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Happy 70th MGM's Wizard of Oz! (debuted August 25, 1939)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=852 Before Star Wars, the biggest movie event of my childhood was watching the Wizard of Oz the ONE time a year it was broadcast on network television (usually CBS). I'm not kidding you youngsters, it was like
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Batman Beyond is Back
For those who may have missed it, Dan Didio promised a Terry McGinnis mini-series some time next year. Newsarama
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Characters That Outlive Elements of Their Origins
'Point's blog about the Black Widow got me to thinking about how since our heroes don't age normally, they often outlive elements of their origins, i.e., as the USSR recedes into the past, Natasha's past as a Soviet spy will doubtless recede with it.
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To Re-Post the Timeline or Not to Re-post the Timeline...
Those of you who remember it will recall the Earth-44 timeline from the old site and may well - if you didn't have alot going on - have stopped and thought, "Gee, I wonder if what's-his-monkey will be re-posting that timeline of his on the new board?
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Best comics 2000-2009
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/index/cr_sunday_feature_lets_you_and_i_make_a_list_nominees_for_best_of_decade_20/ Spurgeon is looking for suggestions of books he might have missed...
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Weepy Day.
Baby Bean started Kindergarten this morning. I am having hourly panic attacks.
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SUPERMAN ANNUAL #14
On one level, Superman Annual #14 is a retelling of “Superboy’s Big Brother” (i.e., Mon-El from Superboy #89), but it’s mainly a history of Dax-Am in the post-post-post-]Crisis DCU. Only 10 of this issue’s 38 page story deal with Mon-El, only three o
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Hal Jordan is...Ryan Reynolds
http://www.newsarama.com/film/070911-Reynolds.html Well...he's tradin' in the Deadpool sword for a power ring...
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July Sales Charts
Diamond released the sales index for July 2009, and icv2 released their sales estimate here. We usually wait to talk about these things until The Beat posts their sales analysis but I don't feel like waiting for the commentary tracks this time around
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Archie #600
OK...there were some cute in-jokes here...and Holly likes that Dilton is going to her alma mater. I think I know, from a bit in this issue, what the six issues AFTER this six issue run will be... ...c'mon, it ain't hard...
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Scheduling related titles
We've talked about this before but the list for next week's comics brings scheduling to my mind again. Out of five Hulk-related titles, four of them come out next week. Three of the four books with "Avengers" in the title also come out next week. Th
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Tired of Asian horror remakes?
Threw together my own Ning network for fun: Ban Asian Horror! Don't know how much I'll be doing with it, but if anyone wants to join, it's here: http://banasianhorror.ning.com/
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Dallas Comic Con
In addition to my LCS having a sale, there was also a comic book convention this weekend, and I went to both on Saturday. I initially got there at about 12:15, and I couldn't find a parking space and the line was out of the door. Wow! I haven't seen
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Havok question
Does anybody know if the Havok story from Marvel Comics Presents 24-31 was ever collected?
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James Cameron's Avatar
I'm sure most of you have heard about James Cameron's much anticipated return to film. The trailer for Avatar hit the web today. So far I've watched it twice. The film will be in 3D and probably more visually stunning than the trailer. There was noth
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You know you spent a lot of money at your LCS when...
after you get rung up, the owner dances at the cash register.
he tells one of the employees to get you a box to carry your stuff out.
Both happened to me on Saturday.
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Image in November
The last of the big four has released their solicitations. Here's Image in November courtesy of Comic Book Resources.
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Any more rings? (Blackest Night related)
While looking over the Newsarama Forums, one person asked if there were going to be any more promotional Blackest Night rings other than the Black Lantern one available with Blackest Night #1 (I scored two rings on that day without picking up BN #1,
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