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Two Girls And A Lot Of Magic….

250px-xmmessiah001cvrinks-6836939When you stop to think about it, there are a lot of similarities in the stories of Dorothy and Alice and now the connection is much deeper than we ever imagined. The critically acclaimed indy series Oz – Wonderland Chronicles might have passed you by, take a minute for ComicMix Radio as we preview the title with one of the creators. Plus:

• It’s finally a Merry Middle Earth Christmas

• Got an idea for a super heroine? Shadowline is listening!

• It’s seven-in-a-row for The X-Men arc "The Messiah Complex"

Press The Button now, and pass the eggnog!

BIG BROADCAST: A Girl and Her Dinosaur

ajaxfront-2884329The Big ComicMix Broadcast starts our Second One Hundred with an exclusive preview of another Phase Two Project cooking up FREE from ComicMix. You take a cute girl, toss in a cartoon dinosaur and stir up a lot of wacky adventures and out pops Andrew Pepoy’s The Adventures of Simon & Ajax!

Plus Superman has the Deadline Doom, the Top Ten Comics & Graphic Novels are revealed and we play a game of "Where Did I Hear That Before"??

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The holiday heat is finally cooling down and I can finally take the headphones off and sit back with a frosty iced tea and gather up all the news and notes from this week’s round of Big ComicMix Broadcasts:

• Even though Andrew Pepoy’s performance of The Hourglass in the Stop Time Chronicles has passed, the comic book based show itself continues from the Chicago Tap Theater. Get more info of upcoming events here.

 

• To get info on the advance release of the Ultimate #100 Project trade pb (featuring all 100 versions of that cover), plan on being at Wizard World Chicago – OR get info from The Hero Initaiative here. Remember you cab always order it from your retailer as well in the September Previews.

• The rebirth of Nexus is coming very soon – and there is a lot of preview material here, including a chance to join the NEXUS ARMY!

• Stargate fans can preview the film written and produced by the cast and crew here. You can also get a copy of A Dog’s Breakfast at ITunes or Amazon Unbox.

• Don’t forget to check out Danielle Corsetto’s Girls With Sling Shots, updated three times a week – right here. Look for GWS coming to a comic shop soon as well.

Starting next week, we begin our Countdown To San Diego on the Big ComicMix Broadcasts. It’s arguably the nation’s biggest pop culture event (or as some call it, “The Geek Prom”), so don’t miss out. We’ll also have more summer reading tips, a big ol’ pile of new comics and DVDs to preview – and this little movie about some Boy Wizard! 

Rest up – you’re gonna need it!

The Second Big ComicMix Video Podcast

Here’s your big chance to see comics creators Mike Grell and Timothy Truman as they talk about their new Jon Sable Freelance (Ashes of Eden) and GrimJack (The Manx Cat) graphic novels — and you’ll be able to preview pages of finished art from these two upcoming tomes! It’s the second Big ComicMix VIDEO Podcast, up and at ’em for your consideration.

All you have to do, as usual, is PRESS THE BUTTON!

 

 

 

 

Superman: Doomsday Contents Announced

image-proc-6699688Superman: Doomsday, the first of Warner Home Video’s new series of original animated movies to be released on DVD, will be abailable on September 18.

Rated PG-13, the D2DVD carries a cast different from Superman: The Animated Series. Adam Baldwin voices Superman, Anne Heche is Lois Lane and James Marsters plays Lex Luthor. Equally important to comics and animation fans, long-time animation producer, sometime comics artist and full-time Jack Kirby fan Bruce Timm is the producer.

Based upon DC’s "The Death of Superman" (which WHV claims to be the best selling graphic novel of all time; the trade paperback omnibus edition will be released tomorrow), Superman: Doomsday contains many extras, including  the documentary "The Clash of the Juggernauts," the usual interviews with the  animation staff, a preview of the upcoming WHV D2DVD Justice League: The New Frontier.

Superman: Doomsday is listed for sale in this month’s Diamond Previews and will be available (at least for advance order) from your friendly neighborhood comics shop. It retails for $19.98. WHV has (you guessed it) a website with a preview clip.

System of a down

Even if you have a pretty new computer these days, you might be out of luck when it comes to new diversions.

A brand-new web-only science fiction series called Sanctuary has debuted, and I couldn’t even get the preview to play on my new Macbook without it freezing and reloading four times in two minutes.  And that’s with the most updated version of Flash.

And Blizzard has just announced StarCraft II — which also freezes up the machine when we try to play the trailer.

Heck, I can’t even grab any artwork to show you, it’s all Flash and fancy stuff.  If you think your machine can take it, you now have the links.

Have I mentioned there are tons of computer users (like my mom) still on dial-up?

Counting down on MySpace

DC Comics has just announced it’s partnered with the comic books section of MySpace to preview the first two issues of its much-anticipated Countdown series, which has reverse numbering because we aren’t confused enough.

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The first 10 pages of Countdown #51 will be up on MySpace/comicbooks on May 4, followed on May 11 by the last 12 pages of that issue and the the first 12 pages of issue #50. The final ten pages of Countdown #50 will be on the site on May 18.

Why the sudden interest in the site? Well, DC’s also launching its own DC Nation MySpace page on May 2, so that could have something to do with it.

While it’s always good to see major corporations paying attention to the netroots, let’s hope smaller efforts aren’t completely usurped by the bigger fish.

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