Month: January 2011
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Stan Lee’s The Guardian Project Graphic Novels up for Grabs
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in Comic NewsStan Lee’s latest venture, The Guardian Project, has been unveiling its 30 new superhero creations – each based on a different NHL team – on a daily basis according to user votes on Facebook. Those voting in the daily match-ups are automatically in with a chance to win one of 10 Limited Edition Guardian Project…
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Spy Guy Creator Mike Kitchen to Appear in New Indie Comics Magazine
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Indie Comics Magazine Editor Gary Scott Beatty recently announced Canadian Mike Kitchen will appear in Indie Comics Magazine #2, available only through pre-order at your local comic book shop through February’s Diamond Comic Distributors’ Previews catalog. Mike Kitchen is the creator of Spy Guy, a hard-boiled funny book telling the story of an undercover Toronto…
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NBC’s ‘The Cape’ TV SHow Debuts this Sunday – iPad Preview Available
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With a happy new year comes new season premieres, and one of the shows comic fans are probably most interested in/apprehensive about is NBC’s The Cape. The show stars ER’s David Lyons as Vince Faraday, a police officer turned vigilante after being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Faraday adopts the guise of his…
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Comic Book Company is Basis for New Web Comedy
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Press Release: “The Bullpen,” a web series about comic books and comic creators is now live on youtube. Webisodes can be viewed at the Cheapjack Shakespeare channel: www.youtube.com/user/CheapjackShakespeare. New episodes will appear weekly for the next 8 weeks. “The Bullpen” is a workplace comedy centered on the office of “Bullpen Comics,” a company started by…
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Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies! Review
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2010, Wildstorm/Titan Books Story: Ian Edginton Art: Davide Fabbri, Tom Mandrake Colours: Carrie Strachan Yet another entry built from the “classic fiction + zombies = junk culture irony” formula, Victorian Undead takes the world’s greatest detective and – if the superfluous “Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies!” does not already made it clear enough – pits him…
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Elmer Graphic Novel Review
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2010, Slave Labor Graphics Written and Illustrated by Gerry Alanguilan Gerry Alanguilan’s Elmer requires its readers to draw upon their ability to suspend disbelief. It’s the sort of book that, if you were to put it aside and apply a minimal degree of logic to its plot, would seem ridiculous to the point of unreadable.…
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Stan Lee’s Guardian Project Line-Up Revealed January
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in Comic NewsFans of craptacular Marvel Comics creation NFL Superpro may soon have reason to rejoice. Stan Lee, in partnership with Guardian Media Entertainment and POW! Entertainment, has announced his new series The Guardian Project, an NHL-themed superhero title.
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment DVD Review
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1966 Director: Karel Reisz Script: David Mercer Cast: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl, Bernard Bresslaw This movie adaptation of David Mercer’s televised play, for which Vanessa Redgrave received a Best Actress Award at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, is a cult classic that appears to have been overlooked while all manner of…