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		<title>South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive: Talking Digital Comics With ComiXology&#8217;s David Steinberger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people talk about how the digital revolution is disrupting analog media of all sorts, they generally remember to mention movies, music and TV, and maybe books and magazines. Only rarely, however, do they list comics among the media being disrupted. That&#8217;s not a shocker: comics, despite their long history and great popularity, rarely get treated like a grown-up, big-time artform. But comics are changing at least as rapidly as higher-profile media &#8212; and one of the companies that&#8217;s responsible for the change is ComiXology. It&#8217;s got comics-reading apps for iOS, Android, Windows 8 and other platforms, and content deals with DC (a sister company of TIME), Marvel, Image, Archie, Boom, Bongo and numerous other publishers. You can buy a comic once and then read it on any device you&#8217;ve got, making for a Kindle-like experience. (Amazon sells comics for its Kindle devices and apps, too, but it doesn&#8217;t have as much stuff as ComiXology, which offers 33,000 individual comics and is adding 300 new ones a week.) At South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, I met up with David Steinberger, ComiXology&#8217;s co-founder and president. The company&#8217;s big news at the show is ComiXology Submit, a new service which lets independent creators publish comics and graphic novels via ComiXology&#8217;s apps &#8212; non-exclusively, without giving up any rights and splitting the net revenue 50/50 with ComiXology. It&#8217;s a potentially powerful way for them to reach a large audience. Harry McCracken / TIME.com ComiXology&#8217;s David Steinberger ComiXology Submit isn&#8217;t a completely open field: the company will review submissions and decide whether to carry them. But the key factor, Steinberger says, is simply &#8220;Will someone buy it?&#8221; That&#8217;s a far lower bar than writers and artists faced in the dead-tree era, when they had to convince distributors to believe in their works and sell them to small, sometimes risk-adverse comics shops. &#8220;This will prove that someone has an audience that might be enough for [dominant comics distributor] Diamond Distributors to say that they&#8217;ll get to the threshold of x-thousand books,&#8221; says Steinberger, who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157872&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Little Nemo Tribute: Maybe the Best Google Doodle Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<title>New York Comic Con: Dim Sum Warriors iPad Comic Gives a Taste of Chinese Culture</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/11/new-york-comic-con-dim-sum-warriors-ipad-comic-gives-a-taste-of-chinese-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia B. Waxman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dim Sum Warriors aims to give Chinese language learners of all ages a taste of Chinese culture — and help Chinese speakers practice their English.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148006&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Madefire&#8217;s Digital Comics Come to the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/09/28/madefires-digital-comics-come-to-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A startup's "motion books," featuring work by celebrated graphic storytellers, are now available in phone-sized editions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147330&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9 Examples of Improbable Superhero Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman gets by on science, not superpowers. Some superhero gadgets, however, are a little less believable than others.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=139493&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Army: The Game, the Graphic Novel and Now the Tablet App</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/14/americas-army-comic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Army's own video game is now the U.S. Army's own comics app for iOS and Android.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=139310&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re on the iPad, Charlie Brown!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/14/youre-on-the-ipad-charlie-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<title>Going to Comic-Con? Come to My Panel on the Future of Graphic Novels</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/02/going-to-comic-con-come-to-my-panel-on-the-future-of-graphic-novels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday night, I'll moderate a discussion on the future of the graphic novel--and how technology promises to have a huge impact on it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=138063&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Kindle Fire Exclusive: Superman and His Amazing Friends</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/29/first-kindle-fire-exclusive-superman-and-his-amazing-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was only yesterday that Amazon announced its new Kindle Fire, but already publishers are making announcements about products that will only be digitally available exclusively on the not-iPad tablet