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Thursday Runaround – Leaving… On A Jet Plane
Okay. Off to the airport now. Catching a plane with Paul Duffield. Say, wonder if I can get him to do me a sketch, we've got a long flight ahead of us…
PartyWatch: Heidi MacDonald runs down the parties (the public ones at least) of NYCC for Thursday and Friday. Why do I think that if I turn up at the Comics Alliance one it'll basically be a remake of the Wicker Man? The Nicolas Cage version?
StarWatch: The cheapest way to make your kids a Stormtroper mask for Hallowe'en. From two empty plastic milk bottles.
TV2ComicWatch: Batman Beyond goes beyond a mini-series, to ongoing. That's right folks, another Bat-continuity to publish…
McKeanWatch: Cages is back in print.
StudyWatch: A student with mental issues is planning a graphic novel.
DigiWatch: Ultimate Thor hits digital download – but it gave the printed comic a few hours start.
MillarWatch: Clint #1 should have hit the US this week – but has been severely allocated. For now at least.
This 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.
Guillermo Del Toro Defends Video Games As Art
"Video games are the comic books of our time…It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia. They say, 'Oh, video games…' And most people that complain about video games have never f***ing played them."
Marvel Comics' popular mutant Wolverine faced his greatest challenge — death itself — in Jason Aaron and Renato Gates' Wolverine #1, September's best-selling comic book.
Top 100 Graphic Novels Sept 2010
Oregon-based publisher Dark Horse Comics had four of the top ten best-selling graphic novels for the month, led by Dr. Horrible at #2, a collection of the mini-series and webcomics based on Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. Mike Mignola's The Amazing Screw-On Head & Other Curious Objects ranked #4, Adam Warren's Empowered Volume 6 ranked #7 (and was the best-selling manga to comics specialty retailers for the month), and Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Hero of the Confederacy ranked #10.
