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Marvel sends Free Comic Books a cease and desist

August 22nd, 2007 · 9 Comments

For years Marvel/DC/etc have let scanning run a bit rampant. On occasion they’ll go after Z-Cult FM to try to get some torrent trackers shut down, but they’ve sort of sat on things lately.
Well, Marvel has started to make some waves. Free Comic Books is one of many sites that links to scanned comics. They […]

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Comic store owner is facing a trial for giving away comic books depicting nude Pablo Picasso

August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Gordon Lee is facing an interesting and idiotic lawsuit:
The section from Nick Bertozzi’s graphic novel The Salon begins like this: the artist Georges Braque is led into Pablo Picasso’s studio by a nude model. Picasso, the model explains, is enraptured by his art – “he’s in there masturbating” – and is angry at Braque for […]

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Another Conan movie is in the works

August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If you were a fan of the Conan comics/movie but were always a bit pissed that they were never faithful to Robert E. Howard’s novels then you’ll be glad to know that Millennium Films is going to be putting out a new Conan movie series:
Malmberg and Millennium will start over, since WB owns those other […]

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Mike Wieringo passes away

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Newsarama’s forum is reporting that Mike Wieringo passed away from a heart attack this weekend:
The comics industry lost a luminary this weekend – Mike Wieringo passed away Sunday of a sudden heart attack. Details are still sketchy as of this time, but according to close sources, the acclaimed artist had chest pains at some point […]

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DC shows off the Zuda Comics viewer. It doesn’t suck.

August 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

DC recently let out some teaser images of the Zuda Comics viewer:

So far it doesn’t look all that bad. It seems to be more functional than flash and dazzle, and that is a good thing. There is a reason CDisplay is popular: it is simple, it works, and it lets you get to […]

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