March is National Women’s History Month, and it’s coming in like a lioness this year as we bring you a Munden’s Bar story called “Good For The Goose”, written by Martha Thomases and
Valerie D’Orazio,
drawn by Norm Breyfogle, lettered by
Bob Pinaha,
colored by Matt Webb, and pulled together by ladies’ man
Mike Gold.
Read “Good for the Goose” now! Tell your friends! And don’t forget to leave comments!
Okay, what would you call them?
We had to get this one in now, because we couldn’t live with ourselves if we ran this anytime during Women’s History Month.
Tom Kenny, voice of beloved Spongebob Squarepants helped produce an unaired pilot for Cartoon Network. Even better, the celebrated voice talent lent his tenor to the pliable plastic hero. While quality shows like “Johnny Test” and “Dude! What would happen!?” got the green light, sadly, this didn’t make the cut.
So, for your enjoyment (and don’t tell Geoff Johns, Dan DiDio, or Jim Lee) here now the unaired pilot for “Plastic Man”. We here at ComicMix think it’s a bouncing good larf.
Andrew Koenig, star of Growing Pains and son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, committed suicide. His boy was found in Vancouver, Canada on Thursday afternoon after being missing for almost two weeks.
Vancouver authorities held a press conference on Thursday just
hours after the discovery, during which a police spokesperson revealed
they had no reason to believe foul play was involved in Koenig’s death.
Walter fears his son’s battle with depression led him to take his own life. He and his wife Judy want to use the tragic news to warn
other parents to seek help if they believe their child is struggling
with their personal demons.
From 1985 to 1989, Koenig played a recurring role as Richard “Boner” Stabone, best friend to Kirk Cameron‘s character Mike Seaver in the first four seasons of the sitcom Growing Pains. During the same period, he guest starred on episodes of the sitcoms My Sister Sam and My Two Dads as well as the drama 21 Jump Street. In the early 1990s he provided a voice for the animated series G.I. Joe as Ambush and Night Creeper Leader, and had a minor role as Tumak in the 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Sanctuary“.
For comic book fans, he may be best known for playing The Joker in the incredibly popular fan film Batman: Dead End.
Our condolences go out to the Koenig family and Andrew’s friends.
A good portion of the success enjoyed by DC’s direct-to-DVD features belongs to the directing expertise of Andrea Romano. So how does she find thopse wonderful voices and which Hollywood A-Listers are on her “wish list”? Plus, Stan The Man is looking for a few good musicians – really, True Believer we’re not kidding!
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I call shenanigans. The article on Times Online:
Namco Bandai decided to organise a world record attempt for people
dressed as Star Trek characters on Valentine’s Day. After all, what
else would all these trekkies be doing?The good news is that the world record is apparently in the bag. 99
people turned up at the Millennium Bridge in London on Sunday dressed
as characters from all generations of the pioneering TV show(s).
99 people in Star Trek garb is a world record? I’ve been to weddings with more people in Star Trek costumes.
Apparently, this is a world record because the nice people at Guinness never bothered to count before Namco Bandai wanted to promote Star Trek Online.
If nothing else, the group shot in Star Trek: The Motion Picture got hundreds of fans in Star Trek costumes, including David Gerrold and Bjo Trimble. (And before you say they were paid to be there, let it be known that originally the fans originally were there for free, and when told money had to change hands, a lot of the fans asked how much they would have to pay. Most of them never cashed the check they got for being extras.)
I fully expect that this record will be demolished by a new gathering by the end of the summer.
Didn’t take long now, did it?
A whopping three days after Action Comics #1 took in a cool $1,000,000, the Heritage Auction Galleries in Dallas reported to Comic Riffs that a copy of Detective Comics #27 sold for $1,075,500 last night. #27 you say? Why not #1? Well folks, don’t we all know that issue features the debut of a pointy eared vigilante who’s made a career out of being cooler than ole’ Big Blue. Just like it’s Action Comics counterpart, the issue was an 8.0 graded book by the CGC scale. With only 100-200 copies left in the world, this again marks a major sale in the aftermarket for comic books.
Richard Donner makes a great couple movies about you, Superman? Batman Begins and The Dark Knight was better. People thought you were so cool in Kingdom Come, oh Man of Steel? Face it, old Bruce kicked your keester in Dark Knight Returns. And you thought you had him there for a second, didn’t you, Clarky-poo. A million dollar comic sale! Well, this was a million-plus. Suck on that green kryptonite.
As for us here at ComicMix, we’re gonna go check on our aforementioned copies of Ultraforce #1 and the “Darkchylde Summer Swimsuit Spectacular”. Cause, well, you never know.
We here at ComicMix would like to remind people, in the age of talks of Christopher Nolan consulting on the Superman movie franchise (with David S. Goyer rumored to have a script called The Man Of Steel) that Superman Returns wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been.
As a point of reference, we would like to show you what the state of the Superman franchise was like just a few years before Christopher Reeve took over the role. This is the televised version of the Broadway musical of It’s A Bird… It’s A Plane… It’s Superman! entitled, simply, Superman (and now I know why all the ads called it Superman The Movie).
If you’re at home on a snow day today, check it out.
Interestingly enough, MTV Splashpage reports that the play is being completely revised and updated (by setting it in the 1930s?) by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, a comic book writer going back to his roots as a playwright. It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman will run June 18 – July 25, 2010 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas.
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We’ve all had that argument with our mothers, haven’t we? “Why do you keep all those old comics in your bedroom?” …“Duh, mom, cause they’ll be worth tons of money one day, geez!”. And your mother, frugal as she is, looks at her collection of porcelain cat figurines, and laments. “They better be!”
Well, sleep well tonight. As it’s been widely reported across the inter-webs, a CGC graded 8.0 (Very Fine) copy of Action Comics #1, whih we all know contained the debut of Superman, was sold for (pinkies to your mouth, gentlemen…) one million dollars!
The sale was brokered by Stephen Fishler and Vincent Zurzolo of ComicConnect.com. As covered well here, the copy of Action Comics is only 1 of an estimated 100 left in existence. Of those out in the world, the CGC Census lists only 42 copies, including one unrestored copy sitting at 8.5 VF+, and three restored copies at 8.0 or higher.
So, what does all this mean? Consider that amidst a nation in recession, with high numbers of unemployed citizens, and general financial malaise rampant throughout the nation, one more feather can be placed in the ‘Recession-Proof’ aftermarket for printed comic books. Sorry Apple enthusiasts; No iPad copy of Uncanny X-men will mint you one shiny nickel whilst there are printed copies and collectors out there. Now, obviously don’t expect all your copies of slabbed “Ultraforce” and “Darkchylde Summer Swimsuit Spectacular” are gonna mint you a cool Milly’… but hey, you never know. And your mother won’t know either.
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