As expected not much has gone on this past weekend due to the holiday, but I did manage to dig up a few links for you to peruse today. I’ll be sure to talk a bit more about Longshot Press Release (listed below) I have a bit of a conspiracy theory as to why Marvel have issued such a release at this date and time. Also this week’s show will be out Thursday, along with the new comics.

On with today’s links:

• Marvel adds bonus material to X-Men Longshot Premiere HC (Variant 14) at no extra charge. This book collects Longshot #1-6 (1985) on sale August 6.
• All New “Youngblood” TPB announced. 104-page full color TPB for $9.99, will be on sale August 3rd, 2008. That’s odd because August 3rd is a Sunday.
• ICv2.com reports on BookScan’s Top 20 Graphic Novels for June. Looks like Manga rules again! More on this with John Mayo on an upcoming podcast.
• From my favorite DVD site, The Digital Bits: If you guys like DVD Collections then check out all these pics and specs for the following titles: The Omen Collection, Night Watch Trilogy, The Peanuts Holiday Collection, The Wire: The Complete Series, The Sopranos: The Complete Series, Deadwood: The Complete Series, Band of Brothers (Blu-ray), The Flintstones: The Complete Series,,Batman: The Complete Animated Series, JFK: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, Casablanca: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, I Am Legend: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, 300: Limited Collector’s Edition, A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector’s Edition, and Get Smart: The Complete Series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series.
• Rich Johnston, CBR, columnist, Lying In The Gutters, among other things, uncovers unknown artist, Michael Kelleher whose tracing over Gene Colan’s originally published work. can be found in Marvel Masterworks Iron Man Volume 4.
• Review: Richard Bruton, FPI Blog on Scalped Volume 1: Indian Country (DC Comics/Vertigo)
• Review: Collected Editions Blog on Justice League of America: The Lightning Saga HC (DC Comics)

If you guys are like me, you’re a fan of social networking. I guess in one way or another I’ve always been into it for a number of years but I never actually knew there was a term for it until about 2 years ago. With the advent of the internet came UseNet (which I used in college in 1991-94), email, message boards, Yahoo! Groups, MySpace and FaceBook, Digg, Blogs and comments, of course Podcasting and RSS, and a whole lot of others that have since cluttered up the internet.

Along came Google Reader (and other readers, but I think Google is the best) and it has turned out to be a good way to organize and subscribe to your favorite blogs, However, it only good for that particular purpose. It altogether another thing if you want to follow someone’s FaceBook page, Amazon Wishlists, Flickr, and the current Big Kahuna - Twitter. Now it has all come together with FriendFeed. As it states on the Wikipedia page, “FriendFeed is a social aggregator that consolidates the updates from social websites such as blog entries, social bookmarking websites, and social networks among others. This allows individuals using multiple social websites to have a consolidated stream of details on all their activities across these websites”.

I’ve been using FriendFeed since before it went public (I was able to get a free beta though a source of mine). I can tell you that has become an essential tool for me to keep up-to-date on all my friends including their Tweets, photos, blogs, podcasts, and other useful information. And it’s simply the best way to keep track of everything I do here at the CCL or in just my regular plain, old life. So jump on this years’ internet bandwagon – FriendFeed and subscribe to everything that I do (which includes this blog and podcast all the links below) on the internet. http://friendfeed.com/chrisccl

But if you want to follow me the old fashioned way here is a list of several other places where you can find me:

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CCL Podcast (.xml) http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/rss/podcast_ccl.xml
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Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/chrisccl
Digg http://digg.com/users/chrisccl
Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/21768570%40N03/
Google Shared Items (I’ll be using this more) http://www.google.com/reader/shared/11984609320779550561
LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/435/356
StumbleUpon http://chrisccl.stumbleupon.com/
ComicSpace (not yet a part of FriendFeed) http://www.comicspace.com/chrisccl/
MySpace (but I never use it) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60403393
Sorry no FaceBook.

As I said the podcast for this week that I would be getting to a new round of links and happenings in the Collected Edition universe. I couldn’t find anything real significant that came out of Wizard World Chicago. Just some “maybes” to some books (Complete Hitman) and things we already know about (Hellboy/Batman/Starman included in the Starman Omnibus). Dynamite (not Devils Due) has acquired the rights to publish The Phantom. Hopefully we’ll see some more classic Phantom collections.
Have a safe and fun holiday weekend, on with the links:

• For the next two weeks only (through July 14), TwoMorrows Publishing select books are 50% off cover price. This sale features books in our popular “how-to” category of books, offering invaluable information for anyone interested in the creation of comics.
• Judge Dredd is coming back to the States and with him will be new collected editions of classic material. But why? Rebellion does a fine job. Richard , FPI Blog Log explains.
• This August, writer Matthew Tomao and artist Josh Medors present their original epic Sabbath: All Your Sins Reborn in a fully bound graphic novel from Devil’s Due and Hypergraphia Comics.
• Dabel Brothers Publishing has announced the acquisition of the rights to create a comic book adaptation of Robert Jordan’s hugely popular Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels. The first issue of the Wheel of Time comic book series will be released in December. The individual issues will be collected in graphic novel format and distributed by Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group.
• LucasBooks and the Random House imprint Del Rey have announced that Del Rey will publish five novels that will tie-in with the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated feature film and the cartoon series that will air in the fall of 2008 on the Cartoon Network and TNT. The Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated movie, which debuts on August 15th, will be preceded by the release of a Star Wars: The Clone Wars novel by fan favorite Star Wars author Karen Traviss, which will go on sale on July 26th.
  Science fiction/fantasy writer Karen Miller is writing the second Clone Wars novel, which will be published in December, 2008. The Star Wars novels will add depth, background and color to the Clone Wars animated saga.
• With Trinity out in stores now the Collected Editions Blog give a rundown of some of the best and essential Wonder Woman collected editions.
• Review: Richard, FPI Blog Log on Will Eisner’s The Spirit by Darwin Cooke and The Best of The Spirit
• Review: Allan Holtz, Stripper’s Guide, on Willie and Joe - The World War II Years
• Reviews: Collected Editions Blog on Wonder Woman: Love and Murder HC (DC Comics), Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack HC (DC Comics), Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes: The Quest for Cosmic Boy TPB (DC Comics) and Helmet of Fate TPB (DC Comics)

