To give your patrons a different taste from just superhero fair Dynamite Entertainment is releasing George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards: Hard Call hard cover and Lone Ranger & Tonto Trade Paperback. The Wild Cards might interest some of your SciFi patrons that have not ventured into comic stories yet and the same can be said [...]
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New Superman Cast
January 31st, 2011 
RAB Yahoo’s Movie News & Gossip is reporting that Henry Cavill has been cast as the new Superman in Zack Snyder is connected with at this time. The link below will take you to the short article. http://movies.yahoo.com/news/usmovies.thehollywoodreporter.com/henry-cavill-cast-superman-zack-snyder-film
Hello Kitty Cosmetics coming to U.S.
January 30th, 2011 RAB This will definitely be of interest for all the Hello Kitty Fans. Sephora Cosmetics has brought Hello Kitty cosmetics to the U.S. market. Librarians that have Hello Kitty fans and even anime fans in general will want to mention this to those respective patrons. Follow the link to Anime News Network for the full article. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-01-29/sephora-cosmetics-launches-u.s-hello-kitty-line
Nevermore Mini-Series
January 30th, 2011 RAB Dynamite releases Dean Knootz’s Nevermore in March. Remember that this is just an issue of a mini-series. Libraries will need to wait until it is released as a collected edition before they purchase this title. Follow the link to ICv2 for the brief article. http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19261.html
Funimation Sues Over Downloads
January 28th, 2011 RAB ICv2 is reporting that Funimation is suing over a 1,000 people for downloading One Piece # 481 for BitTorrent sites. So if any of your patrons are talking about this type of activity your might give them a warning and lead them to this article, which is linked below. They might think it’s cool, but [...]
Battlestar Galactica back on SyFy
January 28th, 2011 RAB ICv2 is reporting that Luck Pasqualino has been cast as Adama in the new Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome series. This will be of interest to your patrons that like Battlestar fans, science fiction, and Battlestar graphic novel readers. No date yet on when the series will be released though, it is still in it’s [...]
Maryland Japanese Hip-Hop Fans
January 28th, 2011 RAB The Bobby McKeys Night Club in National Harbor Maryland is hosting a musical tribute to the works of Jun Nujabes Seba, a JHip-Hop producer. Advance tickets are $15. Tickets at the door will be $20. So libraries in that area might want to let their patrons that enjoy manga and anime know about this event. [...]
The Next big thing for Gamers
January 28th, 2011 RAB Anime News Network is reporting that the replacement for the PSP is in the works and is code named NGP. Let your gaming patrons know and lead them to the link below for the full article. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-01-27/sony-announces-psp-successor-codenamed-ngp
Just Because it was a Wow! Moment
January 28th, 2011 RAB At Japan’s Fugi-Q Highland amusement park guests can stay the night in a EVA-themed room with a supposed life size head of an EVA. That’s going to be one huge head. Follow the link to Anime News Network to read the full article. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-01-26/life-size-eva-02-head-evangelion-hotel-room-planned
JPop’s Berryz Kobo Album
January 28th, 2011 RAB For all of your library patrons that like JPop this will be of interest. Berryz Kobo is planning their first U.S. album. I did not see an official release date yet. Follow the link to the full article at Anime News Network. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-01-26/jpop-girl-group-berryz-kobo-plans-1st-u.s-album