device. First up: DC Comics, which this morning announced 100 graphic novels and collected editions making their digital debut on Fire. The titles being offered mix collections of material available digitally in individual issue format with full-length material only available to Kindle Fire users. Interestingly, the 100 titles announced today—with more seemingly on the way, judging from the press release&#8217;s comment that &#8220;readers can soon purchase other DC Entertainment graphic novels&#8221;—include a number of releases from DC&#8217;s non-superhero, &#8220;mature readers&#8221; Vertigo imprint, which may be seen as offering a better introduction to the medium than the stories about Superman, Batman and Green Lantern. (MORE: Everything You Need to Know About the Current State of Digital Comics) The following titles are available for pre-order now in the Amazon Kindle Store: All Star Superman All Star Batman &#38; Robin, The Boy Wonder, Vol. 1 American Vampire Vol. 1 Batman and Robin, Vol. 1: Batman Reborn Batman and Robin, Vol. 2: Batman vs. Robin Batman and Robin, Vol. 3: Batman Must Die! Batman and Son Batman: Arkham Asylum Batman: Arkham City Batman: Hush Batman: R.I.P. Batman: The Black Glove Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Batman: The Long Halloween Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne Batman: Year One Blackest Night Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 1 Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 2 Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps Brightest Day, Vol. 1 Brightest Day, Vol. 2 Brightest Day, Vol. 3 Daytripper Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love Fables Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons Fables Vol. 6: Homeland Fables Vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days) Fables Vol. 8: Wolves Fables Vol. 10: The Good Prince Fables Vol. 11: War and Pieces Fables Vol. 12: The Dark Ages Fables<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98582&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DC Comics to Relaunch Entire Line, Including Day-and-Date Digital</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/31/dc-comics-to-relaunch-entire-line-including-day-and-date-digital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been rumored for months, and now it&#8217;s official: As of the beginning of September, DC Comics is relaunching its entire DC Universe line of superhero comic books with new #1 issues. The surprising part: The entire line will also be available digitally on the day of each issue&#8217;s release in comics stores. The reboot begins on August 31, with the final issue of the Flashpoint crossover miniseries and the first issue of a new Justice League series by DC&#8217;s chief creative officer Geoff Johns and co-publisher Jim Lee. By the end of September, there will apparently be 52 new or newly renumbered ongoing DC Universe series, many of them featuring superheroes in costumes newly redesigned by Lee, and all apparently at least partly rebooting their continuity. (The number 52 is significant within the company&#8217;s superhero comics: It&#8217;s the number of parallel universes in which their characters live.) DC and Marvel Comics have both been reticent to release new comics through digital services &#8220;day-and-date&#8221;&#8211;that is, on the same day they&#8217;re released in stores; only a few titles have been available that way thus far, so this is a big step. Most of the DC line&#8217;s August issues seemed like they were wrapping up the ongoing plotlines. One major exception is Batman Inc., one of the company&#8217;s best-selling titles, which will be ten issues into writer Grant Morrison&#8217;s two-year master plan when the line-wide reboot happens. Presumably, one of the new series launching in September will be J.H. Williams III and Amy Reeder&#8217;s long-awaited Batwoman, which has been pushed back repeatedly over the past year. More on TIME.com: Weekly Comics Column: Superhero Comics Reboot (Again) The Comic Book Club: Rocketeer Adventures and Batman: Gates of Gotham Weekly Comics Column: Chester Brown&#8217;s &#8220;Paying For It&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84871&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: Chester Brown Pays for Sex</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/27/emanata-chester-brown-pays-for-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chester Brown&#8217;s comics memoir Paying For It came out last week, and&#8211;as it was designed to do&#8211;it&#8217;s already been raising some eyebrows. Brown&#8217;s a superb cartoonist whose earlier books include the biography Louis Riel, the autobiographical I Never Liked You and The Playboy (the latter revolving around an issue of Playboy he discovered as a kid), and the id-explosion Ed the Happy Clown. Paying For It has been in the works for many years; in an afterword, Brown notes that he&#8217;s not crazy about its title&#8217;s connotations of a psychological toll, and he mentioned in a recent interview that a better, if less marketable, title might have been &#8220;I Pay for Sex.