Top 10 comics, DVDs, CDs, action figures Feb. 9, 2007

Per Amazon:

Comics - Graphic Novels
1. 300 by Frank Miller $17.99
2. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang $11.53
3. Watchmen by Alan Moore $13.59
4. Lost Girls by Alan Moore $43.50
5. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi $10.36
6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel $13.57
7. Penny Arcade Volume 3: The Warsun Prophecies by Jerry Holkins $10.75
8. Those Left Behind (Serenity) by Joss Whedon $9.95
9. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore $13.59
10. Fables Vol. 8: Wolves by Bill Willingham $12.23

DVDs
1. Casino Royale (Widescreen Two-Disc Special ... $15.99
2. Flags of Our Fathers (Widescreen Edition) $16.99
3. An Inconvenient Truth $19.99
4. The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition) $20.49
5. Little Miss Sunshine $17.99
6. The Illusionist (Widescreen Edition) $16.99
7. Cinderella III - A Twist in Time $17.99
8. The Guardian $16.99
9. Babel $17.99
10. Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for M... $15.99

CDs
1. Not Too Late by Norah Jones $9.99
2. Wincing the Night Away by The Shins $9.99
3. West by Lucinda Williams $9.99
4. Begin to Hope by Regina Spektor $6.99
5. Corinne Bailey Rae by Corinne Bailey Rae $8.99
6. The Confessions Tour - Live from London (CD... by Madonna $19.97
7. Daughtry by Daughtry $9.99
8. Love by The Beatles $9.99
9. Continuum by John Mayer $9.99
10. Children Running Through by Patty Griffin $11.99

Action Figures
1. DC Comics Ultra Blast Batman $34.99
2. Ultimate Powers Superman Figure $29.99
3. Star Wars: Republic Commando Action Figure ... $39.95
4. Transformers Deluxe Classic Bumblebee Figure $10.57
5. Transformers Voyager Classic Megatron Figure $14.99
6. Transformers Cybertron Supreme Class Cybert... $45.75
7. Transformers Voyager Classic Optimus Prime ... $19.76
8. Transformers Optimus Prime 20th Anniversary... $64.99
9. Superman 10-inch Action Figure $10.19
10. Mortal Kombat 6" Scorpion figure $4.99

Marvel Comics Omnibus books - complete list

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DC Archives
DC Trade Paperbacks
Marvel Masterworks
Marvel Essentials
Marvel Trade Paperbacks
Upcoming Trade Paperbacks - Graphic Novels


Click links to order from Amazon.

Amazing Fantasy
Amazing Fantasy Omnibus Volume 1
Amazing Fantasy Omnibus Volume 1 Variant Cover

Amazing Spider-Man
Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Volume 1
Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Volume 1 Variant Cover

Daredevil
Daredevil Omnibus, Vol. 1

Eternals
Eternals Omnibus

Fantastic Four
Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 1
Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 1 Variant Cover
Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 2
Fantastic Four Omnibus Volume 2 Variant Cover

New X-Men
New X-Men Omnibus

Silver Surfer
Silver Surfer Omnibus
Silver Surfer Omnibus Volume 1 Variant Cover

Uncanny X-Men
Uncanny X-Men Omnibus


Pop Artifact! Talking G.I. Joe

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Pop Culture Roundup Feb. 8, 2007

Deal alerts: Amazon has Cool and Quirky and Classic Cult and Horror DVD sales going on now.

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Sharity:

Lost Clues: "Not In Portland" Ep. 7, Season 3

Synopsis:

We learn, sort of, how Juliet came to be with the Others. In flashbacks, we learn she is some sort of a fertility researcher/doc secretly using some experimental treatment to help her sister--who seems to have cancer--become pregnant. Her unfriendly ex-husband learns what she's up to and is interested in capitalizing on her discovery. However, a mysterious company called Mittelos Bioscience is also trying to recruit Juliet to work for them in their lab "outside of Portland." The Other Ethan Rom, is working with Mittelos. It appears Mittelos has Juliet's ex killed--hit by a bus so it looks like an accident--so Juliet is free to join them.

Meanwhile, in the present time, Jack finishes the surgery on Ben after much bargaining with the Others to ensure Sawyer and Kate are allowed to go free. Alex, one of the Others helps them, as does Juliet after Ben tells her she'll be able to go back home if he survives. Carl, Alex's boyfriend, is sent back to the larger island with Sawyer and Kate, but Juliet forces Alex to stay behind.



