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04/11/09 |
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| Digital comics versus local comic shops |
Digital comics threatening retail stores just like the internet versus dead tree newspapers is a false comparison. At least so far. |
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03/30/09 |
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05/21/09 |
| Breaking: NYCC owns all your base |
There’s absolutely nothing happening this weekend. Well, there’s one thing happening. Some kind of gathering about things that use to be about comics, but now revolve around movie spoilers and tv show panels. What a con. Robot 6 has it right though. All the blogs in the world won’t keep… |
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02/06/09 |
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| Superheroes are people too |
Let’s spin the Blog-o-fortune wheel and see where it lands! (Bankrupt, Wah! Wah!) In yesterday’s post about Newsarama’s need to edit its typos and homophobic posts, the few comments that got through (I tried a few times early on, but only got Word Press errors) were met with grace a… |
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02/05/09 |
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| Newsarama needs our help |
Because Newsarama asked for it.. literally, and because they couldn’t bother to think through why their post might come off slightly homophobic. Make your own superheroes are gay joke: “Calling all superheroes and fairies” Ya, it’s about a kids event. Something that sounds like a lot of fun for kids… |
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02/04/09 |
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| Wednesday Wants |
Each week, Barry raises from his slumber of gin and cigarettes, dusts himself off, sees his shadow—six more weeks of winter! Zeus Comics manager gives us his picks for this “I can’t believe it’s not Final Crisis” new comics Wednesday. Check out Zeus Comics for more comic goodness. SECRET WARRIORS… |
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02/04/09 |
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| New York’s sales tax law worrisome to online retailers |
Online retailers double take at NY sales tax law. Why does a new law that should be good news for Amazon.com competitors have them worrying (see flood gates)? Not all comic book shops have an online store, or even an ebay store. Dealing with local sales tax is enough of… |
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01/29/09 |
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| Wednesday Wants |
In Dallas, the roads are frozen over. But because of one shop owner’s (who shall remain nameless) constant twitching over his commute to the dock workers, we all got our comics yesterday. Here are Barry’s picks for today. You know they’re god ones because even after he was able to… |
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01/28/09 |
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| Mike Wieringo selling ringtones |
Ringtone posts are interspersed through out the years of posts on Mike Wieringo’s website. See here. Something tells me Mike—rest his soul—didn’t put them there. You know, there’s a special place in hell for people to hack sites of deceased. screen cap |
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01/26/09 |
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| Day one, let’s build a better comic nation |
Day two? We give up and go back to ruining it with higher distribution levels and speculative pricing. Michael Canva offers up his sketches from our new president’s inauguration and writes about his experience. Brian Andersen’s tireless efforts to get his indie comic book into hands of readers through write-ups,… |
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01/21/09 |
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| Wednesday Wants |
It’s that magic day of the week. The one Barry, our intrepid store manager calls “What’r you looking at!?” But everyone else around town is calling it Day One. Not because of our new President Obama (that has a nice ring to it doesn’t it) but because we’re all in… |
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01/21/09 |
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| Wednesday Recovery |
We have reviews (special MLK edition)! Read them. Comment and post about them on your blogs ...now. Final Crisis #6 by Scott Cederlund I Hate Gallant Girl #3 by Jamison Sacks B.P.R.D.: THE BLACK GODDESS #1 by Johnny Bacardi Btw, we are now a part of the Comixup news site. … |
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01/19/09 |
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| Friday Finally and other headlines |
Someone somewhere is all a bloggery about some major studio reaching a settlement with another major studio about a movie that used to be a great comic. I could care less. P. Craig Russell, illustrator of Killraven, Elric, The Sandman, Coraline, has a spiffy video about graphic storytelling and sequential… |
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01/16/09 |
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| Comic Book Talking Points |
OMG, did you see Forrest in the last issue of Manhunter!? You go girl! So yesterday was a light Wednesday with the exception of some big titles. ASM was only big because of the Marvel’s promotion shenanigans, and it worked too. Nobody is talking about what happened to so and… |
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01/15/09 |
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| Robin is the new pink and other headlines |
Who knew Brits could be homophobic too. They’ve got the accent and everything. Found Art - Seaguy 2 Some preview images by Cameron Stewart in the upcoming Seaguy 2: Slaves of Mickey Eye And another one Good week for Kris Straub Starslip Crisis relaunched itself this week. Plus, Kris’ other… |
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01/14/09 |
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| Swipe File: Bad Karma |
What do Karma Incorporated the comic book and Karma Police the movie have in common? Not David Hopkins. He's just writer on Karma Incorporated, a story about vengeful mercenaries willing to give payback for the right money (based in Dallas). Karma Police is TOTALLY different. First it's the name of… |
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01/14/09 |
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| Wednesday Wants |
