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Saturday Runaround – A Far Higher Earth

Published Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:20:48 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Sat, 29 Sep 2012 03:20:51 -0500

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HighWatch: Sam Humphries shares designs from Higher Earth;

TwitWatch: Did someone at Image forget to log out of the official account before tweeting something of a more personal nature?

101Watch: Remember those newspaper articles about how comics aren't all just superhero comics from the eighties and nineties? They're back.

GuardianWatch: The Guardian fetes Mark Millar in the light of the Fox News…

BisleyWatch: How Simon Bisley joined Tower Chronicles;

We'd had the first inaugural panel to introduce the company to the public. At that point, their first publication was "Frank Miller's Holy Terror," which had originally been a Batman book. As far as "The Tower Chronicles," we didn't have any art. We only had my story outline and the original scripting, so we needed a piece of art. So Thomas contacted Simon. He did this one panel as a PR piece, and he just so nailed the character right out of the gate in a single image, which is very tough to do. We didn't think he could do [the series], but he said yes.

PanelWatch: Recreating panels and pages on screen...

SwitchWatch: When websites use DC images to illustrate Marvel articles…
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

Marvel Comics and the movies: The business story behind the Avengers. – Slate Magazine

But the final piece of the puzzle involved both math and some creative curating. The innovative deal that Marvel and Merrill Lynch slowly put together, and finally announced in April 2005, was nonrecourse financing. That meant that Marvel wouldn't have to put up any cash, but would receive $525 million over an eight-year period to make movies from 10 characters: Ant-Man, the Avengers, Black Panther, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Hawkeye, Nick Fury, Power Pack, and, lastly, Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung Fu.

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