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Tuesday Runaround – From Amazon To Alpha Flight #106…

AmazonWatch: Journal Star and the Seattle Blog report on the Amazon Glitch (and the commentators make the blog give credit for its visual – cheers guys!)

Imagine for a moment what chaos might be wrought if one of L.A.'s biggest crack dealers were to roll up to Skid Row and announce his product was going for up to 90% off its normal market value. Now replace "crack dealers" with "Amazon" and "crack" with "Marvel comics" and you have some idea of what took place late Saturday night into Sunday afternoon.

The cries of those not getting their Amazon books is heartbreaking… the letter reads "Unfortunately, due to a pricing error, we sold many more than expected. In fact, we completely sold out — we don't have any in stock right now, and we're not even sure if we'll be able to get more." – of course this also includes the cancellation of pre-order books. Somehow.

FyodorFish: And there goes that: Amazon.com just canceled every single one of my OMNIBUS orders from this weekend. Rationale? Out of stock. Wankers.

j_macfarlane: Aw, Amazon canceled my omnibus order. Bummer.

davidanaxagoras: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My Amazon Omnibus order has been disappeared without so much as an "our bad". Gone. All gone.

The_Horror: Just had 9 items disappear from my order, and one book listed now as shipping soon (Bone: The Complete Epic). Not happy…no cancelation email. 9 items have just disappeared into thin air.

trippingmartian: I wasn't even sent a cancellation e-mail. Tonight both orders – all four books – have mysteriously disappeared from my order history on amazon.com. It simply states "No orders or transactions."

It even affects the celebs. Artist Sean Philips writes;

Madmen, Marshal Law and X-Men omnibus have disappeared from my order, no email to tell me though.

Still, not everyone's unhappy. Here is a successful delivery of an X-Men HC, Avengers Forever HC and a Powers HC…

GeographyWatch: The New York Times asks what it is about superheroes and New York…

Even beyond its physical architecture, New York City provided a perfect setting for superheroic exploits. As a financial center, its concentration of wealth could act as a powerful magnet for bigger-than-life criminals. As a global city, it was ripe for international intrigue. And as a fashion mecca and a famously tolerant place, it established a social environment in which saviors of humankind dressed in flamboyant homemade costumes could go about their business.

It's all in aid of the New York, the Super-City panel discussion with Danny Fingeroth, Gene Kanenberg Jr., Frank Tieri, Billy Tucci and Peter Gutiérrez on Tuesday, evening at the New York Center for Independent Publishing.

CapWatch: Apparently Dane Cook will not be Captain America now, but one of the Jonas Brothers might be…

GaimanWatch: Neil Gaiman lets CBS look at his dolls. And I don't mean his Dresden one.

"I love the fact that after the movie came out, there have been lots and lots and lots and lots of little baby Coralines turning up in the world,"

GayWatch: Various people kick off about the Ten Most Important Gay Moments In Comics – as featuring the ten most important moments in superhero comics. In the article comments, the author states;

If I had written this article for a comic book centric website, then I would have said "Top Ten Gay Moments in SUPER HERO Comic Book History" But for a larger audience, "Comic Book" still means "Super Hero." Many of you may not like that, but it is a fact. I didn't name any indie books not because I'm unaware of them, but because the events in those books simply did not make headlines in the mainstream press. The only possible exception to that rule was Judd Winnick's Pedro and Me, and that was mostly due to the author and subject's connection to MTV's The Real World.

This wasn't a list based on quality, otherwise the awful Rawhide Kid series or Alpha Flight's coming out issue wouldn't even be here. Those stories got headlines in the mainstream press. Stan Lee went on CNN to talk about their "gay cowboy" book. Rictor and Shatterstar were all over sites like Perez Hilton and similar ones.

We don't remember the Hulking/Wiccan newspaper headlines, but come on… even with this limited range, no Valerie? And Fun Home was fairly prominent, what will all those mainstream awards and acclain…

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