“It’s an incredible honor for my hometown to recognize my work and the work of my peers while we reach out to the community for CAPE,” said Scott Kurtz, CAPE host and creator of the web strip PVP.

Kurtz will also be celebrating the 10th anniversary of his web strip PVP at CAPE. The marriage of the two prominent PVP characters will be marked at the event by a wedding guest’s registry book. “I would like to invite all of my fans and the CAPE attendees to sign the guest book for Brent and Jade,” said Kurtz.

This year’s list of CAPE guest comic book artists and writers includes the new additions Daniel Way, (Wolverine Origins and Ghost Rider) and Andy Kuhn (Firebreather and Marvel Team-Up). They join industry giants Mark Waid, Chynna Clugston, Robert Kirkman, Greg Pak, Jason Pearson, Gail Simone and David Mack. With over 80 guests, CAPE! just keeps getting bigger and bigger! For a complete list of guests and to view the proclamation go to www.capeday.com.

CAPE 4 takes place at Craddock Park on Saturday, May 3rd, 2007 from 10am — 6pm coincides with the Free Comic Book Day events taking place all over the world. CAPE! festivities allow fans a chance to interact with top creators in the comic industry, get sketches, talk comics and pick up some fantastic free goodies including 7,000 free comics and much more!

CAPE 4 is hosted by Popsyndicate, PVPonline and Zeus Comics. The event is also supported by sponsors the Art Institute of Dallas, Martini Lab, Liquid Logixx, Christon Company, Courtyard Marriot, the Marvel Zombie Society APA and Korn, Bowdich and Diaz.

For more information on CAPE or if you are a comic professional who wants to attend please visit www.capeday.com or call Zeus comics at 214-219-TOYS.

P.S. I will be there!

Obits:
Times UK
AP/Foxnews

As you read this, thousands of comics are being packed up and shipped
from their old home in Salinas, CA to their new home in Chicago, IL.

Cold Cut Distribution, the leading distributor of independent and
small to mid-size press comics in the United States, has sold their
company assets to Rogue Wolf Entertainment.

Retailers can still access the online ordering system at
www.Coldcut.com, but be advised that Cold Cut will not be able to
fulfill new orders while the inventory is still being moved and set up
in the new warehouse.

“We expect to be back up to full speed by the end of February,” said
Lance Stahlberg, Vice President of Rogue Wolf. “We’ve already begun
to reach out to customers and publishers, making sure inventory gaps
are kept to a minimum as we rebuild.”

The new owners will continue to offer the same flat discount rate to
retailers, and will seek to extend the same terms to all new accounts
with previous Cold Cut customers.

“As a team, we bring twenty-four years experience in the distribution
business combined with a first-hand understanding of the needs of
independent publishers to the table,” Lance added. “We have the
resources to take this company to new heights.”

Keep an eye out for more information in the coming weeks!

ABOUT COLD CUT DISTRIBUTION –
www.ColdCut.com

Cold Cut is the industry’s leading reorder distributor for quality
independent comics, serving retailers across the country and
internationally since 1994. They have consistently lead the way in
supporting and promoting independent comics in an ever-changing market place.

ABOUT ROGUE WOLF ENTERTAINMENT –
www.Rogue-Wolf.net

Rogue Wolf Entertainment, Inc was founded in 2006 with the idea of
creating comics for comic fans. They currently produce three
web-comic titles. With this new addition to their corporate
portfolio, their focus will be on helping their fellow creators and
valued supporters succeed and hopefully improve the comics industry as a whole in the process.

JJ will be joined by producer Damon Lindelof, writer Bob Orci and exec. producer Bryan Burk. It is also
possible that other behind the scenes folks or actors will join in as well. So
feel free to submit questions to Orci, Lindelof, and Burk. 

You can start submitting questions for Abrams now in the comments section.

Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role and Zachary Quinto (Syler from HEROES) has been cast as the younger Spock.

Abrams also announced that they are trying to figure a proper way to have William Shatner in the film as well.

The younger Kirk hasn’t been cast as yet. Likely whomever will be cast will have shown to have chemistry with Quinto in auditions.

