Day 1: Wednesday at SDCC 2008 - Collected Edition News
Every day I’ll be putting up all the Collected Edition news that I come across from Comic Con International 2008 from San Diego. I’ll be adding news as it happens, so be sure to check back often and add this feed into your favorite RSS Reader and also follow me on Twitter. If you come across any news that you don’t see here you can e-mail me or add it in the comments. You can also come by The CCL Forum and join in all the discussion.
The next Podcast, CCL #181, will focus on this topic and more including the The Third Annual Comics Podcasting Panel that is going on Thursday at 5:00-6:00 in Room Room 32AB. It will feature all of my friends including Bryan Deemer and Peter Rios (Comic Geek Speak), Charlito and Mr. Phil (Indie Spinner Rack), Joe Gonzalez and Jimmy Aquino (Comic News Insider), Josh Flanagan and Conor Kilpatrick (iFanboy), and John Mayo and Bob Bretall (Comic Book Page). Room 32AB.
On with today’s news from The Con:
- Dave Gibbons talks about a Martha Washington Omnibus (Dark Horse). It will include everything that has ever been published in chonological order, including Give Me Liberty, Martha Goes To War, Martha Saves Thw World and Martha Washington Dies and all the short stories in both their colored and black & white versions in an oversized slipcase format. Also, there are different covers for things and things done for t-shirts, some unpublished pages for Martha, try-out stuff, sketches, narrative and background material and even the Logistics story.
- IDW is planning to publish comic book biographies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Barack Obama: Presidential Material will be written by Jeff Mariotte and drawn by Tom Morgan, while John McCain: Presidential Material will be by writer Andy Helfer and artist Stephen Thompson. Both books will feature covers by J. Scott Campbell and will be available either separately for $3.99 or together as a flipbook trade paperback edition for $7.99. Both are due in stores Oct. 8 and can be pre-ordered at www.presidentialcomics.com.
- Scott Pilgrim Colour Special! (Oni Press) Only available at SDCC 2008 and other conventions this year. Bryn Lee O’Malley has collected odds and ends from 2008 and Oni Press has compiled them into this SDCC exclusive! It’s Scott Pilgrim in full colour, it’s a limited run, and it’s only available at the Oni Press Booth during San Diego Comic-Con 2008
- Darwyn Cooke will be adapting the “Parker” series crime novels by Donald Westlake (under the pen name Richard Stark) as a series of four full-length graphic novels for IDW Publishing which will begin appearing in summer 2009.
- Review: Kiel Phegley, CBR, on Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! (Image and Dynamite). This book just came out today just in time for the convention.
CCL Podcast #180 - Roy Thomas Interview on Marvel Illustrated
Collected Comics Library Podcast #180
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For the past few weeks you’ve listened to me go on and on about the Marvel Illustrated books: Who is the core audience? How well do they sell? Why publish them in the first place? Today we get right to the heart of the matter in an interview with comic Legend and Writer of the series, Roy Thomas. I had a wonderful time in talking with Roy and he is very candid and really opens up about the project.
As far as the rest of the show goes, I talk about the new Watchmen (no, not the trailer) Motion Comic on iTunes, what’s happening with the TwoMorrows Publishing, the Tune-In Podcast and San Diego, and my neighbors’ Steve podcast, Airspeed.
No, I have not seen The Dark Knight, yet.
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Chris
Links of note:
SciFiDig Podcast
Watchmen Motion Comics
Airspeed Podcast
High flying with Steve Tupper (Airspeed)
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CCL Podcast #180 - Roy Thomas Interview on Marvel Illustrated [42:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadTwoMorrows Tune-In Special Pre-Comic Con International 2008 Show
Welcome to a Special pre-Comic Con International 2008 TwoMorrows Tune-In Podcast.
Today on the show, host Chris Marshall goes over all the TwoMorrows happenings at this years Con including all of the books that we will be debuting, table signings and panel discussions. Also included today are four interview segments! Starting off with Eric Nolen-Weathington and George Khoury on their new Modern Masters Volume 18: John Romita Jr.; Keith Dallas updates us the Flash Companion and the return of Barry Allen; Editor Joe Meno on Lego and Brick Journal Magazine; and finally Legend Roy Thomas on Alter Ego #79 featuring Superman’s 70th Anniversary Special.
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e-mail Chris with questions and/or comments.
He may even read it on the next Tune-In!
TwoMorrows Tune-In Special Pre-Comic Con International 2008 Show
TwoMorrows Tune-In Special Pre-Comic Con International 2008 Show: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadCollected Edition Blog browsing on Sunday afternoon
No fluff, just reviews.
