In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day (today, Sept. 19), Boom! Studios is having a sale on Pirate Tales over at the company website.

PIRATE TALES, a pirate-centric anthology in the tradition of CTHULHU TALES and ZOMBIE TALES, features a familiar roster of writers -  Keith Giffen, John Rogers, Johanna Stokes, and Michael Alan Nelson, Joe Casey and CSI screenwriter Henry Alonso Myers makes his debut in comics! Art is by Tim Seeley, Chee, Fabio Moon, and a host of the business’ best!

The 35% discount doesn’t just apply to pirates, but to ninjas as well.

NINJA TALES, a ninja-centric anthology in the tradition of CTHULHU TALES and ZOMBIE TALES, ranges from comedy, to drama, to action, with writers like John Rogers, Johanna  Stokes, Andrew  Cosby, Michael Alan Nelson, and Henry Alonzo Myers! Featuring art from Ron Lim, Chris Lie, Chee, and more! Cover by Eisner Award-winning legend Dave Johnson!

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In the battle of the box office it wasn’t Pirates v. Ninjas this past week, but rather pirates taking on the webhead. According to box office results, Pirates did a very good job in its first six days in the box office, but Sony is claiming Disney/Buena Vista pulled out some fuzzy math to propel the pirate movie above S3.

Arguably, the flap originated when Sony opened “Spider-Man 3″ on a Tuesday in 18 overseas markets and later claimed a six-day opening record of $232 million in addition to other more conventional landmarks.

Disney/BVI followed by heralding its “six-day” record of $251 million. But throughout the past weekend, verbal darts were flying — mostly off the record — about which distributor included or excluded certain boxoffice figures to bolster their respective claims.

As I’ve always said there are three kinds of lies; lies, damn lies, and statistics. Depending on which way each of these companies is tabulating their statistics on the box office draw, it could go either way. Instead of projecting figures, companies like Sony and BVI should use actual figures. This keeps them out of all sorts of hot water in reporting how much they owe their stars and such.

via Hollywood Reporter