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Tuesday Runaround – Teenagers And Taxes, Policies And Proposals

Published Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:43:05 -0500

Last updated Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:30:22 -0500

FrontierWatch: From the New Frontiersman, a new image of The Comedian from Before Watchmen.

This is called viral marketing. Funny, I thought that's what I did over Christmas. Got it top trending on Twitter as well…

TeenWatch: The Huffington Post gets a teenager to pick her top upcoming comic books of the year.

TaxWatch: CNN sees the thousands of Americans renouncing their citizenship in terms of Superman… but mostly in terms of avoiding paying tax.

WeddingWatch: A proposal made in front of the Avengers poster at C2E2. She said yes.

VideoWatch: Short comics story Spiraling Into Now Here by James Davidge and Fiona Staples, has been used to illustrate a music video for the song, Can't Save the World from Cowpuncher. The original story, created in 2006, will finally see print in My Modern Panic: Short Stories by James Davidge, to be published in October 2012 by Rosencrantz Comics.

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PolicyWatch: At the Greensboro City Council yesterday, Green Lantern (Sean Hettler), Isaiah Bradley Captain America (Ed Newsome), Lord Retail (Jermaine Exum manager Acme Comics), Stephen Mayer (assistant manager Acme Comics), J. Brian Ewing at podium (special events media consultant Acme Comics) persuading the council to vote to make Greensboro Comic City USA once every year for Free Comic Book Day.

They succeeded.

StarWatch: The Guardian looks at the Google origins of Jeffrey Brown's Darth Vader And Son.

And some more from Computo:

Tomorrow In Washington DC: Comics, The KKK, and Covert Ops | Spy Museum

Comic books often reflect the time in which they are created. Since the Cold War, spies have been hot, and the world of comics has had a great assortment of espionage volumes. National security lawyer and comic collector/dealer Mark S. Zaid has assembled a rich array of comics that address spies and espionage. He'll showcase some of the coolest and rarest volumes in his collection while he describes how spy comics mirrored the intelligence issues of the time period in which they were published—some purporting to reveal true spy cases. He'll also share tales of how comics may have been used as intelligence tools and to push social agendas involving war, race, and sex. Then there is the story of the famous superhero who teamed up with actual spies to strike a blow for justice and equality in the United States. Award-winning author Rick Bowers shares the story behind his new book Superman vs. the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate.

It Sparkles!: THE WAY IT IS

And the whole reason Alan Moore continues to be aggravated by the Watchmen situation is because he and Dave Gibbons were more or less duped into believing DC was actually interested in changing the way things were, when the contracts for Watchmen were drawn up.

4thletter! » Blog Archive » "Trying to guard the fortress of a king they've never seen or met"

Good news, y'all. All of your concerns about the dubious business practices of DC Comics and how they basically robbed Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons of the rights to Watchmen have been resolved! DC found a paid shill to sit in the audience and pretend to be skeptical, all so that they could put on a song and dance to show us that the art looks nice!

JUSTICE LEAGUE #4 GOES BACK TO PRINT | DC Comics

JUSTICE LEAGUE #4 has sold out and will be going back to press for its third printing.

VIZ Media Promotes Alvin Lu To Executive Vice President, Publishing

"Compelling content has been driving our business for 25 years," said Ken Sasaki, President and CEO of VIZ Media. "Alvin always made sure VIZ Media had the best manga titles direct from Japan, and his creative instincts are unparalleled in the industry."

Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » DC Cancels Legion Lost Trade

Unless I've missed some, this is the first paperback to be cancelled by DC in awhile

'Captain America' costume grabs $228,000 at auction – chicagotribune.com

An auction of memorabilia from the 2011 film "Captain America: The First Avenger" and other big-screen Marvel offerings grossed $1.1 million over the weekend, with a costume from the film accounting for about a quarter of the haul.

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