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.
For your patrons that enjoy crime stories might be getting a show for them. ICv2 is reporting that Vertigo’s, 100 Bullets, by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso is being produced by Warner Bros. TV as a television series for Showtime. We will see if this actually comes to pass or not. But it’s interesting water cooler talk.
If your patrons live in the Tokyo, Japan area or you have patrons that will be visiting Tokyo in the very near future and they are into anime and manga you might pass along this information. To celebrate the Fullmetal Allchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos movie Namco Ninja Town, starting June 25 and running through July 24, will feature 23 deserts based on the film. Ninja Town is an indoor theme park in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro ward. Above are three of the deserts: 1st – “Alphonse Ice Cream”; 2nd – “Flame Burger Set”; and 3rd – “Fluffy Fluffy Xiao Mei. Below you can jump over to AnimeNews Network’s site for see images of the deserts.
The 2011 Joes Shuster Awards were announced. Some winners were: Outstanding Comic Book Artist – Francis Manapul; Cartoonist – Tin Can Forest; Writer – Emilie Villeneuve; Comics for Kids – Three Thieves Book 1, Tower of Treasure; for the complete listing jump to the website below.
http://joeshusterawards.com/2011/06/18/7jsawinann/#more-14849
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.
This is for all of your patrons that enjoy Trading Card Games. Bandai is set to release Resident Evil Deck Building Game: Outbreak Expansion, during the fourth quarter. With this expansion set new characters will be introduced and the player him or herself can become infected and continue playing as an infected character.
FUNimation has released Dance in the Vampire Bund the complete season. If you can you might want to preview this before adding it to your collection. It looks like it might be a mature title, but I’m not positive, I’m going by images that I have found online. Watch the trailer below provide by FUNimation through YouTube to see if it might be something you want to add to your Anime Collection.
If anyone is going to the American Library Association Conference this week (June 24-27) be sure to look for booth #1760. This booth will be the Great Graphic Novel Library Giveaway were winners will receive Dark Horse comics entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer library and other graphic novels to total over 700 hand picked graphic novels, fixtures and furniture. Sign-up for the drawing will begin June 24 and go through June 26. The winning library will be drawn Monday June 27, at 9:30 a.m. This contest will be open to any public, school, and academic libraries that attend the conference. Dark Horse will also have a presence at Diamond Distributors booth #1740. Everyone enjoy the conference and good luck. The winner most be present to win.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/457/win-complete-buffy-vampire-slayer-library-ala
While hiking in the mountains Logan and I came across a ring of rocks from a bonfire. Logan noticed an ammo can under a pile of the rocks. We pulled it out and it was a Geocache! So while I dug out a business card to leave (didn’t have anything else) April wrote our names and date on the log sheet. It was kind of cool to accidentally find the cache and see what other people had placed in it. There were hallmark cards, odds and ends, and even a little stuffed animal.
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.
Here is some trivia that your patrons that enjoy video gaming might find interesting. AnimeNews Network, through YouTube, has provided the commercial below for Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and the short with Robin and Zelda Williams on how Zelda was named. It is interesting to listen to and see how much video gaming has entered and infused with world culture.
