Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: February 2010
It's the height of crossover season at Marvel, as SIEGE enters its second month, while "Fall of the Hulks" and "Necrosha-X" also continue through their respective books. Oh, and BLACK PANTHER is replaced on the schedules by DOOMWAR, starring half the Marvel Universe. February also saw the next phase of the Ultimate relaunch, with the debut of ULTIMATE COMICS X. Further down the chart, there's a wave of cancellations, with the final issues of MS MARVEL, DOCTOR VOODOO and INCREDIBLE HERCULES (though that last one is pretty clearly coming back). This month's variant cover theme: Deadpool. For those of you who literally can't get enough of him.
Continue ReadingMore memories of Dick Giordano
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As befits his stature as one of the most important figures of the modern age of comics, Dick Giordano hs been the subject of many tributes and retrospectives. A careful reading reveals just how one person can make a difference, and the qualities needed to do the same: • Scott’s Classic Comics [...]
Continue ReadingIRON MAN 2 WonderCon exclusive poster
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Better but still generic! And are we the only ones a little sad that the Black Window’s costume must, perforce, be made of gross flat polyester?
Continue ReadingBONUS Lost video: Sawyer learns genealogy
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A montage of Sawyer saying “Son of a bitch!”
Continue ReadingAstrology with Ben Templesmith
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOn Ben Templesmith’s prolific and squid-loving Twitter stream, he suddenly decided to do horrorscopes, so as a public service, we represent the following: Aries: Don’t freak out much. You woke up today to find your nipples missing. They’ll be back tomorrow. Taurus: That smell coming from your neighbour’s house isn’t actually [...]
Continue ReadingLost: The Package
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Continue ReadingNeoIntegrity at MoCCA
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Josh Neufeld has a post up at his live journal about the current show at MoCCA NeoIntegrity. We caught this show for the soft opening the other night and like Josh, we recommend it in the strongest possible terms: What would you say if I told you that you had the chance [...]
Continue ReadingProven: IRON MAN 2 International poster vastly superior to domestic
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet See? It’s got Whiplash, freakin’ Whiplash!! Do we have to spell it out???
Continue ReadingKevin Nowlan’s Hulk Dogs
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Ang Lee’s Hulk movie was a puzzling film. Why was the movie about a man struggling to deal with his father issues and not his rage issues? Why was Eric Bana so boring in the role? And most important, why were there Hulk Dogs? You’ll recall that in one scene, the [...]
Continue ReadingArt attack: Sabrina by Rich Ellis
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Periscope Studios blog is spotlighting some upcoming Archie covers which studio members created for the Hero Initiative, starting with Sabrina by Rich Ellis. For more of the Hero Initiative’s Archie 50 project — 50 Archie covers by different artists, go here. For a larger version of the above, hit [...]
Continue ReadingBOOM!’s RV of retailer love
A few reports from the recent ComicsPRO meeting are leaking out, but surely none as shocking as Chip Mosher's photos from the Boom RV of Retailer Love. It seems that the hotel bar closed early, so Mosher, Boom's Marketing and Sales Director, rented a big ole RV and parked it in the parking lot, and retailers and publishers alike gathered to...well, sit around and drink beer. And oh, Save Comics, too.
Continue ReadingNew, crappy IRON MAN 2 poster
Although now removed, MySpace had posted a new Iron Man @ poster, which we snagged from Splash Page. To be honest, this poster fails to whelm us. Floating heads against a black background? Yes, yes, we loved 1996, too. Nice brokeback pose, ScarJo. Is that an Iron Man I see before me or a light saber flash? And WHERE'S WHIPLASH?
Continue ReadingFanzine art c. 1970
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Ken Meyer Jr. reprints the fan art from the 16-year-old Gary Groth-editedFantastic Fanzine 12 (Via Brigid Alverson)
Continue ReadingScott Pilgrim music and video game spin-off news attains new level of awesomeness
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Last week’s Scott-Pil-palooza of news was crowned off by a couple of notes on the music and the video game spin-off. Comics Alliance notes that the music in the memorized-by-dozens trailers was by Beck, based, as creator Bryan Lee O’Malley noted, on some of his scribblings. Laura Hudson notes it’s [...]
Continue ReadingVarying views of Obama
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Dean Trippe’s Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things has gotten a lot of attention because it really hit that nerd sweet spot — we like this one, of the Fortress of Solitude. Here’s the inspiration: A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things. § Meanwhile, James Hudnall and [...]
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