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Wednesday Runaround – The Great Ticket Rush Of February 5th
SecretShopperWatch: According to The Comic Shop in Decatur, AL, "around 3:30 p.m. an old woman came in wanting to purchase Brightest Day #19. We told her that we could reserve a copy for her but she would have to come back tomorrow to pick it up. She didn't want us to, and said it was going to be for a friend and that he might be in tomorrow to pick it up."
Just the one comic for elderly women now?
ConWatch: New York Comic Con goes to four days for 2011… I'll be there, as usual, trying desperately to find wifi and a power point.
RaceWatch: David Brothers talks up the potential for comics during Black History Month.
I've spent a lot of my time reading comics just sort of making do with the lack of black characters and creators. I had other role models I could look up to, anyway: Muhammad Ali (who beat up Superman once!), Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes. And really, even today, if you want to see black creators at the Big Two, you're looking at (as of the latest solicits) Eric Wallace, Marco Rudy, Jamal Igle, Chriscross, Kyle Baker, Olivier Coipel, and… well, hardly anyone else.
GalleryWatch: The Hernandez Brothers make an appearance at an exhibition of their Love And Rockets work, along with other Hispanic comics artists.
Hernandez, who lives in Southern California, is coming up to MACLA's gallery at 510 S. First St. on Friday for a 7 p.m. talk with other artists.
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TicketLeap to power online ticket sales for 2011 Comic-Con International « The TicketLeap Blog
A ticketing link will go live on the registration page at www.comic-con.org on Saturday, February 5, 2011, at 9 a.m. PST. Registration is only being processed online and tickets will not be available at the door. Ticket buyers should not create a TicketLeap account prior to purchasing tickets, for TicketLeap accounts are only for individuals hosting events.
Black Canary's Bad Dreams – a preview of Birds of Prey #9!
A few ghosts from Dinah Lance's past have come back to haunt her in the penultimate chapter of Birds of Prey's "Death of Oracle" storyline. Can Batman and Oracle save her from an inescapable nightmare?
MARVEL'S TALK TO THE HAT: Fantastic Deaths & Kids Comics
I don't know exactly what was communicated back to Brian and by who and in what state. It sounds to me — coming second or third hand rather than hearing Brian say stuff — I wouldn't be surprised to find that people who told him this were trying to weasel their way out of their own responsibility for the situation. "Oh, it's not you, Brian, Marvel's getting rid of everything!" That sounds like hand-waving. That sounds like somebody not taking responsibility for their part in building something that doesn't fulfill the mandate we need fulfilled. Certainly if that's the case and those editors are still here on staff, they're going to hear from me or Axel or Joe or whomever because this is not the way we like to communicate with our talent.
DC Universe Online: In Lex We Trust Trailer
DC Universe Online is set for its first expansion
Illness Was Catalyst of J.G. JONES Burgeoning Writing Career
Diagnosed with a rare blood disease called polycythemia vera, Jones has been sidelined from drawing comics since 2009, when he had to back away from the DC mini-series Final Crisis. Before he began getting treatment for the disease, the grueling schedule required to draw comic interiors was just too much, so he started writing instead.
The footprint of Arkham City is about five times bigger than Arkham Island, but our primary intention was never to create a bigger gameworld just for the sake of it. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, we really focused our effort on creating an intense, pressure-cooker atmosphere by locking Batman in the madhouse and allowing The Joker to turn up the heat. In Arkham City, we want to take that attitude to the next level,
First Ever DC Comics and Hero Initiative Collaboration: Justice League of America #50
"It's an honor to participate, not only because this is the first time DC Comics is collaborating with Hero Initiative, but because Hero Initiative is such an important organization to our community" said Jim Lee, artist and Co-Publisher of DC Comics.
DC Launches a site for kids.
Fabian Nicieza: Turning fantasy into finance
Like a child playing with toy cars in a sandbox, Mr. Nicieza plays with properties for corporations as diverse as Mattel, Coca-Cola, Disney and Microsoft. The new, evolving and largely unknown world of intellectual property management gives Mr. Nicieza a space to let his imagination run wild with everything from Jack Sparrow to Donald Duck.
As head writer at Manhattan-based Starlight Runner Entertainment, Mr. Nicieza is tasked with showing these companies that their properties are as malleable and changeable as Hasbro's Transformers — another one of his clients.
News: Exclusive: Lois Lane May Be Wilde | Latino Review
What I was told today was that Olivia Wilde (TRON: Legacy, Cowboys & Aliens) has tested for Lois Lane in "Superman." The source knows this because they've been hired to work on "KIN" and the dates may be pushed back to accommodate the "Superman" schedule should she get the gig. They also mentioned to me that the Rachel McAdams story is true.
'America's Greatest Otaku' Heads to Hulu
Tokyopop's 8-part documentary series, America's Greatest Otaku, will debut on Hulu on February 24th. Each of the episodes follows Tokyopop founder Stuart Levy and his cohort of six college students/die hard otaku as they travel to twenty cities across the country
More Details on Captain America Movie Tie-In
It doesn't really cover one particular place," he elaborates. "There's a little bit of backstory, there's a little bit of parallel action going on to the movie, and there's a little bit of hints of things to come. But it's all sort of jumbled up in this really satisfying way where you feel like you're getting to walk around the whole piece and see the story from the different angles. That's what's really most interestig about this, it's an opportunity to dig deeper into things that are exciting about the movie that you want to know about, or that are only hinted at between the lines in the movie. It's an opportunity to really bring that all to the surface.
Not a good sign: NBC has reduced its order for The Cape by three episodes.
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