On The Shelves: 9/21/05
Support GOOD Comics! Try something NEW! My weekly look at select comic books being released tomorrow, 9/21/05. 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
INFO: Baltimore Comic-Con *UPDATE*
UPDATE: Turns out I’ll be heading down for this after all, albeit only for Saturday, so the end of this post still applies. I doubt I’ll hit any of the panels, except for the DC Comics: A Look Ahead at 12pm, but I’ll definitely be wandering the floor, looking for interesting comics and passing out
INFO: The Losers go Hollywood
One of my favorite comics – check the Top 10 over in the left column – is coming to a movie screen near you! (via Andy Diggle, via Variety) ‘The Losers’ wins its way to WB Berg to pen screenplay, co-produce By PAMELA MCCLINTOCK DC comic ‘The Losers,’ about a rogue CIA unit, will get
CBC Quickees: 9/8/05
No Buzzscope reviews this week as my both of my kids started school last week and I started today (online), so free time has been scarce. The past two weeks’ lessened output have been an unexpected but refreshing break as every now and then it’s nice to simply read comics for the pleasure. On that
First Day of School, Part I
You expect there to be some tears on a day like this, your kid’s first day of school. Today, it was India’s, and while I didn’t expect her to have too much of a problem with it – especially since we took her in, hung out for a bit, and picked her up – I
D&D: Mateo Cor Marak
Mateo Cor Marak Tiefling Rogue/Lvl 3 Male, 21yo, Chaotic Neutral Born into slavery in Innarlith (Lake of Steam) to the human concubine of a once-powerful wizard, Mateo was abducted by the local enclave of Red Wizards when the truth of his fiendish bloodline became known – Rakshasa, given away by his catlike eyes and pointed
Blogaround Challenge Met!
Via Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog: Here’s what you gotta do. Go to the Comics Weblog Update-A-Tron 3000 and click through to at least ten comic book blogs. You can do more, but ten is the minimum. I would also stick with blogs that have been updated within the last couple of weeks, but that’s not a hard and
"If we were lucky, we would have died."
Council president lashes out An outraged New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas blasted the city of Baton Rouge and other Louisiana communities for what he called refusing to take in refugees from the devastated city. “They don’t want them,” Thomas said, after bursting into the press room at the Emergency Operations Center in Baton
Mayor to feds: ‘Get off your asses’
From the transcript of WWL correspondent Garland Robinette’s interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday night. WWL: …apparently there’s a section of our citizenry out there that thinks because of a law that says the federal government can’t come in unless requested by the proper people, that everything that’s going on to this
"They are spinning and people are dying."
New Orleans mayor lashes out at feds …In the radio interview, [Mayor Ray] Nagin’s frustration was palpable. “I’ve been out there man. I flew in these helicopters, been in the crowds talking to people crying, don’t know where their relatives are. I’ve done it all man, and I’ll tell you man, I keep hearing that