In the time I’ve been writing and producing the Sequential Sunday column I’ve always chosen as my subject matter a certain creator, publishing company, or gallery event. I’m going to go against my own grain this time and choose (of all things) a promotional item, namely the British press kit produced to herald what was, at the time, the upcoming Watchmen movie’s release. What looks at first like a plain brown box actually conceals this behemoth of a press kit. Now, movie promo items are usually a pretty...

This past weekend I was in Las Vegas for a wedding. I was walking around the Planet Hollywood Casino and I saw something that caught my eye, a Kick-Ass sweater.   I told my self ” wow that’s kind of cool. If is under $50.00 I will buy it since I love the book  and I am a  Mark Millar and John Romita Jr fan and I know that film is going to kick ass since I saw a screener back in August of last year. ” Yeah that’s how my brain works sometime . I look at the tag and I saw $98.99 or something like that....

Hey guys how’s everything going this new week? Me? I am surviving you know. So it seems that our friend C.B. Cebulski gave us a bit of an update on the whole Comic + Taco = Genius Marketing. He tells us that apparently they are all new stories with all new art and a Mini Marvels story by Comic Impact Artist Spotlight Chris Giarrusso !! So here is some more info on the creative team’s for each book. Enjoy!!! AVENGERS Written by Joe Caramagna Illustrated by Cory Hamscher Colored by Chris Sotomayor THOR Written by...

And What I do is drinking Slurpee’s!!!! Hey Gang! Sheldon here! So I was out and about last night and I ran into my local 7-11 and what did I find? Well Wolverine ready to slice up my Slurpee!!! Below is the Official Slurpee release on a new ad campaign they have going during the new X-Men:Origin’s Wolverine film. Accompanying the superhero Slurpee cups featuring action-packed graphics of Wolverine, Sabretooth and Gambit is a new, remarkable Slurpee flavor – Mutant Berry. Billed as Hawaiian Punch Berry Limeade Blast,...

So I made a run for the border last night and while I was in line I noticed that if you were a People McNugget (aka a kid) you could get a kids meal with a Marvel Comic Book!!! It looked liked they had Four different books and of course you are urged to collect all four.The books included Captain America,Thor,The Fantastic Four,and The Avengers. I am sure they are just reprints of older issues and it looks like they are at least using good artist on it to lure the taco infected children to read more. Finally this has merged two...

You know what’s hot ? Girls who read comics you know what’s hotter? A girl who shows her love of comics and it looks like Marvel is now expanding its merchandising outreach to women. After more than 70 years doing their merchandise to men’s market from Iron Man t-shirt to some Incredible Hulk underwear (that I have on right now). It looks like Marvel is going to have a major push into the women’s apparel, cosmetics and accessories markets. Since 2007, the $5.7 billion consumer products division at Marvel has been...

Ok so what  did you have for lunch today ? Did you have a Happy Meal at McDonald’s if so you got one of the all new “The Spectacular Spider-Man”  toys The Spectacular Spider-Man” US Happy Meal feature a collection of eight action figures, including Spider-Man Suction Cup, Doctor Octopus, Spider-Man Swinging, Venom, Spider-Man Launcher, Green Goblin, Spider-Man Crawling, and Sandman. “The Spectacular Spider-Man” Happy Meal is  available in over 15,000 participating McDonald’s restaurants...

Well you know this blog was come in one day and here it is Watchmen merchandising. That’s right. As the Yogurt told us in Spaceballs ” Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. ” So what kind of merchandise are we looking at .When it comes to Watchmen. Well all know that there will be a set of toys that we will have a review of the...