{"id":735,"date":"2007-10-10T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/10\/10\/october-11th-linkblogging\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T15:47:26","slug":"october-11th-linkblogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"October 11th Linkblogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ITEM:<\/strong> Let&#8217;s start off our comics linkblogging with a link that is almost not comics at all. Sorry. It&#8217;s just that ever since I&#8217;ve been playing <strong>Super Smash Bros.<\/strong>, the Nintendo character fighting game for the N64, Gamecube, and soon-to-be-released-for-the-Wii, everyone&#8217;s been saying &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if you could make Mario fight against Sonic The Hedgehog?&#8221; Alas, it was never to be with the characters destined to live on different systems and in different worlds. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gaygamer.net\/2007\/10\/super_smash_bros_brawl_gets_de.html\"><strong>Until today<\/strong><\/a>. This is my generation&#8217;s &#8220;The X-Men meet the Teen Titans&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Edit: I had to removed the inlay trailer because it looked like Firefox was choking on it. Sorry guys, go click the link though, the video is great.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ITEM: <\/strong>Over at The Forbidden Planet Weblog, it has been announced that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forbiddenplanet.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5371\"><strong>the British Edition of Bryan Talbot&#8217;s 2007 graphic novel <em>Alice In Sunderland<\/em> has broken the 10,000 copy mark<\/strong><\/a>, a pretty stunning achievement for a $30 hard cover that no one wanted to publish in the first place. Much as FP did, I&#8217;m going to attribute this to a lot of hard work on Talbot&#8217;s part, as well as the book finding a natural home in its native country, being a (thinly disguised) history of Northern England, of specific interest to many of the denizens of&#8230; Northern England. Talbot&#8217;s 5 stop U.S. tour, his appearance at San Diego, and a non-stop press push in England are remarkable, and he&#8217;s set a very high standard of creator involvement for graphic novel promotion. The book is going into a third printing in the U.K., and is on (I believe) it&#8217;s second printing from Dark Horse Comics here in North America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITEM: <\/strong>I&#8217;ve been going on and on about Taiyo Matsumoto&#8217;s <em>Tekkon Kinkreet \/ Black &#038; White<\/em> for a little while now, so I&#8217;ll take a little break to let Jog do the talking for a little while. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/savagecritic.com\/2007\/10\/my-life-is-choked-with-comics-11.html\">Over at The Savage Critics, my favourite comics writer spends a little over 4,200 words talking about <\/a><\/strong><em><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/savagecritic.com\/2007\/10\/my-life-is-choked-with-comics-11.html\">Tekkon Kinkreet<\/a><\/strong>,<\/em> both the manga and animated adaptation, in an essay that I quite honestly have not sat down to read just yet. I plan to though, when I&#8217;m done this. As a reward to myself. If you&#8217;ve got some time to spend, why not check out the review?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITEM: <\/strong>Today marks three years of <em><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/random_comics_news_story_round_up7\/\">The Comics Reporter<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. Congratulations to my pal Tom Spurgeon and all of the wonderful writers he&#8217;s working with.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITEM: Let&#8217;s start off our comics linkblogging with a link that is almost not comics at all. Sorry. It&#8217;s just that ever since I&#8217;ve been playing Super Smash Bros., the Nintendo character fighting game for the N64, Gamecube, and soon-to-be-released-for-the-Wii, everyone&#8217;s been saying &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if you could make Mario fight against Sonic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October 11th Linkblogging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}