Cars 2 Posters and Trailer

ICv2 has images of Cars 2 movie posters two are above link below to see the other two at ICv2’s site.  Also enjoy the trailer below for Cars 2.  The first movie and the upcoming movie are great to use to cross promote your dvd collection and children graphic novels in your library’s collection.  Boom Studios did have the rights for Pixar, but it is now shifting to Marvel.  However, Disney’s other properties are still at Boom Studios! Thanks to Yahoo! Movies for the trailer.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19587.html

Spidey Setting Records

Click on over to Yahoo, below, about Amazing Fantasy #15 selling for a record $1.1 million.  This of course is the debut of Spider-Man.  If you have any collectors of comic books that come to your libraries this can give you a talking point with them.  This will demonstrate, even if you don’t really like the medium, you are interested in your patrons and what their interests happen to be.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/spider-man39s-debut-comic-sells-for-1.1-million

First Look at X-Men Anime Characters

Let your library patrons that are interested in comic books and Japanese anime know about the link provided below.  Marvel’s site has posted an article and has a couple of images from the new X-Men Anime series that will be coming out in Japan.  When this series comes to U.S. shores libraries will need to consider purchasing this to have a great tie-in with United States comic books and Japanese Anime.  You could use this to create new fans for both formats.

http://marvel.com/news/story/15331/first_look_x-men_anime_character_art

Ironman 3 News

ICv2, linked below, is reporting that Shane Black will not only direct, but write Ironman 3.  The article says that Marvel wasn’t happy with Ironman 2’s storyline.  Therefore, they are at this time having Ironman take on real life type situations instead of the next guy in a super-suit.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/19566.html