Clues, observations, speculation:

* We're led to believe Ben is Alex's father.

* Carl is being brainwashed by the Others. Who all is/isn't brainwashed among their ranks?

* Again, there's a cult-like aspect to the Others and the Dharma Initiative. The brainwashing films Carl is shown contain spiritual phrases and imagery.



* We also see Dharma doc DeGroot in the brainwashing film. Some viewers also spotted Alvar Hanso in the film.



* Mittelos is an anagram for "Lost Time." It's also an anagram for "time slot," and the show has a new one.

* Carl's guard is reading Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time."

* So, any chance Ben will Jack go as promised?

* Carl is being kept in cell #23.

* Were there any other people being held complex in the same building as Carl? Is this where they bring new recruits/abductees for brainwashing?

* Did Rachel, Juliet's sister survive? And did her child?

* In the Bible, Rachel is the mother of Benjamin. The Biblical Rachel died while giving birth to Benjamin. Also, Rachel and Benjamin are members of Jacob's family (the name Jacob appears in the brainwashing video).

* The Mittelos logo is similar to the Dharma logo.



* What's up with the Others and kids? It appears Juliet was brought to the island because of her fertiliy findings. The Others abducted children from the downed flight, including Walt. And they were interested in Claire's baby.

* There's an Oceanic symbol on the plane shown flying by Rachel's room window.

* Some viewers believe there's an Apollo candy bar ad on the bus that offed Juliet's ex.

* It sounds like the name of the Mittelos recruiter is Richard Alpert. The real Alpert was an LSD researcher and crony of Timothy Leary's. He's now known as the New Age spiritual leader Baba Ram Dass. More.

New and upcoming action figures Feb. 8, 2007

Complete List of Marvel Legends Action Figures
Complete List of DC Direct Action Figures

Here's a look at action figures available via your local comics shop or via the TIP!-supporting links below:

DC Direct Action Figures

Alex Ross JLA series 5 action figures
--Brainiac
--Lex Luthor
--Green Arrow
--Martian Manhunter
--Red Tornado
--Translucent Martian Manhunter

Batman Through the Ages
--Box Set

Batman/Superman Series 4
--Batzarro
--Bizarro
--Superwoman
--Batwoman
--Batman Beyond
--Kryptonite Batman

DC Direct Reactivated Action Figures
--Batman
--Wonder Woman
--Lobo
--Superman

DC 13-inch Figures
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Green Lantern
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Lex Luthor
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Two-Face
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Superman
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Shazam
Deluxe Edition 13-inch Flash

Elseworlds Action Figures Series 2
--Red Son Batman
--Red Son President Superman
--Kingdom Come Jade
--Kingdom Come Spectre and Norman McKay
--Gotham By Gaslight Batman

Elseworlds Action Figures Series 3
--Supergirl
--Batgirl
--Nightstar
--Kingdom Come Aquaman
--Red Son Green Lantern

First Appearance Series 4
--Blue Beetle translucent
--Blue Beetle
--Brave New World Atom
--Warlord
--Brave New World Martian Manhunter
--Brave New World Aquaman

Infinite Crisis Action Figures Series 1
--Powergirl
--Omac
--Mongul
--Earth Prime Superboy
--Alexander Luthor

JSA Action Figures
--Mr. Terrific
--Hawkgirl
--Dr. Midnite
--Hourman
--Golden Age Atom 2-pack

Hanna Barbera Series 2 Action Figures
--Captain Caveman
--Fred Flintstone and Dino
--Johnny Quest
--Magilla Gorilla
--Penelope Pitstop and Muttley
--Tom and Jerry
--Yogi Bear
--Flintstones at the Drive-In

Hanna Barbera Series 3 Action Figures
--Fred Flintstone Quittin' Time
--Twinkle Toes Fred Flintstone
--Great Grape Ape
--Huckleberry Hound
--The Jetsons
--Secret Squirrel
--Snagglepuss

McFarlane Lost series 2 action figures
--Crash site box set
--Sawyer
--Jin
--Sayid
--Desmond
--Sun
--Mr. Eko

Marvel Figure Factory Sets
--Angel
--Beast
--Black Costume Spider-Man
--Deadpool
--Invisible Woman
--Silver Surfer

