I try to stay away from politics on this blog, but no one can ignore what is going on in our country. Super Tuesday came and went and I am placing all my bets that John McCain will be our next President. I’ve come to this conclusion for a few different and obvious reasons; Obama is too inexperienced; When it comes down to it, many people do not want the Clintons back in the White House; McCain does have more experience then Clinton, He his a household name and he crosses party lines. Damn! And I voted for Romney in the Michigan Primary. I guess we’ll see it all sorted out in November. On with today’s links:
- Though they weren’t originally released as a trilogy, the novels Labyrinth of Evil, Revenge of the Sith, and Dark Lord form a natural story arc that follows Anakin Skywalker’s last days as hero of the galaxy and transformation into Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith. Now the movie adaptation by Matt Stover and the two flanking tie-in novels by James Luceno are being combined into a trade paperback format that collects all the action, intrigue and drama of the three books into one. The Dark Lord Trilogy is due out in August from Del Rey Books.
- George Khoury, Staff Writer, CBR, takes a look at The Killing Joke: Twenty Years Later. Did anyone take a look at this book when it was rereleased as part of the DC Universe: The Stories Of Alan Moore TPB two years ago? I guess DC will keep on re-releasing this book every year that Christian Bale puts on a bat-suit.
- ICv2.com reports that Ad-House Books has announced that it will release a hardcover collection of Skyscrapers of the Midwest, the award-winning comic by Joshua W. Cotter, this summer. The comics were Eisner- and Ignatz-nominated, and in an earlier format, Skyscrapers was the winner of the 2004 Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics.
- Due to the writers strike, NBC will start to broadcast USA Networks Monk and Psych on regular TV in March. Can Bruce Campbell’s Burn Notice be too far behind?
- Oni Press has provided CBR News with an enormous 44-page preview of Jumper: Jumpscars, the graphic novel prequel to the forthcoming Doug Liman film “Jumper, starring Hayden Christiansen and Samuel L. Jackson.
- Alan Gardner, Daily Cartoonist, is reporting that Universal Press has announced that Close to Home creator John McPherson is coming out with a new collection entitled Great Sex After 50! And Other Outlandish Lies About Getting Older and contains over 100 Close to Home panels dealing with age. The book will be hit book stores next week.
- Alan Gardner, Daily Cartoonist, is also reporting that a collected edition of editorial cartoons will be coming out soon by Pelican Publishing. The book will be titled Prize Winning Editorial Cartoons, it will be edited by Dean Turnbloom, it has 128 page pages and includes 153 cartoons
- And lastly, Eddie Campbell reports (via other sources) that Bob Callahan has passed away. He was the editor for the book The New Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Stories: From Crumb to Clowes (2004). To my knowledge there are two editions of this book. The one just mentioned, and the first edition, A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics from 1982. There is also the excellent The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics from 1977. I don’t have the book Callahan did, but I do have the other two, which are an invaluable resource.
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