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Scott Kurtz’s ‘PvP’ Webcomic Earns Money with Product Placement Deal
Filed under: Webcomics, Culture
Ask anyone in the know whether it's possible to be a successful cartoonist in this day and age -- online or otherwise -- and one title will pop up time and time again, Scott Kurtz's PvP. Over the past 13 years the Eis... [read more]
‘Captain America’ Criticism And OS X Lion Issues In Today’s Twitter Report
As excited as many Mac users were for the arrival of OS X Lion last week, "Plants vs. Zombies" lovers got a rude awakening if they tried running the game on their new operating system. John Layman, for one, called out with a Darth Vaderian parade of exclamation points when [read more]
‘Duke Nukem Forever,’ Leonard Stern, And ‘Game of Thrones’ In Today’s Twitter Report
The world lost a a treasure this week with the passing of Mad Libs creator Leonard B. Stern. Joe Kelly, among others, expressed his thanks to the man, and we at the Report here echo those words.
On another surprising (yet decidedly more upbeat) note, "Duke Nukem Forever" actually appears to [read more]
‘Angry Birds’ Ads, ‘American Idol’ Reactions, And Foo Fighters In Today’s Twitter Report
Unhappy with the advertisements that have been showing up while you play "Angry Birds"? It sounds like you have a friend in Nathan Fillion, as he's been writing out some formal tweets to the game's makers complaining about what's been appearing on his screen.
Andy Diggle voiced some concerns as well [read more]
Julian Assange Criticism, ‘Yogi Bear’ Reactions, And ‘Black Swan’ In Today’s Twitter Report
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the new "Yogi Bear" movie continue to be the most controversial topics in trending Twitter discussions today. Warren Ellis sounded off with his assessment of Assange yesterday, while Paul Dini offered up some advice for Yogi's animators.
"Black Swan," by contrast seems to be almost universally [read more]
‘Thor’s Hamner,’ Prince Charles, And Singapore TGCC In Today’s Twitter Report
Tony Moore's got big supporter on Twitter in his fellow Robert Kirkman collaborator Ryan Ottley, who made a public plea today get Marvel to let Moore do more Venom covers. I don't know that there was an official Marvel response to that request, but the publisher's envoy to Singapore has [read more]
Time Travelers, Halloween Costumes, And Justin Bieber In Today’s Twitter Report
Time traveler theories about a woman suspected of carrying a cellphone in footage of a Charlie Chaplin film premiere this week got the collective Internet's imagination running wild. Dave Gibbons sought to assure everyone that that time travel is definitely not possible, though — even if Bryan Hitch found a [read more]
New York Comic Con Chaos, Steven Seagal, And ‘X-Force’ Variant Covers In Today’s Twitter Report
Convention seasons are always fun because the pre-show hustles through airports and hotels get comics creators tweeting about what annoys them the most. Whether it's alarm clocks, body odor or people in general, Rick Remender, Scott Kurtz and Cameron Stewart have all been prepping for New York Comic Con, and [read more]
TWITTER REPORT: Glenn Beck, North Korea, And The Harvey Awards
Scott Kurtz has been preparing his lines for the Harvey Awards ceremony Saturday in conjunction with Baltimore Comic-Con. He's setting a high bar for himself, too, since he predicts that he'll be booed off the stage for at least one joke. Glenn Beck will also be attracting attention on Saturday [read more]
TWITTER REPORT: HPOA Girl As Comics, The JetBlue Attendant, And Rob Liefeld’s Deadpool Plea
A girl named Jenny showed up on the Internet yesterday quitting her job on a white board after her boss called her a "HPOA," and Twitter's collective suspicions were immediately raised. Today, the whole hoax was outed with a follow-up post on theCHIVE, but Scott McCloud still loved it and [read more]
Scott Kurtz and PvP leave Image Comics
TWITTER REPORT: R.I.P. Harvey Pekar, A Double Rainbow, And Harvey Award Nominations
The Harvey Awards, whose nominations for the year have been making the rounds today, may have been named for Harvey Kurtzman, but Harvey Pekar, another comics luminary, shook the Twitter Report feed this morning as news of his death at the age of 70 broke.
Elsewhere, a more cheerful coincidence occurred [read more]
TWITTER REPORT: J-Lo, The World Cup, And Retailer Power Over Marvel
J-Lo made headlines during her MTV Movie Awards appearance Sunday, but she could find herself in a comic book as well. An accident on an airplane may have forever altered the course of a script Jeff Parker was working on if his tweets are to be believed.
You can definitely believe [read more]