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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
7 hours and 57 minutes ago
Des primaires démocrates à l’élection
présidentielle, le nouveau POTUS n’a pas fini de faire parler de lui en BD. IDW
avait été le premier éditeur à dégainer avec son Presidential
Material, soit un numéro spécial consacré à
Barack Obama et un autre sur John McCain, suivi de près
par Antartic Press qui éditait deux comics au principe identique. On attend de nouvelles
choses dans les mois à venir aux USA mais la surprise vient de chez nous, avec
l’édition d’Obama, le premier tome d’une
série dessinée par Efix et scénarisée par
Nappez, qui vient de paraître aux éditions Petit à petit.
Réalisé en un temps record – on parle d’une dizaine de
jours – cette BD au format poche parle de l’espoir
généré par le Président Obama et s’attache avant tout à
contextualiser les idées du candidat. Exit le ton dithyrambique, le premier tome
d’une série qui en comptera 4 autres (pour chaque année du mandat) est
à la limite du factuel et tâche de prendre distance avec l’Obamania. Dommage
que ce parti pris donne un petit côté froid à l’ensemble, sans doute
accentué par l’utilisation de nombreux montages photographiques sur les planches de
personnages pourtant très ronds et chaleureux d’Efix. L’ouvrage vient tout
juste de paraître en librairie pour 10 euros, alors qu’au même moment, les
affiches “Sarkobama” de Greenpeace sont à découvrir dans le
métro Parisien. Ne leur reste plus qu’à éditer un livre à
charge !

© Petit à petit-Efix-Nappez.



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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
7 hours and 58 minutes ago
Ça se
précise pour l’encyclopédie sur le catch mexicain mitonnée par Jimmy
Pantera, expert en la matière et cofondateur de la boulangerie Deadlicious. En janvier, il
sort Los Tigres del Ring, une encyclopédie de 216 pages
abondamment illustrée sur le sujet, vendue 24,90 euros dans le label 619 des
éditions Ankama.
En plus des différents visuels en provenance de la collection personnelle de
l’auteur que ce soit des affiches, des romans-photos, des objets et tout genre de trucs
rigolo, Jimmy Pantera est allé faire une escapade au Mexique avec la photographe
Lucie Burton pour rapporter tout un tas de photos inédites sur le pays de
la Lucha Libre. Une interview très complète agrémentée d’un tas de
visuels inédits est à lire chez Blam.be.
Pour les amateurs de lutteurs masqués qui souhaitait quand même s’offrir un
bouquin sur la lucha pour Noël, on peut trouver dans les très bonnes librairies
généralistes une réédition de Lucha Loco,
un livre de portraits en anglais de plus de 150 luchadores, par le photographe Malcom
Venville. Une galerie est à découvrir sur le site officiel. La classe qui relègue Hulk Hogan au rang de pape
du mauvais goût.

Los Tigres del ring © Ankama, Pantera.

Ci-dessus, Lucha Loco, par Malcom Venville.


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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
8 hours and 2 minutes ago
Henry Selick, pour ceux qui ne le savent pas, c’est le réalisateur
de L’Étrange Noël de Mr Jack. Voilà pourquoi
Coraline traîne des airs de Tim
Burton dans ses décors et ses animations. Attendu au ciné fin 2009 en
France, le film, adapté d’un des romans de Neil Gaiman, sera
accompagné de nombreux produits dérivés, des incontournables figurines
aux divers making-of. À ce titre, le livre de Stephen Jones, A visual
Companion, à venir en janvier aux USA devrait être un des plus
intéressants, avec ses centaines de croquis et d’artworks ayant servi à la
préparation du long-métrage d’animation.

