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Tuesday Runaround – Giving Away Your Comics

Published Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:25:47 -0500

Last updated Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:26:00 -0500

CharityWatch: We had one yesterday in Lincolnshire, UK, here's another. Valuable comic collections being left to charity organisations. This time to a Nashville, Tennessee Goodwill, and an estimated value of $42,000.

ExposeWatch: Newsbusters paints Rick Veitch and Gary Erskine's upcoming Image title The Big Lie as a 9/11 Truther project, as it quotes on prominent Truther, Nor Cal Truth, as saying;

Well, I was waiting to break the news, but I think my wait is over. USA Today has done a fantastic job reporting on "The Big Lie." I have been intimately involved in this project, and if anyone has questions I would love to answer them.

SingaporeWatch: Singapore Sam hits the news wires…

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.

Robin Revealed in Batman: Arkham City! | Superhero Hype

Robin will come complete with his own unique gadgets and special moves, and will be playable in all challenge maps in the game, as well as two additional challenge maps that are included with the pack – Black Mask Hideout and Freight Train Escape. The pack will also contain a bonus Red Robin character skin.

COMIC BOOK COMPULSIVE — Miracle Man #11

In a recent Comic Book Compulsive I wrote about the British comic Super Thriller #12 which featured the character Ace Hart the Atom Man. So naturally I went off on a digression about British superheroes and wrote about how in the 1950′s after Miracleman stopped production Mick Anglo redrew some of the stories for the Spanish market where he was dubbed Super Hombre. He then went on to resell the same altered strips to the British market, the character now called Miracle Man (in Dutch it was Mirakel Man, in Danish Mirakelmanden

All-Out AVENGERS with BENDIS: Daredevil, Osborn, Much More

I don't want to step on anyone's toes, Mark's got a lot going on with the character, but I did put it out: "Boy, how interesting that would be for New Avengers." We do have a lot of stuff going on in both of the teams. This is just the first of a couple announcements that will be coming out of Fear Itself of who's going to be on both teams.

Miss USA, Best Buy and the Geek bubble – ComPost – The Washington Post

If Miss USA wants to insist that she's a geek, clearly something has snapped in our popular consciousness.

'Green Lantern's' disappointing weekend: Why do DC Comics films continue to struggle without Christopher Nolan? – latimes.com

But the middling performance of DC's "Green Lantern" also highlights a particular struggle for the comic-book unit. Marvel, after all, has managed to take lesser-known properties such as Iron Man and create a blockbuster franchise. It also just made a tidy $420-million global hit out of the previous also-ran title "Thor." (Later this year it will try once again with a new "Captain America" movie.)

RIP Lew Sayre Schwartz (1926-2011) | The Beat

Golden Age artist Lew Sayre Schwartz, best known as one of Bob Kane's ghosts of the Batman comic, died over the weekend of complications from a fall, according to his son Andrew. A memorial service is planned for July.

YouTube – Green Lantern Animated Series Sneak Peek