More news for your patrons that love games. This time it is for Wizkids’ HeroClix line. The Star Trek Expeditions Expansion set to hit stores in October. This game is based on the J.J. Abrams recent Star Trek movie. Like I said your gamers that like HeroClix will be interested in this, but also your patrons that like Star Trek will be interested in this news as well.
Wolverine Back in the News
It is being reported that James Mangold, the director of 3:10 to Yuma and Knight and Day has been tapped by 20th Century Fox to direct the next Wolverine movie. Hugh Jackman will be back in the title role of the film, currently titled The Wolverine. The screenplay is currently being written by Christopher McQuarrie is slated to begin filming this Fall in Japan. Jump over for a brief article below.
John Carter of Mars Movie Poster
ICv2 has an image of Disney/Pixar’s teaser poster of John Carter of Mars. The movie is scheduled to come out March 9, 2012. This is Pixar’s first live action film and the second Edgar Rice Burrough’s character to be looked at as a movie property. The movie will be an adaptation of the first John Carter novel, A Princess of Mars.
More Pokemon That You Gotta Catch
Let the patrons of your library, that enjoy TCG’s, know that Pokemon:Black and White-Emerging Powers Expansion theme decks will be hitting stores August 17, with booster packs hitting on August 31. Follow the jump it you want to read more.
Just Plain Fun
This is just plain fun to me….I love it. Matsudo a city in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo commissioned artist Nanaroku to produce a poster to help promote “Zero Crime Day”. The result is above, a police inspired Magical Girl. Read the full article after the jump.
Playing Video Games at the Supreme Court
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s site has posted a short article over Video Games. The Supreme Court is currently looking at a case Brown v. EMA. In this case California is seeking an appeal on a law the state passed, that minors can not purchase video games that have violent content because it is harmful to minors. Within their own state the law was struck down as a violation of the 1st Amendment, hence the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. What is worry some to the CBLDF and others is that this law if left to stand could be expanded to include other forms of media to include comic books. For the full article make the jump below.
http://cbldf.org/homepage/supreme-court-may-soon-make-decision-about-violent-video-games/
Oz Continues Down the Yellow Brick Road
Marvel is continuing the Oz series with the fourth mini-series adapting the fourth book, Dorothy & The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum. Eric Shanower and Skottie Young will continue the writing and art for the group of mini-series. The mini-series will be eight issues long. However, libraries will want to wait for the collected edition to place in their collections.
X Japan Release
X Japan’s new single “Jade” will be released on June 28th for North American, European, and Latin American markets in digital format. Let your patrons that enjoy JPop know so they can plan to download “Jade” as soon as it’s available.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-06-14/x-japan-single-jade-launches-worldwide-june-28
Tips and Tricks Ep. 5
Try to get your local community involved by having display shows. Most communities have collectors that live there. If you have a patron that collects comic book/manga related items you could ask them to put on a day show. If you can’t think of a patron that collects anything you can ask around and possibly find someone within your community, from another person, to put on a display. By having someone outside of your library’s patronage put on a show, you could possibly gain patronage from that person and if he talks to other people they might come in and start using the library.
When you approach them he or she might be a little hesitant, but be persistent. Most collectors love to show off their collection whenever they can. You can have them come in early to set up and then have them stay if they can, to answer questions about their collection. They could then take it down at the end of the day. If they can’t stay during the day, reassure him or her that the collection will be protected.
The library could have a give away for the show as well that could be drawn for at the end of the showing. You might even get a donation from the person who owns the display if they have any duplicate collectibles to use as a give away.
This show could be held at anytime of the year. If you have multiple people that have collections you could do multiple day shows. For instance, one person could just do American comic books, another could be into Japanese manga, or they might collect a specific character. One of the best days a library could have this would be on Free Comic Book Day. You can have patrons visit the show and then at the end of the room as they leave give out one or two free comic books.
This Is Just Uncanny
This is something that your patrons that enjoy comic books will want to know about. Marvel’s site has announce that Uncanny X-Men #544, which is the longest running X-Men comic, will be the last issue for that series. This will give you a discussion topic if you are unfamiliar with the comic book world.