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---------------------------------------------------------------- THE COMIC BOOK NETWORK ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE Issue Number 563 2/17/2006 Edited by: David LeBlanc - ComicBkNet@aol.com Winner of the 2001 EAGLE AWARD as FAVORITE COMICS E-ZINE! FREE VIA EMAIL SINCE FEBRUARY 1995 _________________________________________________________________ C O N T E N T S ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMICS OBSCURA - (Various Places) ....... Mike Curtis [A] Submissions, mailing address, web page [1] On the Net .............................. David LeBlanc [2] Letters to the Editor ................... Your Page! [3] TRIVIA CONTEST .......................... Win *real* prizes! [4] Network Buzz ............................ News/gossip/rumors [5] Interviews: Andy Brase, Brian Bastian, Clem Robins ......................... Richard Vasseur [6] Interviews: Ernst Dabel ................. Paul Dale Roberts [7] Graphic Novel Reviews ................... Amy Harlib [8] Suspended Animation ..................... Michael Vance & Mark Allen [9] ComiX-FAN Reviews........................ Eric J. Moreels [10] Rich's Reviews .......................... Richard Vasseur [11] M.O.E. Reviews .......................... Paul Dale Roberts [12] My View: JEREMIAH HARM .................. David LeBlanc [13] New Titles in MARCH PREVIEWS ............ Diamond [14] New Comic Book Releases List ............ Charles LePage [15] HYPE! & LINKS Section ................... Various _________________________________________________________________ World Wide Web Home Page-->> http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet Archived and mailed by Yahoo!: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComicBookNetworkEmag ----------------------------------------------------------------- o \o/ _ o _| \ / |_ o_ \o/ o /|\ | /\ _\o \o | o/ O/_ /\ | /|\ / \ / \ |\ /) | ( \ /o\ / ) | (\ / | / \ / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The ComicBook Network started by Ed Dukeshire and Mike Imboden ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to receive each issue automatically through your Email account, FREE, please send a message FROM that account TO: ComicBookNetworkEmag-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To UNSUBSCRIBE send a message FROM the account to be dropped TO: ComicBookNetworkEmag-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com See section [A] for the address to mail material to be reviewed. _________________________________________________________________ All text contained within is copyrighted to the originating author(s) and is used with permission. Except where elsewhere noted, The Comic Book Net Electronic Magazine is Copyright 2006 by David L. LeBlanc. You may freely distribute or retransmit this file intact without alteration for noncommercial purposes only. Except for personal archiving, permission must be obtained from the individual authors to reproduce, retransmit, or publish any part of this magazine. Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors And do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Editor. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [A] E-Mag Info: Submissions, Back Issues, Web Page SUBMISSIONS ----------- To submit an article, review, column, etc. to our Emag, simply Email it to the editor at: ComicBkNet@aol.com You must include your REAL name and a valid Email address in order to be published in this Emag. Sorry, we do not accept anonymous columns. The weekly deadline is 7:00 PM Eastern Time on Thursday - NO EXCEPTIONS! Late submissions are held over for the following week. Final edit is reserved by the editor, not the submitter! Reviews of mainstream books are welcome and we encourage reviews of indies and self published material as we feel that material deserves more exposure to the general public. If you write intelligent, coherent, and timely reviews of any comic book it will almost always be printed, so give us a shot. Commentary on the state of the industry, and personal observations and reflections related to comics are *most* likely to be included in our publication. PLEASE, no material on gaming, non-comic derived media, role playing, collectible card games, Anime or other hobbies or collectibles other than comic books. That also includes plugs for web comics and web pages UNLESS they are concerned with print comic books. We do not promote web comics per se, only the printed media. SEND US YOUR WORK ----------------- We also accept product for review purposes. Advanced copies of comic books will not be returned but any comic books sent to us *will* be reviewed in the ComicBook Net Emag in the column MY VIEW. Send material to be reviewed to: David L. LeBlanc 84 