I’m sure at one point, Barry use to love talking on the phone (when he wasn’t using it for twittering), but all that’s over with the onslaught of phone calls. The word is, according to Zeus Comics in Dallas, The Obama variant was only available to order within a 48hour… |
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01/13/09 |
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| Wednesday Recovery |
With all of the buzz about next weeks comics, we almost forgot this week even happened. In case you didn’t pick up these issues, fear not because our PopSyndicate reviewers bring you their picks. Punisher: War Zone #4 by James Donnelly Hexed #1 by Jamison Sacks The Invincible Iron Man… |
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01/12/09 |
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| No Spider-man for you. Marvel’s cock-up to retailers |
It looks like Mephisto strikes again! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583 Written by MARK WAID Pencils by BARRY KITSON Cover by JOHN ROMITA SR. YOU ASKED FOR IT, YOU GOT IT! PETER PARKER ON A DATE! After the revelations of “Mind on Fire”, love is in the air for more than one… |
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01/09/09 |
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01/09/09 |
| Best of 2008: Comic Books & Manga |
2008 has has come and gone, and we have its event tie-in issues to prove it. Our staff reviewers came up with their choices of the best comics and manga that stood out from the stack. David Jones, David Rasmussen, and Russ Parker give us their best—and worst—of 2008. Enjoy!… |
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01/08/09 |
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| LiveJournal deals with layoffs aka goodbye, Scans_Daily (oh please, oh please, oh please!) |
Where oh where will the Scans_Daily group post illegally if LJ is no more? LiveJournal has been passed around more times than an original Ditko book at comic-con, it’s no wonder it never really found a place to stay. If Google didn’t already own Blogger, I would opt for them… |
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01/07/09 |
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| Manifest Spider-man Mixup |
Talk about a cross-over! Did X-men MD #4 really get mixed up with X-men Spider-man #3? Spotted on the twitter machine. Zeuscomics: @marvel I just called Diamond but I haven’t heard back yet. Our X-Men Manifest Destiny’s #4 have the content pages for X-Men Spider-Man #3 Then later he posted… |
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01/07/09 |
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| Wednesday Wants |
Each week, comic book retail manager, Barry, crawls out of bed, makes coffee, puts on The Smiths and steels himself for the onslaught of comic boxes and customers at Zeus Comics in Dallas. It’s a tough job but, but if he wasn’t working there, he’s probably be a chainsaw murderer. … |
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01/06/09 |
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| You’ll Have That Ends |
“And they lived happily ever after ...” marks the end of Wes Molebash’s run on the popular webcomic You’ll Have That. The past four years writing and drawing this comic strip have been some of the most awesome years of my life. I’ve learned so much about the craft and… |
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01/06/09 |
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| 2009 New Year’s Resolutions for Comic Books |
The end of of 2008 rounded out important event in many people’s lives. For the some, the economy brought tough times. For others, the end of the year meant the end of a political cycle—and the start of change. Comics are no exception. 2008 represented interesting times for comics (and… |
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01/05/09 |
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01/10/09 |
| Comics for breakfast |
Mornin’ campers! This morning Scott Cederlund, our comic reviewing chef, serves up four recent comic book reviews to start your morning right! Okay two of them are left-overs from last week, but you were probably out of town and won’t know the difference. And once you’re done with that, Isaac… |
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01/05/09 |
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| Night of the Living Podcast |
Do you love horror movies? Do you remember that one? You know, with the guy from that show. NOTLP remembers. Let the cast take you through a journey through horror’s latest and greatest, by way of fart jokes, snarky comments, and random asides. Features include News, Straight-to Video Russian Roulette… |
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01/04/09 |
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| Cinema Diabolica |
Cinema Diabolica is your weekly dose of Horror, Giallo, Cult, and Exploitation movie review. Join your hosts F13 and DZ every Tuesday as they fight their way through the nastiest, weirdest, and most bizarre films ever made. |
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01/04/09 |
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| Outside the Cinema |
Outside The Cinema is to horror and genre movies as giant nuclear space monsters are to the nation of Japan. We review classic and modern genre moves as well as newly released trailers in an open format that often turns into a belligerent bare knuckle brawl verbal assault. Do you… |
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01/04/09 |
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| Web 2.0, An Outdated Upgrade |
A girlfriend of mine is taking an HTML class at the local community college. She’s very excited by it. Each week she tells me about her progress and what new aspect of HTML she just learned. And with each week, I think about how the website I just finished updating… |
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11/24/08 |
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| Torchwood Babies: Part Three |
Because we’ve all been sitting on the edge of our seats. Oh what will happen to out tiny tykes! Fandom meets webcomics meets livejournal meets a high potential for spoil alert if you’re not caught up on the show. Add a dash of Jim Hensen’s firmly placed imprint on our… |
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11/11/08 |
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| Alex Maleev adds kick to new Target ad |
Eisner award winner Alex Maleev gets some national air time with Target’s latest ad in promoting Christina Aguilera’s new “best-of” album. The production company, Imaginary Forces, hired Maleev for CA’s four colored comic book version. Judging by the art, Christina could go to toe to toe with Daredevil, no prob.… |
