His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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With Netflix now running nicely in the UK and Ireland, and with me comfortably snuggled in, enjoying at least one film a day, and the odd TV episode too, I’ve been looking for the best way to stream the content to my TV.
My iPad is pretty good for when I can get it real close, and my laptop can hook up to the TV too, but those are back up plans and far from ideal.
I don’t have a PS3 and I don’t have an X-Box 360, and I don’t really want to buy one just for this functionality. I do have a Wii, but that only gives me SD Netflix, and I don’t want that. I want the best picture and sound quality I can get.
So, lucky for me, that Roku have just launched their popular little boxes here in Blighty. I was familiar with them from the US, and am happy to see them following me across the Atlantic. Can all-night diners now do the same, please?
There are two models of the Roku box, priced at £50 and £100, all but for a few pence.
The cheaper one streams up to 720p, while the more expensive one can handle the full 1080p and 5.1 sound. And it has Angry Birds preloaded, which is… a distraction. As well as Netflix they offer Vimeo, Crackle and a bunch of other services with Lovefilm, iPlayer etc. to follow, hopefully in short order.
While the Roku LT and Roku XS are both available for pre-order from Amazon now, Roku say that other retailers will come along eventually. The shipping date for pre-orders will be January 27th – so less than a fortnight away. I’m deliberately putting off the viewing of some films so I can get the best out of them.
I’ll let you know how I get on, though CNET‘s review of the XS is already pretty compelling:
The good: The Roku 2 XS is an ultrasmall Wi-Fi streaming-media box that offers dozens of Internet video and audio services, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Crackle, Pandora, NHL, NBA, and MLB, among many others. It works with HD and standard TVs, and it includes a Wii-like motion controller for casual gaming (Angry Birds is included).
The bad: The best streaming channels require paid subscriptions or pay-per-view fees. The Roku 2 XS doesn’t currently support DLNA access (streaming media from networked PCs), and USB file support is very limited. Don’t expect a full-blown Wii-like gaming experience; Angry Birds is currently the only game available.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
