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A Superhero Summer
A lot of superhero movies this summer – the latest being the Will Smith one, Hancock. What do you think – which ones so far were good and which ones bombed?
Bamkapow.com has two lists of superheros worth checking out and arguing over: The "10 Manliest Superheroes" and the "15 Greatest Black Superheroes".
I Feel Fine At The Corner of Webcomic and Catastrophe
COMIXTALK
We’ve got a new cover for July from Dave Wright, creator of Todd and Penguin and a new column from Derik Badman reviewing the short webcomic The Lady’s Murder.
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MILESTONES
Ryan Armand announces that his webcomic Minus is done. What do you think of the ending?
INTERVIEWS
Pop Culture Zoo interviews David Malki! of Wondermark. I sometimes forget that Wondermark appears in The Onion as well as the web.
REVIEWS
ArtPatient.com reviews Josh Nickerson’s The Nolans.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
The Escapist dissects gaming webcomics. In this video, Yahtzee Croshaw shows how to make millions of gamers happy with the minimum amount of effort.
Panels & Pictures: The Lady’s Murder
In this month's Panels & Pictures, Derik A Badman reviews the recently completed The Lady's Murder by Eliza Frye, an evocative 32 page mystery that uses bold colors and striking compositions.
Happy Happy July July!
Just checking in to say hi if anyone’s out there…. Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend in the United States and elsewhere. We should have some new stuff up here at ComixTalk tonight or tomorrow so check back.
For now I just want to flag this interesting article on a new flexible screen e-doohickey — the Readius — from a company called Polymer Vision. Basically too expensive, too limited (no colors, no graphics) but this is where e-paper stuff has to go – the lightweight and flexible, non-destructo nature of it — if it’s going to catch on in a big way. And if it does — this would be an amazing way to read comics.
But Actually Elvis Is A Hero Of Mine
HEAR Rich Stevens, Meredith Gran, Scott Kurtz, Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar RECORDED!!!
Scott Kurtz, Brad Guigar and Dave Kellet talk webcomic shop – including some talk about R Stevens recent announcement to stop the newspaper strip of DS.
Where’s WOWIO?
A little more on the pending Platinum – WOWIO hookup. Comic Book Resources reports that WOWIO initiated the negotiations at the behest of their balky investors and that Platinum will probably be paying for WOWIO in stock. Wire stories confirm that negotiations are ongoing (not final) and that the current hope is to concludethe transaction in the third quarter (I read this not as striking a deal in the third quarter but completing the acquisition or merger in the third quarter. Striking the deal — reaching terms — would most likely occur very soon).
Greg Carter encourages everyone to read their WOWIO contracts closely. I second that. Let me be clear – I don’t want to cast aspersions on the people at Platinum — they are businessmen and while there are allegations of late payments circulating around I don’t have any independent confirmation of that right now. But having had a chance to observe Platinum for awhile now it’s pretty clear that their business model is to own and license IP. Nothing inherently wrong with that but it’s different than a publishing business model. WOWIO seems to be in the business of publishing (digital but still essentially publishing) and Platinum really is not. If Platinum buys WOWIO my expectation is that WOWIO will shift its business model to owning and licensing IP.
On a semi-related note — what’s going on with Platinum’s Comic Book Challenge for this year — the Platinum website says to "Come back June 27th and see Who’s Next!" So, um, it’s July 1st already…
Rock Elves Come From America
I was going to make some silly Seinfeld theft homage after “flower elves” — sort of a “not that there’s anything wrong with it” but then I realized that flower elves have it tough now with all those moms of flower elves asking when they’re going to settle down and get married.
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Espana Es El Champions!!! And now the news…
TOOLS (update)
Google Trends now has specific results for individual URLs so you can track things like what other websites visitors to PVP like to go to.
META
Steve Frug thinks through what length should mean when talking about graphic novels (hint: it’s not the same as a text-only novel). (h/t Journalista!)
INTERVIEWS
Tom Spurgeon interviews alt-comix star Lynda Barry.
(not comics but what the hey) ComixMix interviews World War Z author Max Brooks.
CONVENTIONS
Webcomic creators: you’re not invited to Okaton this year but hey feature the con in our contest and win something… (that’s what this press release read like to me anyway…)
Posting may get light through the July 4th weekend but be sure to check out the reader talk posts while I’m being lazy…
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