Author: Martha Thomases

Wizard Entertainment HQ For Sale: Comics Not Included

Wizard Entertainment HQ For Sale: Comics Not Included

To be filed under "Talk Amongst Yourselves," we were recently sent a link to a Century 21 ad for a property located in Congers, NY, that piqued our interest. Apparently, the office of Wizard Entertainment, publisher of Wizard Magazine, is being shopped around for potential buyers.

According to the ad, the owners of the property (Wizard Entertainment) are looking for $4 million in exchange for the 35,000 square-foot property. Although we’re not sure what to infer about this aspect of the posting:

Owner would prefer to deliver building vacant but would be agreeable to a lease back 60-100% of office/warehous [sic] space.

When asked for comment on the posting, a representative of Wizard identified only as "Ed" said that the publisher was simply "checking our business options."

Additionally, when asked about the company’s plans should the building find a new owner, the Wizard representative responded, "We may not go anywhere. We may sell the building and stay as a tenant. We may sell the building and move across the street."

Neither Century 21 nor representatives at Wizard would offer any further comment on the sale or its implications for the publisher.

What we really want to know, though, is whether the pricetag includes that warehouse full of comics seen in the ad. Maybe there are a few good issues of Captain America hidden in there.

Flash Rising, by Martha Thomases

Flash Rising, by Martha Thomases

So Barry Allen is coming back.

I like Barry Allen okay. I was sad when he died. Not as sad as I was when Supergirl died, but sad. He seemed like a nice guy, someone down-to-earth and genuine, at least as much as a comic-book character can be. His job as a police scientist seemed exotic to me in the days before the CSI shows made put it on television every night. Even when I was a long-haired freak, I liked his crew-cut sincerity.

When Wally West took over the role of the Flash in the comic, I was grouchy about it. He was different. The way Mike Baron wrote him, he was very different. Even though I like to think I’m an open-minded, progressive person, sometimes I want my comics to stay the same. I kept reading them, though, and was soon won over. Those stories were more like soap opera, making them much more addictive on a month-to-month basis.

Wally has been the Flash for 23 years. For my son, he’s the only Flash there is. I mean, he’s my son, so he’s read an abnormal number of old comics, but the Flash he knows from week-to-week is Wally. His reaction to Barry Allen’s return, as he read about it in the New York Daily News on Wednesday, is an unenthusiastic shrug.

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EZ Street: The Big Fight

EZ Street: The Big Fight

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  • April 30, 2008

In today’s brand-new episode of EZ Street, by Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley, Scott and Danny have "creative differences" about how their comic should be drawn and what their comic should be.

Can you divorce your own brother?

Credits: Mark Wheatley (Artist), Mark Wheatley (Colorist), Mark Wheatley (Letterer), Mark Wheatley (Writer), Mike Gold (Editor), Robert Tinnell (Writer)

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Munden’s Bar: Ladies’ Night

Munden’s Bar: Ladies’ Night

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  • April 29, 2008

In what may be the single greatest Munden’s Bar story ever (drawn by the lovely and talented Joanna Estep, with a writer too modest to name here), we see what happens every month to the women who live on Paradise Island.

The Amazons have been living together for three millennia. Their cycles are synced. And then ….

 

Credits: Bob Pinaha (Letterer), Joanna Estep (Artist), Martha Thomases (Writer), Matt Webb (Colorist), Mike Gold (Editor)

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Convention Queen for a Day, by Martha Thomases

Convention Queen for a Day, by Martha Thomases

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  • April 26, 2008

With New York Comic-Con receding into the fogs of memory, I’m girding my loins to face another season of conventions. Last year, as part of the ComicMix Inaugural World Tour, I went to more shows than I had ever attended before. However, with the long lull between Mid-Ohio and New York, I managed to block out some of the more disturbing experiences that typify what it means to go to a comics convention.

NYCC is not a typical show. It’s huge, it’s crowded, it’s noisy, and it has attitude. That’s because it’s in Manhattan, but it’s also because it wants desperately to be San Diego. People come to see movies and television previews at least as much as they come to see comics. And that’s cool. Maybe some of these people will also buy a few comics.

Still, it does make for long lines and the attendant short tempers. If you want to enjoy a comics convention, go to Heroes World or Mid-Ohio, or Baltimore. The size is manageable, you can meet a few of your favorite pros, and you can hear yourself think over the noise of the crowd.

However, any show would be more fun if everyone followed these simple rules, which I will enforce when I’m named Queen:

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EZ Street: Swords and Sorcery

EZ Street: Swords and Sorcery

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  • April 23, 2008

In today’s brand-new episode of EZ Street by Mark Wheatley and Robert Tinnell, you’ve got your magic swords, you’ve got your evil witches, you’ve got your prophesies to be fulfilled.  

And you’ve got your alcoholic police woman, wondering how she fits in. Does she?

Credits: Mark Wheatley (Artist), Mark Wheatley (Colorist), Mark Wheatley (Letterer), Mark Wheatley (Writer), Mike Gold (Editor), Robert Tinnell (Writer)

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Jon Sable, Freelance: The End of Jon Sable?

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  • April 22, 2008

In today’s brand-new (and final) episode of Mike Grell’s Jon Sable, Freelance: Ashes of Eden, our heroes have only moments to defuse the bomb.  If everything goes their way, the bomb will only explode underground.  And if they’re not so lucky …

Credits: Glenn Hauman (Colorist), Glenn Hauman (Assistant Editor), John Workman (Letterer), Mike Gold (Editor), Mike Grell (Artist), Mike Grell (Writer), Shannon Weaver (Colorist)

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Demons of Sherwood: Back to the Forest

Demons of Sherwood: Back to the Forest

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  • April 21, 2008

In today’s brand new episode of Demons of Sherwood, by Bo Hampton and Robert Tinnell, Robin and his Merry Men escape from the monastery to Sherwood Forest. But what waits for them in the dark? And are they ready?

Credits: Bo Hampton (Artist), Bo Hampton (Colorist), Bo Hampton (Letterer), Bo Hampton (Writer), Mike Gold (Editor), Robert Tinnell (Writer)

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