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Stardust reappears

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  • February 9, 2007

Catch it whilst you can! Neil Gaiman reports that the more-or-less authorized Stardust movie website is back up. Stardust, of course, ties into Stardust the graphic novel by Neil and artist Charles Vess. Neil has also announced that Paramount has moved up the official release date of the Stardust movie to August 10 of this year. Considering the San Diego Comic-Con International is on July 26-29, I should think a debut showing there isn’t entirely out of the question.

And speaking of works by Neil, IESB’s Robert Sanchez asked director Joel Schumacher yesterday which comic book character he’d most love to tackle. “The response – Neil Gaiman’s Sandman!”

UVC Launches for U, the Viewer

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  • February 9, 2007

Rich Watson has announced the launch of a new comics magazine called UVC, which he describes as "Wizard meets Vibe." Rich and co-editor Ron will be at the NY Comic-Con handing out free copies of the first bimonthly issue, which will feature articles, news, reviews, interviews and so forth about the comics world and people of color.

Rich asks people wishing to work on this magazine to contact him, and assures readers the magazine will be distributed locally at first then going national, and an accompanying website is in the works.

Jeff Smith takes Captain Marvel fun seriously

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  • February 9, 2007

Over at his blog, Jeff Smith advises Captain Marvel/Shazam fans to "visit DC Comic’s website to find the Monster Society Secret Decoder. On Friday, February 9th, I’ll hide a Monster Egg in my blog and you’ll need the decoder to find it… You will also need to know the code for a couple of lines in the comic book."

He further challenges "every member of the comics blogosphere, blog writers and readers, to do this: if you liked Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil, pick up one extra copy this week or next and give it to a kid you know who likes Harry Potter, Eregon, A Series of Unfortunate Events, manga or just plain loves reading. Promise them that if they like it, you’ll buy them every issue. And ask them to read it and tell you what they think. Do they want to read the next issue? And if they do, you have gotten them interested in comics. And, although it’s a baby step to a massive world, superhero comics."

Dark Tower – Googling the Mainstream

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  • February 9, 2007

Has the Dark Tower launch event made it past the usual insular comics fan circles? Let’s take a look:

Four pages via Google News, including articles from Maine Today, the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, the Kansas City Star, the Newark Star-Ledger, the San Jose Mercury News, the Toledo Free Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer (of course, the latter is Mike Sangiacomo so that’s a bit of a ringer), the Pike County Courier, the Elmira Star-Gazette, the Kane County Chronicle, the Capital Times, and a few other subscription-only papers. That’s a nice cross-section of coverage around the country!

Stan Lee on Heroes: Geek Factor Upped

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  • February 9, 2007

The TV series Heroes is bound and determined to rope in not only the mainstream audience garnered by its intricate serial plotline(s), but the comics cognoscenti and related fan hobbyists whence its genre fiction originates. First Christopher Eccleston ("Dr. Who"), then George Takei ("Star Trek"), and now Stan Lee ("The Man") will make a cameo on the show, in a scene with character Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka, easily the best reason to watch the show for those of us who don’t particularly care for it).

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