Filming should start in November. Release date has been set for Christmas day of 2008.

It is springtime in the world of Star Trek again.

I got to meet and compliment her at the Toronto Comic Con last year on the way she used Dr. Psycho in the Action Comics tie-in for Villains United. She took a villain I don’t think I knew at all before and in a matter of a few pages moved him to being one of the most chilling people in the DC universe and I just had to share those pages with some of my non-comics friends. She seems like a great writer to tap for this job.

Is there nothing that George Lucas hasn’t touched?

To me, these look like the cows and other items that various cities have painted by artists. Except that everyone of those is different, and every one of these mailboxes is the same. Is it going to far to call them “clones?”

I was able to tour the Marvel Superheroes Science Exhibition now at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Canada. (That’s me in the infra-red colors and also next to the sign at the end of the video.)

This is the kind of thing you’ll like, if you like this kind of thing. I think the two websites I linked to above can give you a pretty good idea of what to expect. There are a few more notes on the exhibit in my Extended Entry.

If I’m not mistaken, this exhibit (or one almost exactly like it) was in Los Angeles last summer. I didn’t get a chance to see it when I was in LA, but I was excited to see that I had a chance in Toronto. The exhibit will stay at the Ontario Science Centre until March 25. After that, it goes on to the St. Louis Science Center, from April 28, 2007 to September 4, according to the exhibit’s website. In addition to the admission to the Ontario Science Center, there is an additional charge for the Marvel exhibit.

Science in comics (or the lack thereof) can seem easy to ridicule, but as you might expect, this exhibition takes its cues from comics and turns them into opportunities to teach. For example, it would be easy to dismiss Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, by saying that there is no way that cosmic rays would effect a person that way. There is no way that a person or any other object could continually combust without burning any fuel. Even if he could, he wouldn’t be able to fly just because he was on fire, otherwise our campfires wouldn’t stay on the ground. Rather than dwell on the negatives, the exhibit designers take whatever cues they can from the comics to illustrate a few fundamental principles. The Human Torch is used as an illustration of how everyone’s body generates its own heat, and your picture in infra-red tones on a video screen is visual proof of that.

Much of the science involved is pretty basic, and taken as a whole, represents a pretty random assortment of facts. When the only unifying theme is a loose interpretation of superhero powers, that’s not surprising.

The most eye-opening moment for me was at the Daredevil portion (no pun intended). It challenged you to make your way through a tunnel by keeping your eyes closed and clicking your tongue to hear echoes like a bat does. I really hate dark places, so I didn’t enter that one, but on the outside of the tunnel was a video that showed a blind man who had learned to use echo-location to negotiate city streets and throughout his life. It showed him in a neighborhood that he had allegedly never been to before. He was identifying where parked cars and trees were and even described a wrought iron fence using echoes from his clicking tongue. The video was old- probably from the early 1980s, and it looked that way. However, the story it told was so astounding that if I had just run across it randomly on the Internet instead of finding it in a respected museum, I certainly would have suspected that it was some kind of a fraud or hoax.

There were also exhibits outside of the science ones that catered to comics history, including a timeline of Marvel history as it related to social movements throughout the last century and an exhibit on the artwork of various important comics creators. My favorite part of the entire exhibit was the video that played continuously in the “Stan Lee Theater.” I love listening to “The Man.” Even though I’ve heard many of his stories multiple times, it’s fun hearing him talk. He is the first to admit that he had no clue about the supposed “science” he was writing about You get to hear him say how he doesn’t have any idea what a cosmic ray or a gamma ray really is, even today. His science is weak, but his best points were made while discussing comics as a tool for teaching literacy. It was quite ironic, then, that the gift shop at the exit of the exhibit had a whole long roomful of items but had almost no comics for sale.

If I was about 12 years old, I probably would have loved everything in this exhibit and wanted more– and I mean that as a compliment.

Live long and prosper
Captain John M. Neal

Visit my new blog that is all about television. It will have commentary, information and special features. Come one and come all.

