Author: Glenn Hauman

Best headline ever

My favorite story headline was run by the New York Daily News after a bus and subway strike that had crippled the city was resolved over the weekend in time for the start of the work week. The headline: Sick Transit’s Glorious Monday.

But now, the AP has matched it with a story about tightrope performers converging on South Korea to compete for a $15,000 prize by crossing the longest high wire ever, over a half a mile long, suspended over the river in Seoul.

tightropewalkers-6530609

The headline: Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo.

Hat tip to Tom Galloway.

Spider-Man 3 sets new records everywhere

spideysmash-9729190Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood reports: "I’m told Spider-Man 3 beat Pirates Of The Caribbean 2 for the biggest U.S. opening day ever in film history. The threequel  Friday shattered the $55.8 million mark set by P2 last year and took in $59 million. Based on the first day’s performance, the studio believes the film will delivers in the +/- range of $135 mil to $145 mil for its first three days of release. A better estimate will emerge Sunday morning when the studio will release its full report with exit surveys and international figures to date.

"In addition, Sony estimated that SM3 grossed approximately $104 million worldwide yesterday, the highest single day gross in global box office history. The film delivered $45 million Friday in overseas ticket sales. This opening weekend, SM3 will definitely make more than SM1 ($114.8 mil) or SM2 ($88.1 mil) at U.S. theaters.

"Peter Parker set house records at several theaters across the country where sell-outs were common throughout the day Friday. The two highest grossing theaters in North America were the Lincoln Square (which includes an IMAX theater) in New York, which took in $158,158, and the Arclight in Los Angeles, which reported $144,926 worth of ticket sales."

No wonder Spidey has such a swelled head.

The Anti-Neil Gaiman

Remember Fantastic Four #256, when the FF returned from the Negative Zone and the unstable molecules of their uniforms turned negative? Apparently, the same thing happened to Neil Gaiman…

neilinwhite-7839690

See? He’s in a spacesuit and everything.

Either that, or Neil was killed by the Kindly Ones, and this is the new Neil. Look at his word balloons and see if they’ve changed.

Spidey licensing to new extremes

The movie’s out… now the real hard sell begins. The marketing.

10 Zen Monkeys has a list of the ten worst Spider-Man licensed products for this go around at the multiplex, many of which are destined to become very big discount sellers around February ’08. Here’s a sample:

spiderslip-6767953It’s the ultimate slipper — it’s half good, and half evil.

While you pad across your living room, Spider-Man protects you from supervillains and chilly tiles.

But Venom is lurking, just a few toes away, brooding on malevolent new crimes that involve static electricity.

Just remember: While you’re lazing around on a Sunday morning, your slippers are plotting to destroy you.

Robot Chicken/Star Wars trailer up

A little something for you to watch while you’re waiting for that movie on line (get it? You’re on line for the movie and you’re online reading this! It’s a pun! Hah! I’m so clever I make myself sick!)

Hat tip: Lisa Sullivan.

The most important day of the year

Yes, it’s almost here. Here’s a list of signings and events. To find a participating store in your area, click here.

In what is surely a sign of the Apocalypse, today’s New York Times tours the city’s comic book shops, selecting the best store in each borough, to help determine where you should pick up your freebies.  While any person with a New York bone in their body will quibble with the selection (Staten Island Hanley’s instead of Manhattan Hanley’s is cheating, really), it is still a half-page more coverage of the scene than the paper usually supplies.  Even more astounding, it’s in the Fine Arts section.

Star Wars goes postal

From Michael Pinto at Fanboy.com:

You wouldn’t think the plans for the Death Star would fit in a first-class envelope, would you?

You can also put a Star Wars stamp on that envelope.

Weekly wrapup

Big week this week– the end of 52, the wrapup of Wonder Man, Buffy #3… what else?

We want to hear from you, argue back and forth the way we’re supposed to. Kick it off in the comments section, and let’s see what worked and what didn’t.

(Artwork from the newspaper comic Retail; copyright 2007 Norman Feuti. All Rights Reversed.)

Optimus Prime speaks

  • Uncategorized
  • May 2, 2007

optimusprime-4721084If John Wayne were a giant robot with a gun, he would be Optimus Prime.

Now Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime from the original Transformers Generation One cartoon series (as well as the voice of Eeyore, Monterey Jack from Disney’s Rescue Rangers and Murky Dismal from Rainbow Brite) has given an interview on tformers.com . For those who don’t want to read the entire interview, Alan Kistler sent us the major highlights.

On deciding to audition for the new movies:

Cullen: "[I thought,] okay, what the heck. I’m going to go in and fand out what they want … Had they asked me to do changes in the character, I would have declined.

"It was interesting. I didn’t have any problem trying to find him … it was like riding a bike and he came right back … And he still stands for the qualities the writers gave him from the get go.

"The qualities of [all the Transformers] are still there. It’s like an elastic band and stretching it, but it’s still the eastic band and the strength of the characters are still there.

(more…)

Categories

Archives

Everything you need to make great comics!

comicmix-pro-300x69-2

Nucleus X

Bookshop Zaks