Wednesday, April 27.
Buzzscope.com has posted five preview pages of “Phoenix – Endsong” Issue Five, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Greg Land. The issue hits stores on April 27.
Buzzscope.com has posted a few preview pages from issue one of “Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects,” written by Greg Pak with pencils by Renato Arlem. The comic book hits stores on May 11.
“Greg Pak delivers the enormous scale of the mini through the subtle emotions and decisions of each of the individual X-men.”
– PaperBackReader.com
“… a surprisingly successful exercise in getting under the skin of the core characters, while serving the needs of continuity into the bargain.Ý Much better than it has any right to be.”
– TheXAxis.com
“Robot Stories,” the award winning feature film directed by Greg Pak, is now available on DVD from Kino International. Receive 30 percent off for a limited time when purchasing through the Kino website.
By Greg Pak
If you create a blog with open comments, you’ll soon discover that scumbags like to post spam in the comment sections of blogs. So what to do? If you’re using MovableType, you can check and ban the IP addresses through which the spammers are accessing the internet. But that’s pretty ineffective, as spammers tend to use a variety of IP addresses. You can use a plug in which creates an image with a code which anyone posting a comment must reproduce in a form field. But spammers have actually started manually filling in those forms — or they’ve cracked the code to automate the process.
The solution?
I’m very happily using MT-Blacklist, through which you can build a blacklist of website addresses which you cull from spam posts. When you hit “De-Spam,” the software automatically deletes any message which contains the blacklisted URLs. And new comments featuring any blacklisted address can’t be posted. This hits the jerks where they hurt — if they can’t post a link, there’s no point in their posting at all.
If you end up using MT-Blacklist, feel free to get started with the blacklist I’ve built for use with this site. I’d recommend using a smaller list like this rather than the giant list you can download through jayallen.org. That list may be pretty comprehensive, but its enormous size seems to bog the software up a bit.
For my email, I’ve started using SpamFire from MatterForm. It’s Mac OS X compatible and is working nicely so far.
By Greg Pak
More than once when screening at colleges on DVD, I’ve encountered problems because the remote control for the DVD player was missing. Without a remote, it’s often very hard to navigate menus and submenus. So for DVD screenings at colleges, I’d recommend making DVDs with no submenus and with the simplest main menu possible — so that when you press “play” or “select” on the machine, the video plays.