Ahhhhh yes, this is a nice change of pace after the ridiculous amount of books that shipped last week. Here’s what I’ll be buying: Blackest Night Wonder Woman #1 Empowered One-Shot Sword #20 Wow. That’s it? I thought I’d be getting more than that. And no Marvel books yet again. Maybe I’ll pick up a [...]
Archive for November, 2009
DC Batman and Robin #2 (4th Printing) Batman Confidential #38 Batman the Unseen #5 Blackest Night The Flash #1 Blackest Night Wonder Woman #1 Jonah Hex #50 JSA All Stars #1 Lobo Highway to Hell #2 Mighty #11 Red Tornado #4 Superman World of New Krypton #10 The Great Ten #2 Warlord #9 DC/VERTIGO Cinderella [...]
DINGO #1 Written by Michael Alan Nelson Drawn by Francesco Biagini SC, 24 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 COVER A: Francesco Biagini COVER B: Paul Harmon Release Date: December 3rd, 2009 A bold new mini from the writer of the best-selling FALL OF CTHULHU and the critically acclaimed series HEXED! A supernatural crime story in the [...]
A New Manga First Printing Record Set in Japan
Posted: November 30, 2009 in Manga, NewsTags: Comics Around the World
From Anime News Netowrk: The Japanese publisher Shueisha is producing 2.85 million copies of the 56th volume of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece pirate manga — the largest print run that any Japanese manga has ever had in its first printing. The volume will ship on December 4. Since the manga began in Weekly Shonen Jump [...]
Mellow Monday
Posted: November 30, 2009 in Mellow Monday, MusicTags: Bang Gang, Fischerspooner, Gorillaz, Ladytron
Boom! Studios Preview: 28 Days Later #4
Posted: November 29, 2009 in Boom Studios PreviewTags: 28 Days Later
28 DAYS LATER #4 Written by Michael Alan Nelson Drawn by Declan Shalvey SC, 24 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99 COVER A: Tim Bradstreet COVER B: Francesco Biagini Release Date: December 3rd, 2009 Selena and her new comrades have faced the Infected, but how will they fare against all the firepower used to enforce the U.K. [...]
So much good stuff came out this week. Between Secret Warriors, Chew, Green Lantern, Invincible Iron Man, Blackest Night, Fantastic Four, Beasts of Burden, Detective Comics, Incredible Herc it really is hard to pick the best book. But luckily for me it has been brought to my attention that I am in fact a completely [...]
judge me not by my clothes do you?
Posted: November 28, 2009 in Blogging, Geek CultureTags: ChicagoNow Radio, Geek To Me, WGN-AM 720
Hey everyone, Elliott here. This morning I had to drag myself out of bed and drive all the way into the city so I could do a guest stint on ChicagoNow Radio, a show that runs every Saturday morning on WGN-AM 720. This is kind of a surreal moment for me since appearing on the [...]
Indie Flick Friday
Posted: November 27, 2009 in Indie Flick Friday, MoviesTags: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, The Royal Tenenbaums
