Comic Related's MySpace Blog

Just in case you haven't stopped by CR since our last blog, you should know that we've continued to move forward! Recently we launched the beta version of our webcomic archive, which you can find here:

http://comicrelated.com/webcomics.php

We are also in the process of updating our Films section. There's not much to look at right now, but very soon this will take on a blog feel with trailers and official sites linked on the right. I've seen the "in progress" page and it looks great!

http://www.comicrelated.com/films.php

In the meantime, we've posted some stories that will be directly linked from the Films section:

The Surrogates

Films@CR The first of many new film trailer pages tracking a full slate of upcoming related genera films

Green Lantern: First Flight

Films@CR As we launch the new film area, animation like Green Lantern: First Flight will also be a focus

G.I. Joe

Films@CR We can't forget the G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra trailer as we continue toward today's launch

Astro Boy

Films@CR Astro Boy's trailer page launches as we prepare for the unveil of our new tv, film and animation page later today

Also, soon, new companies and creators will be added to our hosted forums! Including Red Handed Studios, which is run by Cary Kelley, who got married this past weekend, so congratulations to him!

Zone 4's Cary Kelley Married

And aside from all that goodness, we've continued posting daily content including new columns, reviews, podcasts, stories and more!

Be sure to bookmark www.comicrelated.com and make it one of your daily stops! We promise you things will continue to develop at CR. As Chuck Moore said, he had a 10 year plan for the site and the entire plan happened in about a year. So now we're going above and beyond and are planning to be a comic news site to be reckoned with. Listen to the latest Related Recap to learn more about that!

The Related Recap #124

S.P.A.C.E. Returns! First we talk Comic Related then we return to the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Things Are Poppin' at the New CR!
Current mood:

adventurous

I know it's been a while since our last post, but so much has been going on and so much about to happen.

First of all, if you haven't been to the site in a while you've been missing out on a TON of stuff.

You are probably familiar by now with the mainstay podcast on the site, The Related Recap, which was a weekly show, but is now multiple times a week. But in addition to that CR now has a whole podcasting network!

We have THREE separate feeds. We have the main feed, which plays host to The Related Recap and the weekly review show, Why I Love Comics.

Then there's the news feed, which plays host to the daily Related Warp Wrap and the occasional Outside the Panels. The Warp Wrap recaps the previous day's news and throws in a few tidbits from the archive from time to time, while the Outside the Panels one mentions recent headlines. Both are relatively short 'casts.

And finally there's the Zone 4 feed, which hosts the Zone 4 podcast and the upcoming weekly in depth Zone 4 Reviews show. The main podcast is new every Friday and is basically four comic fans/creators talking about various topics each week. We've got a guy in Australia, a guy in Chicago, a guy in Kentucky and a guy who floats between Texas, the Gulf of Mexico and overseas!

If the new podcasts aren't enough, though, CR has recently launched webcomics! Beginning on Free Comic Book Day and over the course of that next week we launched four strips: It's All Related, Killer Robots Love You, D34D L4$T, and I'm Not From Here. And very soon there will be a portal on the home page that will take you directly to the archives of all of these. These are all weekly strips and are each just about three installments in, or will be by Friday.

We've also launched an updated blog section with our Comic Tech blog taking center stage, framed by all the other blogs available on CR.

We have begun posting monthly solicitations finally, and we are priding ourselves on having the best ones out there. Check out a few from this month to see why we make this cl..

Marvel for August
DC for August
Image for August

And finally, just today we have added COMMENTS to ALL stories! And the cool thing is you don't have to sign up to leave a comment! If you have a Facebook or Twitter account you can use those. If you are already logged in you don't have to do anything but post and click the Twitter or FB button! Easy as can be!

So now you can leave your thoughts on the many stories CR puts out daily now.

There is just so much fun stuff going on over at CR you owe it to yourself to go check it out.

