Salon.com interviews Berkley Breathed about the end of his long-running, oft-revived cartoon character & strip. I thought this quote was touching, in a melancholy sort of way:
The very, absolute last comic strip characters destined to become true …
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Marvel comics is suing NCSoft over their City of Heroes game. Because this seems like an extremely frivolous lawsuit to me (the grounds are that it allows players to duplicate their trademarks — what's next, Crayola?) I'm boycotting Marvel comics …
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35 cents for the movie, 10 cents for popcorn, and 5 cents for a candy bar?
The last time I was at the movies, it was (prices in Canadian loonies…
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Still working through a batch of comics I picked up at the library recently...
Back when I had a regular "pull" at the local comic shop (roughly three cities ago), The Authority frequently caught my eye. But I could never figure …
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I picked up a bunch of comics at the library the other day, and read through a bunch of them yesterday.
I used to really like the X-Men (Claremont era, the Evolution cartoon, etc.), and have been on a Whedon kick lately …
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We saw the new Superman movie over the weekend. It was... okay. Maybe not even that good.
Now, the disclaimer here, should probably be that I've never really been a fan of Superman, or Batman, for that matter. I have fond, childhood-tinged memories of …
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Wired has an article about the copyright comic book Bound by Law :
Our book describes several instances in which the telling of that history has been thwarted by permissions issues. An example is Jon Else having to pay $10,000 for a four-and-a-half-second …
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This looks interesting:
IS the next big thing in superheroes a masked man who leaps from skyscraper to skyscraper, saves the world and suddenly breaks into song? Audiences will find out on June 23, when "Krrish" - a film that showcases Bollywood's first …
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An interesting rant by Jim Crocker at ICv2, a comics- and games-retailers news site:
...We've found one that has actually produced some results for us: racking by genre, and not publisher. The marketing wonks at Marvel and DC probably love the idea that …
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