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It’s Wednesday, so new comic book day!  What’s everyone getting?  While you ponder that, here’s the news you might have missed.

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The Mary Sue – Introducing DC Comics License Plates (Yah!), Available Only In Australia (Boo!) – Who do I need to lobby to make this happen in Virginia?

Comics Alliance – Cartoonist Susie Cagle on Her Tear Gassing and Arrest While Covering Occupy Oakland [Interview] – Interesting stuff.

Bleeding Cool – Read Julie Taymor’s Lawsuit Against The Spider-Man Producers In Full – I could make jokes, but I spent most the year making fun of the musical itself.

GamePolitics – DCUO Continues Massive Growth as F2P Game – Maybe I’ll finally play?  But, congrats!

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Thankfully I didn’t go see the midnight showing of Transformers 3, instead choosing the 9pm.  I’m thankful because that means I didn’t lose sleep along with my $15.  This has to be one of the worst films of the summer so far, and that says a lot in the summer of disappointments.  Our full review later.

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ICv2 – Spidey Musical Playing to Packed Houses – I see this one sticking around for a bit, but not ever being profitable.

ICv2 – The Top Ten Box Office Duds of 2011 So Far – You can add Transformers 3 to this (I hope).

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Good Comic Books – G.I. Joe: Cobra Civil War #1

Geekweek – The Homeland Directive

Graphic Novel Reviews – Pride and Prejudice

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Today is Father’s Day, congrats to all the days out there!  Also, if you’re in the Washington, DC area today is the DC Comicon at the GMU campus.  While you were pondering what to get your dad, here’s the news you might have missed.

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The Beat – THE LEGAL VIEW: Super-style and the DCU Relaunch – We’ll soon find out the changes, and it’ll be interesting to see what we can attribute to the ongoing legal proceedings.

ArtsBeat – Taymor Calls New ‘Spider-Man’ Much Simpler – No one said she couldn’t comment as part of her departure?

CapeTown Community – What Consumers Should Know from the DC Retailer Roadshow – DC comics took to the road to talk to retailers about the upcoming reboot/relaunch.

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Seattle Pi – Modesty Blaise: The Double Agent

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So what comic books did you pick up yesterday?  Anything? Bueller?  Well, while you were watching game 7 of the Stanley Cup, here’s the news you might have missed.

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ArtsBeat – Untangling the Reviews For ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ – I don’t think reviews will kill this, Les Mis had horrible reviews when it debuted.  What’s the audience’s reaction?

ICv2 – Can ‘Green Lantern’ & Spidey Trump Bad Notices? – I don’t give a shit, I’m seeing both.

Kotaku – Week in Comics: Deus Ex, Gears of War, Sonic The Hedgehog Have One Thing in Common Today: New Comics – Kotaku each week highlights comics it thinks video game fans would enjoy.

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Bleeding Cool – Uncanny X-Men #538 and Generation Hope #8

Comicvine – Comic Book Reviews For The Week of 6/15/11

Complex – Has “Invincible Iron Man” Slowed Down After Three Great Years?

Union Takes on Spider-Man on Behalf of Taymor

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Spider-man Turn Off the DarkThis past Thursday the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society filed an arbitration claim on behalf of Julie Taymor, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark‘s original director.  The claim is over the failure to pay royalties to the director.  In a statement the union said to producers:

…failed to pay to Ms. Taymor any royalties for the run of the production” in violation of her contract and the union’s collective bargaining agreement. Laura Penn, the society’s executive director, said in the statement that Ms. Taymor “has given nine years of her life to this project” and its producers had “absolutely no right, legally and ethically, to withhold royalties that are due to her.” Ms. Penn added, “In fact, the right to use her work, on Broadway or anywhere else, is dependent upon the payment of royalties.

The union represents theater directors.  The union says that according to it’s collective bargaining agreement, directors are supposed to receive royalties with a show’s first paid public performance, which occurred in November for the Broadway musical.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Frozen (That’s a Good Thing)

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Spider-man Turn Off the DarkThe Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has hit a huge moment.  As of Wednesday night’s preview performance, its 177th, the musical is now an officially “frozen” production.  That’s a term that means there’ll be no more changes made.  After injuries, delays, cost over runs, plague, locusts, firings, the show is locked in.  The show according to Philip William McKinley, who is overseeing production of the musical, is good enough and improved enough for audiences and more changes are not needed.

That also means the musical is ready for theater critics.  Some critics have seen the production during it’s previous incarnation and came out blasting it for it’s craptacular everything.

The musical’s cost is now around $70 million and those involved are hoping for $1.7 million weekly to eventually break even.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Break Hasn’t Hurt

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Spider-man Turn Off the DarkIt seems a break hasn’t hurt the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.  It’s five preview performances last week after it’s hiatus brought in $809,941.  The production did five performances instead of the normal eight in it’s first week back.  Before it was shut down, the musical was regularly bringing in between $1.3 million and $1.5 million a week.

The top five musicals were:

  • Wicked – $1.607 million
  • The Lion King – $1.562 million
  • The Book of Mormon – $1.13 million
  • Jersey Boys – $1.061 million

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It was a pretty quiet Friday, but here’s the news and reviews you might have missed.  Thank god it’s the weekend!

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The Mary Sue – The Wonder Woman Pilot Has Not Been Picked Up For A Series – And thus my fall tv schedule completely falls apart…

Bleeding Cool – DC To Publish Only One Comic At The End Of August – Yay!  My wallet thanks you.

The Mary Sue – Amazing Spider-Man Writer Dan Slott Says the Revamped Musical Rocks – I’ll believe it when I see it for myself.  Then again, not like I can compare it to the original.

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Comic Book Resources – Batman Incorporated #6

IGN – The Magdalena #6

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (Now Retooled) is Back!

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After sacking the director, bringing in someone to help with the music and so other work, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is ready to resume previews.  Below is a new advertisement for the retooled show.  Will reviewers be more kind to this version?

The retooling saw another $5 million sunk into the disaster.  And new writers who were more familiar with comic books and a new director were brought into the plagued show.

I’m expecting more injuries and our making fun in 3…2…1…

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