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Around the Tubes

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It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d everyone get? What’d you like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below!

While you mull that over, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Around the Tubes

The Beat – This week’s Bookscan chart is a wake-up call for the comics industry – Yes, yes it is.

Entertainment Weekly – Watchmen TV series in the works at HBO from Damon Lindelof – Well this could be interesting or a disaster.

CBLDF – Comic Explains Lebanon’s Censorship Problem – Check it out.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Comic Book Bin – All Time Comics: Bullwhip #1

Newsarama – Aquaman #25

CBR – Batman #25

Newsarama – Batman #25

The Beat – Citizen Justice

Comic Mix – Cleopatra in Space Book 4 The Golden Lion

Newsarama – Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man #1

CBR – Peter Parker: Spectacular Spider-Man #1

Newsarama – WMD: Weapons of Mutant Destruction #1

Lebanon’s Economic Ministry Calls for a Ban on Wonder Woman

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Spats between nations looks like a hurdle even Wonder Woman can’t deflect. Lebanon‘s economy ministry has asked the country’s security agency to ban Warner Bros.‘ Wonder Women which opens this week. The reason? Lead actress Gal Gadot is Israeli. The former request hasn’t been received as of this post.

Lebanon is officially at war with Israel and a decades-old law boycotts Israeli products and bars Lebanese citizens from traveling or having contact with Israelis. The war has flared up on and off of the years with a devastating volley in 2006 that left hundreds dead and damaged Lebanon’s infrastructure.

Gadot is Israeli and like many of its citizens, served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). She has also spoken out against the group Hamas who is considered by many to be a terrorist organization.

The ban requires a recommendation from a six-member committee from the Ministry of Economy, but that process hasn’t begun. The film is slated to open Wednesday and would be shown in at least one theater in Beirut.

Some members of the BDS movement have also attempted to build a boycott of the film. The “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement condemns Israeli policy towards Palestinians calling it “apartheid” and “settler-colonialism.” Some see the BDS movement as anti-Semitic.

(via Al Jazeera)