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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
Post category:Pop Culture Reviews
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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: $25 Pop Quiz

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 15, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture
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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…

LINK: JLA Parody

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:February 13, 2006
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Putting the bwa-hahaha back into the JLA: Fly On The Wall, Vol. I: JLA. From 2 Guys Buying Comics, one of the better comics blogs on my radar these days.Coupled with Neil Kleid's INFINITE PATIENCE: The Blog of Alexander Luthor, the DCU hasn't been this much fun in years!

COMMENT: Growing Pains

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 27, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture
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Just a quick update, in lieu of any significant posting this week.1) Buzzscope is apparently experiencing some growing pains, as our server has been crapping out randomly over the past couple of days. They're working on getting it fixed, but your ability to access the site in the (very) short-term will be sporadic. Do keep checking, though, as a bunch of good stuff went up in the past two days, including the latest "The Hive"; "Comics You Should Own"; a double dose of "What's A Nubian?"; and the debut of Jenny Gonzalez' column, "Peripheral Images". Good times!2) On a sorta-related…

INFO: PCS & NY Comic-Con

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:January 13, 2006
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Mark your calendars, people, because Buzzscope/PopCultureShock is taking the New York Comic-Con by storm! More info here.