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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Comic Books / Film / SEX Comics News: Boilerplate Movie! Marvel Goes All the Way with Digital! Sexy Sex Comics!

Posted by Erik Henriksen on Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:58 PM

BOILERPLATE Hes been in movies before. No big deal.
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  • BOILERPLATE He's been in movies before. No big deal.

• Boilerplate—the mechanical marvel created by Portlanders Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett—has snagged a couple of screenwriters to tell his illustrious story on film. J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company picked up Boilerplate's film rights a while ago, and now Deadline's reporting that JD Payne and Patrick McKay will work on the script. (After they're done crafting Goliath, that is, "the Old Testament tale that Relativity Media is developing, with speculation that Dwayne Johnson and Taylor Lautner could play the two main characters." Holy shit. That sentence exists.)

• In a long, long-awaited move, Marvel's going to offer digital editions of all of their comics day-and-date with physical copies. "Once Marvel's turnover goes final, it will mean that every 'major' comic will be available digitally just as soon as they're available at local comics shops," says Gizmodo. "That's a huge paradigm shift, even taking into account the generally non-disasterous—even positive—results day-and-date digital comics have had on brick-and-mortars." Hey. I wrote something about that once.

• Speaking of brick-and-mortar shops: Tonight at Floating World there's a book release for Thickness!, a collection of erotic comics. (Will it be more arousing than my unspeakably erotic Spider-Man/J. Jonah Jameson fanfic? DOUBTFUL.)

I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for using the phrase "sexy sex comics."

 

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I am getting really tired of "steam".
Posted by suzette on November 3, 2011 at 1:22 PM · Report
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Erik, can you tell us what what the hell "day and date" means? I mean, I know that it's what the comics industry uses to mean "this comic will be released digitally the same day it is released in shops," but the phrase itself is meaningless drivel. Day AND date?

"Did you hear that Ultimate 3-D Man is going to be released digitally the same day it's released in stores?"

"Oh really? I'd hoped it'd be released digitally on the same date it's released in stores. Oh well."

"Well holy shit, dude, cuz you're in luck. It's being released on the same day AND date, motherhugger. Boo ya!"
Posted by Zed on November 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM · Report
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@Zed: I was actually wondering that same thing when I was writing this post—it's an accepted term within the industry, but you're right, it doesn't make much sense. If I were to stretch, I'd say it might have something to do with comics coming out every Wednesday—hence the "day" part?—but like so much else on the retail side of comics, it seems pretty inscrutable.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on November 3, 2011 at 1:48 PM · Report
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Since there are now no real copies the download pirates not longer have to go to the shops to pick up the ones they loved.
Posted by Rosy on November 3, 2011 at 2:15 PM · Report
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"Marvel is also trying out a program where it includes a code with every physical copy of a comic that can be redeemed for a digital copy through Marvel's mobile app."

It works for vinyl, I don't see why it won't work for comics.
Posted by tk. on November 3, 2011 at 2:38 PM · Report
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Erik, let's start a campaign to ban the use of that stupid phrase. I bet we can enlist Laura Hudson and the Comics Alliance folks.

Also, you missed that Ed Brubaker and Marvel just announced a new Winter Soldier series because (SPOILER ALERT) Bucky apparently didn't die. Again.
Posted by Zed on November 3, 2011 at 2:40 PM · Report
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RE Day & Date: It's baffling, especially when they had "Simultaneous Release" right there in front of them.
Posted by atomic on November 3, 2011 at 3:25 PM · Report
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"Simultaneous release" only applies to sexy sex comics.
Posted by Zed on November 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM · Report

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