Marvel Legends Action Figures

Hasbro Marvel Legends Figures Series 1
--Emma Frost
--Ultimate Iron Man
--Movie Beast
--Planet Hulk
--Banshee
--Hercules

Hasbro Marvel Legends Action Figures Series 2
--Wolverine
--She-Hulk
--Yellow Jacket
--Quick Silver
--Lord Asgard Thor
--Magneto Xorn
--X3 Jean Grey
--First Appearance Storm

Marvel Legends Icons 13-inch Action Figures Series 3 Action Figures
--Spider-Man
--Spider-Man Variant
--Beast
--Beast Variant

Hasbro Marvel Legends Icons 13-inch Series 1 Action Figures
--Wolverine
--Thor

Marvel Legends Masterworks Sets
--Spider-Man Vs. Green Goblin
--Fantastic Four Vs. Mole Man
--Hulk Vs. The Thing
--Galactus Vs. Everybody

Marvel Select Figures

Best of Marvel Select Figures
--Grey Hulk
--Thanos
--Ultimate Spider-Man
--Green Goblin
--Mephisto

NECA 7-inch John Lennon action figures
--Color
--Black and white

NECA Grindhouse action figures--Quentin Tarantino as soldier
--Dakota
--Cherry

Pop Artifact! Air adventurer G.I. Joe

Vintage Comic Book Ad

Pop Culture Roundup Feb. 7, 2007

The Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog presents great images from the "Disney Studios Artist's Tryout Book" from 1938.

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The first season "Flipper" will be out in a four-DVD set April 24. You can pre-order it now for $27.99 from Amazon.

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From Booksteve: The Strangest Sub-Mariner Tale of Them All.

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A series of films based on the hard-boiled Hard Case paperback line is in the works:

First film, aimed for lensing later this year, will be "Little Girl Lost," based on the Richard Aleas novel about a young detective who discovers that his high school sweetheart has just been found brutally murdered on the roof of New York's seediest strip club.

More on Hard Case books.

Spider-Man 2.1 DVD details

Out April 17, "Spider-Man 2.1: Extended Cut," will include eight minutes of never-before-seen footage plus:

* Introduction by Grant Curtis and Avi Arad
* Featurette: Inside 2.1
* Commentary by Laura Ziskin and Alvin Sargent
* Sneak Peak at Spider-Man 3
* Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
* Audio: English
* Subtitles: English
* Bonus Previews

The 2-DVD set is available for pre-order now for $14.99 from Amazon.

Evanier announces Jack Kirby book(s)

Mark Evanier, writer, comics historian and former assistant to comics artist Jack "King" Kirby, says his work on a planned Kirby biography has yielded so much material he plans to do two books.

The first--set for publication this October--is a celebration of Kirby's art, while the second, the actual autobiography is still in the works.

Here's Mark on the details:

"Kirby: King of Comics"...will be released in October of this year by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., which is one of the world's most prestigious publishers of high quality art and illustrated books. It'll be a hardcover volume, 9" by 12-1/2", all in color and with a gatefold and all sorts of nifty features that we hope will make it worthy of its subject.

[It] will be a very nicely printed art book with a simpler but quite complete version of the Kirby biography. The volume will also be loaded with rare Kirby art, all of it in reproduced in full color, much of it shot from the original artwork. That needs a bit of explanation. Many of the pieces will consist of black-and-white artwork in pencil or ink but we'll be printing them in color so that you can see all the pencil marks, corrections, smudges and in some cases, notes in the margins. There will also be plenty of pages that print Jack's art in pencil form and, of course, color pieces and some things you've seen before but not in the way we're going to present them.

Later on — and don't ask me when but it'll be another year or two at least — I'll publish the gargantuan, Galactus-sized bio for the hardcore Kirby fan...the kind of person who wants to read every little detail of the man's extraordinary life. As soon as fresh data stops coming my way, I'll wrap that one up but in the meantime, you'll have the first book before this Christmas. I'll tell you more about it over the next few weeks.


Stay up to date via Mark's blog.

Comics shipping Feb. 7, 2007

See complete lists:
DC Archives
DC Showcase
DC Trade Paperbacks
Marvel Masterworks
Marvel Essentials
Marvel Trade Paperbacks
Upcoming Trade Paperbacks - Graphic Novels


Comics shipping Feb. 7, 2007

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