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Top Cow Giving Away 200,000 Comics
Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik has announced Top Cow’s “Let Us Win You Over” initiative which begins in February.
Throughout the year, Top Cow will be sending 200 free comics each to 25 comic book shops each month, with a total of 5,000 sent out on a monthly basis. Every month different stores in the U.S. and Canada will receive different comics, throughout the two countries.
With the comics that Top Cow distributes under the “Let Us Win You Over” program, the comics they’ll be giving away for Free Comic Book Day on May 2, 2009, and the books they give away at various conventions, Top Cow will end up giving away at least 200,000 comics over the course of the year. They hope this initiative will encourage new readers to read Top Cow comics, generate excitement for fans and retailer support, and stimulate the industry. “We feel strongly that Top Cow titles are the best they’ve ever been and it’s important to invite readers and retailers to discover why.” said Sablik. They will also ship participating stores exclusive Customer Appreciation covers for each subscriber of that month’s free comic.
Watchmen Movie Viral Marketing-New Frontiersman
One of the fun things about modern-day movies is the tandem viral marketing that takes place on the Internet. VM was certainly used to great effect last year with “The Dark Knight” and it appears that Warner Brothers is continuing the effort with “The Watchmen” movie which opens in two months on March 9, 2009.
In Alan Moore’s story, The New Frontiersman is the far right-wing paper that Rorschach regularly reads and the paper also has a pivotal part at the conclusion, one that might have led to a sequel. For Warner Brothers, it is a new site with (so far) a single image reminiscent of the package that arrived at The New Frontiersman office at the end of The Watchmen comic. It would be really cool if this progressed to having actual copies of the paper as giveaways at theaters when the movie is released.
Over at Major Spoilers, Stephen Schleicher wonders if the ink blot in the image is the head of a fox and if that might be a jab at 20th Century Fox by Warner Brothers.
Mickey Rourke As Crimson Dynamo In Iron Man 2
Variety is reporting that Mickey Rourke, who is currently starring in “The Wrestler”, has been cast as the “Crimson Dynamo” in the “Iron Man 2″ movie which begins shooting this Spring and opens in theaters nationwide in the Summer of 2010.
The Crimson Dynamo first appeared in Tales of Suspense #46, cover dated October 1963, as the evil Russian version of Iron Man. According to Variety, the updated villain in the Jon Favreau directed sequel will be a heavily-tattooed Russian arms dealer who dons a nuclear-powered suit of iron to battle Tony Stark’s alter ego.
Orlando MegaCon 2009 Guest Lineup
Orlando MegaCon, the largest comic book and multimedia convention in the Southeast U.S. and taking place February 27, through March 1, 2009 has announced its guest lineup.
Special Guest of Honor for MegaCon 2009 is the legendary artist George Perez, who has been the artist and co-writer on such titles as Avengers, Fantastic Four, Justice League of America, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans, Crisis on Infinite Earths and many, many other titles. After taking off from the convention circuit for the year of 2008, this will be one of George’s first convention appearance in over a year.
Other comic book guests include Dan Didio, Chuck Dixon, Jimmy Palmiotti, Brandon Peterson, Chris Claremont, Mark Waid, Ron Marz, Greg Land, Ethan Van Sciver, Darwyn Cooke, Frank Cho, Adam Hughes, Amanda Conner, Dan Jurgens and many others.
The MegaCon website has the entire lineup and full information on the convention.
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