Beau knows marketing
Ah, the wisdom of offering free handouts on the World Wide Web: Beau Smith’s Guerilla Marketing 101 As part of his grassroots promotion efforts for his upcoming trade paperback from IDW Publishing, The...
View ArticleChuck Dixon’s Transformers Story Is “More Than Meets The Eye”
Newsarama has posted a couple images from Chuck Dixon and Ted McKeever’s upcoming Transformers Evolutions story (think IDW’s version of Elseworlds). It looks like it’ll be set either in the Wild West...
View ArticleMeh. I suppose it’s manly.
Beau Smith has been having a “Manly Cover Competition” with Chuck Dixon where each week they offer a comic from their collection and compare which one is mas macho. Chuck has a pic of Tarzan with a...
View ArticleCobb voted Third best comic of 2006 by Scoop!
You may have noticed that I prominently featured the trade paperback version of “Cobb: Off The Leash” in several places in our aStore. Writer Beau Smith is a chum, of course, but my hyping this book is...
View ArticleDoes anyone care about G.I. Joe?
I’ve been debating where to go next with Monitor Duty. I love this blog, but ever since Jimmy Jams closed here in Rochester, MN, I have been without a comic book shop. And sadly, I have yet to even...
View ArticlePreview of Chuck’s G.I. Joe #1
Yet another comic that looks so good I wish I still lived near a comic store. ©2013 Monitor Duty. All Rights Reserved.
View ArticleThe Life and Times of Savior 28
Following up on a conversation we had with J.M. DeMatteis at the New York Comic Con last weekend, Comic Related got a look at the first issue of IDW’s upcoming miniseries The Life and Times of Savior...
View Article25 years later, Larry Hama’s life makes sense
Larry Hama’s name is synonymous with G.I. Joe. He is known throughout comic fandom as the guy who wrote the bios for the action figures, as the guy who took what could have been a rather silly and...
View Article“New” Star Trek series blasts off in September
IDW is going to head up the continuing adventures of the “alternate universe” crew of the Enterprise, spinning off from the 2009 movie. The best part is that they will be filling in the gaps left...
View ArticleYour fictional robots are not humans but should have human qualities
From a February 2007 interview with James Roberts by TransFans.co.uk: There is a danger of making a Transformer too human; ultimately, they are alien life-forms, and robotic ones at that. But the TF...
View ArticleIDW Transformers stuck in a post-war loop continuity
From Enders Non-Spoiler Written Review of RID #15: I’m a big proponent of having “The War” in my G1 Comics. Personally I think the Cybertronian civil war is at it’s most exciting when it’s more like...
View ArticleTMNT Entity, as a blog of note
In my ongoing pedantry I’ve been stuck on the idea (since I learned of it, probably from Elliot S. Maggin’s Superman novel Miracle Monday, I think) that the word “fan” meant “fanatic”, which meant...
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