Attendees of Top Shelf’s tenth anniversary party, held this past weekend during MoCCAFest, were forced to carry the celebration onto the street after the air conditioner at the bar blew out. Reports from those who were present indicate the mood was still jovial and people had a great time despite the setback.
In related news, Jeffrey Brown’s new graphic novel is expected by the end of the year.
Kobe, Japan is getting a life-sized Gigantor memorial. Based on the most popular creation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who was born in Kobe, the nearly-60-feet-tall statue will serve to mark his birthplace and help celebrate the revitalization of Kobe after the 1995 earthquale that leveled the city.
Rumors that the statue will also serve as a defense system against Kyoto’s rumored Mazinger Z sculpture have been neither confirmed or denied.
Last week, Sony and MySpace announced the Minisode network, an online classic TV channel that features condensed versions of such classics as like Who’s The Boss?, Charlie’s Angels and What’s Happening!!. Sony insists that the original plots and humor are still intact, despite the reduction in running times.
DC has announced a similar plan for their some of the imprint’s longer-running, yet finite series. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher will be repackaged into a single trade paperback entitled Preacher: Bodily Mutilations, Talking To God, and Vampires. The Brian Azzarrello crime saga 100 Bullets, which is drawn by Eduardo Risso, will see two bookshelf releases: Cussin’ and Naked Chicks when the series wraps up in late 2007.
Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan will be replaced with a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
A Newsarama interview with Robert Kirkman about the cancellation of The Irredeemable Ant-Man has garnered over 100 comments showing support for the title.
