We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
Marvel’s site has posted the first look of Spider-Man’s new costume for the upcoming summer movie. Librarians could put this as a screen saver on your Teen/Young Adult computers to draw interest to the movie as well as for your graphic novel collections. Follow the link to the short article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15102/the_amazing_spider-man_movie_update
All of the Teen/Young Adult librarians should recognize this title. Below is a trailer for Dream Works adaptation of I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore. This is pretty close to a comic book flavored movie so it will have a cross over appeal. It is coming out on Feb. 18, so start letting your patrons know about the opening beginning this upcoming Monday to prepare for the Friday release. Thanks to Yahoo for the trailer.
See the trailer for the third Transformers movie below. As all librarians now this will appeal to your anime and comic book patrons and even to patrons in general just by the amount the first two movies made.
Librarians in New York, Atlanta and Chicago let your gaming and anime patrons know about this live concert in your three cities. The concert is the Distant Worlds Music From Final Fantasy. Below is a link to the tour’s website. On the site you can get locations and dates as well as order tickets on-line. Then on April 1, 2011 the Tour will have a DVD of the Distant Worlds performance available on amazon.com. This is great so all of your library’s gaming and anime fans that can’t attend a live performance will be able to view it.
DC Comics next animated feature on DVD is the adaptation of the graphic novel All-Star Superman. You can view the trailer here and then prepare your library purchasers to order or purchase on release date the DVD for your library’s collection. It will be in brick and mortar stores February 22. You can get more information at
Marvel’s website has the new trailer for X-Men: First Class. Yahoo also has the trailer along with a good size article by Matt McDaniel. You can link below for McDaniel’s article. Watch the trailer here for your first look!
http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/627-x-men-first-class-mutates-history-in-new-trailer
Librarians everywhere let your anime patrons know about this contest at Anime Expo. Even if your patrons are not from L.A. they still might go to Anime Expo since it is one of the biggest Anime conventions in the U.S. Anime News Network has a brief article about this exciting event for individuals who have the talent of making AMV’s (Anime Music Video). The largest prize will be $2,500 for Best of Show and other individual prizes to total $10,000 that will be given away. The convention is scheduled for July 1-4, 2011. The prize money is being provided by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation.
All you Massachusetts librarians that have anime and JPop patrons need to direct them to the link below. Anime Boston convention, April 22-24, will have Stereopony, an all girl JPop band will be performing.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-09/anime-boston-to-host-female-rock-band-stereopony
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s 2011 membership card will feature DC’s Green Lantern Corps. The article at DC’s site gives the details that each new and renewing member will get this as their 2011 membership card. If an individual donates $100.00 or more, they will receive their card signed by Geoff Johns. If any library patrons might be interested in supporting this organization let them know about the CBLDF. Libraries that have a collection of graphic novels can consider becoming a member of this organization as part of their support. A link to the short article about the membership card is below. If you wish to learn more about the CBLDF you can link to their site in the left navigation bar under “Resources”.
The Fantastic Four is no more and according to Marvel’s website Spider-Man is joining the FF team. What is FF? Evidently it is the new name for the team – Future Foundation. To me personally the costumes leave a lot to be desired for, but I’m only one person others will like the costumes. For the complete article – link below.