&#8221; Paying For It is a provocation on a bunch of related levels: as art, as an argument (not just for the legalization of prostitution but for men paying women for sex as a wholly sensible arrangement that would make more people happier if it were more common), as a springboard for discussions of the morality of Brown&#8217;s actions as a john. Brown bends over backward to portray himself as not just a participant in his story but a rational actor, and there are ways in which he&#8217;s fair beyond the call of duty: he invited most of the people he&#8217;s close to who appear in the book to respond to his portrayal of them, in the book&#8217;s twenty-third appendix. (One of them, the artist Seth, took him up on it; &#8220;the truth is, Chester seems to have a very limited emotional range compared to most people,&#8221; Seth notes. At least Brown knows it: he gently mocks himself for telling the first prostitute he hired &#8220;I&#8217;d like to have vaginal intercourse with you.&#8221;) (More on TIME.com: Weekly Comics Column: Yuichi Yokoyama&#8217;s Graphic Novel &#8220;Garden&#8221;) And then there are ways in which Brown&#8217;s rhetorical and artistic strategy is completely Martian. To protect the identities of the prostitutes he&#8217;s seen, he draws them all from behind, framed pretty much the same way, altering identifying features or covering their faces with word<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84545&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Strange Adventures and Kirby Genesis</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/26/the-comic-book-club-strange-adventures-and-kirby-genesis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 21:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk and Graeme McMillan talk about the Strange Adventures one-shot and Kirby Genesis #0. EVAN: They should have never put a Paul Pope cover on Strange Adventures #1. Not because it creates expectations that his work would be in these pages, but because Pope&#8217;s turned out some of the best sequential art sci-fi in the last ten years. Nothing in this book comes close to the level of Pope masterpieces like THB or 100%. The stories collected here feel like inventory work in search of connective tissue. It&#8217;s not that they need to be narratively aligned, either; they all just feel random and half-baked. I got suckered by the first page of the first story. I&#8217;m a big Denys Cowan fan from his work on The Question with Denny O&#8217;Neil and his Milestone stuff, and I know Selwyn Hinds as a former editor-in-chief of hip-hop magazine The Source. There&#8217;s also the fact that anytime more than one black person works on a comics story I get all swoony. The pairing made me expect a socially conscious, urban-inflected cyberpunk story, and while we get that here, it&#8217;s really only the skeleton of one. The in medias res structure doesn&#8217;t help things, and this story, like almost all of the ones in Strange Adventures #1, succumbs to the dangerous impulse to jargonize everything in the new reality. You spend so much time trying to decode the language that the other elements of the plot can fail to move you. In the case of &#8220;Case 21,&#8221; the plot pings on similar beats–personal worth as personal destiny–as Gary Shytengart&#8217;s Super Sad Love Story, but without the slapsticky humor that lubricates everything in that novel. (More on TIME.com: The Comic Book Club: Moon Knight and Taskmaster) GRAEME: Oh God, yes &#8211; The jargon is horrible, and the worst of all is definitely the much-hyped new series from Brian Azzarello and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84471&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: Just Like Starting Over and Over</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/20/emanata-just-like-starting-over-and-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of the world has happened before, and might be happening again in a couple of months, at least in comics. It&#8217;s no big deal. The persistent rumor, which seems to grow louder daily, is that DC Comics is rebooting all of its superhero titles as of September, following some sort of earthshaking event in Flashpoint #5 the final week of August. (We discussed it a little bit in yesterday&#8217;s Comic Book Club here on Techland.) The consensus seems to be that most or all of their series are going to start over with #1 issues, but that this will be a &#8220;soft reboot&#8221;: they&#8217;re not throwing out 25 or 50 or 75 years&#8217; worth of continuity, just setting everything up with new jumping-on points, and turning a lot of series over to new creative teams. It&#8217;s something DC&#8217;s tried to do before. Back in the mid-&#8217;80s, when the company was getting things in order for Crisis on Infinite Earths, writer Marv Wolfman was pushing for every DC title to relaunch with a new #1 the month after the continuity-slate-clearing miniseries finished. (That didn&#8217;t quite happen: post-Crisis, Superman and Wonder Woman both got new #1s that effectively ditched their back history, the Flash got a relaunch with a new character in the costume but the old continuity intact, and otherwise most of the line&#8217;s numbering and continuity kept going.) DC&#8217;s last attempt at &#8220;we&#8217;re making a clean break&#8211;check it out!