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In Praise Of Dan DiDio – Tuesday Trending Topics
Some very good points made by Rich here: It wasn't just DC, everyone gained, especially Marvel. Then Marvel did their me-too event with Marvel Now and, in the last two years, we have seen rapid and repeated growth in the print market, not just bucking the national trend but kicking it in the nuts. Dan DiDio saved the comic book industry as we know it, if you read those kind of comics at all you owe him some fucking gratitude.
Most-Read Comic Stories Tuesday:
Big Time Comic Fan, Jeffrey Babbit, Dies After Race Hate Attack
"Jeffrey Babbit was at every New York comic convention and book signing that I attended. He was with Shi from the very beginning and bought every book and print I ever produced and would give me train books and magazines to pass on to my son William.
The Harley Quinn Tryout Page Debate That Refuses To… Er…
Last night, Gail Simone, Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek, among others, got in a Twitter discussion about THAT Harley Quinn tryout page. It got a little heated in places. Here are select tweets from the long and tangential conversation, You may want to check the originals out yourself.
It wasn't just DC, everyone gained, especially Marvel. Then Marvel did their me-too event with Marvel Now and, in the last two years, we have seen rapid and repeated growth in the print market, not just bucking the national trend but kicking it in the nuts. Dan DiDio saved the comic book industry as we know it, if you read those kind of comics at all you owe him some fucking gratitude.
Most-Read TV/Film Stories Tuesday:
The BBC have announced the schedule for all the programmes that will be shown to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who this year, and it's a packed schedule of treats for Doctor Who fans.
Marvel Reschedule Ant-Man To The Summer To Avoid A Nasty Spy-Off
Originally, Marvel's Ant-Man was on the calendar for November 2015, but now the studio have decided to bring the picture forward to July 31st.
The 50th Anniversary Doctor Who Poster And More – The Day Of The Doctor
In a special one-off programme, Professor Brian Cox will try to answer the classic questions raised by the Doctor – can you really travel in time? Does extra-terrestrial life exist in our galaxy? And how do you build something as fantastical as the TARDIS?
