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Awesome Arena Tournament of Champions Week 1 Results, Week 2 Discussion

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting and don’t forget to tip your waitress!!Ok, ladies and gentlemen, we finally have the results of Tournament of Champions Week 1.
As I predicted, Batman was the victor, though it was much closer than I expected. Tony “Wino” [...]

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Final Day of Awesome Arena Tournament of Champions, Week 1

If you were planning on participating in Tournament of Champions Pool, you have until 7pm this evening, Central Time, to get your vote in on POA and claim your points on For The Love of Comics.
If you miss out on this week’s voting, don’t worry! You can still participate in Week Two and beyond. [...]

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Awesome Arena Tournament of Champions Pool - Win Prizes!

Okay kids, I’ve teamed up with Mike Haynes of Panels of Awesome for the first contest to win some stuff.Here’s the deal. Readers of POA will be familiar with his “Awesome Arena” series of posts where he comes up with a dream-fight between two characters, usually heroes, and everyone discusses who will win and [...]

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Megacon 2008- Day 3!

There’s not really much to report on for the last day of Megacon. I spent most of my day wandering around picking up some good deals on trades and small press comics and going to a few panels on how to write for - and break into - comics, none of which I’ll probably [...]

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Megacon 2008 - Day 2!

So far, I’ve learned three essential con-going lessons.
First, it’s better to bring a con buddy. It’s possible that flying solo is benefiting me in the sense that I’m getting to go to the panels that I want to go to and the only compromises I have to make are because of time, but I’ve [...]

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Megacon 2008 - Day One

I apologize if this is a bit short on detail, but I spent most of the day in an “OMG FIRST CON!” daze and now I’m just flat out exhausted. For what it’s worth, the day was short on news and more full of me just wandering around checking stuff out.
When I first arrived at [...]

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The Dark Knight Viral - Did You Get Harvey Dent’s Call?

A recap of my first day at Megacon is coming soon, but first things first - While I was sitting in the Indie Film Festival Panel, I got a recorded call from Harvey Dent! You can hear the call right here, courtesy of jokersminion of the Superherohype forum It sounded like a typical call [...]

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Own a Piece of Dave Cockrum’s Collection and Legacy

Image from Wikipedia

Clifford Meth just dropped a comment to let us know that he’s helping the widow of comics legend Dave Cockrum sell his personal collection of comics and file copies of books that he personally worked on.
Check out the full list of what’s available here. There’s some really nice stuff here that would [...]

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PRESS RELEASE: IndieReview.co.uk Announce New Features for 2008!

This press release was in my inbox this morning, I thought it may be of interest to some of you, especially any readers in the UK.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
moreinfo@indiereview.co.uk
IndieReview.co.uk Announce New Comics Website Hosting
UK Indie Comics/Manga community release new community features
United Kingdom - 13rd February 2008 - The UK Indie Comic/Manga Community IndieReview.co.uk, established in late [...]

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Chris Sims Is My Valentines Day Hero

See more Valentines cards here and enjoy your VD!
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