&#8221; was the &#8220;One Year Later&#8221; event of mid-2006: every series&#8217; timeline jumped ahead a year (the year-long weekly series 52 filled in the gaps), new creative teams took over most of them, and a handful of series got relaunches. (More on TIME.com: Marvel Comics to Adapt (Imaginary) &#8216;Castle&#8217; Novel) Marvel&#8217;s main-line comics have generally been a lot more haphazard about relaunches. Four series were relaunched in the Heroes Reborn project in 1996 (and re-relaunched when that project ended a year later); other titles have restarted their numbering when a new creative team arrived, then reverted to the old numbering<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83464&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Rocketeer Adventures and Batman: Gates of Gotham</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/19/the-comic-book-club-rocketeer-adventures-and-batman-gates-of-gotham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 23:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: We end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about the first issues of Rocketeer Adventures and Gates of Gotham. DOUGLAS: Rocketeer Adventures #1 is a strange thing to see&#8211;a tribute to a fantastic artist that&#8217;s sort of displaced onto being a tribute to his creation. The original Rocketeer series was much less an interesting story, or about an interesting character, than it was a showcase for the late Dave Stevens to do his stuff, and draw the things he loved to draw: the helmet, the costume, the period settings, Bettie Page. And he was incredible&#8211;I can&#8217;t think of many artists whose influence-to-finished-pages ratio is as high as his. (There are four issues of Rocketeer Adventures planned from IDW, which means twice as many consecutive issues of a Rocketeer series from a single publisher as there have ever been before.) IDW published two different versions of a complete Rocketeer collection a year and a half or so ago; for this series, they&#8217;ve got an all-star lineup of creators doing short Rocketeer stories and pin-ups. Of the three stories in this one, my favorite has to be John Cassaday&#8217;s&#8211;partly because I never realized how much Cassaday&#8217;s line owes to Stevens&#8217; until this made it clear, partly because of its perfect opening scene, an in medias res Betty-in-bondage sequence that&#8217;s exactly the kind of thing Stevens drew at every opportunity and also makes a joke about both his perpetual tardiness and how long it&#8217;s been since we&#8217;ve seen a new Rocketeer story. (More on TIME.com: The Comic Book Club: Moon Knight and Taskmaster) GRAEME: I am so glad that you said that, because the similiarity between Cassaday&#8217;s art and Stevens&#8217; was the first thing that jumped out at me from that story, and it made me wonder whether I was imagining things. It&#8217;s not as if Cassaday is making any massive changes to his style to more closely ape Stevens&#8217;, but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=83261&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marvel Comics to Adapt (Imaginary) &#8216;Castle&#8217; Novel</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/16/marvel-comics-to-adapt-imaginary-castle-novel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marvel Entertainment announced this morning that they&#8217;ll be publishing a graphic novel adaptation of Richard Castle&#8217;s thriller Deadly Storm in September. On the surface of it, that sounds pretty straightforward: over the past few years, Marvel&#8217;s published adaptations of everything from Pride and Prejudice to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to The Stand. The curious thing about this particular announcement, though, is that neither Deadly Storm nor Richard Castle exist in the real world: the author is the character played by Nathan Fillion on the TV series Castle, and Deadly Storm is part of his series of novels about action hero Derrick Storm (other volumes include Gathering Storm, Storm Season and Stormfall. As it turns out, Deadly Storm won&#8217;t be the first book to be published under Castle&#8217;s name. Heat Wave and Naked Heat have appeared as prose novels in the past couple of years, and the latter hit #7 on the New York Times&#8217; hardcover bestseller list a few months ago. Deadly Storm will be &#8220;adapted&#8221;&#8211;from a nonexistent original!&#8211;by writers Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick, and artist Lan Medina. Its cover will apparently be shown on tonight&#8217;s episode of Castle. More on TIME.com: Hip Kids Contribute to TV Ownership Decline Weekly Comics Column: What Superhero Comics Look Like Weekly Comics Column: Brian Michael Bendis Wraps Up Avengers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=82669&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: Yuichi Yokoyama&#8217;s Garden of Baffling Delights</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/13/emanata-yuichi-yokoyamas-garden-of-baffling-delights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 23:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are certain things readers tend to automatically anticipate when they open a graphic novel: characters, plot, interactions, emotional paths, a sense that the story inside can somehow maps onto their own reality. One of the things great art does, though, is upend its viewers&#8217; preconceptions about what it can and should do, and very few contemporary cartoonists cut as vividly against the grain as the Japanese artist and graphic designer Yuichi Yokoyama. Yokoyama&#8217;s book Garden, which just came out in an English-language edition via Picturebox, which also published his earlier books New Engineering and Travel, is in some ways the most conventional of the three. It has