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Wartmag - BD, bande dessinée, manga, comics et pas seulement ! -
8 hours and 3 minutes ago
Deux histoires noires
à se mettre sous la dent dans ce tome 4. Tout d’abord, la nièce (prometteuse)
de Constantine, prête à se mettre sur les traces de tonton en revenant sur une de
ses anciennes affaires. Dans la seconde histoire, on retrouve notre héros qui fait appel
à quelques potes sorciers et autres mystiques pour une petite célébration
impromptue, la fin du monde. Encore une histoire d’escroquerie pour notre expert
paranormal, mais le pigeon n’est pas forcément celui qu’on croit. Cynisme et
apocalypse à tous les étages.
En deux mots : Hell bastards
De Mike Carey et Marcello Frusin, aux éditions Panini - 160 pages - 15
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TechCrunch -
7 minutes ago
For the adventurous out there (that’s you, developers), the Opera 10 browser has
just been released in alpha. Opera has a 1 to 2 percent browser
market share, depending on what statistics you look at, and will soon likely be surpassed by
Google’s Chrome, if it hasn’t been already. But
it does have its fans.
The alpha for Opera 10 is based on its Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which it says is 30 percent
faster than before. The browser also looks better, with more accurate and clearer fonts. It
includes an in-line spell-checker, auto updates, and support of transparent effects on Web pages.
But, as with any alpha, be prepared to deal with bugs.
Crunch Network: CrunchGear
drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

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PMP Today -
14 minutes ago
We haven’t heard much about Haier’s
iBiza Rhapsody after its rather hyped-up intoduction. The WiFi-enabled portable Rhapsody
player, though, will not die just yet. I have to admit even from the very beginning that the idea
is a good one. Maybe with the new sport version, things will look up on the sales side. The iBiza
Rhapsody Sport will retail for $179 and $199 respectively, far cheaper than the original HD
version. The flash version will have 4GB and 8GB options. Hope we see a review soon for this one,
though it’s not looking too brilliant either.
[via dapreview]

