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Monday Runaround – No, Chuck Dixon Is Not Writing Punisher
BuffySeason9Watch: Well, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #2 does promise a new look for Willow…here are the Faith/Angel #3 covers too.
DigiWatch: Is the Nook taking a larger percentage of digital sales than previously thought?
FrontPageWatch: CBR seems to think that Chuck Dixon is the new Punisher writer, rather than Greg Rucka. It's been like that for a couple of days now…
StoreWatch: Jimmy Jams of Winona gets profiled.
ShooterWatch: Jim Shooter continues to, of course, have the last laugh, looking at being EiC
Lenny took me aside and told me off. Who the hell did I think I was? How dare I interfere with Marie and him? He muttered something about going to Sol about this.
So, finally, the little light bulb came on. This guy didn't know he reported to me. Okay, I should have known, I'm as dumb as an oyster. But, hey, I had a lot on my mind then.
As an editor, Marschall was marginal at best. He made a lot of mistakes. The worst was failing to get licensor approval on a movie adaptation—Planet of the Apes, I think, prior to going to press. The licensor rejected the book. We had to scrap 600,000 copies.
And as an aside;
Funny thing about Stan. I'm not saying he doesn't love the comics, because he does—but in his heart of hearts, what he really wanted was a successful syndicated strip or a successful "real" magazine…
I used to argue with him. I'd tell him he made comics huge, and comics made him a worldwide icon. Why not stick with that? He'd say yes…pause…but someday I'd really like to publish a real magazine!
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
They say I am a work in progress. The fools.
New Details For The Amazing Spider-Man Revealed By Screenwriter Steve Kloves | Nerd World News
So I have some hopes for it. I mean look, you've got Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, it's a really good cast, and I know they want it to be good. And it was a real reboot, that's the other thing, when I came on I said, 'I don't wanna ape what Sam and Tobey did,' and they said 'No we're really rebooting it.' And so that's when I came in and did what I did, which again was primarily character and dialogue."
The Chris Evans Blog: Phenomenal new Captain America stills
New Cap stills.
