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Make-A-Wish aids Electron Boy
April 30, 2010 – 7:22 am | View Comments

On April 29th, the local chapter of the Make-A-Wish foundation helped a local boy stricken with cancer live out his fantasy as superhero Electron Boy. Local celebrities from Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, local soccer team …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 9: The Medium Isn’t The Message
April 29, 2010 – 8:00 am | View Comments

In his 1964, Bill Lear of the Lear Jet Corporation began a push to create what he felt was a technological breakthrough in music and bring that to the mass market. Up until that point, …

Does meticulously plotted mean “good”?
April 28, 2010 – 1:56 pm | View Comments

I say…likely not. I bring this up because the trend *I* see is for larger and larger more multi-part mutli-series X-overs, which are then led in their own special line of comics (which I’d thought …

New Comics Today!
April 28, 2010 – 10:52 am | View Comments

Hey Speedball, whats your favorite 3rd grader word for ‘lady parts’?

Episode 62 – Bad Start For The Brightest Day
April 28, 2010 – 8:10 am | View Comments

Pete and Greg share the latest comics news happenings, Kevin and Jason discuss the start of Brightest Day, and Kevin and Pete introduce Whedon’s World.

For a person who doesn’t hang posters, I just bought a lot of goddamn posters.
April 25, 2010 – 6:17 pm | View Comments

My RSS feed started blowing up this weekend with people blogging and re-blogging these gorgeous, wonderful Modernist Mutant and Minimalist Marvel posters by future cease-and-desist letter recipient RoganJosh.
I can’t wait to welcome home Wonder Woman, …

I’m a fan of brave artists
April 23, 2010 – 7:36 am | View Comments

Check out the cover that Chris Ware drew for Fortune Magazine’s 500th issue.  No surprise it was rejected but you’ve got to give him props for trying.
via The Beat

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 8: Shooting The Wrong Messenger
April 22, 2010 – 1:58 am | View Comments

Mark Twain once said, “How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember, with charity, that his intentions were good.”

Ahe circa 1998 would be so happy.
April 21, 2010 – 3:22 pm | View Comments

DC Confirms Young Justice Cartoon!  Otherwise known as Smallville: Justice League + Robin: The Animated Series.
Love the costumes.  Don’t understand when Sisqo became Aqualad.

Episode 61 – Welcome to the Dungeon
April 21, 2010 – 8:30 am | View Comments

The Backrooms crew travels to the Comics Dungeon, where Jason interviews the owner, Scott Tomlin. After that Greg and Pete round up the latest comics news.