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11/11/08 |
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11/12/08 |
| Gentleman’s Guide |
A genre movie podcast from a couple of Gentlemen who think they know a thing or two about genre films. from the cold of the North to the depths of the South each week we try to tackle the forgotten gems of genre cinema. Join us and let us take… |
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10/11/08 |
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| Geektress |
Geektress is: Brenda, Laura, and Rania. Things we love to talk about: Superheroes, Robots, Spaceships, Jensen Ackles’ Abs, Television, Movies, Really Terrible Design Choices, Dragons, Hobbits, Wizards, Wizzards, Monkeys, How Many Ways In Which Frank Miller Sucks, Demons, Ghosts, Aliens, Ghost Aliens, Robot Ghosts, Robot Aliens, Zombies, Pirates, Ninjas, Zombie… |
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09/11/08 |
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| Tokyo Gore Police |
Totally not the same thing as Tokyo Police Club. *my eyes*Japanese Horror: Tokyo Gore Police: Let me introduce you the art of modern Japanese horror movies. Forget about The Ring and the same shit. Welcome to the world of a real Japanese gore massacre, the world of manga girls, yakuza,… |
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09/10/08 |
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| Zeros 2 Heroes online comics site launches |
Zeros 2 Heroes has officially “beta” launched their first batch of creator-owned comic properties on their website, completely free to view. Touted as a social network for creators, producers and fans of comics, Z2H offer plenty of social tools for connecting users together and ways for creators to showcase their… |
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09/10/08 |
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09/11/08 |
| Secret Salon |
Secret Six hits the shelves today. Looks like Gail Simone has another first issue out that brought all the boys to the yard. Zeus Comics owner Richard Neal wouldn’t let a little thing like getting his “hair did” stop him from reading his newest favorite comic book. (other pic here)… |
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09/04/08 |
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| The Bechdel Rule |
NPR’s All Things Considered revisits the tried and true classic when it comes to watching television. Dykes to Watch Out For declared the Bechdel Rule back in 1985. What TV show meets the rule according to ATC? Why Middleman, of course! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94202522 (via DTWOF) |
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09/02/08 |
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| Scott McCloud’s Understanding Google’s Chrome |
Only Scott McCloud could properly explain what the heck Google is up to with their new browser, Chrome, through the magic of webcomics. Chrome is a new web browser based on the Webkit engine of Apple’s Safari fame. Great, another browser to test our new website design against. Go read… |
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09/02/08 |
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06/17/09 |
| Obscure 80’s |
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09/01/08 |
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| Wednesday’s Haul |
Wednesday’s Haul is a blog and a podcast about the wonderful world of comics specifically and geekery in general. Featuring regular reviews and opinions by Scott Cederlund, Wednesday’s Haul covers the world of comics from the latest mega crossovers, the smallest press, European comics and manga. As Scott is often… |
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09/01/08 |
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| ShowShow |
Info here about the show |
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09/01/08 |
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| Thumbs of Fury |
Info here |
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09/01/08 |
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| Paperbag Radio |
A weekly PodCast featuring Aaron and Marla. Two people who watch entirely too much TV! News, Reviews, thoughts and feelings on everything that’s graced the airwaves from past, present and future! Visit us at http://paperbagradio.com |
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09/01/08 |
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| Midnight Muenster |
Show info here |
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09/01/08 |
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| Mail Order Zombie |
Still devoted to reviewing straight-to-DVD zombie movies, Mail Order Zombie has evolved since its January 2008 launch to cover not only this unique film sub-genre, but has also gone on to feature reviews of zombie movie music, post-apocalyptic literature (with and without zombies), and the occasional theatrical zombie movie release. … |
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09/01/08 |
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| Chicken Pop Pod |
Chicken pop pod is a weekly podcast that features 5 friends who happen to be pop culture junkies. We cover topics ranging from relevant and current entertainment news and reviews as well as strolls down memory lane with our retro topics. If you love the 80’s, if you’re crazy about… |
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09/01/08 |
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| The Break Room |
Info about this show here |
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09/01/08 |
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| Big Red Podcast |
Big Red Podcast thinks critically about pop culture every week. BRP is not afraid to take apart the best and worst of the large and small screens while offering commentary on everything from Messianic complexes to hair problems. |
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09/01/08 |
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| Comics Cross The Border |
The Dallas Quick reviews two comics from DC that focus on immigration issues. Blue Beetle and Manhunter incorporate real world issues on immigration in the DCU in their current story lines. And even though Matthew Sturges didn’t get top billing for BB#29, that didn’t fool Quick columnist Dan Koller one… |
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08/07/08 |
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