From DC’s The Source: This past Saturday, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation took a moment to honor writer Greg Rucka and artists J.H. Williams III and Cully Hamner’s work on DETECTIVE COMICS’ Batwoman by naming the book the year’s “Outstanding Comic Book” at their 21st Media Awards, held in New York City. A [...]
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Detective Comics Wins GLAAD Media Award
Posted: March 15, 2010 in DC Comics, Life, NewsTags: Batwoman, Detective Comics, GLAAD, Greg Rucka, J.H. Williams III
JMS to Take Over Writing Wonder Woman… and That Superman Guy Too
Posted: March 8, 2010 in DC Comics, NewsTags: J. Michael Straczynski, Superman, Wonder Woman
The above pic is not at all related. It was just a chance for me to post one of my favorite covers ever. J. Michael Straczynski via DC’s The Scource: For as long as I’ve been doing conventions (starting in the early Cretaceous period, when it was just me and a handful of pterosaurs on [...]
CCW*TV vs George Lucas!
Posted: February 5, 2010 in CCW Nation, CCW TV, Movies, NewsTags: The People versus George Lucas
Well…not exactly. Hey folks, Elliott here with a fun bit of news. A couple months ago, the folks behind the indie documentary The People Versus George Lucas approached Jose and I and asked for permission to use some clips of our show in their film. The movie is a chronicle of Star Wars fandom, specifically [...]
Persona 3 Portable to be Realeased in North America in July
Posted: January 20, 2010 in Geek Culture, News, Video GamesTags: Atlus, Persona 3, PSP
And the Saga Continues
Posted: January 16, 2010 in Marvel, NewsTags: Blackest Night, Dick Move, Horse Shit
Tom Brevoort via Twitter via Robot 6: We heard from a number of retailers who got stuck with books chasing rings and decided to do something. We’re not making any money on the deal, but we are helping our retailer partners during a tough economic time. Making sure that our retailers can keep the doors [...]
This week’s question: What are your thoughts on this? Official Marvel Press Release In an effort to provide assistance to comic retailers in 2010, Marvel is offering retailers an opportunity to turn unsold comics into an extremely rare Siege #3 Deadpool Variant! Retailers – for every 50 stripped covers of the following comics sent to [...]
F*ck Kick-Ass and Give Me Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Posted: January 7, 2010 in Blogging, Geek Culture, Movies, News, Oni Press, Opinion, PhotosTags: Edgar Wright, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera, Scott Pilgrim
Holy shit did this picture put a smile on my face (Thanks Ironmuskrat). Chances are if you like the Scott Pilgrim comic (published by Oni Press) you probably have a smile on your face as well. Talk about capturing the characters perfectly. This is THE comic book movie I am looking forward to the most [...]
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 [...]
Final Fantasy XIII Launches March 9th, 2010
Posted: November 13, 2009 in Geek Culture, News, Video GamesTags: Final Fantasy XIII