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Name That Nightmare
Submitted by Brad Guigar on November 13, 2009 - 00:00
Marvel Comics baddie, Nightmare, pulled double duty last week, appearing in two unrelated titles concurrently, vying for two different goals.
He was paired with Arcade in Deadpool Team-Up (a nightmare in itself), battling Herc and the Merc.
Meanwhile, in Dr. Voodoo, he was using the neophyte doc to gain entrance into our poor, defenseless dimension.
Courting Disaster: Nov. 13, 2008
Submitted by Brad Guigar on November 13, 2009 - 00:00
Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. You'll laugh your pants off.
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A Scanner Dorkly: Nov. 12
Submitted by Brad Guigar on November 12, 2009 - 00:00
Last week was a dark week in comics. We saw some awfully, darned good villains cut down, one by one, in Masters of Evil, and we saw the same villain, Nightmare, appearing concurrently in two different titles, sporting two vastly different looks, driven by two completely different motivations. That's a nightmare, all right... for Marvel's editing staff. Meanwhile, in the DCU, Gail Simone takes a break from her duties at Secret Six, and we have to suffer through a series of kill scenes masqueading as a plot. Here are some of the lowlights. Click on the thumbnails for a full-page excerpt.
The Leaper vs the Licker
Masters of Evil #4
Evil Inc Holiday Cards
Submitted by Brad Guigar on November 11, 2009 - 08:58
For a limited time, I'm offering Evil Inc holiday cards -- guaranteed to fill your holidays with wonder. Specifically, when your relatives get one of these cards, they're gonna wonder about you. Again.
These glossy cards are 5.5" by 4.5", and they're sold in packs of ten. I will ship them to you via Priority Mail to give you time to address them and get them sent off, but if you order multiple packs, the shipping charges only go up by fifty cents per extra pack. Here are the details.
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The first Evil Inc holiday card! "Ten Reasons Santa is a Super-Villain."
10 cards per order
5.5" x 4.5"
12-pt glossy card stock
Full color
Envelopes included
POLL: Five to Pull / One to Pass: Nov. 11
Submitted by Brad Guigar on November 11, 2009 - 00:00
Amazing Spider-Man #611
Creative team: Story by Joe Kelly; Art by Eric Canete
Villain to Watch: Lady Stilt-Man
They say: Deadpool-Man, Deadpool-Man - does whatever a Deadpool can...spins a web any size - but not really...Deadpool's don't have webs.
Look out! Here comes the Deadpool-Man! What force on Earth has brought the Merc with a Mouth and the Webheaded Wonder closer together than Quesada and Twitter? And how does it tie to the upcoming Spider story The Gauntlet?! And finally - WHO IS LADY STILT-MAN?!
I say: If Deadpool hadn't been enough to bring me back to this title -- I was giving it a good, old-fashioned Amish shunning when that Clone Saga nonesense started up again -- then "Lady Stilt-Man" cinched the deal.
Comic Book Publisher Market Share: October 2009
Submitted by Brad Guigar on November 10, 2009 - 00:00
Marvel Comics maintained its hold on the dominant market share in comics, according to Diamond Comic's monthly sales report. But DC closed the gap from 14.84% to just under 2.5% by dominating the top six, best-selling titles of the month. Blackest Night #4 secured the Number One position, with four other Blackest Night themed titles and Batman and Robin shoring up the rest of the top six slots. Dark Horse held its firm bronze finish over both IDW and Image -- who traded off fourth- and fifth-positions yet again. And Archie Comics crept into the Top Ten for the second month in a row, no doubt because of the "Archie marries Veronica" storyline that has been garnering a fair share of media buzz. Here's a look at the numbers:
Percent of unit share, by publisher.
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