Aqua Teen Hunger Force emboldens terrorists
Normally when you say a film is a suspected bomb threat, it means its box office prospects are the other side of dismal. However, the AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE movie took things to a...
Finding a safe place for THE BOYS
Two years ago I wrote a piece called "It Takes a Nation of 10,000 Dopes to Hold Us Back," looking back on the comics industry in 2004, and the trends that emerged and are...
Virgin ups discount
This may not seem like a big deal, but for comics retailers, Virgin allowing a more generous discount means retailers may feel more inclined to order more issues up-front. Virgin has done a lot...
Full FCBD details
Newsarama has ALL the books for this year's Free Comic Book Day, and there are many things of interest to many people...Spider-man! Lynda Barry! Owly! Eddie Campbell! Peanuts! We may just need to collect...
JahFurry speaks
Mysterious nexus/enabler and comics editor Jeff Newelt is interviewed at Gothamist talking of rasta, his work for Samsung the comics for SMITH magazine and his role with Act-i-vate:
Katrina Came Calling, the print version...
Marvel announces FCBD comics
Comics fare for young and old -- and Phil Jimenez at Marvel -- highlight Marvels Free Comic Book Day offerings:
Spider-Man 3 won't be the only new Spider-Man tale swinging into the collective consciousness on...
DC News & Notes: Minx, FCBD
DC announces a returnability program in the direct sales market for THE PLAIN JANES, the debut book in the MINX launch:
With this month's solicitation of THE PLAIN JANES, the inaugural title from Minx, DC...
Marvel plans midnight launch for DARK TOWER – update
Remember back in the days when you bought records or CDs? Remember how you would sometimes go down tot he record store at Midnight for the new release of a particular epic album? Well,...
Mainstream comics news and views
§ CBR presents an archival interview with the late Dave Cockrum about his model kit designs:
DC: I did a set of science fiction characters and a time machine that would link them to the...
PGW talks Perseus offer
GalleyCat has interesting reports of recent AMS/PGW news:
Publishers Lunch reports that Publishers Group West clients were explained in a conference call yesterday he details of the offer being formulated by Perseus Books Group, which...
EW explains
We just received this note from Thom Geier, Senior Editor, Entertainment Weekly in re: the comics sales chart.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation circling about the best-seller chart that ran in...
More unconnected links
Because *I* say so.
§ We're not entirely up to speed on this Civil War thing, but it seems Speedball, a lovably goofy Marvel hero, has been turned into Penance, whose name recalls ideas...
