Archive for May, 2010
Race Controversy Dogs Tintin
With a feature film directed by Steven Spielberg in the works and an important sale of Tintin memorabilia going on in France, a Congolese student in Belgium is suing to ban one of the character’s most famous graphic novels, Tintin In The Congo. REUTERS is reporting: In Brussels, an increasingly heated court case is unfolding, [...]
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Aussies Crush Brits For Superhero Dress Up Record
The managing director of Warner Bros. Consumer Products division was on hand in Melbourne’s Federation Square to celebrate the 1245 people who showed up dressed in superhero costumes. The turnout entered the Guinness Book Of Records for “Most Number Of people Dressed In Superhero Costume In One Place At One Time” topping the 1091 Londoners [...]
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Real Life Shanna Escapes Back Into The Jungle
A real-life SHANNA, dubbed the “Jungle Woman” by Cambodians, has escaped back into the wild forests where she grew up. 29 year old Rochom P’ngieng first disappeared into the dense mountainous Ratanakkiri jungle when she was a little girl and lived most of her life there before being captured and returned to her family in [...]
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DC Resurrects War Titles in September
DC is bringing back from the dead some of their long-gone-but-not-forgotten war titles and are previewing some gorgeous artwork from Darwyn Cooke and Geoff Darrow.
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Feds Sue Pirate Comics Sites
The U.S. Government has filed a federal lawsuit against Gregory Steven Hart, who hosted several free sites where users could download bootleg copies of the latest comics and magazines. As The Pulse previously reported, the hugely popular HTMLcomics.com – which hosted more than 100,000 scanned comics – was targeted by a consortium of major comic book publishers and has been offline since the beginning of the month.
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SHIELD #1 Gets a 3rd Printing
Marvel is pleased to announce that the hottest new release of the year, S.H.I.E.L.D. #1, has sold out for a second time at Diamond (though copies may still be available at the retail level) and will return with S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 Third Printing Variant! The red hot creative team of writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Dustin [...]
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Patrick Stewart Joins Philadelphia Comic Con
Patrick Stewart, known to legions of fans as “Professor Charles Xavier” in the X-Men film series and “Captain Jean-Luc Picard” on the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, will attend the Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con, June 11-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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Aladdin: Legacy of The Lost TPB available in July
Aladdin: Legacy of The Lost Trade PaperbackOutside the mystical city of Shambhalla, an evil sorcerer plots to steal an artifact from a legendary cave. The only one who can help him is Shambhalla’s most nortorious thief: Ala ad-Din, better known as Aladdin.
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Woman Covers 95% Of Her Body In Cartoons
The Guinness Book Of Records has named a woman who has covered 95% of her body in cartoons as “The World’s Most Tattooed Woman”. Juliua Gnuse of Foothill Ranch, CA started covering up her body because of scars left from a painful condition called porphyria. She favors cartoons like Flintstones and Popeye as well as [...]
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