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Gem City Comic Con

We're pleased to announce that we will not only be attending Gem City, we'll have a table at the show. I want to to thank show promoter Jesse Noble for treating CR like family. We're looking forward to returning that favor as we cover the show. If you plan to be in Dayton, stop by our table and say hello!

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Friday, February 20, 2009

Long Awaited Update
Current mood:

adventurous

Hey folks, I know it's been a while since our last update, but things have been crazy. Between all the NYCC coverage we got to all the stuff upcoming, and everything in between we've just been so busy. But in case you haven't been checking the site out daily, we wanted to give you a taste of some of the stuff you've been missing!

NYCC was a whirlwind, and we didn't quite get all the content up as fast as we would have liked. Because of this we are rethinking our onsite convention coverage strategy. We want to be able to update you in real time as much as possible, but we just got overwhelmed this time around. The good news is we've been rolling out tons of audio and video interviews with some pretty cool creators from Dan Jurgens to Brian Michael Bendis!

Here's some highlights from our NYCC coverage:

Related Recap Podcasts

The Related Recap #65
New York Comic Con We sit down with Russell Burlingame, Eric Ratcliffe and Bill Love looking ahead to the upcoming show

The Related Recap #66
New York Comic Con Brian Michael Bendis, Bob Burden, Ted Sikora, David Peterson, Len Kody, Jenny Frison

The Related Recap #67
New York Comic Con Kevin Freeman, Stan Yan, Michael Bracco, Lauren Monardo, Jim Simeno, Barbara Kesel

The Related Recap #68
New York Comic Con Jason Burns, HC Noel, Scott Wegener, Robert Venditti, Rob Kutner

The Related Recap #69
New York Comic Con Miss Lasko Gross, Claudio Sanchez, Michael Lapinski, Joe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura and Caleb Monroe

The Related Recap #70
New York Comic Con Sean Wang, Joshua Dysart, Comic Anthology Project, Michael Furn, Michael Ahern, Sean McKeever

The Related Recap #71
New York Comic Con Stephen Lindsay, Tony Bedard, C. Edward Sellner, Todd Dezago and Brahm Revel

The Related Recap #72
New York Comic Con Rich Koslowski, David Michael Beck, Jimmy Gownley, Christian Slade, Blake Leibel

The Related Recap #73
New York Comic Con Jim McCann, Edward Summer, Mike Dawson, Trevor Roth, Lewis Lazarow

The Related Recap #74
New York Comic Con Everett Soares, Terrence Bernard, Chris Hebert, Ron Marz, Ken Gale, Samuel Vera

The Related Recap #75
New York Comic Con Tim Seeley, Hector Rodriguez, John Thornton, Ryan Sohmer, Rob Tracy, Dumok

And if that's not enough, we still have two more NYCC podcasts to roll out this weekend!

Video Coverage:

Talking with Terry Moore
NYCC Video Terry Moore sat down with Russell Burlingame for a chat about Echo and New York Comic Con

Airship 27 at NYCC
NYCC Video Earbender Talks Airship 27 with Ron Fortier direct from the heart of podcast alley at New York Comic Con

Talking with Dan Jurgens
NYCC Video Dan Jurgens sits down with Russell Burlingame for a special video edition of The Gold Exchange

Talking To Lauren Mondaro
NYCC Video Zach Roberts Talks With Lauren Monardo About The Slightly Askew Adventures of Inspector Ham and Eggs

Talking With TiTo Na Rua
NYCC Video Zach Roberts Talks With TiTo Na Rua About Burnside, the Valentine Blizzard

Talking to Ken Marcus
NYCC Video Zach Roberts Talks With Super Human Resources Creator and Friend of Comic Related Ken Marcus

Pulp Fiction Revival
NYCC Video Ron Fortier chats with the Daily GalleyCat about how the Recession could breed a Pulp Fiction Revival

