As we head into the long weekend

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet …what better to kick it off than the Butt-biting Bug song that has transfixed the internets?

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Goodbye, Engine

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Engine, Warren Ellis’s two year old forum for comics creators and aspiring comics creators, closes up shop today. So far, the replacement message board of choice seems to be Rantz Hoseley’s Panel and Pixel. Frankly we haven’t had time to spend on any message board of late, but P&P seems [...]

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Edward Gorey's THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Upon discovering that Edward Gorey was a Star Trek fanatic, Shaenon Garrity imagines what might have been. Aside: You realize this is just a blog post, right and not in some satirical magazine where it once might have been?

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DC Month to Month Sales: July 2007

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch DC Comics’ performance in July was an improvement on the previous month, not unexpectedly. The publisher’s numbers were bolstered by issues of three high-selling titles, Batman, All Star Superman and Action Comics, which were late from June. Then there was the release of All Flash #1, the [...]

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What is everyone doing?

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Jim Woodring is drawing bears § Len Wein is remembering old Bullpen stories: Anyway, on this particular day, I had just returned from my annual pilgrimage to the West Coast to attend the now-omnipresent San Diego Comic-Con and spend some vacation time visiting with friends. During the course of my trip, I’d [...]

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WEHT Alex DeCampi?

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Controversial comics writer Alex DeCampi has been having quite a bit of success in the video field of late. Her video for “Those Rules” by The Schema a became the #1 music video on YouTube. This week we’re ahead of the new videos by Enrique Iglesias (Universal), the new band Domino [...]

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VOTE FOR DAME DARCY

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Is there ANYONE alive who does not want to see these two get together? Vote Dame Darcy for Flavor of Love! It is the law.

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Conquest of Summer Fun

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet On a serious note, why if Tubby wearing a diaper on that cover?

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Alex Robinson's LOWER REGIONS

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Over on his LJ Alex Robinson has been previewing some pages from his new graphic novel, LOWER REGIONS, which comes out this fall. Click for more.

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Kochalka's Squirrelly Gray – UPDATE

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet James Kochalka writes to tell us his kids book from Random House, Squirrelly Gray is out this week. Random House has an activity page up for the book which includes a trailer narrated by Kochalka himself, of course. PS: Over on the TCJ.com board, Kochalka notes that only 200 copies of this [...]

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Millionaire and Kaplan on Drinky Crow

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet You know isn’t that just like Tony Millionaire? He nags you and nags you to promote his cartoon pilot, and then when it gets picked up, you have to read about it on Comics2Film: The show was aired as part of a pilot competition on the Cartoon Network, in which fans could [...]

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Party Poop

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Naruto Nation kicks off in September

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Share this link on Facebook!TweetBrace for a Naruto invasion, as Blog@Newsarama reports Viz Media unleashed “Naruto Nation” last week, releasing three volumes of Masashi Kishimoto’s international phenomenon into the book market. So, it should surprise absolutely no one that all three cracked USA Today’s Top 150 Books list: Vol. 18 at No. 116, Vol. 17 [...]

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A tale of two cons: Dragon and Polcon

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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ The Ledger-Enquirer previews DRAGON-CON the freakiest show of them all. There’s only one weekend when you get the chance to see Spiderman, Doctor Who and the Sith cheerleaders in one place. Lucky for you, this is it. Dragon*Con, touted as the nation’s largest popular arts convention for sci-fi, fantasy and a miasma of [...]

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Italian thinks Spider-Man is real

0 Comments POSTED ON Aug 30 2007 AT 11:33 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAn Italian scientist has come up with an idea for a Spider-Man like climbing suit. The suit would use the sticky million-hair technology employed by geckos and…SPIDERS. It is generally accepted that the microscopic hairs adhere to the surfaces, not by gripping in the traditional sense, but by using intermolecular phenomena [...]

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