Feb 14th 2011 By: Caleb Goellner
History: Joe Brancatelli runs down the falling comic book sales numbers of the '70s in the 1978 issue of
Eerie #95. Some of those numbers don't seem too far off from today's. [
Kevin Mellon]
Digital Comics: Archie Comics is having a special Valentines Day sale through the end of today that puts every one of their
iPhone iVerse app titles at $0.99. [
Archie]
History: The secret history of Alan Moore's unpublished
Big Numbers #4 has been revealed. Short version: The art got... recycled. [
Robot6]
Art: Inspired by playing
Final Fantasy XIV, cartoonist
Marian Churchland (
Elephantmen, Madame Xanadu) is flexing her artistic muscle with an exercise creating concept art for her own game idea she calls
The Crossing. [
Robot6]
Gaming: Chris Baker, Manager of Licensed Games at Marvel Studios reveals the last batch of alternate costumes for Marvel's side of the
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds coin. [
Marvel]
Movies: Tiger Mask, the hero
who has inspired numerous donations to Japanese orphanages has a live action film in the works for a November release. [
ANN]
Gaming: The upcoming
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure videogame will include a "Portal" mat that lets players "drop" characters into the game by way of placing game-centric toys onto it. It's action figure augmented reality, baby!. It's just a matter of time before this tech spreads to stuff like Hasbro's Super Hero Squad...right? [
Joystiq]
Toys: New images of Mattel's
Green Lantern Deluxe Battle Shifters movie action figures have popped up pre-Toy Fair to show off Hal Jordan and Kilowog. [
Toynewsi]