Not that Valerie D’Orazio (of the new Cloak & Dagger series, reserve your copies now!) found THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO UNLAWFUL CARNAL KNOWLEDGE FOR FANTASY ROLE-PLAYING GAMES "while searching for something completely different."
Not that she wrote it up on Occasional Superheroine.
But that it’s not comics, and it’s not complete. For that, you have to go to What’s New with Phil & Dixie:
Click through to find out the word. I’d tell you myself, but suddenly I am eaten by a grue.
Hate to say it, but I did predict this back last year, albeit a few days late for ‘08.Straight from Wizard’s press release:
Wizard Entertainment announced today that it has postponed its 2009 Wizard World Los Angeles show slated for March 13-15 and cancelled the Wizard World Texas show November 6-8 due to the current economic climate.
The successful Philadelphia and Chicago shows will go on as planned. Wizard World Philadelphia, featuring Guest of Honor Garth Ennis, is June 19-21 at the Philadelphia Convention Center and Wizard World Chicago, featuring comic legend George Perez, is August 6-9 at the Rosemont Convention Center.
The shoes, they begin to drop…
In yet another example of print publications migrating online, The New Frontiersman has opened up a web site. It’s bare at the moment, but it’s expected to go live on Monday.
And according to AP, things are progressing on the movie release front:
Attorneys for rival studios fighting over the release of the superhero flick told a federal judge on Friday that they’re having fruitful settlement talks.
Attorneys for 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. asked the judge to delay a hearing Friday so those discussions can continue over the weekend.
U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess agreed to continue the hearing but says a trial over whether to block the film’s March release is still set for Jan. 20.
Lou Karasik, who is representing Fox, told Feess that the delay would be "very, very helpful" to settlement discussions he deemed "productive."
Friday’s revelation surprised Feess, who noted that Warner Bros. had been seeking to move up the Jan. 20 trial to next week, citing the film’s marketing campaign and its March 6 release date.
Also, Heidi MacDonald points us to Film Esq., which has the best play-by-play of the legal wranglings going on around Watchmen.
Continuing our media blitz for our new upcoming series, Lone Justice creators Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley were just interviewed on Mr. Media. Click here to listen to the show.
And Diamond’s Scoop also has an interview with the creators, along with previews of the first installment– just in case you can’t wait for Monday.
Of course, if you want to know about the real creators of Lone Justice, read the Harvey Award nominated EZ STREET.
Someone leaked the identity of the new Doctor and British Bookies want to know Who, Captain Kirk lands on the internet and Captain Marvel (and Black Adam) land back on the shelf.
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Please please please… is there anyone out there who can translate this from Japanese? Because if I can’t, I’m just going to have to assume this is either DC’s last chance to publish a successful manga book, or Warner Brothers’ fallback position if Fox scuttles the release date of the movie. (Hat tip: Mike Sterling.)
Twilight fans can rest easy with news that Taylor Lautner will return to play Jacob Black again in New Moon, Summit Entertainment’s movie sequel to Twilight, according to New Moon director Chris Weitz via Twilight book series author Stephenie Meyer:
My first priority was always what was best for New Moon—what was going to give us the best possible movie. I’m truly thrilled that Taylor was the one who proved to the director, to Summit, and to me that he is the best possible Jacob we could have. And I’m very much looking forward to seeing what he’s going to bring to Jacob’s character this year.
Production starts soon on New Moon, which is set for release November 20, 2009.
In New Moon, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.
Remember the last time comics were in serious economic troubles? Remember when Marvel went bankrupt?
Hard to believe in the days of Marvel movies making money like mad, but it was only twelve years ago that Marvel was bankrupt, in one of the most convoluted financial arrangements in corporate history. No, it’s not even possible to try and distill it all. Go read Comic Wars: Marvel’s Battle For Survival if you want all the details.
Now we hear from Ed Zanger that a piece of it is coming to a close, as stockholders from that time have just been paid a settlement from the shennanigans that went on at the time.
And the other big players in the battle? Well, Carl Icahn just put his 177-foot yacht, the Starfire, up for sale for $37.5 million– while Ron Perelman (right) is trying to sell his for $67 million so he can upgrade. Times are tough all over…
Today’s installment of comic-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest…
* Heidi MacDonald checks in with comics pros for her annual year end survey: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. The big themes: recession, online comics, comic book movies– and how gangbuster movie sales don’t translate into gangbuster comic sales. (Disclaimer: I’m one of those people included.)
* Asylum Press, having offered free comics for anyone signing up for their online newsletter within the first twelve days of December, has extended their offer. Anyone who signs up at asylumpress@aol.com before Jan. 31 will receive three free comics.
* Brian Cronin says "Comic book writers appear to have more of a presence on the internet than comic book artists." As the webmaster for Peter David’s weblog and all the work I’ve done over here… no kidding.
* Uclick has revealed an all-new mobile Web application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch at the Macworld Conference & Expo event in San Francisco. By navigating to www.uclick.com on the iPhone and iPod touch, the Safari browser now displays the Uclick archive of 400,000 comic strips, single-panel comics and editorial cartoons. Currently the iPhone-optimized site features comic strips and single-panel cartoons, including Doonesbury, Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes, Close to Home, and many more. Hat tip: Macworld UK.
* Top Shelf’s Leigh Walton and Comic Foundry’s Laura Hudson launched Cereblog, a dual critical analysis of every issue of Cerebus. In the same vein, Tom the Dog has been running weekly retrospectives of every appearance of GrimJack.
* And sadly, Cheryl Holdridge, one of the original "Mickey Mouse Club" Mouseketeers, died January 6th after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 64.
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! is the new graphic novel from the Harvey Award nominated team of Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley. It will begin right here on ComicMix on Monday, January 12th. And in the interest of making all things EZ, we present the top 6 essential things you should know before you start reading:
1) LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! is a two-fisted, pulp adventure set in the year 1930, just after the big Wall Street crash in 1929. It is a time when there is great uncertainty in life, work and politics. But it was also a time when pulp magazines were introducing vital new characters to the public that we would eventually come to call Super Heroes. So, step aside, Doc Savage, the Shadow, and the Spider – and make way for Lone Justice!
2) LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! is the sideways sequel to the Harvey Award nominated EZ STREET graphic novel, also perpetrated by the Tinnell and Wheatley team. Why sideways? In EZ STREET, the central characters Scott and Danny Fletcher are attempting to create a graphic novel. And LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! is the graphic novel they create.
3) Yes, that means Tinnell and Wheatley are taking credit for the work of two fictional characters. They have no shame.
4) Maybe you don’t need to know that the core ideas behind Lone Justice’s tribulations in CRASH! can be found in the pages of EZ STREET – particularly in the character of the homeless man young Scott and Danny befriended. But if you are aware it just might make the reading experience a little richer. No, really – there are parallels to life events in EZ STREET all through LONE JUSTICE: CRASH!
5) You should probably be aware of just how devastating the Depression was on the United States and its residents. It was much worse than what is going on today, so far. Tent cities – known as Hoovervilles (after President Herbert Hoover) really existed. Hopefully, there will not be any Bushvilles before LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! finishes running on ComicMix.
6) There were often official efforts to keep transient homeless folks out of cities and towns and even entire states. These were people who were just trying to survive. But California, for example, would try to keep people from pouring into the state – and they were prone to use force.
You can start reading LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! right here on ComicMix on Monday, January 12th.
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