This Week’s New Comics: July 4, 2012
This week’s list of new comics in stores is sponsored by Manhattan Comics and Comixology. Buy new comics now!
This week’s list of new comics in stores is sponsored by Manhattan Comics and Comixology. Buy new comics now!
Ever since the Apple iPhone’s debut, tech-minded comic fans discussed it as the ideal platform to read comics in the 21st century. When your friends talk about it, it’s utopia dreaming. When the suits talk about it — especially if they can make money — it’s a step closer to becoming reality. A recent Reuters…
Interestingly, 20th-Century Fox is seeking a fresh face to play Greg Heffley, the star of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. The casting agent is seeking Males 11-14 only. Boys coming to the open call need to be able to handle dialog and ironic comedy, and should bring a current photo and…
Watching the Presidential Inauguration – and I realize I’m making fun of a dude in a wheelchair, but heck, that’s just who I am – it occurred to me that our former (damn, it feels good to say this) vice-president Dick Cheney goes on to become… Davros! No kidding. Look at the guy and imagine…
We’re not quite sure what they’re putting in the water coolers over at io9, but it’s producing some bizarre (yet strangely attractive) reading material. Case in point: This feature on the rate of exchange for various forms of currency in the science-fiction world. Galactic Standard Credits, the money used by the Republic and the Imperial…
Here’s a piece that might not be caught by the excellent wrap-ups on the ongoing economics watch being done every day by Dirk Deppey, Tom Spurgeon, Heidi Macdonald, and the Robot 6 mechanics: Nielsen just came out with their quarterly Three Screen Report, which measures viewing of of television, internet and mobile devices, and found…