So Iron Man opens in less than 48 hours and it’s the new comic day before the first summer tentpole movie of the season.
How does Marvel celebrate this?
By having only one Iron Man comic out this week: Marvel Adventures Iron Man #12.
Why isn’t Invincible Iron Man #1 out this week?
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The first The Damned mini was about power. This new one begins with family.
So here’s the scene and it may be familiar to old-time movie fans. James Cagney, wearing a lousy, cheap black suit, stumbles into a darkened apartment, just happy to have escaped the mob bloodbath that took place on the other [...]
The House Next Door: “Jan-Michael Vincent is a Synonym for the 70s”: A Conversation Between Matt Zoller Seitz & Keith Uhlich
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IPOD® BUILDING BLOCK SPEAKERS
I may need to pick one of these up sometime.
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It’s been a months since I’ve gotten a DCBS shipment and that’s been too long. And this box looks to be a great one, featuring everything from JSA to Ganges to Mike Allred to Hopey Glass. But before that hits, here’s a bunch of stuff I’m getting or am interested in.
BPRD Vol 8 Killing Ground [...]
Nothing to see here. Just a test post to make sure that my RSS feeds aren’t screwed up too badly.
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Regular posting will hopefully be back up and running this evening but, in the meantime, here’s a look at what I ordered this morning from DCBS and expect to be getting starting in June. This is on top of my regular weekly pulls at the LCS.
PREVIEWS VOL XVIII #6 — In some ways, I [...]
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Did we really need another X-Men book? Particularly one that focused on the original 1963 team? Marvel has tried to do this before and failed with less than spectacular results. The creators either tried to be too faithful to the original stories or tried to make those X-Men “kewl” and “Imagey,” you [...]
iFanboy has set up a donations page to support Grand Rapids comic retailer David Pirkola, who was critically shot in a robbery attempt at his store Friday night.
From their site:
We’ve spoken with Peter Ryan, who along with Stephen Jayner owns Capital City Collectibles in Lansing, MI and are close friends and co-owners of Apparitions [...]
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Marvel World playset
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A test post to see if Flickr is still working correctly.
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From the Grand Rapids Press:
KENTWOOD — Friends of a comic-book store owner shot in an apparent robbery said they can’t understand why the shop would be a target.
David Pirkola is in critical but stable condition in a local hospital, said Stephen Jahner, who owns Apparitions Comics and Books with Pirkola.
“People open comic stores because they [...]
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Perusing the usual forums this morning, I was surprised to happen along this topic at the CGS boards about a robbery and shooting at a robbery and shooting at Apparition Comics in Grand Rapids, MI. Appartitions opened in the early 90s just up the road from where I went to college. I can’t [...]
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New York Press - ARMOND WHITE - What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Movies
“That there isn’t a popular hit among any of these films proves how critics have failed to rouse the moviegoing public in any direction.”
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Curious but Vital :: Hollywood Elsewhere
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Roger Ebert’s Journal
Ebert blogs.
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Wizard World Chicago : Chicago, Wizard Conventions, Comic Convention, Wizard World Philly, Wizard World Tour, Wizard World
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Amazon.com: Remain In Light: MP3 Downloads: Talking Heads
I need to get this album.
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With Greg Rucka’s last issue of Checkmate hitting the stands, it’s time to discuss when does a creator fail? With him leaving Checkmate and the announcement of the departure of the Brubaker/Fraction team from Iron Fist, I’ve decided to drop those titles. But if I drop them and don’t feel the loss of [...]
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Was anyone else as disappointed in the Newsarama and CBR coverage of NYCC as I was? Both sites tried to run mini-sites to cover the con but it only felt like it was doubling the amount of webpages I had to check to try and find any news or coverage of panels. If [...]
What on odd little project for DC to put out right now? In the midst of their world defining span of stories that began before Infinite Crisis and looks to continue well into Final Crisis, they put out what appears to be [...]
Hive Five: Five Best DVD Ripping Tools
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Bob and Doug McKenzie Sounds
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Superpowers aren’t a gift, a blessing or a curse. They’re an alien virus.George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards novels debuted back in 1986, just when comic books like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns were showing us that super-heroes could be taken seriously. [...]
Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film: The noughties, cinema’s decade of urgency
Makes me wonder what a similar list for comics would look like?
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MySpace.com - Robin Sparkles - 29 - Female - Vancouver, British Columbia - www.myspace.com/robinsparkles
What? You haven’t heard of Robin Sparkles? Get with the times, man!
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Last month, I did a post on my favorite comic writers. So this month, it’s favorite comic book writers. Again, this list is just my personal list and I have the feeling that I’m forgetting someone.
My own personal criteria for this is what artists do I just get lost in the [...]
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Is it just me or are the terms “literary comics” and “pop comics” kind of elitist?
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Feature: Jailbreak Any iPhone or iPod Touch in 45 Seconds
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CGS’s Top 25 Comic Writers
An interesting list of popular choices for the top comic writers. It skews to a very modern collection of writers. I enjoy Fraction but better than Waid, Millar, Sim, Busiek or Rucka? I don’t know about [...]
