INAPAK: The Ultimate Chocolate Drink!

Bosco?

Bah!

Quik?

Crap!

Ovaltine?

Ewww!

You want serious chocolate flavor in your milk?

It must be true!

Major Inapak says so!

And Major Inapak wouldn't lie!

In fact, he uses science to prove his point...

Major Inapak returns to tell the Youth of America what to do...

You'll pardon me while I run out to the supermarket to get a box!

Be back tomorrow for more on...Inapak!

YouTube Wednesday: JOHN CARTER...Hit or Disaster?

Don't worry, John! We'll dig our way out of this hole!

The BBC's news/entertainment division did this piece about John Carter's less than stellar box-office...

...giving it a less-than stellar future.
Odd since JC has done over $125 million overseas, opened with over $10 million in China, and has yet to open in Japan, a strong market for films featuring sci-fi/fantasy and retro high-adventure (the two themes of JC)!
Personally, I think it'll end up doing very well on DVD/Blu-Ray, PPV, and 'net streaming, picking up the audience it didn't get in theatres.
Personally, I blame the marketing; terrible posters, trailers and commercials that didn't play up the "Carter was the FIRST!" concept and the whole "this is kool" idea, and, stupidiest of all, naming the flick the almost-useless "John Carter" instead of "John Carter and the Princess of Mars".
(Hey, "Hero and Plot Element" titles worked for Harry Potter and Indiana Jones!
Why not here?)

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The Shadow Returns...

With our favorite retro publisher, Dynamite Publishing, returning The Shadow to action...

...we thought we would re-present some of the earlier versions of He Who Knows What Evil Lurks...

...so check out Crime & Punishment™ for the 1970s version in a never-reprinted tale, as well as other Bronze Age stories of the original Dark Knight...

...Hero & Heroine Histories™, where The Shadow's never-reprinted, wacky Silver Age adventures can be found...

...and see the HTF, also never-reprinted, 1995 movie adaptation by Mike Kaluta at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video™!
The Weed of Comics Bears Unusual Fruit!

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Nerdist SpaceMan Stuff Sale!

With the creation of the Nerdist YouTube Channel...

...we're celebrating with a sale on collectibles featuring the most interesting visual on the set of their new BBC-TV series The Nerdist.

Like it's counterpart on the wall of Sheldon and Leonard's apartment in The Big Bang Theory (Click HERE for that art), it's based on a classic cover from the Golden Age.
This particular image is from Ace Comics' Space Action #2, published in 1952, 60 years ago!

And here's the really weird thing...it has nothing to do with any of the stories in the comic!
Yes, it's the old "this scene on the cover does not occur on the inside" trick!
As to who the artist is, there's speculation it's either Lou Cameron or Matt Fox, both of whom had considerable sci-fi experience.

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John Carter & Gullivar Jones...TOGETHER..sorta!

Though they worked together in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2...

...a new mini-series, Warriors of Mars, pits John Carter and his predecessor on Mars, Gullivar Jones, against each other (at least initially)!

The two end up working together (and sharing the same tailor)...

...as the mini-series attempts to combine the two different versions of Mars into one coherent world!

Will they succeed?

I'll tell you after #5.