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Geekolinks: 10/31: Halloween Edition

Allow Us to Explain: Superman: Earth One

You may be seeing a lot of press about a new version of Superman these days, from a graphic novel called Superman: Earth One that comes out today. People have been throwing around adjectives with no regard for the safety of those around them, words like “cinematic,” or “staggering,” or “hipster.” You may be wondering how this new version of the Man of Steel will affect you and your loved ones.

Is he really a hipster? Does he still stand for Truth, Justice, and the American Way? Is he going to lobotomize me with his laser eyesohgod.

Allow us to explain.

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Marvel’s Promised Price Cut Affects Only Three Titles

Exactly two weeks ago, Marvel comics announced that it would be cutting the price of “selected” titles debuting in January, but, unlike DC, Marvel’s price announcement didn’t mention specifically how many or which titles would be miraculously cheaper.

Eyebrows have risen regarding how closely Marvel’s price announcement followed DC’s. With only an hour between the two, many wondered whether Marvel had really planned on it, or if it was an emergency statement made so that they could say that they had it planned all along and totally weren’t scooped by DC, guys. Whether that is true or not is neither here nor there.

However, Marvel has now made public knowledge exactly which titles will go on sale for $3 instead of $4 this January, and, well. Turns out that “selected” means 3 out of 10.

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Geekolinks: 10/3

Cool Dudes Talk About H.P. Lovecraft (Comic Book Resources)

They’re Making a Petz MMO?! (Massively)

This is What Happens When You Go Out To Eat With Jim Lee (Twitpic)

The Marvel Universe Goes Speed Dating (Comics Alliance)

Emma Stone is Mary Jane? (Bleeding Cool)

Fractal Cupcakes, Mmmmm (Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)

Who is the Swedish Chef’s Wife? (ToughPigs)

(pic is P. Craig Russel‘s alternate cover to Action Comics #894 (you know, the one with Death), via Paul Cornell, click to embiggen.)

Geekolinks: 9/26

State Sen. Nancy King: Reading Comics = Uneducated

Maryland State Senator Nancy King is running for reelection on a platform of education reform, and her ill-thought out direct mailer is slightly confusing for a moment, and then, once its meaning is fully grasped, starts raising the blood pressure of anyone who has ever worked in or enjoyed the fruits of sequential art.

It implies, for the record, that if children don’t have teachers to educate them, they will start reading comic books.

The HORROR.

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Snoopy Wrote This Actual Batman Comic

Via Brian Cronin‘s regular Comic Book Resources column “Comic Book Legends Revealed”, a particularly interesting tidbit:  See, back in 1969, Charles Schultz made a few strips that featured Snoopy writing a novel, and used them to make a series of jokes about narrative and the writing process. And more than a decade later, Len Wein turned it into a Batman comic.

The beagle’s novel begins:

It was a dark and stormy night.

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Geekolinks 7/25: All Comic Con, All The Time

Geekolinks: 7/24

Hellboy Hoodie, Not Bad (Fashionably Geek)

5 Comments Not To Make In Your Code (RepeatGeek)

StarCraft 2 Didn’t Actually Cost $100 Million (That Videogame Blog)

How To Turn An Inkjet Printer Into A 3D Printer (Shapeways)

Tarp Surfing Is Back (RuseEntertainment)

LEGO Light (Neatorama)

The Eisner Awards (Comic Book Resources)

(picture via Marvel.)

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Geekolinks: 7/23

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