Happy Easter!
Here… have some eggs for Easter.
Mmmmm… eggs.
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Free Death Note movie tickets
For a limited time, beginning April 13th, F.Y.E. and Suncoast customers who purchase any Death Note DVD or Death Note related merchandise (in-store only) will receive a free ticket to attend the English-dubbed screening of Viz Pictures’ Death Note L: Change The World on April 30th, while supplies last.
For store locations please visit www.fye.com or Suncoast.com.
Helping ‘Theater Hopper’ out
Theater Hopper has been dropped from Google’s listings temporarily, due to some spam infesting its site code.
Luckily, you know what helps sites get reindexed? Links.
Links to some of the funny strips.
Links to some of their poignant strips.
Links to deep philosophical questions.
Just links in general.
And it really helps if you have a large website with a lot of Googlejuice of your own to spare.
No, no– we must use this power only for good.
The Point – April 10th, 2009
This weekend the first new DOCTOR WHO episode of 2009 premieres in the U.K. and we celebrate with a visit from the sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, who is still riding The Tardis. Mike Gold looks at just who is really downloading WOLVERINE and Twitter without typing – it’s here.
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Happy Good Friday!
For your reading pleasure, we point you to Dial B for Blog which has collected the scrolls of Bennie David, better known to the world as Son O’God. And yes, that is Neal Adams artwork.
Now if we can only get to the inevitable battle against this guy.
That would be a real Final Crisis.
‘Twilight’ is 16% of book sales for 1Q09
And you thought Watchmen warped book sales charts for comics. That’s nothing– according to USA Today, Watchmen came in ninth in sales for the first quarter of 2009. The first four books were the first four books in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. In fact, a whopping 16% of all books sold in America in the first three months of the year were Twilight books– four books out of every twenty-five books sold.
The rankings:
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
- The Shack by William P. Young
- Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
- The Associate by John Grisham
- Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- The Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick
- The Appeal by John Grisham
- The Host by Stephenie Meyer
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan by Suze Orman
- Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Marley & Me by John Grogan
- The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci
Sarah Michelle Gellar coming back to Buffy? Not for the next nine months or so…
Well, that’s one way to squash a rumor.
Stories had been appearing about Sarah Michelle Gellar finally being ready for a big-screen version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer appear to have been trumped by the announcement that she and her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. are expecting their first child.
On the other hand, the rumors had Buffy being a mom too… naaaah.
In the meantime, I’ll stick with the Buffy comics from Dark Horse.
ComicMix Quick Picks – April 9, 2009
A round-up of items from the last few days…
- Hugh Jackman heartbroken over ‘Wolverine’ leak: Jackman said, "Obviously people are seeing an unfinished film. It’s like a Ferrari without a paint job." Jackman is on a world tour to promote the movie, making his first stop at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbor, where much of the film was shot. He arrived at the venue by helicopter before swooping to the ground on a zipline.
- Today is the golden anniversary of the Magnificent Mercury Seven.
- Today is also the first day of Passover, so here’s a list of Jewish Superheroes, Villains, and other Comic Book Characters. How they missed Yoda, I’ll never know.
- At last. The State will be coming to DVD July 14th. Get your $240 worth of pudding ready. Buy it and make Mo Willems cry.
- And finally, Dave Arneson, who introduced Gary Gygax to the possibility of roleplaying gaming, succumbed to cancer on April 7th, at the age of 61. Bruce Baugh has an appreciation of his life and times.
Anything else? Consider this an open thread.
Wizard acquires Big Apple Con
Straight from Heidi at The Beat comes word that the Big Apple Con has been purchased by Wizard and will move to a new venue, Pier 94, and an October date for this year. If this date holds for next year it would put the show in direct competition with the New York Comic-Con which is moving to a fall date next year.
The Big Apple Con had been held at the rapidly decaying Penn Plaza Hotel– a great location, a lousy facility. Wizard has had its own problems with the cancellation of their Texas show, the postponement of their Los Angeles show, and the cutbacks in their publishing line. The Chicago and Philly shows are still planned. As with other Wizard shows, the new Big Apple Con will be partnered with another pop culture show, this time the Video Game Expo. Here’s the press release:
Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment, today announced he has acquired Big Apple Con, one of the trailblazing brands in the comic book and pop culture world, and the longest running annual show in New York City. The “new” Big Apple Con is moving to Pier 94 in Manhattan the weekend of October 16-18, 2009.
“I’ve been going to shows in New York City since I was a kid and I have a fondness for Big Apple Con,” Shamus said. “Today’s acquisition fulfills a dream of running a mega-show in New York City unlike anything there’s ever been.”This move also enjoys tremendous support and enthusiasm from industry leaders. “Diamond is really looking forward to working closely with our friends at Wizard as they expand into the New York market,” said Bill Schanes, Vice President for Purchasing at Diamond Comics. “We anticipate a great event based on their ability to attract key talent, to promote and market the event, and at the same time to give consumers a tremendous value for their admission price.”
Ed Fleming, CEO/Founder of Video Game Expo (VGXPO), the largest East Coast expo of its kind, announced recently its partnership with Wizard World Philly. Now, VGXPO will expand its relationship to include Chicago Comic-Con and Big Apple Con as well. “Our partnership provides VGXPO with the ability to rapidly grow our footprint from Philadelphia to Chicago and now New York City,” he said. “We look forward to working and sharing our passion for video games with all the fans in New York.”
Michael Carbonaro , the longtime and current producer of the show, will continue to provide his limitless creativity and enthusiasm to the show.
Good luck, folks– you’ll need it.
Review: Three by Jeffrey Brown
Jeffrey Brown
Little Things
By Jeffrey Brown
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, April 2008, $14.00
This one is subtitled “[[[A Memoir in Slices]]],” and, yes, it’s yet another in the tsunami of memoir-comics from major not-usually-comics publishers. (I guess they’re all hoping for another [[[Persepolis]]] or [[[Maus]]], and not looking to far from the apple tree, either.) Brown has a two-page comics introduction, in which he explains the book to someone on the phone – which comes down to “Anyway, they’re a bunch of autobiographical short stories and they’re funny sometimes.”
