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Tuesday Runaround: Twilight Sets Again

Published Tue, 24 May 2011 05:13:48 -0500

Last updated Tue, 24 May 2011 05:14:04 -0500

ConWatch: The MCM London Expo this weekend gets some local press. Really local. I am told that organisers aren't expecting volcanic disruption..

June4thWatch: Joe Kubert will be signing at Dewey's Comic City on June 4th, in Madison, New Jersey.

June4thWatch2: Jim Woodring appearing at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, at Midnight, talking and showing off his work.

CardWatch: Jim Kyle, freelance sketch card illustrator has launched Asylum Studios with five others to launch their own card sets.The first will be a charity set of 25 cards with 6 hand painted cards in each pack. to benefit the Simpson-Baber Foundation for Autism.
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.

Marvel Digital Comics Head Quits For Fox

Rubenstein has spent the past three years commuting to Gotham as exec VP of Marvel's global digital media group. He launched the company's digital subscription service, which now offers more than 8,000 comics on devices like Apple's iPad. He also launched digital video channels on Netflix, YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, Xbox Live and Sony's PlayStation Network.

'Spider-Man' crewmembers trapped for 3 hours in malfunctioning crane – NYPOST.com

It's not just the play that's having technical difficulties.

Doctor Who Opening Credits Mash-Ups

I think the Buffy and Friends ones are probably the best put together.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiMCMWp4bw[/youtube]

Venom #1 Gets a Third Printing | Spider-Man | Comic News | News | Marvel.com

Marvel is pleased to announce that VENOM #1 will be going back to press yet again with VENOM #1 THIRD PRINTING VARIANT by the creative team of Rick Remender and Tony Moore

Mandalay Acquires Rights to Joe Hill's TWITTERING FROM THE CIRCUS OF THE DEAD

Mandalay Pictures has solidified its place atop the Joe Hill fanclub by acquiring the film rights to Hill's short story Twittering from the Circus of the Dead.

SCOOP! First look at Twilight The Graphic Novel Volume 2 cover | The Beat

Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 2 will be released as an e-book and in hardcover for $19.99 ($22.99 CAN) with a first printing of 350,000 copies.

Bedlam and Baby: Parables of Creation in Jack Kirby and Chris Ware | The Comics Journal

To put it crudely, creation is a mind-fuck. Even the galactic transport known as "the boom tube" (which the New God Orion tells us comes "from the waves of the {Kirby} mind") "penetrates" dimensional space to deposit characters on the page:

Jack Kirby Interview | The Comics Journal

KIRBY: Yeah. Stan never created anything new after that. If he says he created things all that easily, what did he create after I left? That's the point. Have they done anything new? He'll probably tell you, "I didn't have to."

Is Marvel Really "Dangerous"?

I'm becoming slowly convinced that Tom Brevoort tries to put at least one WTF moment into every "Talk To The Hat" column he does over at CBR. This week, it's this:

Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters 3DS Trailer & Renders | Superhero Hype

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released this new Nintendo 3DS trailer and character renders for Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, available June 7 for Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS. In Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, players will fill the role of gifted pilot Hal Jordan, the first human Green Lantern, and create an arsenal of ring constructs and take flight in outer space and beyond to restore intergalactic order. Players will use the Power Ring to build an array of weapons from green energy to defeat the Manhunters – an evil android race bent on destroying the Green Lantern Corps.

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