Heather Circle Jefferson, MA 01522-1419 Material is generally reviewed in the order received and be advised that we work a few weeks in advance so your review may not be in the magazine immediately. Advanced copies are therefore encouraged so the review will occur prior to your product hitting the stores. THE Comic Book Net WEB PAGE http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet ---------------- If you have access to the World Wide Web, please stop by and visit our web page! On our web page, you can find the latest issue of our E-Mag, in both a text and a zipped version for fast downloading as well as back issues and an annotated index. You'll also find important links to some of the comic companies and creators' web pages and many other Comic Book related links! _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [1] On the Net David LeBlanc ComicBkNet@aol.com So last week I was mentioning the impending storm, a promised big Northeaster we often get in New England. On Saturday I attended a wedding reception for a good friend who had people there from New Jersey, Ohio and Florida. It was in a very nice hotel in Cambridge, the town across the river which also boasts Harvard and MIT. It began at four and the conversation at one point was about the weather and how these out of state guests had already been told that their flights the next day had been cancelled. It was not going to start snowing until after midnight. And it did. The next day I woke to a white outdoors and the snow stopped around 4:00 after dumping 17 inches or so in my town, 60 miles west of Boston. Sure enough, nothing was going in or out of Logan airport that day until some major work was done and most people had to rebook for Monday or even Tuesday. Which brings me to this little blurb on the not-to-be-missed web site http://www.pvponline.com/ If you are not reading the daily strip, PVP ONLINE, you are missing some great fun. Here is what artist Scott Kurtz was up to that weekend. [quote] Impromptu Guest Strips Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 Hey guys and gals. I thought I would explain why the sudden and unanncounced guest strips. It was kind of a last minute thing. I am in Boston right now. It was just supposed to be a quick trip over the weekend and I was going to come home on Sunday. But once we got here, we learned that coming home on Sunday might not be so easy. There's a huge winter storm coming and 14 inches of snow is about to fall on the city we're scheduled to fly out of tomorrow afternoon. So it looks like what was going to be a quick short trip might be extended a day or two. So I got some friends to help me out. Thanks to Kris and Aaron for coming through at the last minute. P.S. Angela went to the North End today to get us some Italian food for lunch and check out the famous Mike's Bakery. She saw Danny Aiello filming a movie on the streets of Boston. Pretty cool. I'll try to take a picture of the snow. [end quote] Wish I knew he was in town. I would have snuck him into the party! Lets forget about last weekend and look ahead - to the new comics waiting for me at the store tomorrow. BOOM! STUDIOS Planetary Brigade #1, $2.99 DC COMICS Firestorm #22, $2.50 JSA Classified #9, $2.50 Justice #4 (Of 12), $3.50 <-------------Pick of the week! Testament #3, $2.99 MARVEL COMICS Runaways #13, $2.99 Ultimate Fantastic Four #27, $2.50 adult products ICARUS PUBLISHING A G Super Erotic Anthology #28 (adult), $4.99 So after digging out the family howmestead on Sunday I left the next morning for New York City, where they got even more snow from the storm. NYC got a record 26.9 inches, most ever on one day. It warmed up though so lots of slush everywhere as well as parked cars plowed in up to the windows on all the side streets. They have these neat machines though that I learned about this summer. They look like a dump truck from the back but they have huge heater inside. The front end loaders fill the back with snow and the heater melts it all while the water drains into the sewer system. Much more efficient than trucking it all to the river and dumping it. David LeBlanc - ComicBkNet@aol.com Editor The Comic Book Net Electronic Magazine _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [2] Letters to the Editor If you want to comment on this or any previous issue, want to offer something for us to publish, or just want to shamelessly suck up to the editor to try and get your name in print send Email to: ComicBkNet@aol.com Note: Letters of comment, including those sent to the columnists, may be used in future issues of CBEM unless you specifically request us NOT to use them. Your Email address and/or name will be withheld upon request. +++++ Subject: Letter to the Editor Date: 2/12/2006 2:19:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time