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Diamond Distributing Promotes Idw
1 hour ago
Diamond Comic Distributors just promoted our friends at Idw to "Premier" status. Essentially, that means Idw's titles – which include the ComicMix line as well as Transformers, Doctor Who, Angel, Star Trek and a great many others – will now appear in the highly valued front portion of the monthly Diamond catalog. This is a much desired position, and marks the first time a publisher has joined this elite group (Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, and DC) since the whole Premier thing started almost 15 years ago. There are various programs that make it more convenient for retailers to order Idw's books that will be implemented later in the year.
Diamond has been Idw's exclusive distributor to both the comic book stores and "traditional" book stores suck as Barnes and Noble. This relationship, of course, will not change.
"We are very pleased to have completed this groundbreaking agreement with Diamond," said Ted Adams, CEO of Idw Publishing. »
- Mike Gold
The Four Questions with Adam-Troy Castro
4 hours ago
As sophists worldwide are aware, HaRav, HaGoan, HaWriter Adam-Troy Castro’s “Dear Magneto” essay is currently challenging more than 3000 years of Talmudic wisdom on the subject of homo-superior-phobia. Consequently, we stood in line, knee-deep in rain and runoff, for nearly sixteen hours along with hundreds of the revered Talmudist’s loyal chassidim, just waiting for a brucha from the tzadik… and once we’d gained an audience, we, in our unmitigated chutzpah, dared post these four kashas to the scholarly sage in the spirit of the coming festival of the Passover.
Why is Magneto different from all other super villains?
Unlike the vast majority of super-villains (among them Graviton, who "can crack the planet in two and still can't get laid"), Magneto has character; he's been wronged, he has a case, he's pursued his ideals to their logical extreme and, like a tragic Shakespearean villain, it has brought him nothing but personal tragedy. »
- Clifford Meth
Review: 'Where the Wild Things Are' on DVD
6 hours ago
Loneliness is a universal theme and one immediately can feel empathy for poor Max, who, despite a sister and mother, feels alone and isolated in his home. The only place where he appears happy is in his imagination, an ever-changing place where anything can happen.
When the fantasy becomes reality, though, his life changes. This simple little adjustment to Maurice Sendak's classic children’s tale Where the Wild Things Are breathes fresh life into the story. Spike Jonze did what feel even attempted, which was to adapt the slight but fanciful book into a feature film for the entire family.
The movie, on sale now from Warner Home Video, takes us from Max’s home to a world where the Wild Things live. His imagination helps him tremendously when he first is exposed to these oversized creatures so he quickly convinces these guileless beings that he is an experienced king. »
- Robert Greenberger
The Nightmare Before St. Patrick's Day
22 hours ago
All right, I'm sick of all you people coming into the city dressed in radioactive green, with whistles and leftover Mardi Gras beads-- you all remind me of people who suddenly claim they're Mets fans as soon as they make it into the playoffs.
Now, from a tip from Ariel David, comes a little video proving, once and for all, the dangers of being an amateur Irishman one day a year...
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. »
- Glenn Hauman
Tom Baker Returns Again!
17 March 2010 8:45 AM, PDT
Well, you just can't keep a good Doctor down.
76 year-old Tom Baker, the longest-running Doctor to date, will once again return to the role of the fourth Doctor in original adventures – this time for Big Finish's full-cast audio productions. This follows this year's Baker's successful six-hour full-cast audio, Hornets' Nest, for the BBC.
All Baker requested was total control to create his own stories; Big Finish, having worked with Doctors five, six, seven and eight along, agreed. They're no fools. Thus far Big Finish has produced several hundred hours of original full-cast adventures featuring the Doctor(s) and one or more of his companions, including spin-off adventures featuring Sarah Jane Smith, the Daleks, Unit and others.
Rumors continue to persist about Baker someday returning to the hit television show, although if you pay attention to the noise it seems he's more interested in playing a villain than in appearing as »
- Mike Gold
Update: 'Batman vs. Shark with Lightsaber' artist found -- on upcoming ComicMix projects
16 March 2010 1:16 PM, PDT
So we posted the now-viral image of Batman fighting a shark with a lightsaber...