actual dialogue on most of its pages (rather than simply annotations at the end), it has multiple characters, and it has later incidents that connect to early incidents rather than simply going from an initial point to an end point like Travel. Garden is also impossible to mistake for anyone&#8217;s work but Yokoyama&#8217;s&#8211;not just because of its visual style and thematic concerns (insanely complicated engineering projects that arise out of nowhere), but because of this sui generis creator&#8217;s total disregard for the usual stuff that goes to make up a narrative. (More on TIME.com: &#8220;Sailor Moon&#8221; Manga Returning to America) Most of the plot-in-the-usual-sense of Garden happens on the first of its 320 pages, on which a group of&#8211;tourists? We never quite find out&#8211;with near-abstract patterns for faces are told that &#8220;the garden ain&#8217;t open today,&#8221; walk around the side, find a break in the fence, climb in and start exploring. The &#8220;garden&#8221; is a series of artificial constructions: rooms, devices, pools, forests, each stranger than the one before it. Eventually, they discover that there&#8217;s a pattern or plan for the whole thing, and that they&#8217;re under some kind of perpetual surveillance. The characters never develop individual names or personalities as they move from one strange setting to the next. They all speak in exactly the same flatly descriptive tone, to explain the images: &#8220;We&#8217;ve now arrived at a round pond.&#8221; &#8220;There<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=82273&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Flashpoint and Chew</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/12/the-comic-book-club-flashpoint-and-chew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 23:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about Flashpoint #1 and Chew #27. DOUGLAS: I have to admit I wasn&#8217;t expecting a lot from Flashpoint #1. I liked Geoff Johns&#8217; initial run on The Flash a lot, and his Rogues&#8217; Revenge miniseries made me really curious to see what his second stab at it would be like, but the past year&#8217;s worth&#8211;the Brightest Day-era incarnation&#8211;hasn&#8217;t seemed to have the same sort of fire and momentum behind it. Still, one thing that impresses me about Johns is the way he plans stuff out far in advance: Flashpoint was named in a two-page teaser in Flash #1 a year ago. So I was curious about whether this would be some kind of grand bombastic superhero story like The Sinestro Corps War, or if it might turn out to be something different or surprising. And now that I&#8217;ve read it a couple of times, it&#8217;s better than I&#8217;d feared, but still too thoroughly riddled with obviousness and hot air for me to be able to get into it. The biggest problem is that this premise&#8211;superhero finds himself in an alternate historical path and is the only person who remembers how things were supposed to be&#8211;has been done before, rather a lot. It&#8217;s been a big crossover with lots of spinoffs, House of M; it&#8217;s been a few individual stories (this wouldn&#8217;t be the first time Johns has paid homage to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons&#8217; &#8220;For the Man Who Has Everything&#8221;). And there&#8217;s nothing particularly original about the way Flashpoint approaches it. (In fact, there was already a Flash-alternate-history story called Flashpoint a decade ago.) I also suspect I&#8217;d enjoy it more if it didn&#8217;t seem to be executed in &#8220;DC event house style&#8221;: the same basic look, the same lettering tricks, the same color palette. Civil War and Siege and Fear Itself don&#8217;t look anywhere near as similar to one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=82204&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emanata: A Guide to Free Comic Book Day 2011</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/06/emanata-a-guide-to-free-comic-book-day-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, May 7, is the tenth annual Free Comic Book Day&#8211;a day when comic book stores across the U.S. offer an assortment of freebies, most of them all-ages-friendly, to anyone who comes in. (There&#8217;s a page at the FCBD site to locate a participating store near you; a lot of those stores are also featuring signings, sales, and other festivities.) This year&#8217;s batch of titles includes ten &#8220;gold comics&#8221;&#8211;which every store that&#8217;s part of FCBD will have at least some copies of&#8211;as well as 27 more &#8220;silver comics,&#8221; which they may or may not carry. And since most stores will limit the number of free comics each customer can take home, here are the highlights of this year&#8217;s batch, almost all of which you might want to give to a young reader of your acquaintance. Captain America and Thor: The stars of Marvel&#8217;s two big movies this year team up for a one-off story in which the Thor of today and the Captain America of 1942 meet in King Arthur&#8217;s time. What&#8217;s particularly special about it is that it&#8217;s effectively a sequel to writer Roger Langridge and artist Chris Samnee&#8217;s short-lived, cult-favorite series Thor the Mighty Avenger (which is now collected in two paperback volumes), and it&#8217;s got just as much stylishness and charm. Marvel&#8217;s also publishing an Amazing Spider-Man FCBD one-shot