by Josh Crawley

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Josh Crawley

Before I get started, I’d like to point all of you (with Facebook) to an event page: Chris & Debra Wozniak from the Lower East Side, NYC. While I know the title seems odd, its intent is to help raise money for the Wozniaks, as they recently lost their house in Tuscaloosa during the devastating tornadoes that swept through the South.

Chris Wozniak worked on numerous DC and Marvel books in the 80s and 90s, but most recently he’s been working on creator-owned work. If you’ve read my column much, you know how tough creator-owned can be, and I’m pretty sure we can all agree losing all of your possessions wouldn’t help. Even if only half of the people who bought Blackest Night #1 donated USD 1, it would help beyond belief.

For those that unable to sign-in to Facebook, CBR’s Robot6 blog has information, including a link to Paypal for donations.

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Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Fun

Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Fun #1

Apparently there’s a chase scratch-n-sniff cover; I can’t tell you how absolutely awesome that is!

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Comic Book Comics

Comic Book Comics #6

In this final issue of the critically-acclaimed history of the comic book industry, I’m really looking forward to the Direct Market presentation. As someone who grew up and lives in Madison (home of numerous comic book distributors), I wonder just what we will – and won’t – be seeing.

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Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal (September 2011)

This is why I need to look through Previews more than once: Imaginary Friends Studios is doing an entire issue of Heavy Metal?! Heck yeah! IFS may be best known for the amazing coloring they’ve been doing on Top Cow’s Artifacts series. A little bit of trivia: they also colored my friend Jim’s comic Gangs of Camelot back in “the day.”

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Brave 10

Brave10 Vol. 01 GN

Sadly, I highly recommend no one bother order this as Tokyopop is no longer going to be publishing in the U.S. as of May 31, so even if this volume does end up shipping, I assume this is not just a stand-alone volume. All that being said, though, this cover looks amazing, so I know I’ll be looking for more of Kairi Shimotsuki’s artwork in the future. In the meantime, I’ll just look at the pretty artwork in Apple Selection from Udon.

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Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation

Lou Scheimer: Creating Filmation Generation SC

While I’m not a big fan of Orko, or even the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon at times, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t ecstatic for this book (another that I didn’t notice the second time I flipped through Previews, though I do recall seeing on my initial flip through)… and that lack of love also won’t stop me from ordering the Masters of the Universe: Large He-Man & Retro Logo T-Shirt Blue.

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And that wraps up Previews…

So, did any of you see the awesomocity that was Fast Five?! Did you stay through the fancy animated closing credits?

“Do you believe in ghosts?”

You’d better believe I do!!!

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Josh Crawley may or may not be the keyboardist for Everclear. He strongly suggests you not bet that he is.