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If J. Jonah Jameson had that to run as a headline, I’m sure it would be in 120 point all-caps that takes up the top half of the Daily Bugle front page. He might even go on the evening news to proclaim his hatred for the wall crawler.
A pizza restaurant in Tacoma was robbed on Monday night. That’s probably the norm for many a Papa Murphy’s across the country, but this time the robber decided to wear a Spider-Man ski-mask as he made off with the cash.
The bandit robbed the employees, then fled. No one was hurt.A police dog searched for the robber but did not find him.
Well duh, he was dressed as Spider-Man. He probably used his fantastic wall crawling powers to scale the building out of dog sniffing range.
If you are going to start peddling drugs in your local neighborhood, or even in a large metro region like, say Denver, Colorado, then you might want to take a tip from the recently busted Castro brothers, who figured out a way to hide large sums of money.
The alleged meth king-pins were laundering their ill-gotten gains by buying and selling classic comic books. According to reports as many as 100 boxes of comic books were encased in plastic during the drug bust.
Theoretically, the plan by the alleged drug dealers was a good one. While the DEA and other law enforcement officials might be tracking gambling, prostitution, and small arms rings, no one would expect the Spanish Inquisition the local comic shop. With demand for rare comics quite high, a quick cash exchange for the books would get someone a bunch of unmarked and clean bills pretty quickly.
We’re not condoning using drugs kids, but I do have to give it to these two for figuring out a different way to launder their gains.
Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to the Where’s Waldo property in hopes of turning it into a movie. There’s no word on what the plot will be about, but when the Where’s Waldo Now? options were over at Paramount it featured a time traveling hero.
The plot of that project revolved around Waldo, now 30, ending up traveling through time after accidentally activating a malfunctioning travel machine.
Adam Rifkin (interviewed on the Major Spoilers Podcast) had a hand in that script, but as of today, there is no word on who will write or direct the Universal version of the movie.
In a case of a card game gone wrong, three drunks walked into Access Comics in Bellingham, WA, caused a ruckus during a Magic: The Gathering game, and were asked to leave. Drunks being drunks, the trio returned shortly after and played Pressed Ham against the store window. The drunks pressed their butt-cheeks just a little too hard, breaking the store front window at which point two gamers (age 19 and 42) chased the drunks down and beat their heads in with a baseball bat. One of the victims has a broken orbital bone, and another has a skull fracture. There’s no word if the baseball bat gave +2 Dumbass to the wielders.
Michael George, the comic book retailer and convention organizer, got a reprieve on Friday when Macomb County judge James Biernat set aside his murder conviction.
“I’m convinced it will be a miscarriage of justice to allow the verdict to stand,” Biernat said from the bench at the start of a 45-minute statement, adding that each of his reasons on its own “is enough for a new trial.”
The ruling drew elation from George and his supporters, and disdain and anger from Barbara George’s family and other supporters.
The new trial is set to begin on December 2, 2008.
If you haven’t seen the Comic Book Murder on MSNBC, look for it to appear again, and you’ll see exactly what the prosecution based its evidence on. I don’t know if George did it or not, but after watching the documentary, I was less than convinced the prosecution had an open and shut case.
This whole things gets weirder by the moment…You can read the Macomb Daily story here.
Here’s some crazy comic featuring Nagraj taking on Shakoora the Magician, and featuring some characters you actually know.
You got me, and I read the issue twice! And seriously, Spider-Man, the Mightiest?
In one of the weirdest stories I’ve seen in a long time, a jury has found former comic book shop owner Michael George guilty of shooting his wife 17 years ago.
Defense attorney Carl Marlinga rested his case Thursday after calling 12 witnesses, including George’s mother, who testified her son was at her Hazel Park home on the evening of Barbara George’s murder.
Neither Michael George nor his current wife — with whom he was having an affair with at the time of the murder — took the stand in the trial.
The case was reopened in late 2006 by Clinton Township police with charges brought against Michael George in August.
What surprises me most about this case is it was brought to trail so long after George’s wife was killed, and how short this trial lasted (eleven days). With George and his current wife not taking the stand, and the lack of physical evidence – the article indicates much of the evidence came from witnesses, an appeal is sure to follow.
Verdict is currently pending.
Oh boy, where to start. For her latest single Break The Ice, Britney Spears wanted an animated video featuring an anime-esque version of herself.
While it worked for Matthew Sweet, I’m not sure this is the best thing for the once upon a time pop star. Could it be Brit has some body issues she is still dealing with forcing the animation treatment, or something else all together? If I’m guessing body issues, you know those who are less than nice are already screaming that from the rooftops.
From the pure animation standpoint, I actually like the art style from the few images I saw over that The Sun website.
Update: Thanks Amy!
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