...and something was tickling in the back of my brain that I'd seen it before, but I couldn't figure out where.
Then I got a note from Andrew Zubko. Andrew is currently coloring a new project for us called The Inner Station written by Ben Truman and drawn by Timothy Truman, and he reminded us that he sent us the piece as a sample back in July.
So we are very happy to correct the record that the crowing piece of awesome was painted by Andrew Zubko, and show you a larger version of the piece-- and you should go to his website at Zubko.com and see exactly how much neat stuff he's doing.
And as an extra enticement, here's a quick look at what he's working on for us-- your first look at The »
- Glenn Hauman
Found Around: Batman, lightsabers, sharks, dinosaurs, and Mecha-Satan!
16 March 2010 8:42 AM, PDT
Let's face it, if you're anything like us, you've barely got enough time in between blogging about how much you hate/love the iPad, Blackest Night, Deadpool Corps, Jim and Pam's baby, and downloading torrents of movies you wouldn't pay 10 bucks to see in a crowded theater, to see All the great stuff floating out on the interwebs. How about a brief smattering of recent awesome things we noticed.
Batman with a lightsaber, killing a shark. Kudos to Nerdcore on this gem.
How the world would end... and we wouldn't want it any other way. Kudos to Ctrl-Alt-Del for this piece of awesome.
This guy, singing improv tunes to random people who come in and say hello on chat-roulette.
Continue reading Found Around: Batman, lightsabers, sharks, dinosaurs, and Mecha-Satan! › »
- Marc Alan Fishman
How To Mutate And Take Over The World
16 March 2010 7:00 AM, PDT
For a limited time (till the end of this week) Benbella Books has posted Adam-Troy Castro's essay "Dear Magneto" from the book The Unauthorized X-Men:
Let’s imagine a future where you’ve taken over. Baseline human beings are not an issue, for whatever reason. Either they’ve been exterminated, or the mutant gene has become so dominant that everybody possesses a superpower of some kind, or they’re just living underground, working crap jobs like processing sewage, or sweeping the streets, or telemarketing. Whatever. They’re irrelevant.
Everybody worth talking about has superpowers.
Further, let’s posit a fellow whose superpowers are minimal. He can jump fifteen feet straight up, bench-press about a thousand pounds and, while not quite bulletproof, will not be harmed by most knives. You know the type I’m talking about. In the world you’re living in, he wouldn’t last thirty seconds against the likes of Spider-Man, »
- Glenn Hauman
Clifford Meth: Welcome to Hollywood, Part Deux
16 March 2010 4:50 AM, PDT
Glenn Hauman promised yesterday that I’d deliver a “fuller explanation of what’s been going on” vis-à-vis my piece “Welcome to Hollywood.” So in the interests of keeping this story alive (because you haven’t lived until you’ve heard the words, “You’ll never work in this town again”) I’ll try to squeeze in another few inches.
Jason Brice and his site Comics Bulletin (formerly Silver Bullet Comic Books) have run my “Meth Addict” (formerly “Past Masters”) column without interference since 2004. Among other things, the column was a linchpin in helping secure an important financial settlement for Dave Cockrum that allowed the X-Men co-creator to live his last few years in relative comfort. Good for you, Jason Brice. If we never do another good deed together again in our wretched little lives, that may have been enough.
The yanking of “Welcome to Hollywood” after Cb’s EiC »
- Clifford Meth
Peter Graves: 1926-2010
14 March 2010 8:45 PM, PDT
People Magazine reports that Peter Graves, who starred in TV's Mission Impossible, and later spoofed his persona in the Airplane comedies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday at the age of 83.
In honor of his memory, I'm going to go watch some gladiator films which will self-destruct in five seconds.
Or we can just sit back and watch his role in It Conquered The World:
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- Glenn Hauman
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