TwoMorrows Tune-In #10: Eric Nolen-Weathington - Modern Masters editor

On the show this month, host Chris Marshall talks with Modern Masters editor Eric Nolen-Weathington on his upcoming Mike Ploog book, due out in September. Chris also goes over all of the July releases and talks about what’s to come at Comic-Con International later this month.

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Collected Comics Library Podcast #177

29,527Kb; 31m 13s

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This week on the show I tell you all about my adventures at Wizard World Chicago 2008. Including the people I met, the Comics Podcasting Panel and all of the collected editions that bought at unbelievable discounts – Legion of Monsters HC (Marvel), Essential Horror Volume 1 (Marvel), Stoker’s Dracula (Marvel), Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness (Marvel and Dynamite), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era - Tales of Suspense Volume 2 (Marvel) and Ex Machina Deluxe Edition HC (DC). In just a few days I’ve managed to read most of them.

Also, there is news that the Absolute Black Dossier will not include the 45 rpm song by Alan Moore. Wasn’t that the whole point of this edition? As much as I will probably pick it up, I’m over this whole soap opera.

Lastly, as usual I rundown the New Releases of the Week and congratulations to Joe of Lowell, Massachusetts on winning my giveaway of Kick-Ass #1 and 2 (Marvel/Icon).

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

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Download Now! - Comics Podcast Panel from Wizard World Chicago 2008 (.mp3)
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As promised, here is the Comics Podcast Panel from Wizard World Chicago 2008. The panel was moderated by Eisner Award winning writer Sean McKeever, and included myself, Brian Salazar of Around Comics, Vince Bonavoglia of 11 O’Clock Comics, Scott Cederlund of Wednesday’s Haul, John Siuntres of Wordballoon, Stevie D. of Comic Book Queers, Steven Schuler of Alter Ego, and Sean Whelan of Raging Bullets. If you weren’t able to attend the convention or the panel, here’s your chance to hear what eight of comics Podcasting’s finest have to say about the medium. Besides the people from above I want to thank Chris Neseman (Around Comics) for putting the whole deal together.

I also had a chance to meet (some for the first time) some really cool people; Professionals: Mike Norton, Dave Wachter, Skottie Young, Greg Rucka, Pat Loika; and friends of the show: Mark Ross (Cluck Trent) and Matt Kramer (Darth Kramer). I was only there for a few hours on Friday, so I would have liked to have met many more people, perhaps next year. I’ll be going over more of my experiences including the incredible deals that I got. for this week’s podcast due out Wednesday.

Chris

 

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I sit down with John Mayo, once again, and discuss the sales estimates for the Top 100 graphic novels and collected editions for May 2008.

Email John at MayoReport@ComicBookPage.com with any questions or comment you have on the episode or post on the Comic Book Page Forum.

This podcast episode originated on the Comic Book Page website

Collected Comics Library Podcast #176

42,690Kb; 36m 12s

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This week on the show I give a full rundown of the DC Comics January/1Q 2009 Collected Editions. I blogged about this a few days ago and I have yet to come up with a source for the list so take it with a grain (or chunk) of salt.

Also on the show I do a little eBay Sold Searching and you won’t believe just what are hot commodities and the final sold prices for the books.

Have an email question regarding what to do with damaged books that are bought at conventions; news on a brand new cool Prince Valiant retrospective; and is anyone buying the Marvel Illustrated books?

All this including the New Releases of the Week, what’s coming up on the next TwoMorrows Tune-In Podcast and a Kick-Ass (#1-2) giveaway - find out how to enter on the show.

Please visit my site sponsors: In-Stock Trades, Forbidden Planet International (UK), and Library Binding Company.

Chris

Links of note:
DC 2009 - Collected Editions Blog
DC 2009 - Official DC Comics Forums
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Catching up on a few links from the past week. If you know of any news that came out of Heroes Con, please feel free to comment or send me an e-mail

• Two Mags, Two Weeks, Two Bucks at TwoMorrows - from now through June 30, you can get back issues of WRITE NOW and COMIC BOOK ARTIST for only $2 each, plus shipping.
• IDW To Publish Scorchy Smith Deluxe Collection. I blogged about this last December (it was first reported last October). The book was originally scheduled to come out this summer. Well I can’t blame the guys at IDW too much - this book is worth the wait.
• Yes. I like stwallskull.com and if you like classic comics and strips like I do (and I know you do) so should you. Keep up the great work, Steven.
  I get it through my Google RSS reader. In fact, you should get this blog through RSS, too.
• John Mayo, Comic Book Resources and my friend, on Sales Estimates for May, 2008
• Augie De Blieck Jr., Comic Book Resources and my friend, on Valiant’s marketing misstep - Pipeline #575
• Now in stock: Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
• CR Sunday Interview: Robert Greenberger from Comics Reporter by Tom Spurgeon.
• Review: Collected Editions on Shadowpact: Cursed TPB (DC Comics)