Entries from March 2007

Kevin Eastman sells off the original art for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1

March 31st, 2007 · No Comments

First some backstory!
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created some of (probably THE most) profitable indie comic (comix for you hardcore enthusiasts) characters in history. The TMNT are a huge part of my childhood and if you were a kid in the early ’90s they probably were a massive influence in your life also. […]

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Dan Slott on downloading comics

March 30th, 2007 · 19 Comments

A few weeks ago Dan Slott appeared on Demonoid (a popular torrent site, don’t click the links under the quotes if you don’t want to view copyrighted material) asking people to not download comics he was a part of:
Hi,
I’m the writer of Marvel’s SHE-HULK comic, and I’m here to politely ask you to please stop […]

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Captain America died for Myspace

March 26th, 2007 · No Comments

scans_daily is a community where people upload scans.  Fairly simple, yes?  Just another illegal operation for scanners.  But what makes them notable is that they pretty much started the bitch parade on Greg Land with this post.  They stuck with that for a while and are still a good read from time to time.  This […]

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Byrne VS Parker

March 26th, 2007 · No Comments

If you don’t read Byrne’s forum… then start.  It is always a good place to see Byrne spout his usual crazyness .  Jeff Parker’s X-Men: First Class became an ongoing series and some fans were a bit PO’d to see something that somewhat resembled X-Men: The Hidden Years:
This weekend Marvel announced that X-Men: First Class, […]

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I think dougfromupland just searches for his name on the net

March 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I think this guy just googles his screen name all day long and goes off on a tirade once he sees a reference to his name.  Case in point:
Hi, axio. dougfromupland character? I’ve spent two years researching and doing interviews about the Clinton role in the collapse of Stan Lee Media for a documentary film. […]

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