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LINK: BOTS Article

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 19, 2006
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The article I mentioned a couple of days ago, on the BOTS sketchbook, is up now: Artists, Robots Team Up to Raise Funds for Autism Research. It's a bit of personal background, Nic Carcieri talking about how the project came about, and some cool samples from the book itself.Was pulling it together helpful to you and your family in any way? The amount of support it’s received must have been heartening.Carcieri: It has been helpful because I’ve connected with so many other people who have gone through what we’re going through. As a parent, the last thing you ever want…

LINK: Runners & Special Clips + Top 5 List

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 19, 2006
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One of my favorite comics of 2005, Runners: Bad Goods, has made the jump to the movies! Well, kind of...RUNNERS SCI-FI ANIMATED SHORT ONLINE!The highly-acclaimed sci-fi adventure comic Runners, by Sean Wang, is now a fully animated short! The 3-D computer-animated Runners feature from The DAVE School -- makers of the X-Men Minimates movie ”Darktide” -- is now available online.Produced by The DAVE (Digital Animation and Visual Effects) School at Universal Studios Orlando, the 6-minute short adapts the first issue of the Runners: Bad Goods comic, in which reluctant smuggler Roka Nostaco and his ragtag alien crew must board a…

INFO: Have You Ordered BOTS Yet?

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 17, 2006
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I just ordered my copy of BOTS, the sketchbook benefitting the Autism Society of America that I mentioned a while back. Nicola Carcieri, the comics writer who organized the project, did an amazing job, pulling together 90 different artists to contribute artwork! The list of contributors is impressive by any measure, and I was happy to do my small part by buying a full-page ad on behalf of PopCultureShock to help support it.I totally dropped the ball on providing coverage for it, though, and am scrambling this weekend to get a piece finished and posted before it debuts next weekend…

COMMENT: Valentino’s Black Emissary

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 17, 2006
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Jim Valentino's latest project, Emissary, sounds like it could generate some interesting message board debates that would likely become a regular feature on Fanboy Rampage...if it lasts long enough.This May, Image’s Shadowline imprint releases a book that poses the question of how the real world we live in would react to an actual super-being. And what if he were black? Would he have been accepted, beloved by the world at large? Or would he have been feared, rejected, even hated? Would his near omnipotence cause governments to tremble or would they attempt to use him to advance their own agendas?…

COMMENT: $25 Pop Quiz

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 15, 2006
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Shane (Near-Mint Heroes) Bailey threw out an interesting challenge this week: a $25 budget, this week's release list, and the question, "What would you buy?"Winnowing my already light-for-me list this week was harder than I thought it would be thanks to Essential Moon Knight's $16.99 cover price, and really drove home the stark reality of a marketplace whose average consumer is estimated to have a $20/week budget, $16 of which is allocated to Marvel/DC titles. Even factoring in the handy discount I get, I'd still be spending more than $25 on this week's intended pulls, never mind the sampling I…

QUOTE: Steve Gerber, on Current Events

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Post published:February 15, 2006
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"I think something has happened to this country in the past 10 years or so. We've become much more willing to accept anything -- again, it's hard to escape the clichés -- Madison Avenue or the Government shoves down our throats. The truth has become unbearable to contemplate. There's a terrible apathy that's engendered a new movement back to the Self. The society seems to have accepted the notion that by simply becoming oblivious to what's happening in the world outside our skins, the horror will go away. It's not going to go away."--Steve Gerber, The Comics Journal #41 (August…

On The Shelves: 2/15/06

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 14, 2006
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Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month!My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/15/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList.[NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another one; or try Khepri.com or MidtownComics.com]PICK OF THE WEEKEssential Moon Knight: Vol. 1ANTARCTIC PRESS Alice In Wonderland #1 (Of 4), $3.50Is Alice in Wonderland in the public domain? Because she seems to pop up in an awful lot of comic books. Certainly makes attracting attention…