http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2014/6/24/meanwhile-at-hydra-hq.html
“Minion! Did you take care of Captain America’s shield?”
Yes, commander! After today, that meddlesome schoolboy won’t even recognize his shield.”
“Exxxxcellent. Out of curiosity, what did you do?”
“Sir?”
“To Rogers’ shield. How did you sabotage it? Acid? Explosives? Radioactive vermin? What?”
“Oh. Um, I’m not sure ‘sabotage’ is the right word, sir.”
“Then what DID you do, you fool?”
“Well…”
http://thedissolve.com/features/exposition/618-were-losing-all-our-strong-female-characters-to-tr/
Many modern action movies, including How To Train Your Dragon 2, are visibly trying to make their female characters more than trophies and are only making them set pieces…
When was the last time a comic artist switching companies made the New York Times?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/books/leaping-from-marvel-to-dc-in-a-single-bound.html
John Romita Jr. will makes his series debut on Superman at DC Comics on Wednesday.
A quarter of a century ago, I went into New York to catch the first showing of a movie starring a certain caped crusader, and then went over to DC Comics to talk with everybody there. I had to do it in that order, because there would be no other topic of discussion in the office that day. Not that there had been much of one in the country before that, as any flat surface in America had a bat-logo pasted on it.
Now there are many retrospectives about the release of [[[Batman]]] out today and how it changed the comics and movie industry forever. But what I want to point out is that in comics, we can’t help but poke fun at our neighbors’s failures and successes. And so it was that Steve Gerber, Bryan Hitch, and Jim Sanders III gave us The Sensational She-Hulk #19 and Nosferata the She-Bat:
Meet the most dangerous bounty hunter of all, Ooga Chaka, in this modern trailer for Star Wars.
This may finally be done, just in time for Amazon to take over the market.
(Reuters) – Apple Inc reached an out-of-court settlement with U.S. states and other complainants in an e-book price-fixing class action lawsuit, effectively avoiding a trial in which the iPad maker faced as much as $840 million in claims.
U.S. District Judge in Manhattan Denise Cote ordered the parties to submit a filing seeking approval of their settlement within 30 days.
The terms of the settlement, reached on Monday, have not been revealed. It still needs court approval.
The U.S. Department of Justice sued Apple and five publishers in April 2012, accusing them of working together illegally to increase e-book prices.
via Apple settles e-book antitrust case with U.S. states, others – Yahoo News.
http://www.salon.com/2014/06/11/neil_gaiman_im_obviously_pissed_at_amazon/
The novelist, children’s author and unofficial publishing industry spokesperson on the future of book culture
http://cbldf.org/2014/06/cnn-spectacularly-fails-to-understand-manga-and-anime/
As Japan prepares to implement a new law which bans the possession of child pornography but exempts manga and anime, CNN released an over-the-top sensation…
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Stephen Colbert, we have your writer for “The Chronicles of Amber”!
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