The first entry celebrates Star Trek’s coming 40th anniversary with some bombastic news and rumors about the movie in 2008 and the new television syndication deal for TOS!

The blog is also mirrored at TVology 101

Hey Everyone…

My good friend and comic book artist extraordinaire Todd Fox will be on the local TV program Midday With Mike tomorrow on the special guest segment which airs around 11:25am. The Midday With Mike program begins at 11:00am and runs for 1 hour on WFIE 14. Todd will be on showing & plugging his new comic: AYN GERONIMO AND THE POSTMODERN PIONEERS — Trickster (2006 Summer Special). So be sure to tune in &/or tape it if you can!!!

TV TED!!!
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Thanks Ted

You can still order a copy of Aym Geronimo and the PostModern Pioneers: Trickster at http://shootingstarcomics.safeshopper.com/16/cat16.htm?832

For information, please contact:

Scott McCullar, Creative Director
mccullar@shootingstarcomics.com

Kearny, New Jersey (July 27, 2006) — Action. Adventure. Aym Geronimo.

Readers of the erstwhile SHOOTING STAR COMICS ANTHOLOGY series have long recognized the science-loving heroine and her team of Post Modern Pioneers as synonymous with high adventure when she appeared in those earlier pages. This August finds Aym leaping into action in her first full length adventure of her own!

The stakes have never been higher as Aym battles both time and trickster. Aym takes on a man called Coyote, who is the world’s greatest thief, in order to recover an experimental and highly dangerous device.

Debuting at Wizard World Chicago, Shooting Star Comics is pleased to present AYM GERONIMO AND THE POST MODERN PIONEERS: TRICKSTER, by series creators J. Morgan Neal and Todd Fox (Booth #3256B). Both writer and artist will also be on hand at the convention in Chicago at the Shooting Star Comics Booth (Booth #S23). You can also visit the official Aym Geronimo website at www.aymgeronimo.com to learn more.

Don’t worry. If you cannot make the trek to the Windy Cindy, AYM will come to you! AYM GERONIMO: TRICKSTER is also available now for pre-order via the Shooting Star Comics secure online store along with Aym’s earlier exploits in the pages of select issues of SHOOTING STAR COMICS ANTHOLOGY (while supplies last). The Direct-to-Readers edition of the AYM GERONIMO: TRICKSTER summer special will begin shipping in mid-August for those who purchase this special edition through our online store.

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Coke Brown a friend of mine just posted a student film he had a hand in in his wayward youth and for having no budget and a really green cast it actually is a fun little film. Coke co-wrote and co-directed it and it has some great lines and gags and great shots utilizing what they had avaiable.

Give it watch if you are so inclined.

Star Trek: Animated – Official Announcement

Finally! I have been waiting for this seemingly forever. And I even have the Laser Disc set. But they needed to be on DVD. Huzzah!

Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

theINSIDER is reporting that J.J. Abrams & Co. are smitten with the notion of Matt Damon as James T. Kirk in their forthcoming theatrical relaunch of STAR TREK.
The article also says Abrams has already received Kirk progenitor William Shatner’s blessing on this.

If I may indulge myself for a moment I would like to invite everyone to the all new, all different Aym Geronimo and the PostModern Pioneers webpage.

www.aymgeronimo.com

Thanks.

Singer-songwriter Billy Preston dead at 59

Billy was a great talent and from all appearences a great guy. One of the few to be called a “Fifth Beatle” for the relationship he had with the fab four and the work he did with them not the least of which was the “Let It Be” album and the legendary rooftop concert on the Apple building.

It is never a good thing when we lose real talent. Nothing from Nothing may leave nothing. But Billy left us with something.

I hope they don’t give it a dumb and unmemorable name. James Lileks (listen via RadioBlogger) thinks that it should be called Fearsomus Gigantor: “…we need names like Tyrannosaurus Rex to strike fear into the hearts of eight year old boys.”

This is the original video that led to Stewart Gilligan Griffin’s evaluation of it as “being cool”.

Can anyone tell me which movie this describes? “It was really the good sister that tried to kill the bad sister.”