At least that’s when I’m told it will be coming, just in time for Emerald City Con.
It’s a really cool announcement. I hope you’re all jazzed by it. I know I am.
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Year: 2014
Aquaman’s cancellation and Mission: Impossible 2
Originally published June 23, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1388
A couple of things…
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Folks are asking me my opinion on the announcement about the cancellation of Aquaman. Perhaps they think I’ll take some sort of glee or satisfaction in the demise of a title that I left in such frustration over.
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Movie reviews: Battlefield Earth and more
Originally published June 16, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1387
I see dead movies…
I can’t help it. Call it an obsession, call it a sickness.
I’m not talking about going to see movies that critics say are stupid. There’s an overabundance of those, and if I spent all my time going to them, I’d never have a chance to see anything good (“good” being a relative term.) I’m not talking about films that are poorly or amateurishly shot, or badly acted, or badly written. I’m talking about the kinds of films that are so over-the-top awful that they can destroy careers and even entire movie studios.
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Archie and the Lawyer Guys
Originally published June 9, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1386
The cast of “Friends” must be patting itself on its collective back at the moment. They just inked a deal (to use Variety speak) that will bring them in twenty million a piece for next season. Most impressive.
What are the writers getting, I wonder?
Mighty Marvel Misinformation and More
Originally published June 2, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1385
Assorted stuff…
Pittsburgh Comic Con 2000
Originally published May 26, 2000, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1384
Notes from the Pittsburgh Comic Con:
It has been ages since I’ve been to Pittsburgh. The program book states that it’s the first time I’ve attended a Pittsburgh Con, but that’s not quite true; I was there once before, years ago, attending a Great Eastern Con. It is daunting to think that—if one takes into account the concept that the comic industry has a reader turnover every four years or so—a couple of generations of comics readers have come and gone since I was last down there.
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Have you ever wanted to actually be in an episode of “South Park?”
Yeah, me neither.
But that’s exactly where I found myself in the thoroughly immersive and long awaited “Stick of Truth,” the video game whose release was actually the punchline of South Park’s three part Thanksgiving episode last year.
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