- Review: Brian Cronin, CBR on his Top Five Ultimate Trade Paperbacks
- Review: J. Caleb Mozzocco, Every Day Is Like Wednesday, on Marvel Zombies Vs. Army of Darkness (Marvel/Dynamite)
- Review: Michael Patrick Sullivan, CBR, on Captain Stoneheart and The Truth Fairy (Active Images and Image Comics)
- Review: Charles LePage, ComicList.com on Star Trek The Key Collection Volume 1 (Checker Book Publishing Group)
- Review: Brad Curran, CBR, on All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder Volume 1 (DC Comics) and a few Image Trades, too
- Review: Tim Janson, Newsarama, on Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko (Fantagraphics)
- Review: Collected Edition Blob on Countdown to Final Crisis Volume One TPB (DC Comics) and Catwoman: Catwoman Dies TPB (DC Comics)
CCL Podcast #179 - Joker and Two-Face Collected Editions
Collected Comics Library Podcast #179
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Well, well, well the week is finally here. The week that The Dark Knight is out in theaters. The week were we finally get to see the greatest sequel to the greatest super-hero movie ever. The greatest performance of the Joker ever on screen and the theatrical origin of Harvey Dent into Two-Face. Today on the show we celebrate all of it with the collected editions of the two main villains of the film.
Also on the show I go over me new website redesign, me in the Detroit Free Press and a tease as to next weeks topic on Marvel Illustrated and my special guest Roy Thomas.
Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.
Chris
Links of note:
THE Comic Addiction
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CCL Podcast #179 - Joker and Two-Face Collected Editions [32:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadChanges
As you can see the site looks a bit different today. This is all due to WordPress and their “upgrade” to Version 2.6.
I had major troubles with it today and when I did get it powered up, much of my information didn’t transfer over too well. So I went out and found a new Theme. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep it or just play around with it.
In any event, the Podcast this week will be available Thursday morning, just in time for The Dark Knight.
Error in Showcase Presents: Haunted Tank Vol. 2
It’s been confirmed from two sources that Showcase Presents: Haunted Tank Volume 2 has a printing error. Pages 107 and 152 are the same page. Page 152 should be something different.
No word from DC Comics if there will be some sort of recall or 2nd Printing like there was for Showcase Presents: Superman Family Volume 2. If I get any more information, I’ll be sure to post it.
Resident Evil
My thanks go out to Julie Hinds of the Detroit Free Press. Julie called me up a few weeks ago and asked my opinions on How to ensure every comic book hero gets a memorable villain. The article appears in today’s paper and you can read it online.
Also, this Wednesday on the Podcast I’ll be going over the collected editions of The Joker and Two-Face just in time for The Dark Knight.
CCL Podcast #178 - Ex Machina Deluxe HC
Collected Comics Library Podcast #178
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Sometimes a comic book comes along and makes you think. It makes you think about the world you live in; makes you think about your own life and makes you think about comic books in general and how they definitely are not just for kids. Writer Brian K. Vaughn (Y: The Last Man) and artist Tony Harris (Starman) do exactly that in Ex Machina and that is the reason we feature it on the CCL Podcast today. Yes, all of it is excellent story wise and artistically, but it’s with the incoherent editing of this Deluxe Hardcover from DC Comics/Windstorm, that I have a problem with.
Also on the show, as promised I tell you about my conspiracy theory with the upcoming X:Men: Longshot Premiere Classic Hardcover and its’ subsequent and timely Press Release from over the past weekend. And I read off a few e-mails regarding the Marvel Illustrated books and who they really meant for – and yes I have an issue with that, too.
So basically the show today is a very cynical view of things. All this and The New Releases of the Week.
Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.
Chris
Links of note:
Fanboy
Timothy Callahan
Nine Panel Nerds Podcast
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Collected Edition Blog browsing on Tuesday morning
As expected not much has gone on this past weekend due to the holiday, but I did manage to dig up a few links for you to peruse today. I’ll be sure to talk a bit more about Longshot Press Release (listed below) I have a bit of a conspiracy theory as to why Marvel have issued such a release at this date and time. Also this week’s show will be out Thursday, along with the new comics.
On with today’s links:
- Marvel adds bonus material to X-Men Longshot Premiere HC (Variant 14) at no extra charge. This book collects Longshot #1-6 (1985) on sale August 6.
- All New “Youngblood” TPB announced. 104-page full color TPB for $9.99, will be on sale August 3rd, 2008. That’s odd because August 3rd is a Sunday.
- ICv2.com reports on BookScan’s Top 20 Graphic Novels for June. Looks like Manga rules again! More on this with John Mayo on an upcoming podcast.
- From my favorite DVD site, The Digital Bits: If you guys like DVD Collections then check out all these pics and specs for the following titles: The Omen Collection, Night Watch Trilogy, The Peanuts Holiday Collection, The Wire: The Complete Series, The Sopranos: The Complete Series, Deadwood: The Complete Series, Band of Brothers (Blu-ray), The Flintstones: The Complete Series,,Batman: The Complete Animated Series, JFK: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, Casablanca: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, I Am Legend: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, 300: Limited Collector’s Edition, A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, and Get Smart: The Complete Series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series.
- Rich Johnston, CBR, columnist, Lying In The Gutters, among other things, uncovers unknown artist, Michael Kelleher whose tracing over Gene Colan’s originally published work. can be found in Marvel Masterworks Iron Man Volume 4.
- Review: Richard Bruton, FPI Blog on Scalped Volume 1: Indian Country (DC Comics/Vertigo)
- Review: Collected Editions Blog on Justice League of America: The Lightning Saga HC (DC Comics)
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