Wizard World Chicago ‘08 has come and gone. A strange time, to be sure. Strange you say? Oh, very strange.
On the way out, I heard a rumor over in artist’s alley that DC and Marvel were ready to pull out of the show. What was going around was that they didn’t think it was worth the trouble shipping their […]

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You have, perhaps, heard the old joke “they were throwing a porn convention and somebody brought some comics” referring the amount of adult material that used to be sold at comic conventions? You may remember there used to be a lot more ex-Playboy Bunnies and the like selling autographs at comic conventions? Comic conventions have cleaned up […]

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The Milwaukee Bucks have shipped off Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons to the New Jersey Nets, which is to say soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets and landed Richard Jefferson. 
The most important facet of this trade is that it ruined one of my favorite half-jokes for the new season: We all know China is very protective of Yao […]

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Larry Bird’s been a busy guy and is swapping around a lot of players. Assuming the physicals go well (when you’re talking about TJ Ford and Jermaine O’Neal, this isn’t a non-issue), you’ve got O’Neal, Ike Diogu, and 1st round pick Jerryd Bayless all leaving and TJ Ford, Rasho Nesterovic, Roy Hibbert, Brandon Rush, Jarret Jack, […]

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As the draft kicks off trade season in the NBA, the single biggest trade of draft night has to be the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies swapping rookies and veterans.
Minnesota got rid of Marko (”I date Adriana Lima”) Jaric, Antione Walker, Greg Buckner and dated & dumped OJ Mayo. Memphis got rid of Mike Miller, Brian […]

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The draft is over, the Bulls have started trading and there are more questions than answers with the roster. Starting with the additions, you have point guard Derrick Rose (first round) and center Omer Asik (second round, but acquired by trade). Sonny Weems was drafted in the second round and promptly traded to the Trail Blazers for […]

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As seems to be the custom at preview night, there was a line halfway around the Rosemont Convention Center as I came off the train.   Walking past the line, there was a chunky hawker wearing Wizard gear extolling people to “hurry” to get in line because they were giving out badge holders.  Oooooooh, badge holders! 
 When […]

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Odds are by now you’ve heard something of the firestorm surrounding DC Comics executive editor Dan DiDio.  If not, io9.com has a pretty fair round up.
Despite the apparent groundswell of support for ousting DiDio, there’s a rumor going around that DiDio’s contract has been extended.  I’ve been appraised of this by two industry figures who, […]

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Just when you thought the ongoing saga of Wizard conventions couldn’t get any stranger, it’s Wizard time in Chicago, and guess what Wizard is competing with?  A horror convention.
It’s not unusual to have a couple conventions going at the same time out in Rosemont (the suburb out by O’Hare airport where Wizard World Chicago takes […]

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At last, the Bulls coaching search makes sense to me. Silly me, I was looking at the qualifications of the candidates originally interviewed and accusing the Bulls (that is to say, owner Jerry Reinsdorf) of being cheap. Now that word is starting to leak out about potential assistant coaches, I have begun to grasp that this coaching […]

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