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Comic Cuts - Upcoming Books More upcoming comic books. I've not covered Classical Comics before so I've included a couple of titles already in print. I have to say that the adaptation of Jane Eyre looks like John M. Burns at his best and, if you buy nothing else, give that one a try to persuade the company to let him loose on more adaptations.

Project Superpowers #0-#3 By Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, Doug Kaluba, Stephen Sadowski, Carlos Paul, Andy Smith, and Various #0: $1.00, #1-3: $2.99 each, FCBD: Free Published by Dynamite Entertainment Two series’ launched recently with very, very similar premises: Forgotten heroes from the Golden

I just got home from a night out with Auntie Emma, Uncle Ding and his niece and nephew. As I sit here at the computer, for the life of me I can't remember their names. Boo me. We all had dinner at California Pizza Kitchen were Auntie Emma insisted they had the best tiramisu she had ever tasted.

I could do some very bad things with this picture in Photoshop. Zenescope was there representin with some of their gals. I bought the zero issue of 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad. Here's Arthur Suydam. He's the guy that's done all those wonderful zombie covers.

A chubby guy named ‘Spidermanav’ pops ‘n locks to ‘Billie Jean’ in a skull cap, and he cracks me up:

A telephone made from soup cans and string was an amazing thing when it was first shown to me. It was the kind of thing that made you believe magic was real. It was a lot of fun to play with until we got walkie talkies. Being able to talk around corners turned out to be much cooler.

from the FINAL CRISIS: SKETCHBOOK Of course Grant Morrison would create a character called "Shy Crazy Lolita Canary" who is part of "Japan's number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team" (Final Crisis #2). Nabokov via Japanese Lolita Culture say hello to the DC Universe.

Hasbro’s Mighty Muggs series has been turning classic characters from Star Wars, Marvel Comics, and Indiana Jones into fantastically super-D action figures. Here’s a look at the next wave of Star Wars Muggs announced, based on The Clone Wars, the upcoming theatrical movie!

I don’t often write about comics here. But I had to bring up a couple skeins that caught my eye from the Marvel Universe. I’ve read all the issues of Runaways, out of a combination of following Brian Vaughn and following one-time guest stars Cloak & Dagger.

scene from Punisher: Force of Nature (By Swierczynski and Lacombe) The “Coast Guard Cocktail” is a sea-sickness remedy of legendary fame. Like many legends, it’s not entirely clear how much is truth, and how much is myth. I’ve seen many references to the cocktail, but I’ve never met anyone who’s actually taken it.