We jump into the New Year with our first regular broadcast, covering that New Doctor ("Doctor Twilight"?), What went wrong with The Spirit (Frank Miller liked the voices), What we guarantee will be hot in ’09 and Five cool things in your comic store this week. And that’s just the start!
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So there you are, shopping on eBay and it seems like a good price for that lot of cool comics. But what are they really worth? Isn’t everything "rare" and "hard to find"? Now we point you in the right direction to check up to the minute prices online free, plus:
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Even before today’s economic crisis, comic store owners were fighting an uphill battle, with their numbers only a fraction of what they were a decade ago. A group of retailers have banded together in an organization to help stores be better, wiser & stronger. we introduce you to Comics Pro, plus:
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Printing mistakes and distribution snafus have plagued us all comic-wise the past few weeks. We help you catch up on what you should and will be seeing in the comic stores, plus:
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Between now and this year’s Christmas Special, you might be blessed with a Doctor Who RPG, the first in over 15 years. We’ve got the details, plus:
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The controversy over just who should see The Dark Knight heats up in the UK, while over here we hide out at the comic shop among a stack of great new trades out this week, plus:
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After the August issue of DC Comics’ MAD Magazine featured a spoof on consumer electronics retailer Circuit City titled "Sucker City," the retailer’s corporate office had the publication banned from stores, according to a recent report from Associated Press. The ban was lifted a short time later, however, and the store issued an apology to customers and MAD Magazine.
"We apologize for the knee-jerk reaction, and have issued a retraction order; the affected stores are being directed to put the magazines back on sale," spokesman Jim Babb said in an e-mail response. "The parody of our newspaper ad in the August MAD was very clever. Most of us at Circuit City share a rich sense of humor and irony … but there are occasional temporary lapses."
The spoof features advertisements for items like HDTVs and video games, including the Nintendo Wii "Guaranteed In Stock … if you’re friends with an employee who hid it in the back for you. Otherwise, ooh, sorry, all sold out."
What made this story especially interesting to me, though, was the sense of humor the retailer showed in its response:
"As a gesture of our apology and deep respect for the folks at MAD Magazine, we are creating a cross-departmental task force to study the importance of humor in the corporate workplace and expect the resulting Powerpoint presentation to top out at least 300 pages, chock full of charts, graphs and company action plans."
At least, I think that was a joke. It had to be a joke, right?
Check out the AP story for more on the Circuit City/MAD Magazine hub-bub, including the customary, humorous response from the MAD crew.
George Munoz is a new comic shop owner, having just purchased Windy City Comics in Northlake, Ill., and he’s gotten a little local press for wanting to combat the Android’s Dungeon stereotype.
For anyone who hasn’t seen The Simpsons, that’s the comic shop owned by the Comic Book Guy, the obese, stinky, rude resident nerd on the show.
From the article in the Franklin Park Herald-Journal:
As such, he wants to change some of what he describes as stereotypes in comic book stores.
"Many have this weird funky smell, the owner is a jerk and won’t even let you look at the books," Munoz said. "I want to convert this to a different style of comic store."
His ideas include bringing in comic book creators for signings, selling original comic art, showing comic based movies in the store, adding gaming and perhaps a small cafe.
"I want to bring in people who wouldn’t normally come into a comic book store," Munoz said.
Now, a lot of those ideas aren’t the most novel, but I’m curious what other comic book buyers think about their shops. How inviting are they, especially to non-traditional comic book readers?
And, alternately, for retailers, what are you doing to entice new readers?
LEGO’s coolest product now hits the comic stores – in two formats, no less. We’ve got the story, plus:
— EA and Image offer up some Dead Space
— Candyland, Battleship and Magic – all headed to the theaters
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In our on-going effort to help you avoid getting sucked into the baseball play-offs (or worse yet – the World Series) here is the quick list of cool things we found this week:
If you want to grab those limited edition variants of Return To Wonderland from U.K. retailer Fantastic Realm, go here. Remember, there are six issues and each exclusive edition will be limited to 1000 copies apiece. Here in the U.S., the standard Return To Wonderland #3 hits stores on October 17th.
Those two new Nickelodeon-branded digital versions of classic Hasbro board games, Monopoly: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition and Candy Land: Dora The Explorer Edition can be down loaded here; there are versions for both PC and Mac.
This year’s big December mini-series from SciFi will be a Wizard Of Oz based project called The Tin Man and you can not only preview it here but you can also "step" into scenes from the show. It premieres December 2nd on the SciFi Channel.
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