DC is finally paying Neal Adams in “recognition of the contributions he's made to the Batman mythos over the years, and in particular, for the inspiration it provided to our BATMAN BEGINS film and related projects.”
Way to go DC!
Read about it.
posted by @ 11:41 AM
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Interesting list (in alphabetical order).
Berlin: City of Stones by Jason Lutes
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Bone by Jeff Smith
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
Ed the Happy Clown by Chester Brown
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernandez
Watchmen written by Alan Moore
Read more here.
I agree with two of their picks. Both were actually printed as pamphlets before they were collected into novels, but whatever. Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns are both great, timeless reads.
posted by @ 3:58 PM
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You can read all of the gruesome details here.
posted by @ 3:34 PM
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A life well lived. 
Parks' moment in history began in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks that was organized by a 26-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
posted by @ 8:28 AM
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This is a well written article about an attempt to save one of the best TV shows to get canceled before it's time, and before it ever had a chance to be successful.
posted by @ 10:42 AM
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KICK ASS
The press release:
SHIPPING NOVEMBER 14 -- 40 YEARS OF X-MEN (Item # 900025):
-- more than 485 complete issues of UNCANNY X-MEN... every page of every issue... from X-Men #1 (September 1963) thru X-Men #461 (August 2005)
-- including Giant-Size X-Men #1 (introduction of the "New" X-Men) and 18 Annuals and Special Editions published over the years
-- every comic is complete - cover to cover - and in FULL COLOR: all the stories, letters pages, Bullpen Bulletins, Stan Lee's Soapboxes, pin-ups, etc. - even the ads
-- nearly 17,500 pages of awesome X-Men comic books
-- all digitally mastered and stored on one single DVD-ROM (load in the DVD drive of your PC or Mac) - and they're printable in COLOR or black & white (so you can
make facsimile paper copies of your favorite issues if that's how you to prefer to read them)
-- the MSRP is $49.95... your cost directly from Graphic Imaging Technology is just $26.00 each
-- there is absolutely no other way - not paper comics, not reprints, not Marvel Masterworks - to be able to buy and read this many comics... and so affordably.
-- the third X-Men movie - tentatively titled "X-Men III" and guaranteed to be a box office blockbuster - will be released worldwide on May 5, 2006
And there's this little nugget also:
READY NOW -- 44 YEARS OF FANTASTIC FOUR (Item # 900015):
-- the DVD of this summer's blockbuster "Fantastic Four" movie ($154 million U.S.) will be released December 6, 2005... more people will see this
movie on DVD -- and will want to read the original comic books it was based on -- than saw the film in theaters
-- 550 complete issues of FANTASTIC FOUR... every page of every issue... from FF #1 (November 1961) thru FF #519 (December 2004)
-- including more than 40 Annuals and Special Editions published over the years
-- every comic is complete - cover to cover - and in FULL COLOR: all the stories, letters pages, Bullpen Bulletins, Stan Lee's Soapboxes, pin-ups, etc. - even the ads
-- more than 20,000 pages of classic FF comic books
-- all digitally mastered and stored on one single DVD-ROM (load in the DVD drive of your PC or Mac) - and they're printable in COLOR or black & white (so you can
make facsimile paper copies of your favorite issues if that's how you to prefer to read them)
-- the MSRP is $49.95... your cost directly from GIT is $26.00 each
-- an incredible bargain - the easiest & least expensive way to read the entire run of Marvel's flagship comic title... the super-heroes that changed comic books forever!
You can't order direct from them yet, but your LCS should be able to hook you up.
posted by @ 10:03 AM
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Mike Sterling posted this funny bit on his blog. Good stuff.
posted by @ 12:35 PM
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Roy Thomas is writing a new (kind of) comic that could be fun. It's called Anthem and you can read what he has to say about it at Newsarama.
posted by @ 8:00 AM
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Just an outstanding thread on the CGC forums. Words don't do it justice, you have to see it to believe it.
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