Hey everybody, this is Mulele. Sorry to interrupt the story here but I’ll be taking a break for a month or so.
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Severin, Moebius, now DeZuniga. Another goddamn giant. It’s been a rough year. (Especially rough for Westerns when you think about it.)
KS
| Edvard Munch’s The Scream (1895).
Sold at Sothebys New York on 2 May, 2012 for $119,000,000.00 |
| Justin Green’s Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (1972).
Currently available on Etsy for $10.00 |
KS
I have a little bit of interest in seeing the Avengers movie (though I haven’t seen Captain America or Thor). However, I think that interest is generated by the current ubiquitous marketing. If I ride it out, like I did with Watchmen, eventually the urge will go away and I will practically forget the movie ever existed.
More importantly, I come down on the Kirby side here. Some people have come up with the idea of making a donation to the Hero Initiative or other comics-related charity equal to the ticket price after seeing the movie. That is something I would certainly do if I were to see it. Even if I “somehow” saw it for free.
However, Tom Spurgeon has pointed out in a post today, that the Avengers movie has taken in $683,000,000.00 , and so far the Hero Initiative has taken in $1,100.00 in movie-inspired donations.
I want to have some opinion on this, but Tom also ran another story today about this Iranian cartoonist who has been sentenced to 25 lashings for a caricature of a member of parliament, and it was considerably more alarming. I mean, if anyone ever needed avenging…
KS
