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.
Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is still in the works for TV and feature films. ICv2 is reporting that HBO has picked up the TV series and the feature films are still being shopped around. With the books being so popular and now the comic book adaptations are popular it’s a good time to shop this property around.
DC Comics and General Mills Cereal are teaming up to help promote DC’s characters. In specially marked boxes of Lucky Charms, Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Golden Grahams, and Honey Nut Crunch there will be one of four Justice League, 5X7″, 24 page comic book. This is showing that DC is still pushing their characters to the print market for their long time readers, and in a nod to the new digital readers the continuation of the stories will be available digitally online. So tell your graphic novel readers to start checking their cereal aisles.
Melinda Beasi of Manga Bookshelf has written a thoughtful one page essay over at Comic Book Legal Defense Funds website concerning Brandon X’s criminal case in Canada. In her essay she references George Orwell’s 1984 to great effect. It is a strong reminder of how striking that this case is being conducted in today’s society. Use the link below to read the full essay, it is well worth it.
Kindle is going to a color format. This is probably in answer to the iPad and Color Nook. Amazon has upped the game by have exclusive content for graphic novel readers though. They have made a deal with DC Comics that the will have 100 exclusive graphic novel titles. One of the titles to catch most readers attention is Watchmen. This is sure to cause a little bit of dust in the comic community. If a person already has an iPad will they fill pressured pick up a Kindle Fire, because of the exclusive content, even if they don’t really want a Kindle Fire? Thanks to ICv2 for the story.
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/21138.html
October is here again and AMC is offering us another helping of the Walking Dead. Be sure to tell all of your horror fans and comic book fans that enjoy this title to mark October 16th for the 90 minute premiere of Season 2. Here’s a new trailer that has been posted by ICv2, through YouTuber TVWeb.
AMC has set the date for the debut of season 2 of the Walking Dead. The date is October 16 at 9:00 p.m. ET and it will be a 90 minute episode.
April reads a comic book to one of her younger cousins. She might not want to read another comic book in her life, but it was cute to see her and April like this.
In this episode we review Criminal: Sinners by Ed Brubaker and Library Wars: Love and War, Vol. 1 written and drawn by Kiiro Yumi. We also get into a discussion about censorship.