Every spring, publishers, authors, and agents display their latest and upcoming books for booksellers and librarians in the huge industry show Book Expo America. This year, as I wandered the vast book fields of the Javits Center, my attention was particularly arrested by the range of excellent picture books on offer, from the smallest independent…
Podcasts and Pizza Rolls in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Pod Comic!
After six issues of jokes about corporate sponsorship, Totino’s Pizza Rolls put down some cash for a pod comic presentation of the first issue of the Dark Horse-published Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic Book. The result was the livestream of a podcast: Totino’s Proudly Presents: Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Pod Comic! The results…
Previously On Comics: With Great Wealth Comes Great Opportunity
This last week started off awfully quiet and in retrospect that should have been all we needed to know that something big would happen. That big something came in the shape of DC Comics announcing that they would be shutting down its Vertigo imprint and moving toward branding its comics by age appropriateness. DC will…