The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul

Why won’t Google Docs post to my website now? It was working fine 2 weeks ago. #
Already more intrigued by RASL than I was by Smith’s SHAZAM. #
How come you’re acting like Dave Sim is a brand new talent? #

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Why are most of the stuff I’m selling on Ebay heading overseas lately? #
How come I don’t have Revolver ripped to iTunes? I’ll have to correct that. #
What do you mean that I can’t find my Revolver CD? This isn’t good. No, no. It most certainly isn’t good. #
Isn’t Kick-Ass just [...]

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Is it possible that Kick-Ass is Mark Millar’s love song to comic books?  As a life-long comic book reader, the basic premise is an easy one to digest; another life-long comic fan finally decides to actually put on a costume and be a super-hero.  As Dave Lizewski says, “why do people want to be Paris [...]

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New Frontier– not bad. My son really enjoyed it. The animation though doesn’t quite capture the full feeling of Cooke’s artwork. #
@boxwatcher There’s an easy reply here but I’m just going to let it slide. #
@BeaucoupKevin STATE AND MAIN is a great film that no one knows about. It’s also one [...]

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NEW YORK COMIC CON & NEWSARAMA ANNOUNCE MEDIA PARTNERSHIP - NEWSARAMA
“Expected to be the largest in its history…” Well, it’s only the third one so that’s not saying too much.
(tags: comics conventions)

Music: Maxim Reviews Black Crowes Album Without Listening To It
From now on, all of my reviews are going to be “educated guesses.” [...]

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At least 2 inches of show has fallen so far and it’s supposed to keep steady until daylight. #
So I’m about to head out to shovel. I don’t think this winter will ever be over. Did someone open the Casket of Eternal Winters? #
The three sites that seem to be open most often [...]

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Where Is Gary Busey’s Oscar | The A.V. Club
(tags: film oscars)

QUICK STOP EXCLUSIVE: I’m F***ing Seth Rogen » Quick Stop Entertainment
Maybe not as funny as Damon but 100 times funnier than Affleck. If this is the start of a meme, I don’t know if it can get any better than this. Oh and [...]

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I’ve missed most of the Red Carpet. #
Makeup sex? #
What, no love for Tommy Lee Jones? He doesn’t look happy. #
Was Jack N. in anything worthwile this year? Why does he always get the best seat? #
I’m still not sure Dennis Hopper knows where he is. #
Olympia Dukakis? That should have gotten [...]

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The day after the Oscars and the feeling that the top movies this year were too depressing, Wells writes this at Hollywood Elsewhere:
“movies are not supposed to be pills that you take to feel better. They’re not travelling carnivals with elephants and jugglers. They’re supposed to be aesthetic journeys and emotional hikes that get us [...]

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I’m conducting a bit of an experiment here.
For the next few months, I think I’m going to stop pre-ordering my trade and hardcover collections from DCBS. Most of my monthly comic shopping still takes place at my local comic shop (LCS for those in the know.) My weekly drug of choice is Graham [...]

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The big release of this week aren’t the comics but the New Frontier DVD.  The early reviews seem to to digging the movie.  All I know is that it has to be better than the Superman DVD released last year. 

Savage Sword Of Conan Vol 2 TP–  On the list of “may pick up.”  I’ve [...]

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If I get home early enough tomorrow, I may end up live-Twittering the Oscars. #
Fun is watching a 3 year old try to explain Jeff Smith’s Bone to his grandmother. Yes, my son is on the road to geekdom. #
Be Kind Rewind seems to be this years polarizing movies. Some critics love it- [...]

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WONDERCON ‘08: THE RETURN OF DEMO - NEWSARAMA
Demo is good but I’m wondering with the skills they’ve gained since then just exactly what Wood and Cloonan are going to do this time.
(tags: comics wondercon)

NEWSARAMA.COM: WONDERCON ‘08 - DCU COUNTDOWN TO CRISIS PANEL
JMS at DC? Wasn’t Wildstorm once supposed to do a Babylon 5 graphic [...]

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Bret Easton Ellis Heads to ‘Downers Grove’ - Cinematical
I always wanted to read this book because, when it came out, I lived in Downers Grove, IL, the Il. town that the movie is based in. I like Ellis’s style even if I don’t always care for the movies themselves. Any Huey Lewis in [...]

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ICv2 News - Borders’ New ‘Concept’ Stores
(tags: retail comics)

‘Akira’ to Star Leo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon Levitt - Cinematical
Gordon Levitt I can see in this movie but DiCaprio? That I’m not too sure of.
(tags: film)

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Here’s where I am around the social sites.
MySpace
Facebook
ComicSpace
Twitter
Wow, I just noticed I haven’t updated anything on MySpace and ComicSpace in a long, long time. Other than Twitter though, I don’t spend much time on the other ones.

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JMS NO LONGER EXCLUSIVE WITH MARVEL - NEWSARAMA
So now we’re announcing non-exclusivity. The net comes full circle.
(tags: comics)

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Possible spoilers in the podcast
It’s experimenting time around Wednesday’s Haul. For the next couple of weeks, look for 5 minute reviews— complete reviews of new comics in, you guessed it, five minutes. To kick off this grand experiment, I look at the fun Hulk #2. Now I know that this isn’t great [...]

 

 5 Minute Review-- Hulk #2 [5:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Over at Pop Syndicate, I just posted a press release from Image comics running down their events for Wondercon this weekend. It sounds like a fun lineup of events but there’s one thing in particular that jumped out at me:
In addition to signings with such creators as SCUD THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN’s Rob Schrab, DEAD [...]

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Google is currently failing me but one of my favorite Superman images is from an issue of relaunched All Star Comics in the 1970s which featured the relaunch of the Justice Society of America. The splash page featured four or five characters standing around. It was pencilled by a young Keith Giffen but [...]

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Recent Twits mostly relating to DC and Marvel’s May solicitations.
Note: the formatting is odd and I don’t really have the time to go in right now and correct it.

What’s Bruce Jones doing writing the May issue of Checkmate? Where’s Rucka?

about 8 hours ago
The Wolverine/Kitty Pryde mini
from the eighties is getting [...]

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Brad sent me this link to Billboard:
U2 has hit the studio in Dublin to continue work on its next album with longtime collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. “We’re going to try and break new sonic ground and deliver a masterpiece,” Lanois tells Billboard.com.
So what were they trying to do with How to Dismantle [...]

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02:33 New blog post: links for 2008-02-19 tinyurl.com/2mtgz4 #
08:16 New blog post: All in the family– a review of Fantastic Four #554 tinyurl.com/2rt8ts #

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Fresh off their run from The Ultimates, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch take over The Fantastic Four with issue #554. I half expected the comic to open up with some kind of apocalyptic brouhaha involving Galactus, Eternity and maybe even Willie Lumpkin playing chess for the right to rule over all of existence. [...]

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CBR News: Ellis Takes Flight Online with “FreakAngels”
I haven’t read the whole first chapter yet but FreakAngels looked good. I really liked the artwork. Finally something that doesn’t look like Avatar’s house style.
(tags: comics webcomics)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Stars to replace Ledger in movie
“Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell will appear [...]

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