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Wednesday Trending Topics: Point One Day
Double the number of copies with no extra charge to retailers, BC heard about plenty of shop promotions for this future lynchpin of the Marvel Universe. What did readers think? I saw some mixed responses in the forum, though I guess that's no surprise with something stuffed with so much raw information. Sounds like everybody gave it a look, though I'm still disappointed that "It's Coming" doesn't refer to It The Living Colossus.
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I said that the beginning of Defenders #1 reminded me of Sandman. Well pretty much all of Fear Itself #7.2 does. Oh and a bit of Buffy.
Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen DC Comics
Twleve issue threes and two issue twos, the DC relaunch is starting to bed in. Which is probably why so many books try to do a little something different this week.
How Little Will Your Store Sell Marvel's Point One For? (UPDATE)
Marvel did all they could to encourage orders of Point One, a fifty-odd page $5.99 comic, set to plan the future of all manner of comic books coming out from Marvel next year. From the rather obvious identity of "It's Coming" to an entertaining set of twins new to Marvel to the identity of the new Scarlet Spider to the return of Nova, there's all sorts of stuff going on in it. But even a fifty-ish page comic book has difficulty selling for $5.99 these days, even with the gamut of name creators Marvel put on the book. So Marvel created a number of incentives to reduce the cost to retailers who ordered plenty.
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There's More Than A Little Lord Of The Rings To The First Snow White And The Huntsman Banner
From the costume to the colour scheme, the battlefield to the trees with faces, the influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film is obvious in this first poster for Snow White and the Huntsman.
VIDEO: Here's The Reason That Warner Bros. Are Pulling The Potter Films Out Of Circulation
Why are they doing this? Because of this.
Brett Ratner Says The Word "Fags" And Loses His Job Producing The Oscars
It's been a busy week or two for Brett Ratner, gadding about town and promoting his new film Tower Heist. And he's done it in just the way you might expect: lying about who he has or hasn't slept with, using casually homophobic language, losing his job as producer of The Academy Awards.
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