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For an anime/comics fan is kind of difficult to live in Romania. All that I want to order, no matter if its an anime DVD, a comic book or some merchandise, I have to order on the internet, as there are no specialized shops in here. From time to time I find some god forsaken manga volume or some comic book somewhere in a library across the town. Like some months ago, when I found The Complete Guide of Manga by Janet Thompson at a delusionary …

█ The Weekly Shonen magazine from Kodansha confirmed on Wednesday that CLAMP will put an end to the Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle manga on September 30th. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle started in 2003. The final chapter of the manga will be chapter 232 and the final tankobon will be released on November 17th with a CLAMP art book.

I just came across this crazy toy on tfaw.com. It is a Regan toy, the possessed girl from The Exorcist, the awesome movie from 1973, directed by William Friedkin and adapted from the awesome novel of William Peter Blatty. What is cool at this toy is that Regan is in her bed. Pretty common for a possessed girl right? Wait, that’s not so cool as the following fact. The toy is called Exorcist Possessed Regan Electronic, so you begin to wonder… what is electronic in it? After I’ve read the …

█ And there is another movie that I am starting to get interest in, and that is Valhalla Rising, of the director Nicolas Winding Ref. It is the story of a mute boy slave, One Eye, who escapes captivity and joins a Viking boat, on the way to Scandinavia, to help the fight against the Christians. But the boat is caught in a strange mist and they soon see the shores of an unknown land. But it is not Scandinavia that they see, as they discover when an unknown invisible …

█ Now there is a proper English trailer for this upcoming movie as the English distributors finally moved. And here is the synopsis of the movie, from IMDB.
”Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures, published mostly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back.”

█ The organizers of New York Comic-Con and New York Anime Festival announced that starting with next year, in 2010, the two conventions will take place in the same time and in the same location. That is 8-10 October, at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan. The decision was taken in order to and I quote ‘’to place and sequence our pop culture events in a manner that best serves the needs of our fans and exhibitors’’, as Lance Fensterman, Vice President of… err… Reed Exhibitions Pop Culture Group…

█ If you have not seen yet the teaser for James Cameron’s Avatar, here it is. It has a very strong Star Wars feeling in it, especially during the jungle fights. It looks wonderful.

This volume starts with the Golden Age chapter 2 and goes deep in the story, finishing with The Golden Age chapter 6. This is a very important volume for the story, as many important things happen, destines are shaped, Guts meets Grifith and he finally finds a place to call home. If you were not already hooked on the story, this volume will do the job for you. Also, expect longer reviews from now on. Not only that the story gets way better but also a multitude of fascinating…

█ Probably eager to react at the whole Disney buys Marvel thing, and in fear not to remain behind in the “make a movie after it’’ race, Warner Bros created Dc Entertainment, a company that will exploit the value of DC comics characters all across the media. I am sure it was a little chaos in the whole Warner Bros venture of making movies based on DC Comics characters, with some very expected titles put on hold for no apparent reasons, and if this new company can make it happen, well… WARP SPEED, all ahead! Maybe now they start working at that JLA movie. Or Superman II…