SDCC ’09: DC Comics Day Three

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A lot of panels being covered by the various Intardwebz outlets today, so why not offer up our Rapid-Fire Roundup of San Diego Comic-Con News.  It’s better than a live blog, because you don’t have to wait for the three minute update, and you don’t have to jump from entry to entry; it’s all under one umbrella-ella-ella.

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SDCC ’09: Rapid-Fire Roundup of Image Comics News

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Image Comics made a couple of announcements over the last couple of days, so once again, here’s your rapid-fire roundup of news from the company.  For fans, take the jump to see what’s ahead for Invincible, especially with the announcement that Atom Eve isn’t dead, but is very naked.

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SDCC’09: Warner Bros. Panel Wrap Up

The Warner Bros. Panel wrapped up a little while ago, and here’s our Rapid-Fire Roundup of the talking points.  The oddest part of these kinds of panels is there isn’t a whole lot of talking going on so much as it’s a chance for the studio to get its wares in front of fans.  There were some surprise guests, and yes, Megan Fox was there.

There’s also something about a Batman 3 movie or something…

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NYCC’09: DC Comics Sunday Edition

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Things are all wrapped up at the New York Comic Con, but we’ve another rapid-fire roundup of items from the New York Comic Con.

  • The final DC panel kicked off with talks of the economy and the rising cost of comics as print publishing continues to tumble to obscurity.
  • Dan DiDio polled the audience, and the general consensus was readers don’t care if the artist on the cover matched the artist on the inside.
  • Are you a Barry and Hal, or a Wally and Kyle?
  • DiDio reiterated what was said in the Marvel panel earlier; event comics are selling, which means readers are going to see more of them.
  • Every time I go through the checkout line at the grocery store, I am besieged by Archie Comics in digest form.  Should DC do the same thing with its kids line of comics?  Seems like a fair enough question and a pretty good idea.

It’s a very short summary, but it wasn’t really a panel that featured a lot of announcements, rather feedback from the fans. Plus, it’s been a long weekend, and I’m tired.

If you want to hear all of the DC panels, be sure to head over to iTunes and download them all from the Official DC Comics Podcast.

NYCC’09: Marvel Comics Sunday Edition

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Here’s our rapid-fire roundup of items coming from the Marvel Panels at the New York Comic Con.  Warning for those with sensitive skins and egos – there is commentary after the jump, and some of it may not favor the love of your life.*

This just in… Steve Rogers is still dead, because fans prefer Bucky!

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Review: A Very Rapid-Fire Christmas…

Or – “Wasn’t There Another Reviewer At Major Spoilers?  Some Old Dude?”

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It’s a little known fact that the month of December contains space-time anomalies that keep you from ever completing anything on time.  Add to that a new paradigm at my office, wherein my team load has doubled and my patience halved, a tendency to want to spend time with my friends around the holidays, a scanner that works about half the time and my recent birthday, and I admit it…  I may have been neglecting my reviews.  Still, t’is nobler in the mind to beg forgiveness than it is to ask permission, so I’m back with a new batch of things you may have already read, but forgot to ask for my opinion on the first time.

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Rapid-Fire Reviews: Rage Of The Crimson Matthew

Or – “I Honestly Have NO Idea When These Books Came Out…”

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Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends…  much like the harassment you get when you wear the pizza suit and dance on the corner in front of a Cici’s.  Even when you’re cutting back on comics purchases, like I have, the urge to review more comics than there is time to review them is strong.  Makes me with there were 8 days a week, actually.  Thus, we at Stately Spoilers Manor have created this handy, dandy method of touching upon things going on at Penny Lane, down the long and winding road, even across the universe.  So why don’t we do it in the road, throw some Norwegian wood on the fire, cause it’s a helter skelter ride through a day in the life of comics!

Yellow submarine.

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Marvel Sneak Peek: Guardians of the Galaxy #7

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I feel confident when I say this, I think we’ve found a new logo for Matthew’s Rapid-Fire Roundup of Reviews.  And I think you’ll agree after taking a peek at the covers for the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy issue from Marvel.  The issue kicks off a whole new story arc for the team called War of Kings.

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Review: Return Of The Son Of The Bride Of Rapid-Fire Reviews Part Eight – The Final Chapter

Or – “I Think We Can Be Certain It’s Not Really Final…”

I started to try and write a big clever open, but y’know what? 

RACCOON WITH A HEAVY MACHINE GUN!!!!!

How am I s’pose to top that?

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