Comics in the Media
The Disneyfication of Marvel?
- by Greg Burgas
- Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 8:02 AM EST
Disney is buying Marvel for $4 billion in cash and stock.
Thoughts?
Stupid reviewers think big fun summer action movies are stupid!
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 8:06 AM EST
Paramount won't screen G. I. Joe for critics.
Usually, this means the movie sucks and has a built-in audience anyway, so who cares what those stupid reviewers think? This, according to the story, is an odder move, as this is the final big-time action movie of the summer. It's not surprising based on the [...]
More interesting auction news!
- by Greg Burgas
- Saturday, March 14th, 2009 at 1:53 PM EST
Action Comics #1 sells for $317,200. Apparently, it's the first appearance of some dude named "Superman." Man, what a dumb name. Why couldn't he have been called something cool like "Amokk" or "Vibraxis" or "Mammon" or "Zapatak" or "Logix" or "Ripclaw" or "Armata" or "Softcore" or "Slog" or "Devlor" or "Wipeout"?* [...]
Interesting auction news!
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 12:04 PM EST
NEW YORK - The comic book that's billed as the first ever created by African-Americans for a black audience is up for auction.
A copy of All-Negro Comics No. 1, as it was called, is up for sale by comics entrepreneur Stephen Fishler. He says the comic is very rare - lasting one issue in 1947.
All-Negro [...]
The National Basketball Association = scans_daily?
- by Greg Burgas
- Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 6:47 PM EST
The NBA has cancelled plans to release a "Krypto-Nate" T-shirt after DC complained about stupid copyright infringement. After this year's NBA All-Star Weekend, during which wee Nate Robinson leaped over Dwight Howard to win the slam-dunk contest (Howard was wearing a Superman cape, like he did last year, and Robinson was wearing a green [...]
300 Online Press Events Are Good
- by Brian Cronin
- Monday, March 19th, 2007 at 9:44 PM EST
The 300 online press event Warner Bros organized Friday, which was hosted by Second Life, went quite well, as director Zach Synder, writer Frank Miller and actors Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and Rodrigo Santoro engaged in an extensive audio chat, answering questions presented by the online bloggers and podcasters who were there. For your convenience, [...]
