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NPR spotlights comics historian Mark Evanier's new book about Jack Kirby. Listen here.

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Cartoonist Fred Hembeck has made some new additions to his cool Across the Page gallery.

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Today in sharity:

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The Los Angeles Times asks Mel Brooks what he thinks about the upcoming "Get Smart" movie.

It's got a good director, Peter Segal. Wonderful director. The writers were great. The producers were young and aggressive and smart. But the brilliance is Steve Carell. To choose a guy who's right in the Don Adams groove. You couldn't get a better guy than Steve Carell. And yet he doesn't do Don Adams. He does none of his delivery. He just does Steve Carell.

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Golden Age Comic Book Stories presents Roy C. Krenkel art for Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins." Pt. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

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USA Today reports on Sebastian Faulks' new James Bond novel "Devil May Care."

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$432: That's how much it's gonna set you back to buy all the comics involved in Marvel and DC Comics' latest "big event" crossovers. Does it make sense to expect comic book fans to shell out that much dough when the country's in a recession (not verge of, as some folks keep saying. We're there guys.)? Occasional Superheroine doesn't think so.

Do I ever buy "big event" books? No, I do not. Are they a cheap gimmick to hook gotta-have-it-all fans into buying titles that are actually of exceedingly poor quality? Yes they are. Should you send the publishers a message to cut this crap out buy not buying them? That's your call, but I bet you can figure out what I think.

1 comment:

  1. I think the comic companies should cut cost by going back to the newspaper print. Sure the quality will suffer but they kept the cost down for years doing that.

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