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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Credits – Salt on the Wound?
Last Wednesday the world watched as Marvel Entertainment premiered the first episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. , their highly anticipated foray into the wild world of prime time television. Despite...
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SUPERHEROES™: The Never Ending Bullshit – Truth, Justice and Corporate Greed...
Corporate Greed: There was a time when there was such a thing as the American Dream. It was predicated on the idea that if you worked hard, lived a good life and saved your money you will achieve...
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May the Farce be with You!
Two recent announcements by Marvel have captured the attention of the comics industry for no other reason than being so painfully expected. The headlines in fan press read: “Marvel Comics Saying...
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Hollywood Hell
It is Oscar Season in Hollywood. Congratulations in advance to all the losers! I’m not talking about all those folks that were lucky enough or talented enough to be nominated but those that will never...
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Rocket Raccoon Not Rabid as Expected
The battle over fair compensation for comic book creators whose creations have generated enormous profits for the corporations that now own them is almost as old as the industry itself. In most cases...
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‘Captain America’ Cries the Red, White and Blues
Anyone out there who has remotely cared about how comic creators have been screwed out of even the tiniest morsel of the tremendous profits generated by Hollywood’s superhero bonanza had to let out a...
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Is Stan Lee the Key to a Kirby Family Victory?
On May 15, nine Justices will decide wether the Supreme Court will preside over the Kirby family’s battle to regain copyrights from Marvel and Disney of works co-created by their father, Jack Kirby...
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Super Hero September is Great for Comic Books
I have been waiting for decades for Marvel and DC to step up to the plate and aggressively promote comic books. Not just movies, toys and merchandise featuring their characters, but comic books. That...
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Trademark Deadmau5 Trap
Joel Thomas Zimmerman, the EDM DJ/musician best known as Deadmau5, has just encountered the world’s best mouse trap: U.S. Trademark Law. Nobody keeps the mice away better than the Disney corporation...
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Remember When Comics Smelled Like…Pot?!
Remember when comics smelled like newsprint? Not anymore! If you haven’t heard, DC Comics plans to publish a Harley Quinn comic book that smells like cannabis. It’s true! You can read the story here....
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Secret Wars: The Disneyfication of Marvel
In case you have not heard, the Marvel Universe as the world has known it since 1961 is ending. Why not? Death sells. So knock off the whole thing and reboot from scratch. The idea is so original they...
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Sony Offers Marvel an Alternate Universe Spun by Spider-Man
Just weeks after I speculated that Marvel’s destruction of their known universe and it’s various realities in the upcoming Secret Wars event could lead to a homogenous structure that would fit neatly...
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Vocal Minority vs Silent Minority in Comics
The so-called “vocal minority” in comics has been getting a lot of attention lately due to reactions generated by Raphael Albuquerque’s request to pull his controversial variant cover for Batgirl #41...
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Misguided Girl Power
There is a revolution going on and its objective seems to be about empowering little girls. Is it really an attempt, however, to redefine the personal interests and tastes of young ladies to meet the...
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Marvel/Disney Erasing History
Marvel/Disney is waging a licensing war with Fox over the Fantastic Four and X-Men properties. Marvel sold the film rights for the characters and their supporting casts to Fox back in the 1990′s when...
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Copyright Law is Changing! Is it Time to Hit the Panic Button?
Copyright law is about to change and creative people all across the U.S. are going into panic mode! Everyone else could care less. Both reactions are extreme because copyright law as it stands today...
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Power Outage at Marvel
It has been a long time coming. Ever since Disney plunked down four billion bucks to buy Marvel, the world has been waiting for Marvel to lose its autonomy. It finally happened last week when Marvel...
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