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  • What's Wrong With Comics - An Opinion

    Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 11:15 in comics, Opinion, DC Comics, marvel

    I just read a post by Steve over at KFR concerning the cancellation of Blue Beetle at the same time that the character is being heavily used over at Cartoon Network to promote the new Batman animated series, The Brave & the Bold. His post brough...

  • 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con Exclusives

    Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 06:49 in comics, conventions

    Sometimes, I do wish that I was back living in Northern Virginia; expecially when I receive something as simple as a PR from Marc Nathan announcing some recent additions to this weekend's Baltimore Comic-Con exclusive swag list (which are pictured a...

  • Aisle Seat's Mason Channels His Inner Howard Beale

    Posted on Thursday September 18th, 2008 at 06:31 in comics, all ages

    Comicswaitingroom.com Edior-In-Chief Marc Mason posted a very raw and somewhat confusing essay for his Aisle Seat column titled "Comics Are For Kids?" Without reposting the entire thing, here's an excerpt from the last half which I think properly ...

  • Wowio Update And Prize Whore News

    Posted on Thursday September 4th, 2008 at 07:21 in comics, In the News, shameless self-promotion, wowio

    It appears that there is more fallout from Wowio's slow payment news that includes its parent company, Paltinum Studios. Hero By Night creator and erstwhile Platinum employee DJ Coffman has taken issue with some of the comments that were posted on a ...

  • Wowio Starts Its Death Knell By Stiffing Creators

    Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 07:05 in comics, In the News, wowio

    A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed the website Wowio.com not less than glowing review. Well, it appears that their business model is not working out for Platinum Studios like they may have hoped when they purchased the flagging website this past July...

  • Real-life Jerry Maguire

    Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 in comics, robert kirkman

    Give the above video a watch. It seems that Kirkman stayed up for 48 hours creating his Comics manifesto. Not that his ideas aren't without merit but I swear that if Jerry Maguire was filmed in this century, he would've done his missive via YouTube i...

  • The Great American Review Week - Wowio.com

    Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 10:30 in comics, on the web, the great american review week

    Within the past year or so, the ability to read regular print comics in a digital format has tried to go legit from its BitTorrent incarnation. Back in '06, I wrote about my inability to read comics on the computer and that digital comics is not goin...

  • The Fanatical Review - "The Apocalipstix (Oni Press)"

    Posted on Thursday July 24th, 2008 at 13:34 in comics, the fanatical review

    Title - The ApocalipstixPublisher - Oni PressFormat - Digest-Sized; 144 pagesCover Price - $11.95What started out as a self-contained story in an anthology titled Rumble Royale from The Royal Academy of Illustration and Design and continued in a new ...

  • Hulk versus Wolverine trailer and Marvel Direct-To-DVD Announcement

    Posted on Tuesday July 8th, 2008 at 07:27 in comics, animation, hulk, wolverine, marvel

    Marvel is trying their best to keep the good vibe momentum from Iron Man (and to a lesser degree the new Hulk movie) by knocking out Direct-to-DVD animation movies like there is no tomorrow. And according to its released timetable (posted here), her...

  • DC Animation Seasons Available at iTunes

    Posted on Wednesday July 2nd, 2008 at 07:43 in comics, animation, DC Comics

    As I was importing some George Carlin concert mp4s onto the old iPod, I went to the store and saw the ad for new DC shows added (image below). Those shows (all 1st season episodes) are:Adventures of Superman (Live Action)AquamanBatman BeyondBatman -...

  • RIP Michael Turner (1971-2008)

    Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 07:44 in comics, in memoriam

    It was announced over the weekend that artist Michael Turner, creator of such works as Fathom (pictured above) and founder of the publishing company Aspen MLT Inc, passed away from complications due to health complications. Here is the announcement ...