WATCH PRESENTS A NEW TORCHWOOD COMIC ONLINE
Source: sfuniverse

Pontyvale Golf Club’s post-Christmas reopening hasn’t gone well thanks to some grisly killings… The site has been closed off, and Torchwood’s Captain Jack, Gwen and Lanto investigate. But they soon come face to face with the cause of the killings – and it’s not pretty!

It’s an all new Torchwood comic and you can read it online right now at Watch! The comic is part of Alien Invasion Week on the UK network and that means good stuff for all (even us Yanks in the US.) My favorite goodie is a quick interview with John Barrowman where he giggles his way through an explanation of how Captain Jack became the Face of Boe.

Read more HERE.

POLITICS’ WAR ON COMICS CONTINUES
Source: io9

Last week’s uproar over Captain America’s anti-tea party agenda has, for one right wing commentator, turned into a condemnation of the entire comic medium. Meanwhile, now the left wing commentators are complaining about Cap’s behavior, but for different storylines…

Warner Todd Huston, one of the first people to be upset over the accidental tea party scene in Captain America, has responded to comic industry comments about the issue, by… well, taking off the kid gloves. Referring to his critics as “poor, Peter Pan Syndrome suffering folks” with “mental incapacities,” Huston then goes after comic books themselves.

Read more HERE.

Are you a Torchwood fan? Come back to the Forum and tell us what you think of the web comic.

I’ve heard about the uproar over the tea party scene in Captain America comic. As a simple reader of such stories and not any sort of ‘pundit’, my opinion might sound naive and be taken as a shallow generalization, but I shall state it anyway. It’s a comic book. It is an art medium expressing ideas and thoughts. I don’t think Marvel should have to apologize. The right wing seems to pick on anything they don’t agree with or want to exploit and use to their benefit.

What are your thoughts?