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Buffy wows ’em

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  • March 16, 2007

buffy-7840427The notable part of Dark Horse’s announcement about selling out its initial print run of Buffy: Season 8 #1 is that it actually announced how large that print run was.  It’s common to hear about sell-outs these days, but hard to tell whether they’re actually puffed up to look more important than they are because companies never say how many comics a sell-out constitutes.

So congrats to Dark Horse that this much-anticipated success lived up to the hype, as did the movie based on that little book of Frank Miller’s that they published a few years back.  Over a hundred thousand issues of any monthly comic book periodical these days is very welcome news, even more so when the book is presumed to have wide appeal beyond American comics’ usual demographic.

Needless to say, Dark Horse is going back to print.

Mike Gold: The Graphic Novelist

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  • March 5, 2007

mikegold100-8300544My wife and I were plowing through our TiVo this weekend, catching up on programs the device trapped for us during the previous week. We happened to catch the current spots for Ghost Rider as well as the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 300 movies. As is frequently the case when I’m on deadline, I had a revelation.

Thematically, the only thing these three movies have in common is the fact that they are based upon comics. It occurred to me that five years ago they would have been lumped together as “comic book movies.” Today, we are more sophisticated. Today, they might be lumped together as “graphic novel movies,” but more likely most people perceive them as simply “movies.”

That’s fine. We don’t see such distinctions made in movies culled from other genres. “Based on the novel,” sure. Big deal. But that’s buried in the movie’s credits and on the small print at the bottom of the poster. For almost 100 years now, most movies have been based upon something — books, short stories, comics, radio shows, television shows, and most often from other movies. Now our medium has joined the pack. (more…)

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NYCC: Popcycle-Con Continues

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  • February 24, 2007

While half of the 10001 zip code waits out in the cold, here’s what it’s doing to panel attendance inside the convention:

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This was the scene at the Slayer Tales with Xander, Kendra, and Drusilla panel as of 10:45 AM, 45 minutes into the panel. If I was Nicholas Brendon, Juliet Landau, Bianca Lawson, Diamond Select (the sponsors of this panel) or Dark Horse Comics, who are publishing the new Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic, I’d be ticked.

Whedon clocks in at The Office

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  • February 15, 2007

As reported earlier on ComicMix, Buffyverse creator (and writer of Dark Horse’s much-anticipated Season 8 comic) Joss Whedon directed the episode of The Office that premieres tonight. 

Short plot description from NBC’s site: Ryan invites Michael to be a guest speaker at his business school. Meanwhile, Dwight battles a bat that gets loose in the office while Pam (Jenna Fischer) invites co-workers to her first art show.  In her nigh-indispensable blog, Office star Jenna Fischer writes, "I loved having Joss around on set.  He is a huge fan of the show and knew every little detail and nuance about our characters.  As a result, he was very focused on how to direct us to get the very best performances.  I remember one day I was doing background work for a couple of hours and out the blue he came up to me and said, ‘Jenna, I love the reaction you are doing back here.  It’s perfectly Pam!’ He was watching our background performances…so awesome." Jenna insists it’s pure coincidence that the episode happens to feature a bat – which the cast named Gary and which she describes as "super-cute."  That’s so perfectly Pam!

 

Comics companies gear up for Toy Fair

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  • February 11, 2007

Prior to becoming the center of the comic book world with the New York Comic Con, the Javits Center plays host to the 2007 American International Toy Fair this week (from February 11-14), and companies with comic-book tie-in toys are gearing up for their presentations. Hasbro has various Marvel-related offerings, Diamond and Dark Horse have exhibiting booths, but curiously the Toy Fair website makes no mention of McFarlane’s vast array of merchandise.

Could Todd & co. be a no-show? 

The Beat has Day 1 pictures.

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