Day: July 27, 2004

A comic about grad students! Woo!
Web link of note: Ph.D. Comics
(At http://phdcomics.com/)

David Yurkovich’s company- he did “Less Than Heroes” which is some of the funniest stuff I have read in a long time.

It’s kind of a less mainstream and more “slacker” version of Mystery Men, with more work on the details: superheroes with some pretty ridiculous powers form Superhero Syndicates which basically hold city governments for ransom with their contract negotiations prior to fighting supervillains.

The main characters are in an also-ran team called Threshold, led by Mr Malevolence.

There is a FBI character, Agent Swete, who through a freak accident is made of living chocolate.

In one of the story arcs, everyone in Philadelphia is about to be killed by a serial killer called The Stamp Collector, who changes people into stamps, and mumbles about his album “Its pages will be filled by humanity!”
Web link of note: Sleeping Giant Comics
(At http://www.sleepinggiantcomics.com/)

Bay Area (SF?) based film production company:

We have just completed ‘In The Dark’, a documentary about California’s Energy Crisis

Maybe their “offices” are in the Mission, since that is where ATA is.
Web link of note: Sleeping Giant Productions
(At http://www.sgiant.org/)