Billy Dogma in DEJA VOODOO

1 Comment POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:07 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetMaybe we’re jsut punchy, but this parody of Dean Haspiel’s Billy Dogma by Simon Fraser, Mike Fiffe and Dan Goldman was one of the funnest things we saw this week. The rest is NOT work safe, if you consider being attacked by a giant penis to be not work safe.

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Ben Roman's MOTORFACE

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:07 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We are quite fond of the charming grotesqueries of of the work of Benjamin Roman (I Luv Halloween, Cryptics), so we were happy to see he’s launched a new webcomic, entitledMOTORFACE: We’re not sure the MySpace blog interface is all that handy, but you should be able to add it to you [...]

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Virgin in the news

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetBig AP story on Virgin’s release of The Virulents, which is produced by creators in Bangalore, apparently. The story, which was picked up by the Washington Post and USA Today, includes a slideshow of the making of the book. “It’s one of the biggest entertainment markets with 55 percent of the population [...]

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ELEPHANTMEN go to mobile phones

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:03 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWell, crap, now they can squeeze a whole elephantman into a mobile phone! How do they do that? Oh it’s a COMIC BOOK by Richard Starkings and Moritat. In fact, interested parties might want to check out the Gocomics website and see what all they are distributing–the march of progress. uclick [...]

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LEGO Batman — it's real!

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:03 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs long rumored, Lego is following up its highly successful Star Wars Lego video game franchise with the Caped LegoBrick Crusader himself! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games will bring LEGO® BATMAN™: THE VIDEOGAME to next-generation and current generation platforms and the PC in 2008 with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment serving [...]

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Blogger defends bad smells

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:02 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt started when Glenn Hauman (him again!) wrote the following about last weekend’s I-Con: Friday night, while I was escorting a number of actresses from the annual Destinies Mystery Guest show at I-Con, we were forced to go through a crowd of LARPers to exit the building. The smell was, shall we say, [...]

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This is for you, Warren Ellis

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Because the world needs more videos of otters floating around holding hands. [Via Cute Overload]

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Most of us is back

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 28 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe never actually went any where, but we’re back in the metaphorical saddle, at least for today. We can barely type straight, as our typo-ridden postings of last show, but we’re alive and in more or less one piece. To make up for the absence of our usual rigor, here are pictures [...]

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Oh no! New Captain America already!

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 3:19 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s true! While Cap’s shield has been bequeathed to truth-seeker Stephen Colbert, his mantle as icon of American Freedom and democracy has been taken up by the blood thirsty killer know as THE PUNISHER. IS THIS REALLY WHAT OUR GREAT NATION HAS COME TO? Captain America is dead. Long live…the new [...]

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The next 300!

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetIf you’re one of those people who goes around pitching comic book movies in Hollywood, we’re willing to bet that “It’s the next 300!” may have been uttered in your presence a time or two, maybe even by you. IESB.net weighs in with this bizarre, seemingly PR-fed tale of a bidding [...]

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Here comes Speed Racer!

3 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 8:05 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Emile Hirsch has been cast as Speed Racer in the upcoming movie: The actor most recently earned critical acclaim as the charismatic Johnny Truelove in the real-life crime drama Alpha Dog, and as skateboarding vanguard Jay Adams in Lords of Dogtown. He next stars as Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild, Sean [...]

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Comics in India redux

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 8:03 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetA few days ago we were wondering just what’s up with comics in India, as we frequently see items come across our news feed, but have no idea what the popular reaction is. One of our commenters had an interesting take on the matter. Now from the Business Standard of India [...]

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Friends of Lulu nominations open

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 8:02 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetMembers in good standing of Friends of Lulu are called on to help laud the best of women in comics. Don’t just sit there–when you see the list of past winners (yours truly excepted) you see just how many great women and creators have been honored over the years: It’s that time [...]

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McLauchlin goes fulltime at Hero Initiative

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 8:01 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAlways busy Jim McLauchlin is going fulltime with the Hero Initiative in order to expand the organization’s activities in ways that could benefit a lot of people. (Had has recently been EIC at Platinum.) The Hero Initiative has already made a difference for many people, and it sounds like that was [...]

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Updates

0 Comments POSTED ON Mar 27 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re still behind the eightball with other deadlines here at SBM, but are trying to keep up with the news. So much of it sad, alas. We also wanted to extend sincere condolences to our friend Elayne Riggs on the death of her father, who died from injuries sustained in an auto [...]

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