We've also had several new columns posted and daily reviews. Check all of them out at these links:

http://www.comicrelated.com/columns.php
http://www.comicrelated.com/reviews.php

Plus we've had amazing continued On The Set coverage from our insider from the Watchmen movie set! The latest:

http://www.comicrelated.com/display.php?item=797

Recently we've had "We're Not There" coverage of Toy Fair, thanks to Scott D.M. Simmons:

Scott D.M. Simmons shares all the latest links in a mix of outstanding "We're Not There" Toy Fair coverage

Toy Fair 2009 - Day 1

Toy Fair 2009 - Day 2

Toy Fair 2009 - Day 3

Toy Fair 2009 - Day 4

And if all that's not enough, we've had a TON of activity in the forums with news stories posted from all the major and minor companies, including monthly solicitations, previews and press releases, as well as current discussions about upcoming films and ongoing television shows and so much more!

Not to mention we recently added Ape Entertainment and Atomic Pop Art Entertainment to our hosted forums section!

If you're not checking out Comic Related daily you're missing out on so much.

Remember, if it's Comic Related, you'll find it here...

www.comicrelated.com

Currently listening:
The Yellow Belts

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

More NYCC Photos and Interviews!

If you haven't been following the updates, we've been doling them out since returning from the con, and we'll continue to until we've run through all the coverage we stacked up!

So far we've posted several photo floods and four podcasts chock full with very cool interviews. Here's the latest Photo Flood, and check out the rest below:

The Related Recap #69
New York Comic Con Miss Lasko Gross, Claudio Sanchez, Michael Lapinski, Joe Kelly, JM Ken Niimura and Caleb Monroe

NYCC Photo Flood Begins
NYCC Photos Russell returns with the first of an ongoing series of photos from New York Comic Con

The Related Recap #68
New York Comic Con Jason Burns, HC Noel, Scott Wegener, Robert Venditti, Rob Kutner

Dave & Busters Pre-Party
NYCC Photos Russell stopped by Dave and Busters for the NYCC Pre-Party and we share the photos

Airship 27 at NYCC
NYCC Video Earbender Talks Airship 27 with Ron Fortier direct from the heart of podcast alley at New York Comic Con

The Related Recap #67
New York Comic Con Kevin Freeman, Stan Yan, Michael Bracco, Lauren Monardo, Jim Simeno, Barbara Kesel

Sunday at NYCC
The final day of New York Comic Con proved as busy as the two that went before as we interviewed, networked and had fun

Saturday at NYCC
It was a wild day as New York Comic Con saw a sell out crowd and a crush of people here at the CR table

Talking with Terry Moore
NYCC Video Terry Moore sat down with Russell Burlingame for a chat about Echo and New York Comic Con

NYCC Welcome Vid
NYCC Video We're please to kick off our video coverage with a fun little New York welcome from our crew!

The Related Recap #66
New York Comic Con Brian Michael Bendis, Bob Burden, Ted Sikora, David Peterson, Len Kody, Jenny Frison

The coverage begins!
Friday at New York Comic Con proved to be a day that was dominated by visitors at our table... basically New York Won!

www.comicrelated.com

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Sunday, February 08, 2009

Sunday NYCC Coverage Has Begun!

The con may have beaten us in the beginning, but we have TONS of content that will flow in today and throughout the week. We're still learning and growing, so bear with us, but we think you'll forgive the slow movement of content once you see the content really start to flow in.

Yesterday we managed to post the first Related Recap Podcast (#66) with interviews with Brian Michael Bendis, Bob Burden, Ted Sikora, David Peterson, Len Kody, and Jenny Frison.

We also posted some photos from the show.

Today we have a video interview with TERRY MOORE!

And that image you see above? That's the three tables Comic Related had at the show, and they were swamped with people all weekend long! On the left we have the legend Ron Fortier. On the right is Chuck Moore's lovely wife Katie talking about ComicsXP. And in the middle is the main podcast locale for Comic Related.

