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Crystal Ball: March 2007 Solicitations, Part II

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:December 23, 2006
Post category:Media Pop Culture Reviews
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Support GOOD Comics! Pre-order something new EVERY month. Part I featured a look at Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse's offerings for March 2007, and now Part II casts the spotlight on the most interesting books being solicited by "independent" publishers. Links to full solicitations from almost every publisher can be found at MillarWorld. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your local comic book shop (LCBS) offers a pre-ordering service, download a convenient order form from Diamond and be sure to take advantage of it. If not, find another one; or try Khepri.com…

CBC Quickees: Manifest Destiny, Girls and Squirrels

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:December 17, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture Reviews
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Cowboys & Aliens By Fred Van Lente, Andrew Foley, Dennis Calero, Luciano Lima, Magic Eye Studios, et al (Platinum Studios, 2006; $4.99) What if an alien invasion of North America in 1873 interrupted the European settlers' westward expansion of the United States, forcing them to band together with the native Americans they had ruthlessly displaced for nearly two centuries, and fight for their mutual survival? It's the kind of high concept Hollywood loves, so the only surprise in the comic book version of the story being published by Platinum Studios is that, well, they're actually publishing the comic book version…

Life of a Salesman and other stuff

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:November 15, 2006
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Heading up to Boston tomorrow (8am flight!) for five meetings in two days, pitching the two magazines that really attracted me to the position in the first place. (There's five I sell for altogether, but three of them are pretty well established and don't have as much new ground to break.) Two existing clients, one newish client (my first sale) and two brand-spanking new ones. If I can pull some solid business from at least two of them for 2007, it will be a successful trip, worth the stress and inconvenience being away from home during the week causes.Did I…

LINK: Defending Ronée

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:June 8, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture
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My official statement on the whole Ronée + Soma/Brownstein affair went up on PCS earlier this week, and reaction so far has been mostly what I'd hoped: muted and, I daresay, somewhat chastened. Official Statement on "What A Girl Wants" Controversy Based on my own internal investigation of the information Ms. Bourgeois had available before and after her initial column was published, I have concluded that she has only been guilty of being extremely passionate in her coverage of this story. While that passion may have led to her prematurely reporting the allegations, unable as she was to offer any…

LINK: It’s Good to Have Influential Friends

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:May 4, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture
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When the wagons start circling, they don't waste any time in firing up the Howitzer, do they? Heidi MacDonald, a highly respected blogger who's known Charles Brownstein since he was 15 years old, has now set her sights on Buzzscope and me: The buzz on BUZZSCOPE Folks, I think it's time to cut Buzzscope loose. I really do. They're in the cornfield. If Gonzalez had an insight into actual journalistic ethics, he wouldn't be going around making these jaw dropping statements that are digging him deeper and deeper into the hole he seemingly can't see through his smug-colored glasses of…

COMMENT: More on Taki Soma

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:May 3, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture
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x-posted from NEWSarama's ANALYZING THE ALLEGED MID OHIO ASSAULT: Originally Posted by GODDARD But to just make a few small points; the majority of Taki's reluctance to name Brownstien came from her reluctance to harm the CBLDF's reputation, a group that she has nothing but respect and appreciation for. While she knew that they were conducting an internal investigation, she did not know that funds from donations to protect comic's first amendment rights were used. That is correct. It was one of the biggest things we debated when she decided to come forward publicly, and while I understood both her…

LINK: TCJ Breaks Taki Soma Story

Post author:Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
Post published:May 2, 2006
Post category:Pop Culture
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Sex Scandal Involving CBLDF's Charles Brownstein Leads to Women's Empowerment Fund Some the Journal spoke with referred to the multiple perspectives on the events of the evening in question as a kind of Rashomon scenario, but in fact, the accounts the Journal has heard are much more compatible with one another than they are divergent. Honestly, I'm glad the Journal dug into the story and came forward with names, and don't begrudge them the "scoop" in the least. I've said in the past that PCS isn't really a news site and have felt that our reporting on this story exclusively,…