Author: Carl Doherty
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Interview: Brain Food Comics at NYCC
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in InterviewsInterview with Brain Food Comics at the New York Comic Con.
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Taskmaster Mimics Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Roster
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in NewsCredit to Capcom, they know how to build anticipation amongst gamers and comic fans alike. The developer has been slowly revealing its roster for Marvel vs. Capcom 3, released next month, for what seems like several years now. And it’s definitely an eclectic cast, that features mainstays Ryu, Spider-man and Wolverine amongst such bizarre choices…
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Primeval: Extinction Event Book Review
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in Book ReviewsTitan Books Written by Dan Abnett Primeval, the Saturday night sci-fi show genre fans love to hate. I’ve become a bit of the proponent of the show over the last few years; particularly the third season, in which Primeval’s ‘dinosaurs leap through rifts in time to terrorise England’ premise veered into more interesting territory, with…
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A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy (Äntligen Midsommar!) DVD Review
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2009 Director: Ian McCrudden Script: Henrik Engström, Mattias Grosin, Erik Hörstadius, Ian McCrudden Cast: Olle Sarri, Lisa Werlinder, Alexander Karim, Anna Littorin, Luke Perry Not to be confused with Woody Allen’s 1982 comedy A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, A Swedish Midsummer Sex Comedy is an amiable enough little movie that sees three couples (and Luke…
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Dominic Pace Demands Role of Lex Luthor in New Superman Movie
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It’s hardly new for the fanboy uni-mind to decide that, technically, it owns the comic franchises it so loves and therefore has the right to dictate how Hollywood produces all comic adaptations, and Zack Snyder’s recently announced Superman: Man of Steel is likely to attract more scrutiny than any other superhero movie in development. Actor…
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Lenore: Cooties TPB Review
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2010, Titan Books Written and illustrated by Roman Dirge Cooties is the third hardback outing for Lenore, a quirky gothic minx who’s featured in a regular comic series and several animated shorts, and seems destined to grace black T-shirts for many years to come. Collecting the final third of the original Slave Labor Graphics run…
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Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists Review
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in Book Reviews2011, Minnesota Historical Society Press Written by Britt Aamodt Beneath the colourful imagery, comic books have always held a certain tragedy. Behind every fantastical world and heroic individual rising against the forces of evil there’s some poor, solitary soul confined to a drawing board, wondering how they were ever naïve enough to believe that drawing/writing…
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Second Annual Fund-raising Drive Against Human Trafficking Goes Live
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in Comic News110+ Comic Creators Donate Art Press Release: Comic Creators Alliance announced today that their second annual fund-raising drive to raise funds to fight against human trafficking goes live on January 11, 2011. Lora Innes, a comic creator herself, started the yearly drive to coincide with National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in 2010. Last year’s drive raised…