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Comics in Greece - UPDATE

Posted by Icarus on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:25:52 PM
I posted, a while back, about trying to find a comic shop in Greece, and my lack of success. Thanks to a Book Festival happening beneath the Acropolis I found one.

Greek comic fans can get their fix at the COMICWORLD shop in Korydallos or Chalandri (Warning: you need to be able to read Greek to get anything from the link to the COMICWORLD website). The two guys tending the COMICWORLD booth both spoke English, which is not uncommon in Greece. It also served them since a lot of what they sell is in English.

At the COMICWORLD booth I browsed a copy of Batman Hush Vol. 1, which they were selling for €13 Euro, which is about $19 US, for a book with a cover price of $13 US. $2.99 US comics went for about €5 Euro, about $7 US. I'm presuming the cost increase is due to cost of importing the English language books into Greece, but I'm not certain. I am certain that I won't be buying any comics while visiting Greece. Until, that is, the American Dollar has greater value than the Euro.

I wish nothing but the best to the guys in Greece selling these books. I hope there shops are successful. I just wish Greeks were getting a better picture of America from the books they sold. Unfortunately, we all know that comics are just as anti-American as the rest of entertainment media.
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Cost of comics today - What economic slowdown?

Posted by Icarus on Friday, May 23, 2008 11:24:27 AM

"We here for your wallet!"

Having trouble filling your gas tank lately? Try keeping up with Marvel & DC's big summer events and see how much green's left.

Matt Brady, at Newsarama.com, has done us all a great service showing how big a dent Marvel's "Secret Invasion" and DC's "Final Crisis" will put in your bank account.

The final Secret Invasion tally:
"The Whole Shebang: $316.98, or just about airfare from Chicago to San Diego and back for Comic-Con ($359)
"Total Book Count for this event (to date): 85 official, and 18 unofficial tie-ins, for a total of 103 Secret Invasion tie-in issues."
And the Final Crisis total:
" The Price So Far: $115.14, or about 29 gallons of gas (based on the current national average)
"Total Final Crisis book count (to date): 30."
Glad I'm not jumping on those bandwagons.


"You want how much?!?"
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Frank Miller's The Spirit Movie - No Girly Men Allowed

Posted by Icarus on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:01:05 PM


Frank Miller is making his solo-directorial debut with Will Eisner's The Spirit. This looks to be as iconic a film as are the comics on which it is based.

I can't say I'm a big fan of Sin City, either the comics or the movie. I will grant that, in either medium, it is a visually stunning product. Maybe one just has to develop a taste for it. 300 on the other hand is a movie I return to again and again.

I am intrigued to see what Frank Miller will do with The Spirit, given that he has sole responsibility for the film's writing and directing. Something that really intrigues me is Miller's iconoclastic attitude toward Hollywood's political correctness and glorification of the metrosexual. The latest San Diego Comic Con magazine (available for download as Adobe PDF here) includes these comments from Miller:
CCM: "... What convinced you that [Gabriel Macht] was the guy for the role [of the Spirit]?"

FM: "My model, in a way, was Chris Reeve's Superman, meaning some actor I'd never seen before who I got to meet as Superman. I want the audience to meet The Spirit as The Spirit. Gabriel stood out because,first and foremost, Hollywood produces  a great many very goo male actors, but very, very few who are able to portray men as men."
One certainly doesn't one of Hollywood's current crop of sensitive man, playing the role of the tough-guy, lady's man that is The Spirit. This one should be good.
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What cost a Secret Invasion?

Posted by Icarus on Friday, April 04, 2008 8:27:59 PM
Newsarama.com has done comics fans a favor by totaling the cost of Marvel's Secret Invasion, at least through July.

April titles subtotal: $9.97

May titles subtotal: $18.94

June titles subtotal: $31.90

July titles: Subtotal: $42.86

Subtotal as of July: $103.67

And that's the half-way point.

One hundred and four bucks for a title with the tag line, "Who do you trust?", and that is meant to evoke the what - that our heroes are alien invaders in disguise? Hmmm....

A commenter at Newsarama makes a great point:
"So essentially we're supposed to buy in without knowing what the final cost will be. Imagine going into a movie theater, paying for a ticket to the first half of the movie, without knowing how much they'll ask for the second half."
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Another Comic, another example of Bush Derangement Syndrome

Posted by Icarus on Friday, March 21, 2008 3:50:31 PM
War Heroes aren't what they used to be, especially when they are manipulated by the comic writers suffering from BDS. The cover certainly looks we might be getting a fantastical story in which America Servicemen become superhuman soldiers.



Are they getting 'supe'd up to take on Islamo-Nazi evil? Doesn't look that way to me (forgive the profanity).



In the midst of a war against Islamic theofascists, Mark Millar finds it necessary to pit American soldiers against ... Americans.

Is it any wonder that violent attacks against military recruiters like this, and this, and this happen?

But, I'm sure that Mr. Millar and and the folks at Image Comics are proud supporters of American men and women who wear the uniform and serve in harms way.
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War against Islamo-Nazism - the Comics Front

Posted by Icarus on Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:07:57 PM
The massive majority of comic creators are disgustingly AWOL when it comes to the West's War on Islamo-Nazism. One writer, thankfully, is not.

Dirty Harry, at Libertas, has alerted me to one, of only three, anti-Jihadist comic books that has actually been published. It is titled Matamoros.
"Part political thriller, part war story, and part “classic” action comic book, Matamoros follows one of America’s heroes in the “Long War” - an ordinary guy who discovers that  only extraordinary situations exist when the enemy is a protean entity which refuses to adhere to the laws of war or the laws of civilized nations."
I'll be ordering my copy shortly. How about you?

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