On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Okay, some of you will have heard of Chapterhouse Publishing, current rights-holder and publisher for Captain Canuck, Northguard and assorted other characters. Jay Baruchel is Chief Creative Officer at Chapterhouse, so that keeps him busy some of the time between acting gigs (including the Royal Bank commercials on TV).

It seems to me as if Diamond is freezing out Chapterhouse in terms of accessing the comics shops of Canada. I hope I'm wrong about that.

One more thing I would have liked to go to Comiccon over the weekend to get answers about, right?

And that's the message I start Monday morning with. More on other topics later today...

I'm voting after work tomorrow. Partly to get it done. Partly to avert the temptation to vote out of fear rather than hope.

Other notes...

Busted a filling again. It's one that has older work, so maybe it was time for the upgrade. But with the not-so-new-anymore-guy, it's still pricier than it used to be. I can manage the expense, but it still pains the wallet.

(Universal dental care at long last in Canada, anyone? Please?)

Comics reading this week: Captain Canuck # 4, We Stand on Guard # 4, Avengers # 0, All-New All-Different Marvel Point-One.

The third item on this list has me wondering: is Marvel Editorial seeking to sever the link between Canada and the Alpha Flight brand?

A couple of morning notes:

First, Dave Brown at the Ottawa Citizen remarks on the memory of Les McLaughlin, long-time CBC staffer and a musical performer as well. In the latter capacity, he was part of the team that set a dozen of the most beloved poems of Robert Service to music in the album, The Songs of Robert Service.

I'm happy to report that I have that CD in my collection at the moment, and hope to keep it - and keep listening to its music - for decades to come, no matter the forces of technological obsolescence arrayed against us all.

Second, there's a push on to get Captain Canuck into the movie theatres. The Los Angeles Times details the efforts, and Canadian movie-goers - and fans of shows such as Due South past and present across the planet - may not be entirely surprised or willing to complain about this aspect of co-creator Richard Comely's plans:

If the movie deal does come to fruition, Comely said Captain Canuck will surprise fans accustomed to the fiery violence and high-tech gizmos that define the American masked-men movies. “I wanted him to be as real as possible,” Comely said in a phone interview from Ontario. “He’s polite, by the way. Just a little bit gentler.”

Which of the three iterations of the character published either by his hand or with his approval thus far gets used as the framework for the movie - if it goes ahead - is being left unsaid for now. Probably not a bad idea, although I'm still looking forward to seeing the comics pick up where they left off. Particularly given the fact that we were left with all three versions of the good Captain co-existing in the same universe and starting to work with each other at the end of the last issue of the latest series.

Certainly not Richard Comely, per this Newsarama report relaying a press release on Captain Canuck.

Good thing too.