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John Carbonaro passes away at the age of 58

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  • March 9, 2009

thunder1-8641152We’ve just received word that John Carbonaro passed away on February 25th at the age of 58.

John was a hard-core comic fan who acquired the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents comic in 1981, which had been published in the sixties by Tower Comics. Robert J. Sodaro wrote up a long history of John and his time with the Agents in this article and only hints at some of the convoluted publishing history and legal messes (any series that shows up in both Thunder Bunny and Penthouse Comix has a weird publishing backstory.)

i only met John a few times, but he will be remembered.

Dakota Fanning cast in ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’

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  • March 9, 2009

Dakota Fanning is about to go all Volturi on your ass.

The 15 year old actress is set to sparkle– literally– in Summit Entertainment’s movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the sequel to its Twilight film, according to People.com.  Fanning will take on the role of Jane, a particularly evil vampire in the guise of a sweet young thing who is a member of the Volturi sect of vampires. 

Principal photography for New Moon is scheduled to begin in Vancouver later this month, with the release date close behind on November 20, 2009.  New Moon is shooting back-to-back with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30, 2010), the third movie in the saga that is based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books.

Watchmen: So, about that big blue…

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  • March 7, 2009

…yyyyyyyyeah. I saw the film with a number of women in the group and the subject arose, so to speak. I mean, IMAX and everything. No wonder Drieberg was having problems.

This video may sum up the problem nicely. Do I really have to tell you that it’s not safe for work?

 

Happy Birthday, Brian Alvey

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  • March 7, 2009

On this day in 1970, Brian Alvey was born in Falls Church, Virginia. After a misspent youth working for professional gamblers, he straightened up and started building web sites in the early days of the World Wide Web, performing back-end wizardy for everybody from Business Week and TV Guide to e-publishing pioneer BiblioBytes. Not content with computer work, he was also the art director for Cybersurfer magazine and The Silicon Alley Reporter.

Most recently, he cofounded Weblogs Inc., the folks behind Engadget, Cinematical, and TMZ.com; he was the chief architect of Netscape; and he’s started up a little company called CrowdFusion which does all sorts of neat stuff. And with all of that, he’s still found time to help run ComicMix.

Happy birthday to him and to his lovely wife Niki, who shares a birthday with him as they share so many other things.

NPR’s Studio 360: ‘Watchmen’ in pop culture

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  • March 6, 2009

This week on NPR’s Studio 360, you’ll be hearing a roundtable discussion between Farscape comic writer Keith R.A. DeCandido, Star Trek author David Mack, comic book historian Alan Kistler, ethicist Alexandra Honigsberg, editor Jeness Crawford, ComicMix contributor Kim Kindya, and yours truly, discussing Watchmen and its impact on pop culture. It’s wide ranging and a lot of fun. Take a listen:

 

‘The Art of Watchmen’ museum gallery opening

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  • March 6, 2009

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The opening of "The Art of Watchmen" at MoCCA last night was incredibly packed, with a lot of energy and anticipation in the room– even more than knowing you’d be allowed to see the Watchmen movie before almost everybody else would– there was a sense of backstage magic about, seeing so many of the stages of what was going on, from the earliest concept sketches to the original cover art for all twelve issues to the raw cover color work, to the mock-ups for the movies and the harsh black and white pictures of Clay Enos’s Watchmen: Portraits
 book.

Clay’s here at left, including the picture of him in the book. Other attendees we got to photograph included Paul Levitz, Peter Sanderson, Steve Saffel, and Danny Fingeroth.

See more pictures after the jump. And if you can, go see the show.

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It’s midnight — ‘Watchmen’ reviews & open thread

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  • March 6, 2009

"At midnight, all the agents
and their superhuman crew
go out and round up everyone
who know more than they do."

It’s finally midnight. The movie is now in the hands of the audience. So tell us what you like about it, what you didn’t like about it, link to any reviews, tell us if there were any cool trailers, is it worth seeing in IMAX, etc. Assume there be spoilers ahead.

And just to sweeten the pot, we’ll give one of these now-collector item tickets of the preview screening from the MoCCA exhibit "The Art of Watchmen" to the person who provides, in the opinion of ComicMix, the most thoughtful comment in the thread. The comment has to be in by March 15th, which should give you plenty of time for multiple viewings.

So go ahead. Show us that you know more than we do.

The latest last word on Scans_Daily

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  • March 5, 2009

Hand of God Suspends Homoerotic Scans Daily Comic Book Community:

Our research shows that kids who are allowed to read comics are 13% more likely to get infected with gay inducing spirits and have a STD by the time they reach college. Staggeringly, this percentage jumps up to a frightening 34% when teens are allowed to read bits and pieces of comics online.

And that’s where Scans Daily came into play.

Amazingly, the authors put more effort into that post than those who claim that scans_daily boosted sales overall.

(Hat tip: MGK.)

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