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Winter storm causes interruptions for Diamond Distribution

Media Release -- A major storm has hit the east coast, and interrupted operations for PREVIEWSworld.com, Toychestnews.com, Comicshoplocator.com, and other sister company and retailer web sites. Employees are still digging out from the weekend's blizzard-like conditions that paralyzed Washington D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia and most of New Jersey on Saturday. Read more
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Baltimore Comic-Con at the VA COMICON

Media Release -- The Baltimore Comic-Con is passing along the following press release from our friend and Harvey Awards sponsor VA COMICON, as we will be making a panel appearance during the show! Please join us at 2:30pm on Saturday, November 21st as Marc Nathan, founder and promoter of the Baltimore Comic-Con joins Shelton Drumm of Heroes Con to discuss inside information about comic conventions as well as surprise announcements! Read more
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Baltimore Comic-Con says ‘thanks’ for a great 10th Anniversary

Media Release -- The 2009 Baltimore Comic-Con would like to take a moment to thank all of our exhibitors, guests, and staff for contributing to what was a spectacular celebration of our 10th anniversary. As anyone attending can attest, our 10th annual show had both record size and record attendance, and we've been gratified to see all of the positive write-ups from press, pros, and the public at large. Read more
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‘30 Days Of Night’ Creator Wants Melissa George To Return For Sequel

The fact that " 30 Days of Night " wasn't a smashing success at the box office isn't necessarily an indicator that a sequel film is off limits—on the contrary, a follow-up to the comic book adaptation is about to go into production . Any day now, " 30 Days of Night: Dark Days " will start shooting in Vancouver with director Ben Ketai at the helm. "30 Days of Night" creator Steve Niles attended Baltimore Comic-Con this past weekend and spoke with Comics Continuum about the upcoming movi
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Aspen President Offers ‘Soulfire,’ ‘Dellec’ And ‘Executive Assistant: Iris’ Movie Updates

Even though the Megan Fox -starring " Fathom " is currently Aspen MLT's highest-profile comic book adaptation, it's certainly not the only leap from paneled page to film reel that the comic publisher has in the works. Aspen president Frank Mastromauro spoke with Comics Continuum at this past weekend's Baltimore Comic-Con and offered updates on some of the publisher's non-"Fathom" properties. Specifically, Mastromauro said there is plenty of movement on " Soulfire ," a comic book that foc
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Brian Bendis Says ‘Thor’ Script Is ‘Very, Very Good’

During a panel at last weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con, "New Avengers" writer Brian Michael Bendis fielded some questions about the upcoming slate of Marvel movies and offered a ringing endorsement of the script for Kenneth Branagh's upcoming "Thor" movie "I was reading the new script just last night," Bendis told fans, according to a ComicBookResources report on the event. "[It was] very, very good." Bendis’ comments came shortly after a G4 interview in which he stated that the "Thor" movi
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The Question to Relaunch, Blackest Night #6 Will See Release on December 30th

Posted by: Maggie_C on: October 12, 2009 In: NewsComment! At High Five! we’re usually more into goofing off than reporting industry news, but the DC news out of Baltimore is pretty awesome, so I’m going to chatter about it a bit.From CBR’s article on the Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore:DC Comics took the stage to wrap the event with VP of Sales and Marketing Bob Wayne quickly announcing that the publisher would take advantage of its “Blackest Night” skip month by resurrecting a slew of form
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Dollhouse: Prepare For The Comic Book Active [Dollhouse]

Ratings for the television incarnation of Dollhouse saw a 25 percent uptick , but remain perilously close to the danger zone. But news from this weekend's Baltimore Comic Con suggests the show may have comic-book life after potential death after all. During Dark Horse Comics' Buffy The Vampire Slayer panel, editor Scott Allie said that Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon had reversed his previous "No Dollhouse comic" stance: Dollhouse? There's a chance... When Joss first told me he
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Frank Cho Announces 50Girls50 Finalists at BCC

Frank Cho announced the finalists in 50Girls50 artist search over the weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con. Here they are: Alex Medelin, Allan Otero, Andrew Paul, Brett Barkley, Dagu Yu, Erich Owen, Joel Carpenter, Kame House, MILX [a user name] and Tommaso Renieri. “It’s kind of like ‘Star Trek,’” Cho said of the book’s plot at the Image BCC panel. “The earth is dying and an all-female crew is looking for different planets for resources to save earth
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Straight Outta Baltimore – Part One

Zuda at the Harveys - photo by kwanzer Baltimore means three things to me. The Diamond Comics warehouse, The Wire TV series (sometimes I merge the two and imagine Omar in charge of stacking pallettes of Dungeons & Dragons. “It’s all in the game…”) and the Baltimore Comic Con. But despite this tweet ; Now at the marriot bar waiting for the harveys to let out. Saw fraction and I believe rich johnston. I wasn’t there.
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