by Josh Crawley
Before I get into things, I’d like to take talk about Cereal: Geek Magazine quickly. James Eatock, possibly better known as 80s cartoon super-historian Busta Toons, recently sent me an email asking if I’d like to see a preview of his 100 page, ad-free, glossy magazine devoted to 80s ‘toons in pdf format. As someone who grew up in the 80s myself (and had wanted to read this magazine for quite some time), I wasn’t going to turn this opportunity down.
Wow! I was not let down.
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by KC Carlson
We’re entering into that time of year where the pickings are slim for exciting new products. Most all of the cool new stuff for year-end holiday sales has already been solicited in the last couple of months. Long-standing sales wisdom says that people don’t buy for themselves during December, and nobody buys anything in January (and maybe February) since most folks overspent the holidays and are scrambling to pay off those bills. So the conventional wisdom for publishers is not to release anything too exciting. This is not just true for comics, but for most of pop culture. You’d be hard pressed to find many blockbuster CDs or novels or new movies (except for Christmas Day releases). New TV virtually disappears for much of December and early January, giving way to holiday programming – old and new – and end-of-season Bowl Games. I personally think the conventional wisdom is crazy – it’s actually the perfect time to sneak something cool out there when it doesn’t get buried by a dozen different similar things!
So let’s see what we can find this month…
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by KC Carlson
We’ll return to our discussion of Big Comic Book Events, and specifically, Marvel Comics’ current Big Events, after this slight digression – which I promise will make sense later. Thank you.
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Brian Michael Bendis is the popular writer of such books as New Avengers, Dark Avengers, and Ultimate Spider-Man. This month, he brings us Marvel’s Spider-Woman. Westfield’s Roger Ash recently spoke with Bendis about this new book.
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