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Heroes Fighting Hunger

Marvel and Williams-Sonoma, a cooking supply company, are teaming up to help raise funds and promote “Share Our Strength”.  “Share Our Strength” is a charitable organization whose aim is to end childhood hunger.  Marvel has enlisted C.B. Cebulski (author) and Todd Nauck (artist) to create the story of Spider-Man and the Avengers fighting villains at a cooking demonstration that Jarvis, the Avengers butler, is giving to some children.  The issue is currently available at Williams-Sonoma stores or you can read it at williams-sonoma.com.  So if you want to help out or inform your comic book fans about this opportunity to get a comic book and help out a worthy organization.  Follow the link to Marvel’s site for the full article.

http://marvel.com/news/story/16441/marvel_and_williams-sonoma_fight_hunger

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Ghost Rider Rides Again

Marvel’s site has an interview with Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor the directors of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.  Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze (Ghost Rider).  The director’s say that this movie will be amped up, which hopefully is the case.  When the first Ghost Rider came out I said it needed to be an “R” rated movie to do it any justice.  Ghost Rider is not a “PG-13” character…..tt’s a horror comic!   So hopefully this movie will step up to the plate and be what it’s supposed to be.  Read the interview at the link below.

http://marvel.com/news/story/16423/directing_ghost_rider_spirit_of_vengeance

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Back From Vacation

Took a vacation last week and yesterday.  I had plans to keep up the blog, but I was unable to.  The computer I took with me would not let me post and I did find a hardwired computer to post on one of the days.  So this week will be a catch up week.

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Dei en grey U.S./Canada Tour

Let all your J-Pop fans now about the upcoming Dei en grey band’s United States/Canada Tour.  The tour will be from December 4 – December 23.  No exact dates were given for the locales of the concerts so they will have to check with their local vendors on dates and location of the concert.  The cities that Dei en grey will be at are: Houston; Dallas; Atlanta; Toronto; Chicago; San Francisco; & West Hollywood.  Thanks to AnimeNews Network for the tip.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-08-03/dir-en-grey-band-to-tour-in-u.s-canada-in-december

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Fun with Food Again!

If you live in the area or are planning a trip to Tokyo between the dates of August 5 – September 30, this might be of interest.  Tokyo’s Namco Namja Town, an indoor theme park in the Ikebukuro ward, is having an event to promote the upcoming September 3 release of The Prince of Tennis: Eikoku-shiki Teikyu-jo Kessen!.  They will be serving desserts and entrees inspired by The Prince of Tennis film.  The image above shows all of the plates or you can jump to AnimeNews Network site below for a full listing of each plate.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-07-31/2011-prince-of-tennis-film-celebrated-with-25-dishes

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Burton & Depp Together Again

ICv2 is reporting that Tim Burton has teamed up with Johnny Depp for a Dark Shadows movie.  Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Green are also attached to the movie, which is slated for a May 2012 release.

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ComicPop Library Episode 6 Shownotes

1) Liar’s Kiss, Eric Skillman & Jhomar Soriano, 2011, Top Shelf Productions.  ISBN: 978-1603090704, $14.95.

2) Batman & Robin Vol. 1: Batman Reborn, Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely & Philip Tan, 2011, D.C. Comics.  ISBN: 978-1401229870, $14.99.

3) Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites, Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson, 2010, Dark Horse.  ISBN: 978-1595825131, $19.99.