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Twelve Years Experience #3 by Joel Ronson – A Null Hypothesis
Now back to talking about comics. Talking about my holiday, I had a big dilemma during it I was reading Fear Itself Book One and there was a speech bubble I didn't understand It said something about this guy's father having to defend the prize fortress null was built around Is the fortress called Fortress Null?[...]
Monday Runaround – Over A Million Comic Fans, Five Percent Openly Gay
Thank you, Marvel, for bumping Leinil onto Death of Spidey when he should have been finishing Superior :) – Mark Millar. CodeWatch: Bleeding Cool readers cam get an extra 5% off Thwipster with the code TOTEMVAULT, valid until Star Wars Day, currently selling Old Man Logan for $19. StoreWatch: Collector's Paradise Comics & Gallery in San[...]
When Obama Took Down Osama
From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic. From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic. From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Comics And The News
 But it's always been that way for comics Readers of 1941 saw the first issue of The Sub-Mariner, with Namor wading into the war, hanging at the newsstand right next to news magazines warning of the danger that Hitler posed to America  70 years later, I watch my twitter stream scroll past with tweets about Doctor[...]
All Around 'Transmetropolitan: All Around The World' by Dirk Manning
Dirk Manning writes for Bleeding Cool; Back in September 2010 Bleeding Cool first broke the news of a TRANSMETROPOLITAN Tribute book for 2011…ish. With the book finished and on the verge of (a very limited) release, Project Manager Susan Augér (who donated her time as a freelance volunteer unaffiliated with the Hero Initiative and CBLDF) and book[...]
Mike Huckabee Discusses Superman's Citizenship
It's a funny old world isn't it? Mike Huckabee, potential Presidential candidate in 2012 on Fox News show Fox & Friends, discussing what Action Comics #900 means for America. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPfOAHoLrMI[/youtube] The Associated Press videos feeding newsrooms around the world. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoId5Z4J-4Y[/youtube] The Alonya Show; [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVGNaG1ouo8[/youtube] And even  British ITN News [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI3NKaLqRQA&[/youtube] [...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Superman, Captain America, And The Politics Of Comics
With the conversation about Action Comics #900 still going strong, a new debate begins about Captain America in Secret Avengers #12.1 and its references to events surrounding Wikileaks  And today, Wikileaks took notice  But politics in comics didn't begin when Clark Kent started taking on wartime topics for the Daily Planet in the 1940s, and[...]
Captain America Vs Bradley Manning, Julian Assange And WikiLeaks
And as for Justice, well that's debatable. Oh you thought Action Comics #900 had a monopoly on controversial storylines involving patriotic superheroic figures engaged in real world politics? Except in this case it's a story to get the liberals in a lather over, rather than the conservatives. Like if Captain America took down the people behind Wikileaks[...]
Friday Trending Topics: Action Reaction
I happened to catch a few tweets by colorist Paul Mounts earlier about reaction from pros and fans over Action Comics #900, to which he contributed, and this all started to remind me just a little bit of the reaction to the death of Superman in 1992 Some pros hated the very concept and said[...]
Action Comics #900 Gets A Second Print
But I understand that DC Comics has sold out of Action Comics #900 And they're going back to print. The fuss around the nine-page story by David Goyer in which Superman tells the American government that he's going to renounce his citizenship so that his actions arent mistaken as an extension of US government foreign policy[...]
The World Reacts To A Superman Without America
The Obama administration has garnered some criticism for not offering enough support to such rallies across the Middle East. The Herald Sun (Australia) In his origin in the comics, Superman is sent to Earth as a baby to escape the demise of his home planet of Krypton and a Kansas[...]
Thursday Trending Topics: Are You Getting In On The Action?
To no one's surprise, the news today here and elsewhere was dominated by Action Comics #900 I've heard that sales are brisk at the retail level, the book is still in stock for reorder at the moment, but that civilians haven't started wandering into shops asking about the comic they saw in the news. Yet Because[...]