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Gizmodo -
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technology. His sleigh only runs on what I assume is 8 horsepower, after all. Let's give him an
upgrade./p pYour task is to upgrade Santa Claus with technology. Come up with your best images and
email them to me at a href="contests@gizmodo.com"contests@gizmodo.com/a with "Upgraded Santa" in
the subject line. Save your images as JPGs, PNGs or GIFs, and save your files named as
FirstnameLastname.jpg using the name you want to be credited with./p pOn Tuesday, I'll go through
the entries, pick three winners and then post the rest of the best in our Gallery of Champions. Get
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memeorandum -
22 minutes ago
Helene Cooper / New York
Times:
Looking for the
Ideal Spot to Make a Speech — WASHINGTON — President-elect
Barack Obama's aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic
capital during his first 100 days in office. — So where should he do it?
The list of Islamic world capitals is long …
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Ubergizmo -
24 minutes ago
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only if it were to be materialized from a conceptual existence, that is. This is not only a
portable audio player, it also doubles up as a holder and performer as well. Whenever JukeBricks
congregate, they become separate performers, and you are able to listen to individual instruments
or vocals where the precise sound sources can be identified thanks to Music 2.0 technology.
Connecting at least two JukeBricks beside each other will be able to extend the screen size, and
with speakers added, you can 3-way or even 4-way channel surround sound speakers. Hopefully these
will be cheap enough if they were to be manufactured - it would be nice to see the iPod get some
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Autoblog -
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hear Ford's CTO tell it, all these painful layoffs and budget cuts going on at the company can
actually be beneficial. "It gets you really focused on what's really necessary," says Gerhard
Schmidt, the Chief Technology Officer at Ford.br / br / Ford now evaluates its Ramp;D efforts by
comparing the money it spends to the percentage of fuel economy improvements it gets. "This makes
you structure your portfolio for what's really key, not just what's interesting to explore," he
says.br / br / So Ford is taking a very safe, but very sound approach to the technology it's
developing. And its goal is to make that technology affordable for the masses. "Henry Ford didn't
invent the combustion engine," says Schmidt, "but he made it available to everybody."br /br /emJohn
McElroy/emem is host of the TV program /emema href="http://www.autolinedetroit.tv/""Autoline
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Lifehacker -
27 minutes ago
Mac OS X only: Back in May Google released a Google Earth plug-in that integrated Google's popular
3D mapping application in your Windows web browser, and today the Google Geo Developers blog...
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Ubergizmo -
28 minutes ago
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enclosures that are able to secure 2.5" SATA hard drives with its aluminum housing. In case it
looks familiar, these new releases are but scaled down versions of its larger sibling that is able
to hold 3.5" drives. The ToughMount anti-shock protection helps absorb shock and reduce noise,
offering some sense of peace to butterfingers who tend to bump or even drop their precious hard
drive when traveling. Inside, you will find the Oxford-924 chipset that optimizes data transfer
speeds using either FireWire or USB 2.0 connectivity. Both models will come with one USB 2.0/eSATA
combo port, whereas the FS mini has two more FireWire 400 ports with the XE mini offering a couple
of backwards-compatible FireWire 800 ports. You can pick up the former for $80 upwards, while the
latter will begin from $120 and go all the way to $365, depending on the hard drive capacity./p
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Hackint0sh - iPod Touch -
29 minutes ago
is there a way i can check to see if the phone has the new firmware before buying it?
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Latest News - TeamXbox -
32 minutes ago
Electronic Arts has released a new trailer of The Godfather II video game titled Key to Success.
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Life is a street car named Desire -
33 minutes ago
What about Navy?
The Navy Chief Admiral Suresh Mehta has launched a war against the
media. Heavens knows that Indian media sucks and Barkha Dutt is the one of the worst example
of hyper-ventilating dumb journalists this country has seen. But, even then, Admira Mehta’s
comments–blaming everyone but himself and his force–are a classic example of passing
the buck.
Let’s see what Navy has done:
a) There is a media war currently on between the intelligence sources and the Navy–both
blaming each-other for the attacks. It seems, though, that the Intelligence did give
some sort of warning which Navy either ignored or was too inept to act on it. Admiral Mehta
blames it on systematic failure conveniently ignoring his own culpability.
b) According to a report in DNA, the Navy wanted a written
request from the Chief Secretary before sending its Marine Commandos (MarCos) for operations.
A request from Mumbai Police was not good enough. So, at the time of national emergency, Navy
wanted its paperwork to be perfectly in order. Excellent. Please note: NSG was still on its way
and there was no other force with similar expertise, training, and weapons as MarCos.
c) While the operations were currently on, J.S Bedi, Western Naval Chief, appeared on television
with all the evidence his MARCOS had uncovered. To reiterate, while the operations were still on.
While the entire security establishment deserves a kick on their backside for attempting to claim
credit while NSG was still fighting the terrorists (Sukarshan thakur suggests in the Telegraph
that media was invited to watch
Nariman House operation–was this a fucking beauty show?), the Navy took it to another
level by parading its MARCOS before
the media. As many have pointed out, special forces should not address
the media. Worse, they should not reveal operational details. It was pathetic. It was an
attempt to explain why they had not been able to hit any terrorist after engaging them thrice.
That makes it even more pathetic. If you have failed, go back and learn. Don’t offer
explanations and excuses. Admit that you were not good enough. And again, go back and learn.
d) Here is perhaps the most explosive details,
In the end, the Maharashtra chief secretary had to prepare a letter and fax it to the navy. The
marine commandos finally reached the hotels some two hours after the terrorists seized them. But
they refused to go inside on the plea that they were not trained for such operations. They stayed
outside, firing intermittently at the hotels while the terrorists moved around freely inside,
killing at will.[link]
I don’t know how true this. I don’t trust the editorial standards of the Indian
media. It also directly contradicts what MARCOS claimed about engaging the terrorists.
But if it is true, I cannot think of any other explanation except cowardice. If an unarmed cop
refused to fight terrorists, it would be perfectly understandable. Committing suicide benefits
know one. But some of the India’s best trained and best armed troops refused to fight
terrorists in a moment of national emergency (once again, if it is true) is an inexcusable and
unforgivable act of cowardice and dereliction of duty. I hope the media pursues this story to its
logical conclusion and we get all the facts. Because Mumbai attack will not be the last time. And
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