Doctor Who: A Room With a Deja View is the latest Doctor Who one-shot from IDW.
Keeping with the general trend of British writers on the Doctor (John Ostrander being a notable Yankee exception), Rich “Watchmensch” Johnston and drawn by Eric “Rex Mundi” J.  Now at this point, you might be thinking [...]

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ESPN reports the Los Angeles Clippers have traded swingman Quentin Richardson to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Sebastian Telfair, Mark Madsen and Craig Smith.  That is to say the Clippers traded an expiring contract for a back-up point guard and two expiring contracts.  Poor Quentin Richardson must feel like a musician [...]

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Sometimes you can take a sales promotion too seriously.  I walked into Chicago Comics and the store was dark.  There were a couple lights strapped to one of the front tables, but the overhead lights were out.  I was figuring either this was a promotion for the Blackest Night series that came [...]

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In this week’s Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, I took a look at what the library market for graphic novels looks like. One of the things I found is that if you want to estimate the number of graphic novels in the library system, multiplying the number of libraries carrying a title by 3 is going [...]

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A bribe-ridden trade has delivered Shawn Marion to the Mavericks, Hedo Turkoglu to the Raptors and cash to the Magic and Grizzlies.  This one was a little complicated, so here’s a handy chart to summarize:

Mavericks
Magic
Grizzlies
Raptors

Shawn Marion
Kris Humphries
Nathan Jawai
Greg Buckner
Cash (from Raptors)

Cash(From Mavericks)
Cash (From Raptors)

Jerry Stackhouse
Future Raptors 2nd Round Pick
Cash (from Mavericks)

Hedo [...]

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I’m of two minds with the much celebrated Wednesday Comics.  The actual comics, I like quite a bit.  The el cheapo newsprint it was printed on, I dislike so much, I’m having second thoughts about picking up the… series?  (It isn’t really a book, per se.)
I walked into my local comics [...]

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A friend of mine recently commented that DC and Marvel didn’t have booths at the Wizard World Philadelphia show and that neither company was listed as an exhibitor at Wizard World Chicago, either.  Well, today (7/7/09), I took a look at Wizard’s site.
Oh.
My.
God.
It used to be that Wizard would list [...]

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We’ve already looked at Detroit’s probable new roster after their early verbal agreements.  We’ve had 5 more major verbal agreements in the days since then: Hedo Turkoglu to the Trailblazers.  Turkoglu changing his mind and switching to the Raptors.  Ron Artest to the Lakers.  Trevor Ariza to the Rockets.  Marcin Gortat to [...]

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It seems my look at Marvel’s latest audit figures and how they apply to the nearly year-old argument of whether three issues of one Spider-Man title compare to three Spider-Man titles has been a bit… politicized… on the message boards.  Circulation numbers are being used as part of an argument about [...]

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We finally have answers to the Spider-Man subscriptions question. On August 12, 2008, in a CBR interview Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort said “Everyone is saying the book will be cancelled any day now. I could float the book on my subscribers alone at this point.”
The question of whether [...]

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