Steampunk Palin WTF

Deutsche Dunn and Rod "the Bod" are at it again! Witness the glory that is... Steampunk Palin!

My Spidey's On Broadway

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the Broadway musical starring Marvel's web-slinging superhero, debuts January 11. The show, which at $60M is the most expensive play ever staged in New York, features a score composed by Bono and the Edge of U2.



What I really want to see is a Star Wars Broadway show. Finally, a real space opera...

The Future of Comics (for balance)

The Future of Comics and Other Publishing
James Hudnall

You can probably date yourself by remembering how much comic books cost when you were a kid. Was it a dime, a quarter, a dollar? Can you believe they cost $4 now?

As the greenies would say, that’s unsustainable. Comic books used to be common. If you went in any kids house in the 50s or early 60s you would probably find some. Not so much anymore. Comics once sold everywhere magazines were sold. You could buy them in drug stores, supermarkets, seven-elevens, newsstands, even some liquor stores. But the so called “newsstand market” was a hostile place to comics publishers, and a shrinking one.

These days, it’s hard to find comics anywhere outside of the comic book store. That means that comics have become a “destination product.” It’s something you need to know where it’s sold, you have to physically go there and if you’re lucky, they might have what you’re looking for. However, most comics retailers order to sell out. So the odds are, you may be unlucky if you don’t come on “comics day,” the day the books come in from the distributor.

And that’s another problem with comics these days. There is only one distributor.
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