Vote with your dollars

Coming this fall from IDW Comics:

IDW Publishing has announced the October 8th publication of graphic novel biographies of the leading candidates for President of the United States, Barack Obama and John McCain. The full color 28-page comic book bios will be available separately for $3.99 and in a flip-book version for $7.99. In addition to printed versions, mobile phone users will be able to purchase downloadable versions of the books through Uclick’s Go Comics Website. Fan favorite artist J. Scott Campbell (Gen 13, Danger Girl) has provided the covers for both biographies.

Read the whole article HERE at ICV2.

What, no Ron Paul?

A is for Awesome Artistic Arrangement!

This artist decided to take comic related characters and make an alphabetic arrangement out of them. Check it out HERE.

Maybe the Greatest Thing For My Comic Loving Eyes To Behold!

I'm sure many of you have seen this before...maybe not. If you haven't it is AMAZING! The attention to detail is astonishing. It is updated regularly and all of the current incarnations of all your favorite characters are HERE to see.

I believe this man may be the biggest Comics fan in existence.

39th anniversary of Man landing on Moon

Yep, it was 39 years ago today that a human first set foot on the Moon, a culmination of decades of research and the highest levels of technology. I was eight years old that day, and our elementary school teachers had us all sit on the floor of the lobby to watch events unfold on big televisions perched on top of stands. The Space Age was an awesome time to grow up, and every kid wanted to be an astronaut.

What are your memories of that momentous day?

Apparently there's a new BATMAN movie...

So did anyone see THE DARK KNIGHT? What didja think of it?

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY -> WATCHMEN TRAILER!

I actually wept a little when I saw this:

CLICK HERE TO SEE AWESOME WATCHMEN TRAILER ALREADY!

I never thought I'd see WATCHMEN done right on the big screen, but for goodness sakes, every scene in this trailer is torn right from the comic!

2009: The Year of WATCHMEN!

(Thanks to Jared for the heads-up, and thanks for the image Mike B!)

One for this year's Christmas List!

On November 14th Warner Brothers will be releasing Batman: The Complete Animated Series DVD Collection, featuring sixteen discs and lots of goodies and extras! So if you've been holding out on picking up the sets of the four individual seasons, this may be just the incentive you need to finally add this amazing series to your DVD collection.

SPIRIT movie looking better?

OK, this was actually pretty cool. Longtime fan Mike Bollinger sent me THIS LINK to the new SPIRIT by Frank Miller trailer... what do you think?

Joe Shuster BATMAN drawing!

Via an orphan emailing, I was sent to the Noblemania blog, the home of Marc Tyler Nobleman, author of "Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman" (a book which we should be getting shortly), and that astonishing picture of perhaps the only known drawing of The BATMAN by SUPERMAN co-creator Joe Shuster! Find the whole story HERE!

I am almost speechless.

It's moments like this that really make me appreciate the internet. An amazing find.

ADDED: (Am I crazy? Has anyone else ever seen a Shuster Batman drawing?)

ANNOUNCING the Harrisburg Comi-Con!

Check this out:


It's being held at Der Harrisburg Maennerchor, Harrisburg's oldest social club!

Joe and Tony will be set up st this ultra-cool event... see you there!

This is annoying

From the COINLINK website:

Capital gains tax higher on sale of collectibles

Capital gain from the sale of a collectible held for more than one year is taxed at 28 percent.

That is significantly higher than the capital gains tax rate for most investments, which are taxed at a maximum 15 percent rate, 5 percent for taxpayers in the 10 or 15 percent tax brackets. Short-term investments in collectibles are taxed as short-term capital gains at ordinary income tax rates.

Ouch.

**SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT***

The gang at Comix Connection is proud to announce a very special event... the DEAD OF NIGHT: DEVIL SLAYER Release Party featuring acclaimed horror novelist (and now Marvel Comics writer!) BRIAN KEENE!

Timed to coincide with the release of the first issue of Marvel Comics' DEVIL SLAYER comic book, Brian Keene will be appearing at COMIX CONNECTION - YORK (only, sorry) on Saturday, September 6th from 1:00PM until 4:00PM to celebrate his first ever writing credit on a Marvel comic book! Woot! Come on out and meet Brian and get a copy of DEVIL SLAYER #1 autographed by the man himself! Available also will be a selection of Brian's novels (which are really very excellent, no lie) and copies of HELLBOY: ODDEST JOBS which just shipped and features a prose story by Brian!

Stay tuned for more details and other news!

A Public Service Announcement

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Baman piderman!

Best ever DC/Marvel crossover!

GI Joe and ROMMEL - Guest Review by Chris Yother

I got this email recently from longtime fan Chris Yother a few days ago and thought it was pithy and entertaining enough to post here (with his permission of course.)

Dude

Major bummer this weekend!! First, where was my favorite comic guy on Friday? - oh yeah, that's right, had his Irish buddies to hang out with :))) It's cool, hope you guys had a great time.

So, I stopped in this weekend in particular to pick up my last Joe comic from DDP. I did that intentionally. I sat down Saturday morning and read all 12 issues straight through. What an AMAZING series this 12 part adventure turned into!! Couple little things I didn't like but it just rocked!!! The tempo was a bit slow in the beginning - which was good - as I like character involvement and depth but I had a feeling they (DDP) were going to have to speed things up to give us a good conclusion. Smart move on their part to make installment 6 a two parter - that smoothed the story tempo out really well.

There were a lot, I mean A LOT of little subplots which I lost track of when reading the story on a monthly basis - especially around installment 8 or so. But reading it all together brought it all home. It was nice for me, as I have been a fan of the Joe comic since issue six came out (I never saw the first 5 issues on the newsstand rack!!) :)) This story line was to GI Joe fans what I think Civil War was to you Marvel fans - one big "HOAAH" bonanza!!

So, as the final installment was passing into my collective memory of Joe lore, I felt myself becoming really sad - I mean, WHAT HAPPENS NOW?? :)) The reality of me losing the Joes and not having a comic there each month was depressing. Fortunately, Larry Hama will be back with IDW in October. I really dig what they have done with DR WHO Classics so I am hoping this transition will be pretty smooth - still - OCTOBER!! At least that gives me time to catch up on all those war comics I have bought from you guys.

DDP did a wonderful job. It's a Golden time to be a Joe fan with the WW3 story and the 25th anniversary figures and vehicles and a movie due in 2009.

So, not only did I get that enjoyment - I also bought that ROMMEL solitaire game from DVG I saw on your rack. I got it because I cannot get ANYONE to steady commit to wargaming with me, so the solitaire option works perfectly. Anyway, I did Rommel moderately proud - the Axis got rocked but I did OK. Screwed up the rules - it was my first time playing the game, so that was bound to happen - unfortunately, the British forces benefited from it!! :)) Anyway, PLEASE PLEASE preorder me the Alexander the Great Solitaire game they are going to do - I really want that one!!

Hope you had a great 4th - I am!!
C

Thanks Chris!
So... any other GI JOE fans out there? What did you think?