At the beginning of May, I was at the Clark & Division train station and I saw a couple subway signs that just really shouldn’t have been next to each other.
I don’t know if the restaurant realized this wasn’t the best ad for that particular spot or if they were just regularly rotating their signs, [...]
Tags: Cartoons · Humor
The last few years there’s been an annual ritual after the San Diego Comic Con to decry how the media has taken the show away from comics and, increasingly, how terrible it is for the dealers. The big snarkfest kicking this off came from Mile High’s Chuck Rozanski (and strangely, Rozanski’s rant [...]
Tags: Biz · Comics · Eclectica
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 [...]
Tags: Comics · Eclectica · Reviews
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 [...]
Tags: Sports
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 [...]
Tags: Comics · Eclectica
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 [...]
Tags: Sports
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 [...]
Tags: Comics · Eclectica · Reviews
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 [...]
Tags: Sports