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Saturday Runaround – Stan With Cake, With Wolverine, Without Clothes

Published Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:52:40 -0500

Last updated Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:52:50 -0500

FreeWatch: While their eBay prices increase as collector's items, Image Comics makes twenty of their first issues free on ComiXology forever.

Fatale, Saga, The Manhattan Projects, America's Got Powers, Thief of Thieves, Mind the Gap, Alpha Girl, Creator-Owned Heroes, Dancer, Danger Club, Epic Kill, Grim Leaper, Hell Yeah, Hoax Hunters, No Place Like Home, Peter Panzerfaust, Secret Planetoid, Glory #23 and Prophet #21

CarrotWatch: Bob Burden pledges to appear at a comic convention in a cocoon which he will burst out of, if his Kickstarter reaches $30,000…

CosplayWatch: Caption please…

VoxWatch: The Japanese try to work out why foreigners like manga. By asking visitors to Comiket.

Jessica (F/24/Canada)
Japanese manga have great stories. On the other hand, American comics can be very dark and depressing. Japanese manga also use male and female characters who are normal, everyday people and so its easy to relate to them.

Nicolas (M/24/France)
I read a lot of shounen manga (manga oriented towards young males) and I think the stories are interesting. The way characters learn new skills is drawn out in depth and its very fun to watch. And I like how not just young people, but everyone in Japan reads manga.

NudityWatch: The naked Stan Lee…

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.

CBLDF » Tales from the Code: How Much Did Things Change After the Enactment of the Comics Code of 1954?

As one could guess, this put severe restrictions on an industry that, in large part, had been selling horror, war, and romance comics. So how did the industry cope? Did the storytelling suffer? To examine this, I was able to track down some comic stories that were published before and reprinted after the imposition of the Code. These stories provide a sort of litmus test to see exactly what effect the Code was having on comic book stories.

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