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More Reasons to Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
- by Brian Cronin
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All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The next membership level we will look at is the $250 [...]
If You’re Perusing the Before Watchmen Creators List and Amanda Conner is Throwing You Off?
- by Brian Cronin
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- 48 Comments
Then you have some problems. Amanda Conner is an awesome artist. She totally belongs in a group that seems like it is based on the idea of “hey, let’s get our top artists on this here project.” I won’t knock any of the other artists in relation to her, but let’s just say that she [...]
Another Reason to Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
- by Brian Cronin
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All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The next levels of CBLDF membership we are focusing on are [...]
You Should Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The basic CBLDF membership is the aptly named “Member” level (http://cbldf.myshopify.com/products/2012-cbldf-membership). [...]
Why Joining the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Matters.
- by Alex Cox
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This year marks the 25th year of the CBLDF, and the 13th year of its active membership program. That means the comic book community, including fans, stores, creators, and publishers have collectively decided to fight for free speech for a quarter of a century. It means that for more than a decade, those who support [...]
Line it is Drawn Try-Out Month – Time to Vote!
- by Brian Cronin
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- 31 Comments
You’ve seen five weeks’ worth of their drawings, now vote for which artist you’d like to see join The Line it is Drawn! Here are their first two weeks’ worth of drawings. Here are their week three drawings. Here are their week four drawings. And here are their week five drawings. Now vote! Which artist [...]
Pointless PSAs: The Lesson Is…Life Is Just Unfair
- by Brian Cronin
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- 29 Comments
On occasion, I’ll point some public service announcements that amuse me. Today, we look at one of the most depressing PSAs ever! “Enjoy!”
Do Shipping List Archives Exist?
- by Brian Cronin
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- 14 Comments
Let’s say someone (me, even) wanted to know when a comic book came out in, say, 1982 or 1985 or 1988, is there any way for you to know? I mean, we have general release dates based on the cover dates of the comics (and shipping lists within the comics themselves), but I mean actual [...]
Evan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part II: THE SECOND PART OF IT
- by Joe Rice
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Welcome back this grand experiment wherein we look for answers to some seminal questions: “What happens when you take normals to a comic book store?” “What hidden nerdy desires do we all hide deep within the recesses of our hearts (or on our t-shirts)?” and of course, “How difficult is it to wrangle a group [...]
Evan-JOE-Lical Comics Club Part I: THE BEGINNING
- by Joe Rice
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I was sitting in a shithole of a Manhattan dive bar once frequented mostly by collegiate assholes and now simply by assholes. It was the sort of place not even I drank from the taps, so the Abita was from the bottle. To make matters worse, they had thrown some blow-out of a party the [...]
About Next Year’s Weekly Features…
- by Brian Cronin
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- 22 Comments
Okay, five of the six new features have been chosen. Things were close enough for the last feature that I’ll let you folks decide all on your own who gets the last spot between five choices. I am pretty sure that the schedule is such that whichever one gets picked won’t show up until next [...]
Shaping Comics Should Be Good in 2012
- by Brian Cronin
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- 14 Comments
Okay, so here’s the deal – next year it’ll still be daily features, but this time it’ll be six of this past year’s monthly features becoming regular weekly features, just like Comic Book Legends Revealed on Friday. I’ll be the one who will make the ultimate call as to which six features “graduate” to regular [...]
Happy Holidays from the Teen Titans!
- by Brian Cronin
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Our old pal Bill Walko did his annual Teen Titans holiday card. Check it out! Great stuff, Bill!
The 12 Days of Marvel Christmas
- by Brian Cronin
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- 3 Comments
Here’s a little carol I came up with back in ’07 that I thought I’d share with you all again… On the twelfth day of Christmas, Marvel gave to me….
Old Marvel Review IV: Fantastic Four 9, 10 and 11.
- by MarkAndrew
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Well, I’ve been sitting on this for, like, six years. Might as well hit “Publish” So here’s the deal - I’m doing a critical/historical examination of the first ten-or-so stories from each of Marvel’s major franchise titles - Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Avengers, Daredevil, Captain America, and Kid Colt Outlaw. Sorta. [...]
