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Sony has reported that it will no longer be producing PlayStation 2’s. So expect any of you that have being holding on will need to purchase a new platform or a used PlayStation 2 when yours goes out. Also expect more and more PlayStation 2 games to start hitting the clearance bins.
This weeks AMV Spotlight features an AMV uploaded by YouTuber “Rajiv Andrade”. The video takes several anime shows and splices them together to fit with the featured song “Spirit Never Dies” performed by Masteplan. The AMV is an older post, but it all fits together and is so well made that it deserves to be noticed again. The creator takes the time to have the singers voices match up with the anime characters lip sync and it is nearly flawless. Also with the lyrics of the song the creator uses anime that has that fighting spirit and to never give up. The editing and splicing together of multiple scenes from different anime is also very impressive and seamless in their transitions. A great job on producing this video all the way around. You can find it on YouTube under “Spirit Never Dies Anime AMV” or check it out below:
The next book in Keri Arthur’s Dark Angel series, Darkness Hunts, is available for you to pick up for your collections. The following is a short talk with Keri Arthur about the series. Thanks to PenguinUSA, on YouTube for the following video:
Hope Larson has adapted the classic novel Wrinkle in Time, by Madelene L’Engle, to the graphic novel medium. This is one you will want to add to you Graphic Novel Collections. Thanks to MacmillanChildren, on YouTube, for the following trailer:
The staff here at ComicPop Library want to extend well wishes and a speedy recovery for Peter David. Peter David is a famed comic book writer and novelist, that after the new year suffered from a stroke. He is currently in the hospital and will be moved to an in-patient rehabilitation after being released from the hospital.
Maren Williams has posted an article on Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s website about a community in Connecticut that will be burning material deemed to be violent in content. This is being done in Southington Community by a public organization, Southington SOS, within the community and is not sponsored by the local government. It is a buy back program where the group will give out gift vouchers to area businesses for Video Games, CD’s and DVD’s that people hand over. The collected items will then be snapped, discarded and possibly incinerated. The article goes on and explains that:
For many others, however, the impending destruction recalls the past incineration of all kinds of creative works, from Beatles records to — of course — comic books, that some adults thought had a negative influence on youth. In reality, there is no proven link between gun violence and video games, but that has not stopped lawmakers and media commentators from trying to blame them for virtually every mass shooting by a young male since the Columbine massacre in 1999. Of course, this requires ignoring the fact that millions of people around the world, of all sexes and ages, play and enjoy a wide spectrum of video games that some would consider violent without embarking on real-world killing sprees.
Follow the link below for the complete article.
http://cbldf.org/2013/01/video-games-to-be-destroyed-in-connecticut-town/
Join the ComicPop Crew as we review and discuss the movie Cabin in the Woods and the debut album Stereo Typical by Rizzle Kicks. And why would anyone staple a dog’s tail to a cat? Listen to the show and all will be explained, it’s not as bad as it sounds.
Episode 29 of ComicPop Library: It was Like having a Cat and Stapling a Dog’s Tail to It
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Namco Bandai Games has begun streaming the trailer for the North American release of Naruto: Powerful Shippuden, for the Nintendo 3DS system. However, gamers have to wait until December to own the North American release. Thanks to Namco, through YouTube, for the following trailer:
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund reports that on December 18 a sixteen year old New Jersey boy was arrested for some drawings he had in his notebook. The school authorities thought they were drawings for weapons, but his mother says it was over a drawing of a flaming glove. The police also went to his house and found electronic parts and unspecified chemicals and labeled them as “explosive device”. To this his mother says her son just enjoys taking old equipment apart seeing how it works and putting it back together. The article also states that the school superintendent and police chief did not expect any violent behavior from the boy. Yet he was still arrested and placed into juvenile hall. With the recent school shooting tragedy one can see why school officials are sensitive at this time and we don’t know everything about the case. The point of discussion with this case is should the school officials and police investigate fully, before they arrested a minor based on notebook drawings. Hopefully they did. You can follow the link below to the full article:
http://cbldf.org/2012/12/doodles-lead-to-new-jersey-students-arrest/
Nintendo has announced that Fire Emblem Awakening will be available in the United States for the 3DS System beginning February 4. Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the info. and the following trailer: