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Sunday Runaround – So Who Wants To Work On Avengers Then?

Susannah York dies yesterday, aged 72, from bone marrow cancer. Best known in the UK for her Oscar-nominated work in They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Bleeding Cool readers may know her better from her role as Superman's mother Lara in the Richard Donner Superman movies.

Sunday Runaround – So Who Wants To Work On Avengers Then?TonyWatch: Last night, Tony Lee held his stag night in the West End of London. Here you can see him standing, Stark Expo-like, next to his father as the assembled throng chanted "Why was he born so beautiful, why was he born at all"?

I made my excuses and left to catch the last tube home,just as the women arrived, wearing moustaches…

IndiaWatch:
Comics go medical;

If the interactive voice recording system on the phone is too distant for your liking, try a comic book for an update on infertility management. Colourful boxes and narration make the most complex medical topics come alive. In fact, comics on HIV\AIDS, infertility and malaria are already available at some doctors' clinics and hospitals in the city.

StripWatch: Newspapers start to ask their readers which comic strips they would like to to read in the paper, from Knox News to the Washington Post to the Spokesman Review.

GameWatch: Chris Cao, director of the DCU Online game, is interviewed by his local paper.

Besides using the world of Superman and Batman as a setting, the new title is designed to attract new players by offering a slam-bang combat system and gameplay that's relatively quicker than existing MMO titles.

"What felt superheroic was picking up cars and throwing them at people," game director Chris Cao said. "I wanted to make MMOs more fun for more people."

BoyleWatch: Clint comic writer Frankie Boyle has had a drubbing from Katie Price-loving The Daily Star.

BC ComicChronThis is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot 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.

FX Updates on Powers TV Show

Remarking on the long time it's taken to get Powers going, Landgraf noted, "We're now on our third writer. It's Chic Eglee who worked on The Shield and worked on Dexter and most recently worked on Walking Dead. And I'm really, really excited about it.

First Avengers CREW CALL

Scheduled to begin production in New Mexico this April, THE AVENGERS is NOW ACCEPTING CREW CREDENTIALS!

Get in on the biggest production to hit the Land of Enchantment…

Crew resumes can be submitted to:
"Group Hug"
c/o Albuquerque Studios
5650 University Blvd. SE
Bldg. C / 1st Floor
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Or Email: easternfilm@cupber.com

Comic Book Characters in History, War

Heroes and Villains during war in startling photoshop mashups.

Sunday Runaround – So Who Wants To Work On Avengers Then?

How to Write a Graphic Novel Because I Said So from Lea Hernandez

A fan of my work wrote and asked for advice about writing a graphic novel. Here's what I told her:

Interview: JayJay Jackson

We decided to do our own fan magazine and we produced The Comic Informer for a few issues and then we started Texas Comics with Bill Willingham's Elementals. I colored that. Had no idea what I was doing, but it turned out pretty good, I think. Well, these same friends wanted to do some comic book conventions and they put a couple on. I was a cute, punky girl, so of course I worked security. Nothing comic fans fear more, right? lol. Jim Shooter was a guest at one of the conventions, in 1983. We got to talking and hit it off and we've been friends ever since.

Additional EU DCUO Servers

Additional server capacity for you folks is being added as fast as possible. Today we are opening up new EU servers that are based in our US Data Center. In the very near future we will add additional servers in our EU based data center. Once that happens, we will move the servers over to that facility. We apologize for any inconvenience, and doing our best to respond to this overwhelming demand.

Paul Ens of Red 5 Comics Tells Us About Their Digital Comics Plans

The total gross revenue from digital comics has increased each month in the two years since we started, as has the total number of comics downloaded. In terms of total sales revenue, it's still small but growing. Some of our titles have gone on to sell more digitally than in print.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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