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Wednesday Runaround – From My Sick Bus

Published Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:49:35 -0600

Last updated Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:50:35 -0600

FluWatch: They say there's one way to tell if you have a cold or flu. That if there's a fifty pound/hundred dollar note on the ground outside, you wouldn't go and get it. Well, fifty quid be damned, but I have got the bus into town for New Comic Day. Bleeurgh.

ShopWatch: Niche Comics, a new comic store in Huntingdon, England, opens.

Niche Comics, in High Street, is the brainchild of Adam and Guy Makey who have been comic fans since they were children and decided to go into business.

The brothers, from Godmanchester, have just opened the doors to the public and are continuing to build up their stock of comics, graphic novels and games as the restoration of the building – which is believed to date back 500 years – nears completion.

Adam, 23, who has a degree in philosophy, said: "I didn't think it would be possible to do something like this until later in life after I had had a proper job.

CNNWatch: Erika D. Peterman is featured on CNN talking about black women, comics and the legacy of Jackie Ormes.

"Finding her work was like opening the door to a lost world," Eaton said. "An entire American subculture and been denigrated and misrepresented through mainstream comics for years. Ormes used comics to show African-Americans as they really were; as human beings. Her work should be collected and shelved next to peers such as (Will) Eisner."

OccupyWatch: Comics Alliance shows off art and interviews the creators of Occupy Comics.

FarrellyWatch: Movie 43 takes on DC Superheros, according to Leslie Bibb, who will be playing Wonder Woman.

"The Farrelly brothers did this compilation of these shorts and there's a whole slew of us. Hugh Jackman did one, Gerard Butler, Kate Winslet," she told us. "Mine is me, Jason Sudeikis and Justin Long and Bobby Cannavale and John Hodgman is the Penguin. And Bobby Cannavale is a jacked up Superman who smokes and we all are these f**ked up superheroes. Like, I'm sleeping with Batman. He won't call me back. I'm kind of crazy. Kristen Bell is Supergirl and Uma Thurman is Lois Lane or something. And we're all just dysfunctional superheroes, like superheroes who can't get a date. We're all at this speed dating."

Bibb, who is no stranger to the superhero genre having appeared in the "Iron Man" movies, revealed more about her role. "I'm Wonder Woman and I have on this amazing wig and the whole getup, which was pretty fantastic. And I'm crazier than bat sh*t. Like, she is really crazy, and so it was really fun because I know Jason [Batman] and he won't call me back and I love him and he just doesn't care about me. And so it proved to be a good time. The Farrelly brothers directed one short and they were the main producers on it."

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.

DC Universe: The Source » Blog Archive » Back to press (again) with JUSTICE LEAGUE # 1

JUSTICE LEAGUE # 1 is sold out and once again we're headed back to press. With this reprint, JUSTICE LEAGUE # 1 becomes the first issue from DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 to receive five printings.

Sneak Peek: Uncanny X-Men #3 | X-Men | Comic News | News | Marvel.com

The Celestials have arrived! In UNCANNY X-MEN #3, from the team of Kieron Gillen, Carlos Pacheco, Paco Diaz & Rodney Buchemi, Cyclops and his Extinction Team must protect mankind not only from Mister Sinister, but the world-ending space gods! Sinister's quest for supremacy has doomed the entire world and it's all crumbling down around the feet of the X-Men. Are the Children of the Atom finally spread too thin? Find out this December in UNCANNY X-MEN #3!

Hulu – The Simpsons: The Book Job – Watch the full episode now.

Neil's Simpsons Ep.

DC Women Kicking Ass – What Wonder Woman would look like as a Disney Princess

Tom Bancroft is a freelance artist who is also a former Disney supervising animator (Mushu from Mulan for example). He recently did a few sketches of Wonder Woman this past weekend in the Disney style.

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