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Wednesday Runaround – Pirates, Libraries And Slots

Published Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:33:53 -0500

Last updated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:34:01 -0500

SoThat'sWhyTheyTargetedHTMLComicsWatch:

All these publishers have partnered with OverDrive, a Cleveland, OH-based company that supplies eBooks, audiobooks, music and movies to 11,000 libraries worldwide. Functionally, the process mirrors normal single issue sales. OverDrive acts as the distributor and each individual library chooses which, if any, comics they'll purchase and how many copies. When an issue is purchased, it appears on the library's website as an eBook available for checkout. Only one person can checkout an e-book at a time, and the download has an auto-expiration date.- Todd Allen, Publishers Weekly

TalkingOfWhichWatch: Marvel have taken down the WordPress version of Comics Invasion now too.

GambleWatch: Green Lantern is now a licensed slot machine. I wonder what you get for three rings?

JJJWatch:

VaughanWatch: Mark Millar says;

Really, there's plenty going on with all of my creator-owned stuff. Nemesis is already being made into a movie, Matthew [Vaughan] wants to produce Superior. Well, actually, he's unsure at the moment whether he's going to direct that after X-Men, or go straight into directing Kick-Ass 2 and just produce Superior, but he's interested either way. And you might think, "Well, Mark's going to stick with creator-owned stuff in the future, then," but I'm not, because, honestly, I just love doing the Marvel stuff too.

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.

Dark Horse tidbit from Kumoricon 2010

There were two great pieces of news that came this panel what I couldn't have been happier about. Two of DH's most critically acclaimed series that were put on hiatus are now back on the schedule. Eden: It's an Endless World and my personal favorite, MPD-Psycho are back off of hiatus. Both titles only have a handful of volumes left, and although volumes will not come out at high speed, they will come out as long as fans not only buy the titles, but also keep telling Dark Horse these are the titles they want to see.

A class to die for: Zombies 101 at U. Baltimore

The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead. The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, "Zombiemania," and the curator of Geppi's Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture.

PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's Catalog! – New Releases

In Shops 9/9/2010

Hex UK

Landing in a lowly 26th place, costly flop Jonah Hex kicked off its run with £36,000 from 106 venues and a £337 average. The commercially unappealing comic-book adaptation had already disappointed with its US opening of $5.4m – a figure that would indicate a UK debut of around £540,000. But Warner Bros was never likely to bust a gut on marketing spend after the disastrous American result. Multiplex chains that scheduled the picture will consider it a favour delivered to the distributor, but don't expect Jonah Hex to hold many sites from Friday – charity has its limits.

Steranko Obscura, plus Kirby

A big part of that void is because he did the lion's share of his career in comics (volume-wise, anyway, 29 out of 42 books) at Marvel, hands down the publisher with the worst reprint schedule in comics. They've ravaged his library of works, man — first they put out these horribly recolored cheap-o trades that the man himself refuses to sign at conventions, and now a sixty-dollar, super-limited, not-available-on-Amazon hardcover is the only way to read the SHIELD stuff that comprises the bulk of his books there. Corporate ownership of great comics takes on a whole nother pernicious dimension now that reprints are so important! But more than that, there's this weird critical negative zone surrounding Steranko's work where none of the big marquee sources — Comics Journal, I guess, and publishers that might refurbish or recontextualize the non-Marvel stuff for a new audience — will even go near it.

Iron Man 2 #2 Movie of the Summer

The No. 1 movie of the summer had no stars, at least on screen: "Toy Story 3" topped the North American box office with over $405 million and had a global total of over $1 billion. "Iron Man 2" was second, with $312 million ($622 million total), and "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" was third, with $298 million ($655 million total).

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