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From Zero to Heavy Hero
A dissatisfied fan rejects foam rubber and opts for real rock in building The Ultimate Thing Costume. It’s made of stone and weighs 110 pounds.
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What religion is your favorite superhero?
Religion of Comic Book Characters is a quite excellent compilation site. It’s cool to see our own Fanzing articles used as references.
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Small Press Idol Season 3
Small Press Idol 3 has begun, and so far there are two former Fanzing Magazine contributors who are in the running. Best of luck to Stephen Legge and Jerry S Loomis! Small Press Idol, for you newcomers, is the indy press comic version of American Idol, where contestants compete to get their comic idea in…
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The dangers of a dirty mind
Dixonverse features the Panel of the Week, and this one will guarantee that you can never keep a straight face at the phrase “magic totem” ever again.
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J. Jonah Jameson was right all along!
Spider-Man Robs Comic Book Store and they have it on videotape!
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What’s Scott Beatty up to?
Scott Beatty.com is in the middle of a major update. Check out his “What’s New” and “Previews” sections to catch glimpses of the up and coming books from Scott. The site also has a new color scheme just for today (it’s Valentine’s Day). That’s because I’m Scott’s webmaster and I was giving Monitor Duty a…
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The Mohammed Cartoon riots
For some reason, I thought one of the other Monitor Duty contributors had written something about the Danish cartoons of Mohammed and the riots, so I hadn’t written about it. My apologies to everyone for neglecting this issue that is so relevant to the freedom of speech, freedom of the press and, oh yeah, the…
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It’s also Black History Month
I actually think that ol’ Easy Reader from Electric Company himself, Morgan Freeman, has the right idea about Black History Month. That said, it does serve as a good excuse to point everyone to an issue of Fanzing Magazine from five years ago. Issue #32, February 2001, was our “Affirmative Action Comics” issue.
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Busted Knuckles gets Freakie Friday’d
I never mentioned Buzzscope before, and now twice in one day. Weird. Seems they wanted to have “Busted Knuckles” to be written by a woman, but when Beau Smith went to the sex change operation they broke the saw. Until they can find something that cuts through brass, they opted instead to switch Beau with…
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Comic industry sexual harrassment
I’ll admit, I hadn’t heard anything about this story in the last month, but many of you may already know of it. I guess I’m late to the game on this one. The story started the day after Christmas, when I wasn’t even near the Internet much, so I can see how I missed it.…