Other than my girlfriend—who won’t ever shut up about James McAvoy and thus will watch anything he’s in, whether it’s Atonement or that Narnia bullshit—I don’t know anyone who’s even remotely interested in X-Men: First Class, Twentieth Century Fox’s latest attempt to squeeze some blood from the battered, worn-down stone that is the X-Men franchise. […]
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Duncan the Wonder Dog Now Available as Digital Download
My pal Laura Hudson over at ComicsAlliance recently wrote a stirring piece proclaiming Adam Hines’ Duncan the Wonder Dog the best comic of 2010. But as convincing as her article is, it did most of us absolutely no good, as the book is entirely sold out and won’t be reissued until March. Well, today ComicsAlliance […]
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For Once, Something Good Happens on Buffy’s Brithday
Birthday Ruiner Buffy Summers’ birthdays have been historically terrible (Angel loses his soul after they have sex; Giles betrays her; Giles gets turned into a demon; Dawn sets the house on fire; Dawn enslaves her friends and steals a leather jacket; Dawn is still alive). But all that changes this year! Celebrate the Buffster’s 30th […]
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Online Comic Book Retailer on Giffords Shooting: “1 down, 534 to go.”
In a blog post titled “I down, 534 to go,” Travis Corcoran, the owner of online comic book store Heavy Ink suggested that the Giffords shooting was a good start: It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot “indiscriminately”. Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone. Please! Many comic creators have been […]
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Holy Half-Off, Batman!
It’s a Martin Luther King Jr. Day sale at Cosmic Monkey, with 50 percent off back issues of comics! Plus, 25 percent off everything else! Plus, something intriguing called the $1 comic boxes of greatness! Sale starts this weekend. Cosmic Monkey Comics, 5335 NE Sandy, 11 am-7 pm Got my eye on some stuff:
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Tonight: Matt Fraction at Floating World.
Art from Casanova: Gula #1 by Fabio Moon. Via iFanboy. Just in case you missed his last signing, Matt Fraction—the great writer behind Casanova, The Invincible Iron Man, and a whole bunch of other stuff you should read—is appearing tonight at Floating World Comics. The shindig’s due to the release of the first issue of […]
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Superman Porn Parody Gets Even Better
Okay, a little more than a month ago, I told you about the upcoming Superman and Wonder Woman porn parody, and a new trailer has been released for Superman XXX. Check it out, and don’t fret, it’s SFW. Did you see it? Zod! (I’m very slowly starting to believe that this parody will be better […]
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Dark Horse Digital Download Contest
Local comics retailer Dark Horse is diving full-on into digital comics distribution this month, with the launch of the Dark Horse Bookshelf, a new digital store that’s notable in part for its price point: single issues will sell for $1.49 or less. (Bundled single issues will be priced differently, addressing at least one of the […]
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Happy Birthday, Hayao Miyazaki.
One of the world’s best filmmakers, Hayao Miyazaki, turns 70 today. If you haven’t seen all of his stuff—but especially my favorites, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro—get to Netflix and make that shit happen. In the meantime, maybe a few of […]
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Tonight: Hack/Slash Creator Tim Seeley
Tonight, Things from Another World hosts a signing and party with Tim Seeley, creator of the Suicide Girls-endorsed Hack/Slash, an ongoing series about a hot lady and her hulking, disfigured sidekick, who hunt horror movie bad guys in ways that presumably horror fans and Suicide Girl fans quite appreciate. Seeley will be signing Hack/Slash Trailers […]
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Marvel Gets a New Editor-in-Chief: Axel Alonso.
Marvel Entertainment has promoted one of its longtime editors, Axel Alonso, to the Editor-in-Chief spot that, for the past decade, has been occupied by Joe Quesada. Meanwhile, Quesada’s still Marvel’s Chief Creative Officer, “overseeing Marvel’s creative endeavors in film, television, publishing, digital and more.” Alonso’s been behind some of Marvel’s biggest books of the past […]
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Walt Kelly’s A Visit From St. Nicholas
Thanks Roger Ebert for posting the entirety of Walt Kelly’s very weird interpretation of this Christmas Poem. Is it too early to call 2010 the Year of Roger Ebert? Via Biblioklept.