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LINK: Runners & Special Clips + Top 5 List

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…

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INFO: Have You Ordered BOTS Yet?

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…

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COMMENT: $25 Pop Quiz

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…

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LINK: JLA Parody

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!

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COMMENT: Growing Pains

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…

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INFO: Comics Bloggers’ Poll 2005

Did you "create or contribute to a comics blog" in 2005? Then you probably have some pretty strong opinions about what you liked and didn't like in comics last year, yes? Now you can add your two cents to the discussion in a bit more concentrated way via the Comics Bloggers' Poll 2005.The comics blogging community is one of contradictions. Some writers enjoy the sensational excitement of mainstream superheroics, while others prefer the quieter and more varied fare of independent works. Some offer considered, even-handed analysis, while others shoot from the hip and refuse to make apologies for their passions.…

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