From: JazmaPika@cs.com To: ComicBknet Comic books, cartoons can be powerful. Words are powerful. Drawings are powerful. Why? Look at the hoopla that one Danish political cartoon has caused among the Muslim population. To the Muslims, this was a powerful message. A message that dishonors their beloved Prophet Muhammad. It stirs up dissent, hatred, violence, murder and mayhem. Comic books can be just as powerful. Like their counterpart the cartoon, the comic book is made up of words and drawings. We saw the power of the comic book series by DC on the Death of Superman. Comic book fans all know that comic book characters never die, they merely go to limbo and at some point of time, they can return. People who were familiar with Superman became interested in the Death of Superman series. Everyone knows who Superman is. Baby boomers remember George Reeves who played Superman on TV. Not to mention the Superman movies and the many Superman based TV series that were spawned by Hollywood. If you weren't a collector, you found yourself in a comic book shop. This is utilizing the power of writing and drawing. Non collectors were attracted to the idea that a great icon was being killed off. Superman is a symbol of America and the power was that a piece of America was being killed and like a magnet, this idea attracted many. Comic books and cartoons can be fun, but they can also be dangerous too, especially when the message is hate. The Danish cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is not the way to use the power of writing and art. Violence to retaliate against those cartoons is wrong also. Two wrongs do not make it right. Sincerely yours, Paul Dale Roberts, Publisher www.jazmaonline.com 5606 Moonlight Way Elk Grove, CA 95758 JazmaPika@cs.com (916) 203-7503 +++++ From: "Ken Gale" <nuffsaid@riseup.net> Subject: Tonight, it's a Small Press Party on the radio Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:16:11 -0500 Please Post and Forward to appropriate chat rooms, web pages and e-lists! 1. Next show: Tonight, Tuesday Feb. 14 (aka Wednesday morning Feb. 15). Special guest stars plus writers and artists from several different small press companies: Sam Vera and Jonathan Syphax of Crazee Comics, Rachel Kadushin of Best Friends Productions and Mercy Van Vlack of Evolution Comics. We'll be discussing writing, drawing, editing, production, publishing, distribution and our inspirations. When this many creative people get together, there is inevitably a party atmosphere. There will also be surprise guests throughout the show. Plus, our guests' comics, and more, will be available to WBAI members as a premium. WBAI's Membership Drive will be on and I urge every 'Nuff Said! listener to become a member of the station. This is one of the few times getting comics is tax deductible! 'Nuff Said! needs to make a financial impression on station management! Any comic book store that becomes a member of the station will get their business mentioned on the one and only comic book-oriented radio show in New York City. Another substitution for Susan Brown's "Punk and Hardcore." 2. The last episode of 'Nuff Said!, with Seth Tobocman of World War 3 Illustrated, is currently in the WBAI archives. http://www.archive.wbai.org. Go to Feb. 1, 3:30 AM. We talked about art as communication, political cartoons of the '30s, impressionism, 9-11, 3. The show of Julie Schwartz's last interview will probably never end up on the WBAI archives. Not my doing, of course. Some sort of error with the system. Julie, of course, is the legendary creator of the fanzine, of the silver age of comics and one of the most respected editors in the history of comic books. 4. A free sample of the 'Nuff Said! dvd (the face for radio is on video!) is posted on the web site in several formats so you can see it whether you have dial-up, a mac or a pc. It has a little of each artist interview (Mike Kaluta, Mike Oeming, Sean Chen & Louis Small, Jr.). http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/dvd1samples.html 5. Also on the 'Nuff Said! web site are the radio interviews I did with Will Eisner, Scott Roberts, Faith Hubley plus a link to David Bernstein. Go to http://www.comicbookradioshow.com/ra1.html. You can also find links to the WBAI Archived versions of 'Nuff Said! Some of them are expired, some are not. 6. The WBAI signal (99.5 FM) gets out to New Haven, CT; East Hampton, L.I.; the Pocono's of PA; Trenton and Princeton, NJ and Putnam County, NY. There is a live stream, also, and the connection is easy, even with a dial-up modem (it's what I use). Just go to the web site below. Please spread the word! Thanks! Fannishly, Ken Gale, producer, interviewer and host http://www.comicbookradioshow.com nuffsaid@riseup.net P.O. Box 1028, Gracie Station, NYC 10028 _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [3] [TRIVIA CONTEST] Due to costs, customs regulations, and logistical difficulties: THIS CONTEST IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE CONTIGUOUS 48 U.S.STATES! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A U.S. ADDRESS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WIN THE PRIZE. THE FIRST PLACE TO FIND THE EMAG EACH WEEK IS ON OUR HOME PAGE! IF YOU ARE DESPERATE TO WIN THE TRIVIA, GO THERE FIRST ON FRIDAY NIGHT! http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet QUESTION OF THE WEEK Prizes donated by Discount Comic Book Service at www.dcbservice.com where you can order most DC, Marvel, Image, and Dark Horse comics, statues and retail products for 35% off. Submit your own trivia and win the CHEEZY PRIZE(tm) if you can stump the readers! You MUST submit the correct answer with your question. LAST ISSUE'S QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Who is Emperor Kurr? Anyone who has read the Image 10th(13th, 14th?) Anniversary hardcover knows that the Savage Dragon was once known as Emperor Kurr. Robert Montgomery got it first and wins the prize from Discount Comic Book Service. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Though J'onn J'onzz preceded him in the comics, what Martian had his own title comic first, in January of 1964? IMPORTANT RULES NOTICE Due to costs, customs regulations, and logistical difficulties: THIS CONTEST IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE CONTIGUOUS 48 U.S. STATES! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A U.S. ADDRESS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WIN THE PRIZE. Email your guess to ComicBkNet@aol.com or just REPLY to the message if you read the Emag in your mail. DO NOT quote the entire message! You MUST allow mail from ComicBkNet@aol.com to be notified if you win. The first correct answer to reach the editor wins the CHEEZY PRIZE(tm). The editor will be the sole judge as to which guess arrived first! Messages with more than one guess will be disqualified. Winners will forfeit their prize if the Email notification is not accepted from ComicBkNet@aol.com LIMIT: ONLY ONE PRIZE every 4 weeks PER PERSON! _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMICS OBSCURA Mike Curtis shandafa@cyberback.com [COMICS OBSCURA are facts Mike Curtis has dug out during his 30 years of collecting Superman and writing about comics. His website for his comic imprint is www.shandafantasyarts.net ] I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT EARTH THIS HAPPENED ON It was definitely one of the more unusual crossovers on television. In January 1966, the NBC sitcom PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES featured an episode called SAY UNCLE. Star PAT CROWLEY (as Mom Joan Nash) takes her kids downtown, where they get the idea their parents are spies. ROBERT VAUGHN and DAVID MCCALLUM played UNCLE agents NAPOLEON SOLO and ILLYA KURIYAKIN in this unusual guest shot. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [4] Network Buzz News, gossip and rumors from the industry Bristol International Comic Expo 2006 - February Update For the eighth successive year, the Bristol International Comic Expo (www.comicexpo.net) is back in 2006, on May 13 and 14 at the British Empire & Commonwealth Exhibition Hall coupled with talks at the Ramada Plaza Hotel. For this second update, a few more details on newly added guests and events. We're very pleased that Markosia have signed up as the sponsors of the Expo, their impact on the UK comics scene in such a short space of time has been substantial; they've proven themselves a go-ahead publisher with an impressive slate of talent and books on-board. New Events And Signings: The Expo is proud to announce that Walt and Louise Simonson will be in attendance, signing and talking throughout both days - a rare opportunity for UK fans to meet the man responsible for arguably the single best run of Thor in its history. === "Hypotheticals - More fun than you should be allowed to have at a convention" - Mike Carlin === The Expo will also be hosting the first UK Exhibition from The Don Lawrence Collection with Rob van Bavel, featuring original Lawrence art and much more related to the much missed great comics talent. A first for Expos in the UK is the addition of The Doctor Who Experience, with very special guests Colin Baker (do we really need to note he's the Sixth Doctor?) and Sophie Aldred (ditto Ace), additonally featuring Terry Molloy (Davros), Paul Cornell (Who writer), Mike Collins (Who artist), Damaris Hayman (the Daemons, her first con appearance), Dee Sadler (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy) and Alan Ruscoe (Slitheen from Aliens of London/World War Three)...with more to come (including a certain infamous pepperpot). Guests may be limited to one of the two days, so make plans to attend both days to cover them all. Rebellion are bringing the best of 2000AD writers, artists and editors to the Expo once again: signings, sketchings, secrets about the upcoming storylines, original art, portfolio reviews and more creators than you can shake a Law Stick at. Markosia will bring along three Expo Exclusive books, a wide range of creative talent, plus potentially one of the UK's top authors - confirmation of the name in the March update. Free packs of Markosia comics will be given to every attendee at the Markosia panel talk, as well as free comics to all attendees at a certain rather well known UK awards ceremony on Saturday night. More details on this in March too. Markosia have also booked a range of portfolio sessions for aspiring creators, and will have lengthy dedicated periods of time for these. Tokyopop are sponsoring the UK's first Expo Cosplay Parade at 5pm on Saturday - FREE entry to the Expo for all who turn up in costume - plus a chance of some great Tokyopop prizes for the best costumes. Phoenix Handmade Books (www.phoenixac.4t.com) are premiering some of their stunning newest creations, bespoke covers for journals, comic collections, notebooks - Will Dunlop from the company will hold demonstrations on how these hard-wearing long-lasting copper covers are made and will actually create original works at the event itself. === "The situations may be hypothetical, but the answers are probably the truest things you'll ever hear comics professionals say. You don't want to miss this." - Antony Johnston === Paul Rainey (The Book of Lists) (www.bookoflists.co.uk) will be bringing along the first copies of issue five of his "long comic", the highly-rated There's No Time Like The Present, along with the first four issues available at a special con price for people to complete the set. In addition, copies of Swill the Alien, Book of Lists and Telephone Thing will be available, plus a FREE copy of Memory Man 3, 4 or 5, or Love Bomb 2, with every purchase. Ether/Ore Press will be debuting the third issue in their West series, entitled High Moon. As well as signing and sketching, the creators will be selling back issues of West, the Miserable anthology (with free Miserable badge!) and Alice's Adventures In Hell. Confirmed Expo Guests: This year we're proud to have Roy Thomas, Howard Chaykin, Geoff Johns and Tommy Lee Edwards (Star Wars) as special international guests: all four will be signing, talking and mingling with their British and European fans. Making his first UK appearance is Arthur Suydam, known for his stunning work on CHOLLY and FLYTRAP, MUDWOGS and the gruesome covers of the current Marvel Zombies series, and each attendee at the Expo will receive a FREE EXpo EXclusive official convention poster by Suydam (produced in association with INCOGNITO COMICS). === "Appearing on Lee Barnett's Hypotheticals panels has given me more fun than any convention which didn't feature satanists and cannibalism." - Alan Grant === Other guests include Transformers writer Simon Furman, bringing along an EXpo Exclusive Andrew Wildman variant cover edition of issue four, and the cream of the current crop of comics writers and artists, including: Dave Gibbons Renee Witterstaetter Mark Buckingham Liam Sharp Ian Churchill Ian Edington D'Israeli John M. Burns Ian Gibson Steve Yeowell Al Davison Paul Grist James A. Hodgkins Phil Winslade Dave Hitchcock Leah Moore & John Reppion Chris Weston Simon Bisley Carl Critchlow Roger Langridge Lew Stringer Jock Andy Diggle Andi Watson Jim Alexander Tony Lee Simon Williams with more to be confirmed in March Virtual Bristol Anthology Can't make it to Bristol but want to know more about some of the exclusive books available? Trying to decide in advance which tables to spend how much time at? A bit scared of approaching the UK Comics tables, thinking there might be some "hard sell" to avoid? Or do you just want a sampler of some of the finest UK Comics around? Welcome to the Virtual Bristol Anthology, a FREE online preview of many of the upcoming UK Comics attractions - if you're at the event, check this out to give yourself some idea of what books might be worth checking out in details - if you're not at the event, check it out to see if there's something that sparks your imagination and looks worthy of supporting further: www.engine4.net/bristolpreview It's FREE, it will be updated regularly with new previews over the upcoming weeks, spread the word. Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. Replies to these messages will be received by the Editor ONLY, so you must CC: individual contributors if you want them to get your E-Mail. 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