This has been a fun show and it's not over yet! Stay Tuned!

www.comicrelated.com

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Saturday, February 07, 2009

Bear With Us...

We haven't put up much content from NYCC just yet, but it's not for lack of trying. We have staff at the con running all over the place doing tons of interviews and taking tons of photos. Our first interview? BENDIS!

Before you know it, though, podcasts, pictures and coverage will begin going live on the site. We have some from yesterday up there, but over the weekend we'll be adding to it in plenty.

In the meantime, we have a thread on the forums covering some interesting Twitter comments from people present at the con. Check it out here.

www.comicrelated.com

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Friday, February 06, 2009

NEW YORK COMIC-CON: Friday Coverage!

On the main page of the site (www.comicrelated.com) you see a spotlight image right under the navigation bar. If you click it you will be taken to Comic Related's live on-site coverage of New York Comic-Con 2009! Keep checking that spot throughout the day and the weekend for continued coverage!

What's there now:

1:34 PM - From the show floor of New York Comic Con

We're firing up the coverage! We're going to be live blogging here all weekend right under the spotlight image. Here's the plan. From this page we will add a photo feed and an archive highlighting all the main site stories. I'm pleased to report that the Comic Related booth has been flooded with visitors and that has actually delayed the launch of our coverage just a bit.

The show floor was filled with guests well before the doors opened at 1:00 PM. As I type this first update, the show floor is filling fast as we build toward the launch of the show.

Just a bit of a tease... Our first interview of the weekend... Bendis!

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

NEW YORK COMIC CON: Game On!

Comic related is in NYC for the New York Comic-Con! Full coverage is coming soon, so keep it tuned to www.comicrelated.com!

Check out our initial announcement here:
http://www.comicrelated.com/display.php?item=709

We'll keep you covered with "from the floor" coverage all weekend long, and podcasts and much more after the con is over! This is going to be an exciting kick-off to the 2009 Convention Season!

Join Comic Related for all of it!

www.comicrelated.com

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Friday, January 23, 2009

Comic Related's New Forum Design is Live!

After all the hard work Eric Adams of Turnstyle Creative and Lackluster World put in, the new look for our forums is now up and running!

The new skin for the forums serves as an excellent supplement to the main site, and really feels like just an extension of the site itself. We are very excited with the new forums and all the upcoming growth within them and beyond.

Speaking of that growth, very soon we'll be welcoming two new groups to our forums in Ape Entertainment and Comics XP! We've talked about both for a while, but now that the new forums are up we're really looking forward to integrating them and having some new faces around to chat with!

If you are a creator or a publisher and don't have your own forums come and take a look at the boards and consider bringing your voice and projects to Comic Related. We're always interested in finding new friends to talk comics and everything else with.

These are exciting times for Comic Related, and the good times keep rollin'!

www.comicrelated.com

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

This Week on Comic Related

Back again giving you a rundown of the latest stories run on the Comic Related website. If you haven't checked them out yet head on over and see what you missed!

Also, if you didn't catch part two and three of the first ever Comic Related Related Recap Round Table Discussion, then you can find them here:

The Related Recap #61
The Related Recap #62

Here's some highlights of this past week's stories:

What's Perhappenin'?

Todd Dezago joins Russ as the Perhapanauts returns with #5... This one is filled with Choppie goodness as a story arc concludes

Watchmensch In March

Rich Johnston and Simon Rohrmuller weave a complex and multi-layered tale of New York copyright and trademark lawyers

The Gold Exchange

Dan Jurgens is back with Booster Gold #16 and Russell Burlingame sits down with the creator to compare notes

Race & Gender in Comics

New Column We welcome Sean Collins new column examining how race and gender has been handled in the history of comics

Hero Arrives In New York

Original works by comics' luminaries will go to the highest bidders in a New York Comic Con auction to benefit The Hero Initiative

