Don't eat the brown Tic Tacs
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Steve Bunche alerts us to one of the most alarming Barbies ever: Poopin’ Pup Barbie. This Barbie comes with a lovable Lab named Tanner who just can’t stop pooping! In fact, since Barbie is feeding him shit, it’s no wonder it goes right through him. You can see a video of [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: August 2006
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBy Paul O’Brien Even with the parent title running late, CIVIL WAR dominated Marvel’s output again in August, with a raft of crossover titles including the newly launched HEROES FOR HIRE. The Ultimate titles ship their second annuals, and the core ANNIHILATION miniseries gets underway. Other than that, it’s a [...]
Continue ReadingChanges in the market
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLast Friday Brian Hibbs had one of his usual thought provoking columns at Newsarama, and this one looked at a very interesting trend: comics shops opening up accounts with Baker & Taylor to buy graphic novels. B&T is NOT a comics distributor, but rather a traditional book distributor, meaning the books [...]
Continue ReadingDash Shaw's new website
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s up here. He also has a new book coming out: The Mother’s Mouth
Continue ReadingHeroes comics – UPDATED with ratings
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The first HEROES webcomics are up, this first by Aron Collette, Michael Turner and Koi Turnbull, telling a tale of Suresh’s childhood. UPDATE: HEROES’ debut issue was a ratings winner for NBC quoth Variety: NBC drama “Heroes” opened to strong numbers on Monday, dominating its broadcast rivals and looking like the first breakout [...]
Continue ReadingCoffee opera boffo in Portland
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet An excited Shannon Wheeler writes to tell us that the world premiere of the Too Much Coffee Man opera was a big success — the run has sold out and been extended. Two city commissioners were at the opening. “We have buzz,” Shannon writes–a common occurrence when working with coffee, it [...]
Continue ReadingQuotable Brad Meltzer
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIn a very long interview with Scott King the best selling author talks about doing creator owned material: Scott: …I know you write comics but do you have any desire to do a creator owned comic book? Brad: You know, if time was not an issue I would. But when I do the [...]
Continue ReadingEVENTS GUIDE: 9/26-10/1
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[Yes this is our first attempt at being a little more organized about events listings. It's definitely a work in progress, so please, hold your applause. And still way to NY-centric, but we're working on that.] TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th Boston, MA: Scott McCloud at Northeastern U. When: Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 6:00 PM Where: Northeastern [...]
Continue ReadingVideo Game director proves he's a fighter
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOkay here’s some news of the weird we just can’t resist:a director who took on his critics in the ring…and won: It’s seems German director Uwe Boll was angered by the critical reception of his film BLOODRAYNE, based on the videogame of the same name. So angered that he challenged his critics [...]
Continue ReadingFEEBLE ATTEMPTS by Jeffrey Brown
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The cover to ONE of Jeffrey Brown’s new books from Top Shelf.
Continue ReadingHEROES debuts tonight
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet HEROES, the NBC television series about a bunch of ordinary folk who gain mysterious powers that they cannot understand but must learn to live with, airs for the first time on network television tonight on NBC at 9 pm EDT. To say it is debuting would be inaccurate, as the pilot [...]
Continue ReadingCartoon Network exposure sells manga!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 notes that since BLEACH starting airing on the Cartoon Network, manga sales have soared. The BookScan list of graphic novels sold in bookstores for the week ending September 17th displays the effect of the debut of the Bleach anime on the Cartoon Network on September 9th. The first volume in [...]
Continue ReadingJim Lee on MySpace
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Continue ReadingMovie news round-up: Surfer cast; Arch Enemies
Share this link on Facebook!TweetConfirmation this morning from THR that Doug Jones will play the Silver Surfer, with the wizards at the WETA workshop finalizing the CGI character for the upcoming FANTASTIC FOUR 2: Jones will take part in a process similar to that in which Andy Serkis portrayed Gollum in the Lord of the Rings [...]
Continue ReadingPlatinum goes to DrunkDuck.com
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPlatinum is joining the stampede to the web, the New York Times reports. Platinum Studios is the long gestating comics publisher run by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg that has been developing hundreds of properties over the last few years, optioning many for Hollywood development. Now, after some rumblings that Platinum would [...]
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