The Michelle Obama Comic Sold Out?

The Female Force comic book biography of first lady Michelle Obama sold out Wednesday?
It's going into a second printing?
Yeah, I may sound a bit confused because I am.
Okay I saw the novelty in Spiderman and The President.
I got that.
But a comic book about the First Lady?
To be fair though, the Female Force books about Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin sold out too.
And now the company that makes the books, Bluewater Productions, is going to put out books about Caroline Kennedy, Princess Diana and Condoleezza Rice.

I'm sorry, but these books look like the old hand out books they used to give away free at community events.
Who is buying these books?
Why are they buying these books?

Okay I can see the role model thing and that's cool.
But they sold out.
Are parents and grandparents buying the books for kids?

I'm starting to buy the Illuminati mind control thing.

Megan Fox in Jonah Hex

Since everything seems to be covered in gloom and doom at the moment, I thought this would be a good time to lighten the mood and post a couple of pictures of Megan Fox on the Jonah Hex set.

Feel better yet?

Jonah Hex is of course based on the DC Comic, and will star Josh Brolin as Jonah Hex, John Malkovich as Quentin Turnbull and Megan Fox as Leila.
Filming just started this month.

Free Comic Book Day

Free Comic Book Day is fast approaching.
In case you didnt know, Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores.
And this year they have some star power backing them up.

Check out this FCBD PSA by Hugh Jackman (with a bonus Wolverine Trailer of course)



For more info, you can go to the FCBD website here:
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

Superman is Real?

If you follow my blogs you know how much I like weird.
Well ladies and gentlemen, this is probably the pinnacle...

The Myth of Superman
By Neil Gaiman and Adam Rogers

About a decade ago, Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman comic strips in the 1940s and ‘50s, published one of the great Odd Books of our time. In An Unlikely Prophet, reissued in paperback this spring, Schwartz writes that Superman is real. He is a tulpa, a Tibetan word for a being brought to life through thought and willpower. Schwartz also says a Hawaiian kahuna told him that Superman once traveled 2,000 years back in time to keep the island chain from being destroyed by volcanic activity. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t, but it does sound like a job for Superman – all in a day’s work for a guy who can squeeze coal into diamonds. Schwartz then tells of his own encounter with Superman in a New York taxi, when he learned firsthand that Superman’s cape is, in fact, more than mere fabric.

Full story here:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.06/myth.html


You know I mentioned before about people dressing up as superheroes.
Well what if they don't have to?
Remember this?
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\21\story_21-9-2007_pg9_9

Spiderman / Venom Spinoff

Writers confirm a Spider-Man Venom spinoff is in the works

Sony is officially moving forward with its Spider-Man spinoff movie focusing on Venom and has hired Zombieland writing team Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese to pen the script, the writers told a group of reporters.

"We had a really great relationship with Sony on [Zombieland], and so that was a nice in for us there," Reese said in a group interview. "It gave us a leg up."

The duo is already working on the script, but they are sworn to secrecy on the details. "We're under strict orders on Venom," Wernick said. "We can't talk about it. It's just super secret."
http://scifiwire.com/2009/04/writers-confirm-a-spider-.php