Prodigy Reborn

Bill Gladman discusses the Death (and Rebirth) of Prodigy, it's the Best Laid Plans of Mice And Men... and all that

TV Party: Birds of Prey

Gordon discusses the Birds of Prey TV series and finds a show that never quite decided what it wanted to be

Journey of a Wannabe

Brant Fowler returns to his new column and talks about a rekindling as he continues his journey as a creator

GAPO@Comic Related

Starting Saturday, Comic Related will begin running classic GAPO The Clown strips every Saturday

Learning the Craft: Writing

C. Edward Sellner's Catching A Vision returns and starts with plot and scripting letting writing serve as the first stop

A Week in Comics

Eric Ratcliffe looks at a week's worth of comics and shares advice on what to buy and what to leave on the rack

Project: Rooftop's Batman

Project: Rooftop and Rogues Gallery presents "Batman 2.0: The Dynamic Do-Over" Contest

The Frog Princess

eigoMANGA LLC and Visionary Comics Studio announces The Frog Princess from Jeff Loew and Rie Ikaza

Archaia Wait Is Over

The Archaia Wait Is Now Over! Gunnerkrigg Court, Devil's Panties and the Mouse Guard RPG in Stores

Pulp Arrives in NY

Ron Fortier will be a special guest of Comic Related at New York Comic Con and he's also part in the show's Pulp Panel

Alterna FCBD Debut

Alterna Makes Their Free Comic Book Day Debut with Attack of the Alterna Zombies (plus over 60 pages of previews)

Small Press Idol

Organizer Ian Shires shares the very latest on Small Press Idol 2009 and the opportunities it offers

Barrowman's Torchwood

John Barrowman Collaborates on an Original Torchwood Comic Story in issue #14 of Torchwood Magazine

SPACE Prize Announced

From the books which were collected for the Day Prize at SPACE 2008, coordinators of the event announce the 2008 SPACE Prize

Prove You're A Proof Freak

Prove you're a Proof Freak and you can win a contest that allows fans the chance to become a Proof freak!

Fangs & Wings@Wild Wolf

Here the fabled Daughter of Dracula meets, falls in love with, seduces, and then attempts to turn the infamous Red Baron

Caroline Kennedy Featured

Continuing its series featuring influential and iconic women, Bluewater unveils the next subject of its Female Force comic

The Gwaii A Staff Pick

Tanu is a sasquatch lost in the Canadian wilderness who must face his fears to find clues that will lead him to his mother

Dark Horse Best of '08

There are many "Best Of" lists on the web, but Dark Horse wants to point out a few titles that keep coming up, list after list.

And There You Are

Pixar artist Ronnie del Carmen documents the life of fan-favorite muse Nina within the pages of And There You Are

Four Color Comic Amigos

Bill and Eric team up for a Life In Four Colors where we find that "you ain't never had a friend like me"

Ape Is Coming

Acclaimed comic publisher Ape Entertainment will soon join the community of Comic Related

www.comicrelated.com

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Comic Related's Related Recap
Current mood:

cheerful

In case you don't know or are behind on episodes, Comic Related's own podcast, The Related Recap is still going strong and has been for nearly 10 months now! We just hit our 60th podcast in fact with two more to hit the site this week!

Typically The Related Recap is a weekly podcast featuring interviews, comic discussion, updates on the site, convention planning and much more. This week we changed the format a little and had our first of many round table discussions.

This particular podcast was split into three parts as it went in excess of three hours! The first one features a discussion on favorite titles of 2008.

Check it out here: The Related Recap #60

Round Table Podcast In this first of three nightly shows, Eric, John and Chuck look at their best comics of 2008

Be sure to check back later today for part two, then Friday for part three.

And if you've missed any of the past Related Recaps, well, we're still working on the archive page, but for now you can find them all here via our RSS feed:

http://comicrelated.libsyn.com/rss

You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes using that feed in the "Subscribe to Podcast" popup box!

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