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Here’s the latest installment of a weekly reader interactive segment on the blog, where I
answer reader-submitted e-mails to bcronin@comicbookresources.com (and other e-mails that
don’t require responses).
Enjoy!
Mailbag entries were a bit slim this week - it was almost as if people were spending the
Thanksgiving holiday with their families rather than sending me mailbag entries - how dare they!!
Friendly publicist David got me hip to a cool new thing NBM is doing - a blog for all NBM’s
comic creators! And since NBM has such awesome people as Rick Geary, Neil Kleid, Ted Rall and
Lewis Trondheim, that’s a pretty sweet sounding blog!
Check it out here.
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Some new podcast called the Handsome Genius Club sent me a link to their podcast site. Here it is!
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ed!=Awesome! took issue with the #1 fight on the Top 25 Comic Book Battles, and sent me a link
from his website where he explains why Batman could never defeat Superman. Here is the link. I think he
seemed to believe that I picked the results myself - I did not - they were voted on by you, the
readers!
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Our favorite young comic book hopeful, Chris Jones, wrote in to show some pages from the comic he
is shopping around:
I talk a lot about the comic I’m working on, and I’d figure you might want to know
what it WAS, and make sure that I wasn’t just pissing into the wind with flights of fancy.
Well, here are the first couple of scripts, and some art for the second issue, drawn by the
wonderful Serena Guerra. If you think it’s worth showing off on the blog or in the letters
section, you can do that, or don’t if you think it’s garbage, or simply choose to
ignore the whole thing. Enjoy!
It’s not like I have a lot of other letters here, Chris, so sure, let’s show everyone
your comic!
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Comic book blog Destructo Co. is doing a holiday scavenger hunt to benefit Hero Initiative!
Here’s what they’re doing:
Here’s how ComiXmas works: On Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 12:00 pm (CST) Destructo Co.
will post our Xmas Wish List containing a combination of 12 Hidden Items and Trivia Questions
online. You have 24 hours to collect as many of the hidden items and answer as many of the trivia
questions as you can. One of the items participants must supply is proof of their donation to The
Hero Initiative in the amount of at least $1. The first participant to submit the most correct
items and answers to comixmas@destructoco.com (email must contain “ComiXmas List” in
the subject line) before 12:00 pm (CST) on December 14, 2008 wins a grand prize of 12 FREE COMIC
BOOK SUBSCRIPTIONS from Marvel, DC or a combination of both. All proceeds from the event will go
to benefit The Hero Initiative. Contact Destructo Co. at ComiXmas@destructoco.com with any
questions. See the Official Rules for complete details before participating.
That’s about it, but in case you were wondering, you don’t have to participate in the
scavenger hunt to donate. Every little bit helps. Good luck and thanks for your support!
Happy Holidays! - The Destructo Co. Staff
Check out their site here for more details.
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Good ol’ Bright-Raven is having a holiday sale at his DeviantArt website! Some pretty darn
cheap prices there! Check it out here.
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The nice publicist Margaret wrote in to remind folks about IDW’s big Customer Appreciation
sale!
DECEMBER 6, 10 AM - 3 PM. The sale will be held in IDW’s parking lot, 5080 Santa Fe St, San
Diego, CA 92109.
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Another nice publicist, Margot, showed me this neat Wanted game.
If you do, be sure to send me an e-mail to bcronin@comicbookresources.com with the subject
heading “Mailbag” if you want to be included in next week’s mailbag!
Holiday humor proved to be what the public was looking for over Thanksgiving weekend as Four
Christmases led the pack. Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman's historical epic Australia
took fifth, while last week's third newbie Transporter 3 finished way down in seventh
place. Here's the top five:
1. Four
Christmases: $31 million
2. Bolt: $26.5 million
3. Twilight: $26.3
million
4. Quantum of
Solace: $18.8 million
5. Australia: $14.8
million
We've got three new releases this week:
Cadillac
Records
What's It All About: Set in the 1950s, Cadillac Records follows the lives of
several music legends including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf and
Elvis Presley. Why It Might Do Well: A 60% fresh rating at Rottentomatoes.com. Why It Might Not Do Well: The relatively small release will keep it out of the top
five.
Number of Theaters: 600
Prediction: $5 million
Punisher:
War Zone
What's It All About:Ray Stevenson takes over the
title role of the skull-wearing, gun-toting anti-hero and this time he's taking on a mobster called
Jigsaw. Why It Might Do Well: Who doesn't like to watch things blow up?
Why It Might Not Do Well: The Punisher is kind of the ugly stepchild of Marvel
Superheroes. Despite two previous films he's not particularly well known outside of comic book
circles and this film lacks the star power of Iron Man and The Incredible
Hulk. Number of Theaters: 2,400 Prediction: $9 million
pEditors note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a
mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet. Following is the seventh of her updates on the
effort as part of ScientificAmerican.coms in-depth report on the quot;Future of the
Poles.quot;/ppMcMURDO STATION, ANTARCTICA--Thanksgiving weekend was long and gray.nbsp; All work
stopped in the U.S. Antarctic program.nbsp; While the holiday feasts and polar companionship are
wonderful, the associated delays are difficult. More than two weeks behind schedule, the British
Antarctic Survey Otter, a bright red plane with skis, was hopping between skyways and fuel caches
when it was stalled by the holiday at the South Pole. The South Pole turkey was delicious and the
staff incredibly generous, but the downside is there was no fuel available until the end of the
weekend.nbsp; Our survey plane was similarly tripped up.nbsp; We had planned to fly on Sunday
evening once the airport opened again, but we were grounded.nbsp; Our fuel tanks were empty.nbsp;
The skyway was open but the fuel pits were not.nbsp; Unable to fly on fumes, we had to wait till
Monday. a
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vspace="4" width="202" //aiReston, Va. -/i quot;Cyber Mondayquot; was a huge success for online
retailers, according to new figures released by comScore. The Monday after Thanksgiving -- coined
in 2005 as the unofficial start of the holiday online shopping season -- saw $846 million in online
spending, up 15% from last year.pa
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Thanksgiving from a year earlier, sounding a positive note in an otherwise bleak holiday season.
Analyst predicted a dismal Black Friday and boy were they wrong. Analyst said the same about Cyber
Monday and once again, they were very, very wrong. Not only were sales up fifteen percent, it turns
out that Cyber Monday was the second biggest day of online shopping ever.
"Consumers are clearly responding positively to retailers' aggressive online discounts," ComScore
Chairman Gian Fulgoni said in a statement. "With Cyber Monday promotions beginning in earnest over
the Thanksgiving weekend, consumers have finally begun to open their wallets, setting off a streak
of four consecutive days of extremely strong growth..."
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