by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos that might be worth a look: it apparently leads into a big storyline that will be running in that series this summer. (More on TIME.com: The Comic Book Club: &#8220;Fables&#8221; and &#8220;Thor the Mighty Avenger&#8221;) John Stanley&#8217;s Summer Fun: In the &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s, writer (and occasional artist) John Stanley was the force behind some of the most purely delightful kids&#8217; comics ever, a lot of which have reappeared in print in the past few years. This sampler from Drawn &#38; Quarterly (with cover art by Seth, who&#8217;s been designing their Stanley reprints) appears to include examples of Stanley&#8217;s work on Thirteen Going on Eighteen and the Little Lulu spinoff Tubby,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80931&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Comic Book Club: Moon Knight and Taskmaster</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/05/the-comic-book-club-moon-knight-and-taskmaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about Moon Knight #1 and the Taskmaster: Unthinkable collection. DOUGLAS: I have a couple of biases when it comes to Moon Knight stories. The second thing I can&#8217;t help but think of when I think &#8220;Moon Knight&#8221; is the series of stories Bill Sienkiewicz drew in the early &#8217;80s, which were way, way ahead of their time as far as visual storytelling went. Who was drawing covers like this one in 1982? (Who&#8217;s even drawing covers like that now?) Which means that if you&#8217;re not going to push the visual side of Moon Knight like crazy, there&#8217;s not much of a point in drawing him at all. And the bigger bias is that I can never see him&#8211;particularly in stories centered on his multiple-personality issues and the voices in his head&#8211;without thinking of the Moon Roach character from the early years of Cerebus. There aren&#8217;t a lot of parodies that are powerful enough to efface what they&#8217;re based on, but the Cootie is one of them: a &#8220;superhero&#8221; so mentally messed up that he gets into fistfights with himself (and is also terribly susceptible to any lies anybody tells him about who he&#8217;s supposed to beat up or kill next). (More on TIME.com: The Comic Book Club: Action Comics #900 and The Mighty Thor) Which is basically the version of Moon Knight that Brian Michael Bendis is writing here: a badass fighter who&#8217;s also totally delusional. It&#8217;s interesting that Bendis&#8217;s three Marvel Universe books right now are the two top-line Avengers titles and this C-lister&#8217;s series; this also seems to tie into what he&#8217;s doing in the Avengers books, with the Ultron business. GRAEME: The Ultron tie-in actually took me out of the story, annoyingly; I wish this book had come out before last week&#8217;s Avengers #12.1, where we learned that there&#8217;s a big &#8220;Age of Ultron&#8221; story coming up.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80841&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Batman Almost Fought Osama bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/02/how-batman-almost-fought-osama-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 18:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Wolk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2006, Frank Miller&#8211;the cartoonist behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, as well as 300 and Sin City&#8211;announced that he would be writing and drawing a graphic novel for DC Comics called Holy Terror, in which Batman would take on al-Qaeda and face Osama bin Laden. (&#8220;Superman punched out Hitler,&#8221; he said at the time. &#8220;So did Captain America. That&#8217;s one of the things they&#8217;re there for.&#8221;) By November of that year, he claimed he only had &#8220;about 50 pages left to go.&#8221; (More on TIME.com: Bin Laden&#8217;s Low Tech Hideout May Have Been His Undoing) The title Batman: Holy Terror had been floating around for a while&#8211;a riff on Robin&#8217;s exclamations on the old Batman TV show, it had been an early working title for The Dark Knight Returns, and was actually used for a 1991 one-shot by Alan Brennert and Norm Breyfogle. By 2008, though, Miller had switched tacks. When the New York Times profiled him, he noted that Holy War, Batman!&#8211;as the article called it&#8211;had become &#8220;something that was no longer Batman&#8230; I decided it&#8217;s going to be part of a new series that I&#8217;m starting.&#8221; (More on TIME.com: The Man Who Blogged Bin Laden&#8217;s Death By Accident) In early 2010, Miller announced that he was &#8220;94 double-page spreads&#8221; into Holy Terror, but that &#8220;it&#8217;s just not a Batman story anymore. The content got too extreme, and a brand new superhero popped into my head.&#8221; Later in the year, he explained that Batman had been replaced in it by a new character called The Fixer, and that it wouldn&#8217;t be published by DC, but that it &#8220;should be finished within a month&#8221; and come out &#8220;next year, certainly,&#8221; meaning 2011. There&#8217;s been no official word so far on publication of Holy Terror, or indeed on how it might be affected by yesterday&#8217;s news.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=79945&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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