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Has Comic-Con sold its soul? And if it has, does anyone care? That’s the question hardcore fans are asking as this year’s 125,000 attendance San Diego Comic-Con comes to a close. If you listen to comic book dealers, they no longer feel loved at the event they effectively created back in 1970. Says Chuck Rozanski, [...]

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Chuck Rozanski is not very happy about this year’s comic mega-convention… The balance of focus at the San Diego Comic-Con has shifted from comics to film; as a result,a great many of us who sell comics are feeling as though we are beggars in our own house. Simply put, I view this struggle for the [...]

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Star Trek: The Experience is closing. The big-budget SF attraction, which has drawn Trekkers worldwide to the Las Vegas Hilton for the past eleven years, will fly its final mission on September 1. Then ST: The Experience, with its DS9 promenade of souvenir shops, and Quark’s Bar and Restaurant, will leave this planet for good. [...]

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When rock station Kerrang Radio lined up an interview with the distinguished ex-astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell, it was unaware of the internet feeding frenzy it was about to create. Mitchell, a veteran of the 1971 Apollo 14 mission and the last man to walk on the surface of the moon (allegedly, conspiracy theorists permitting) calmly [...]

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American comic book characters may well be stoking box-office fires, but the art form itself struggles to find readers. In Japan however, manga continues to reach an audience. According to data from the Research Institute for Publications, comic books represent over 30 per cent of the Japanese magazine industry. But while the art form remains [...]

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Chuck Rozanski reports from the world’s biggest comic convention… Some idiot deliberately ran into my rental van this morning. I wish that I could be more condemning of his foolishness, but after 45 minutes of sitting in gridlocked traffic in front of the San Diego convention center, all of us were getting more than a [...]

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