Over at the Words of Prey message board Gail Simone has reported that last month’s Birds of Prey Secret Files 2003 has sold out. This is an extremely rare occurance for a Secret Files book. BOP Secret Files 2003 makes the second Birds of Prey book to sell out recently. Last month Simone and Ed …
Monthly Archive: July 2003
Jul 11
Stan Lee to Create new Cartoon Universe
ICv2 News is reporting that Stan Lee has signed a deal with children’s programming outfit DIC to “create a new programming stream” for syndication. The first of these new cartoons, Stan Lee’s The Secret of the Super Six, even stars Stan the Man, voicing a cartoonist who guides six aliens through their new life on …
Jul 10
EL CAZADOR Artwork Previewed
Newsarama has posted an article about CrossGen’s Pirate book El Cazador written by Chuck Dixon, pencilled by Steve Epting and debuting in September. This particular article copies the text from a previous Newsarama El Cazador article but adds several pages of Epting’s artwork. If these pages are any indication this book will be a “must …
Jul 10
New Batman Animated Movie Release Date Set
Comics Continuum is reporting that a release date of October 21 has been set for the direct-to-video, full-length animated movie Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman. Also, the DVD will include an exclusive original Batman animated short, Chase Me. The movie revolves around a mysterious new vigliante, going by the name Batwoman, taking up residence in …
Jul 10
Sony Hit With Another Lawsuit
Sony Pictures must think they’ve become a lawsuit magnet. Not only are they contending with Marvel’s suit against them over Spider-Man but now Robert Wagner has sued them claiming he’s entitled to half the profits from the two Charlie’s Angels big screen movies. According to Yahoo Wagner and his late wife, actress Natalie Wood, became …
Jul 08
Hi Lois, it’s a Funky Crankshaft Winkerbean
Currently in the Crankshaft strip by Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers and Funky Winkerbean by Tom Batiuk they are sharing a storyline where The Moores from Funky are looking to buy the house next door to Crankshaft. Furthermore the house is being shown by realtor Lois Flagstone from the Hi and Lois comic strip by …
Jul 08
The Duplex vs The Boondocks
Today’s (07/08/03) The Duplex by cartoonist Glen McCoy takes an unprecedented and blatant swipe at The Boondocks, the controversial strip by Aaron McGruder. My eyes boggled when I saw that today. Certainly strips have referred to each other in the past usually in one off jokes based on the characters used or as homage, but …
Jul 08
Adult Swim Sculptures Available Aug 03
Hey folks; Comics Infinity is now taking pre-orders for three statues that our “Adult Swim” fans will be sure to like. All available in Aug 03 are: Space Ghost bust for approximately $90.00, Blue Falcon Statue also about $90.00, and finally a cool Harvey Birdman statue for just under $65.00. Happy Hunting!
Jul 08
“Hulk Just Happy To See You
The PULSE has a link to an article in the UK paper The Sun regarding a 12-inch Hulk doll won as a carnival prize that came with a bonus. A six year old girl won the plush Hulk figure in a can-hitting contest at the Brighton Pier. But she was perplexed by a mysterious bulge …
Jul 08
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos Joins THE PUNISHER Cast
Newsarama is reporting that Rebecca Romijn-Stamos has joined the cast of The Punisher, playing opposite Thomas Jane and John Travolta. Romijn-Stamos has previously played Mystique in both X-Men and X-2: X-Men United. In The Punisher, she will play the role of Joan, the alluring neighbor of Frank Castle who has a troubled past and comes …
Jul 05
Beatty And Robinson Officially Off GOTHAM KNIGHTS
At his official message board Scott Beatty confirmed that both he and artist Roger Robinson will leave Batman: Gotham Knights with issue #49. AJ Lieberman, writer of DC’s Harley Quinn, will take over the writing chores with issue #50. Scott didn’t know who would take over the artistic reigns.
Jul 03
The wait is over! BG on DVD
Fans of Battlestar Galactica rejoice! The entire 24 Episode run of the classic series will be released in October, as a set, retailing for $119.98. This according to a Variety report cited by ICv2
Jul 03
Hulk THRASHED!
Heh heh… There’s so much you can do with that “Hulk Smash” phrase… Anyways, Comic Book Resources’ Comics2Film has a bit on Hulk‘s continued suffering. It appears that when the movie opens in Germany it will be on far fewer screens than earlier planned due to a boycott of United International Pictures by a large …
Jul 03
New Iron Man writer/direction announced
Newsarama has the interview on Iron Man’s new writer and direction here. My only question: how on Earth does one come to conceive of Tony Stark as a liberal character?
Jul 02
Vote On Current Fuzzball Forum Art Challenge
Hey folks; There is currently a voting thread going on over at the NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –Fuzzball Forum for the entries for this month’s Art Challenge. This month was a “pencils only” challenge featuring Ragman and Warlord. Yours truly even has an entry! So go get out the vote! And don’t …
Jul 02
CrossGen Colorists On The Move
There’s new “hues” coming out of Tampa. Colorists Laura Martin, Nick Bell, Frank D’Armata, and James Rochelle will be swapping series and lending their talents to new pages. Starting in August, Laura Martin will leave Ruse and set up shop on Negation. Laura’s handpicked successor for Ruse will be Frank D’Armata, who’s moving over from …
Jul 02
Adult Swim merchandise at a mall near you!
ICv2 is reporting that Cartoon Network has launched an exclusive deal with mall retailer Hot Topic to sell Adult Swim merchandise. The stuff is also being sold online at the Hot Topic website Alas, there is no Harvey Birdman merchandise yet. He’s on the mast head though, so perhaps he’ll star in phase two of …
Jul 01
Activision Sues Viacom
Yahoo is reporting that video game company Activision Inc. is suing Viacom over its Star Trek license. Activision says Viacom let the franchise deteriorate by not releasing Star Trek films from 1998-2002, not promoting the TV series and allegedly deciding recently not to make any more Star Trek films or TV shows. This, in turn, …
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