NY Comic-Con Journal: Day 1
I am exhausted. Before I say anything else, I want to get this one thing out of the way. During the Distribution panel this afternoon, a mouse ran into the room, right past where I was sitting, and off towards the stage. It looked like the moderator, ICv2‘s Milton Griep, noticed it, or noticed something,
NY Comic-Con Journal: Day 0
So it all begins tomorrow… 🙂 Actually, it technically began about 3 hours ago as the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference for Professionals is today, a series of panels on the past, present and future of graphic novels. Something I would have loved to attend, but alas, taking off tomorrow from work is about as much
COMMENT: Dawson Ditches Speakeasy
After ending 2005 with a flurry of bad press, fledgling indie publisher, Speakeasy Comics, kicked off 2006 with the first of what was presumably going to be a string of big announcements which would reposition them as a player to be reckoned with in the industry: Rosario Dawson’s Occult Crimes Taskforce (O.C.T.) “Rosario Dawson is
On the Shelves: 2/22/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month! My weekly look at select comic books being released Wednesday, 2/22/06. 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,
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
COMMENT: Valentino’s Black Emissary
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.
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
On The Shelves: 2/15/06
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,
LINK: Speculation Returns
From the Business section of today’s NY Daily News: Marvel-ous investmentsA “Marvel Comics” No. 1 dating back to 1939 just went for $201,250. A “Captain America” from 1941 featuring the stars-and-stripes clad superhero knocking out Hitler and his thugs, roped in $96,686. While there’s one voice of reason quoted — “I would not suggest putting
CBC Quickees: DMZ, G0DLAND, X-Factor and more
Snatching a handful of comics from the top of my most-recently read stack, in no particular order… Teen Titans #32: Why do I torture myself? I picked up the Captain Carrot/Kid Eternity arc and was sorely disappointed, and this alternate angles/extended scenes edition of Infinite Crisis #4 was like a self-inflicted kick in the nuts.