Alyssa Milano’s Hacktivist Has New Print Date, Serialization Plan

Back in June, Hacktivist was announced as an upcoming graphic novel from Archaia. The news came out during the summer convention season with a celebrity attached and a preview ashcan released. Alyssa Milano apparently came up with the idea or inspiration or something — the actual creative team was writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and artist Marcus To. The plot was described as a “fast-paced cyber-thriller” about two guys who found a social media company but are secretly hackers […]

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Sherlock Holmes Officially Public Domain

Yay! One of the best-known characters worldwide is now officially in the public domain. (I’m not trying to “steal” property from literary heirs, but I do think that a character that first appeared 126 years ago has had plenty of time under ownership.) A judge has ruled, “stating that Holmes, Watson, 221B Baker Street, the dastardly Professor Moriarty, and other elements included in the 50 Holmes works that Arthur Conan Doyle published before Jan. 1, 1923, are no longer covered […]

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Image Integrates Digital Comic Purchases With Dropbox

Image has added new functionality to their online comic purchasing system: a one-click button to add your purchases to Dropbox, where they can be easily downloaded to whatever device or app you wish. This news is the kind of customer service that Image can provide, since they run their own online sales outlet, not dependent on another service to add desired functionality. As they say about their DRM-free offerings, They’re your comics; you own them.

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Bad Houses

It’s when one comes across a work as subtle and detailed and well-crafted as Bad Houses that one realizes how rare it is to see a true novel in graphic novel form. In the small town of Failin, Oregon, Cat runs an estate sales business, responsible for disposing of the detritus of other people’s lives and homes, often after their death. Her son Lewis works with her, pricing objects for the dealers and collectors that snap up any leftover, eventually. […]

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The Private Eye

The Private Eye, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin, is a pay-what-you-want digital comic series available at PanelSyndicate.com. And it truly is “what you want to pay” — if you want to download it free, you can, but it’s quality work, deserving of your support. There are four issues out so far, telling the story of a world where, after all secrets were revealed, everyone now pretends to be someone else. We follow a private eye (called “paparazzi” in […]

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Judge Volume 2

The struggles of a group of students, each with a supposed sin in their past and so trapped in a murder game, continue in Judge volume 2 with another death and more exploration of the group’s circumstances. As set up in the previous book, there’s an attempt to outwit the manipulator, but it quickly fails — since it depends on a group of strangers in a stressful, life-threatening situation all trusting each other. It’s vaguely charming of our protagonist, Hiro, […]

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Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer Released

The official trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now available, highlighting dazzling special effects, a message for Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) from his dead father, a gorgeous Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), a vengeful Electro (Jamie Foxx), and an emo Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan). Not really visible is Paul Giamatti playing the Rhino, but I’m curious to see how that’s done. The movie opens May 2, 2014. (Disclaimer: I work for a division of Sony, although not the theatrical entertainment […]

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How to Fight, Lie, and Cry Your Way to Popularity (And a Prom Date)

It’s a listicle in a book! So why buy it? Because you can’t take the internet into the bathtub, which is the kind of environment perfect for this type of pick-up-and-put-down flip-through reading, which I found great light entertainment. The subtitle of How to Fight, Lie, and Cry Your Way to Popularity (And a Prom Date), “Lousy Life Lessons From 50 Teen Movies”, is accurate. Each of the 50 movies included gets two pages with a snarky plot summary, a […]

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