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Shownotes Episode 22: Right After You Say Isaac Asimov?!

 

1. Up All Night, One Direction,Columbia, 2012.  ASIN: B006ZZAMWK, $10.00.

2. I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, Spectra, 2008.  ISBN: 978-0553382563, $15.00.

Other things mentioned: X-Factor, Simon Cowell, N-SYNC, All For One, Back Street Boys, New Kids on the Block, Brit Awards, Best British Single, Adele, Jessie J, Ed Sheeran, Three Tenors, The Wanted, Lady GaGa, Michael Buble, Skillet, Tupac, Filter, White Veil Brides, Monkees, Big Time Rush, Nickelodeon, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Laws of Robotics, artificial intelligence, SkyNet, Terminator, Rurouni Kenshin, Gantz, Deathnote, Arrow, Green Arrow, Smallville, Supernatural, Deathstroke, Teen Titans.

 

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Pokemon Still Strong

There will be more Pokemon cards coming in November.  Librarians that have gamers will want to pass this along.  The cards are part of the Pokemon, Black & White: Boundaries Crossed expansion decks.  There will be 140 new cards, 4 ACE SPEC cards, and 6 Pokemon-EX cards with this set.  The cards will be available in theme decks and booster packs.  So go out and “catch them all!”

http://www.icv2.com/articles/markets/23909.html

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Sculpture Obscene in Overland Park, KS?

The above sculpture “Accept or Reject” is one of eleven sculptures donated to the Overland Park, Kansas arboretum by Chinese Sculptor Yu Chang.  A Grand Jury was formed to determine if the sculpture is obscene, by glorifying “sexting”.  The petition that triggered the Grand Jury was started by Joanne Hughes and Phillip Cosby, the state American Family Association director.  The sculpture is of a headless partially clothed woman taking a picture of herself.  While some individuals see the sculpture as glorifying “sexting” others see the sculpture as the opposite.  Because the woman is fragmented and headless they see is as in today’s world by taking pictures of yourself and putting them on social networks you are being identified as pieces of a body, degrading your person.  You are not being identified as you, a full person with feelings and knowledge.  That is what some see is the message of this sculpture, the danger of this activity.  What side of the fence would you fall on?  To read the full article, by Maren Williams, on this you can follow Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s link below:

http://cbldf.org/2012/09/kansas-sculpture-targeted-in-grand-jury-investigation/

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Graphic Novel Removed from Reading List

The Enfield, Connecticut, Board of Education has removed Matthew Loux’s graphic novel Sidescrollers from the ninth grade Summer reading list.  It was removed after a parent complained about the titles use of profanity and sexual references.  This is one for libraries to pay heed to because it shows that a well received title can still be challenged.  Sidescrollers was a 2008 Young Adult Library Services Associations “Great Graphic Novels for Teens” list and Publisher’s Weekly praised it in it’s review.  It is unclear if the Board removed it without review or if they removed it to pend review per their policy.  Follow the link below to Comic Book Legal Defense Funds site for more information.

http://cbldf.org/2012/09/graphic-novel-removed-from-connecticut-school-districts-summer-reading-list/

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Maximum Ride’s End

James Patterson has released his last book in the Maximum Ride series, Nevermore.  I hope your library’s are prepared for your Young Adult community’s interest and I must say we have quite a few adults reading this series as well.  Thanks to LittleMizzBrownEye and YouTube for the trailer:

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Congratulations to SofaWolf!

Congratulations to the crew at SofaWolf Press.  This year they had two of their titles up for awards.  Teagan Gavet was nominated for the 2012 Russ Manning Award for her work on Nordguard: Across Thin Ice and Ursula Vernon won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for her work, Digger.  To check out the website follow the link below for these titles and for all of SofaWolf’s other titles:

https://www.sofawolf.com/

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Return of the Duelist

For libraries that have Yu-Gi-Oh gaming there’s a new box coming out, Yu-Gi-Oh: Return of the Duelist.  The pack is scheduled for release on September 25.  It will come with three booster packs and 1 or 2 super rare cards, either “T.G. Hyper Librarian” or “Number 30: Acid Golem of Destruction” card.  The suggested retail price will be $9.99.  Let your TCG gamers now so they can start looking for the boxes or this could be something the library uses as a give-away during one of the your Yu-Gi-Oh gaming events.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/markets/23832.html

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Sherlock Manga in the Works

The re-imagined Sherlock Holmes on BBC is getting a manga adaptation in Young Ace, a manga anthology magazine.  Jay will be the creator behind the manga.  At this time no North American publisher has picked up the rights to print the collected editions, if it makes it that far in Japan.  However, if it is a hit in Japan and is collected, I personally can’t see a publisher passing this up.  Keep your fingers crossed.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/markets/23820.html