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Novelty Candies Assemble!

Santa Claus brought us some new treats this year: "Marvel Heroes Taffy." As I said before, I wish the super hero food genre would branch out past the candy aisle a little more often but in an imperfect world we take what we can get.

Don't get me wrong though, I think Marvel Heroes Taffy could stuff a stocking quite nicely and would bring some much needed superhero hullabaloo to the holiday season. Although would it have killed the candy makers to add little Santa hats to all the characters? Or at least the Hulk?An now for the roll call:
Wolverine Strawberry flavor (wha?), Spider-Man Blue Raspberry (a few years ago the powers-that-be decided that all things Spider-Man should be Blue Raspberry flavor, perhaps the mysterious waves that irradiated the spider that bit young Peter Parker is the same radiation that turns raspberries blue?), Hulk Sour Apple (it was either going to be that or lime flavor) and Captain America Cherry (because you can't have "Red, White & Blue " without red...and...uh...cherries are red...).

But the real reason to make the trip to the Dollar Store is shrouded in mystery:
Mystery flavor!?! Oh Tony Stark, what have you done this time?

Yes, it's true, for some reason Iron Man was blessed (cursed?) with the Mystery Flavor. But what is it? Peach? Lemon? Egg Salad? I just can't tell. Undoubtedly more research is required to solve this mystery.

Until then you now have something new to add to your taffy pull list.

Indy Comic Book Week is Coming Soon!

Have you always wanted to support indy comic book creators but never knew how? Well, now you do:

More information can be found on their website:

http://www.indycomicbookweek.com/

And on their FaceBook thingy.

Multiversity Comics Article

I was quoted in this article about comics, kids and learning on the "Multiversity Comics" blog:

Teachers Create Educational Comic Book

Here is a video from DailyPress.com about two teachers who created an educational comic book:

Ring Tones

Not for nothing, but I just wanted to say how cool I thought the recent DC Comics multi-colored power ring giveaway is. If your comic book store hasn't been giving you a different colored ring the past few weeks then you need a new comic book store.

If the promotion is successful then hopefully DC will celebrate the next big Batman storyline by giving away Batmobiles.

Spider-Man Returns

Your favorite part about next week won't be the turkey or the pies. It will be the triumphant return of Spider-Man to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The press release from Macy's says it's been 10 years since the Spider-Man balloon wall crawled its way through Manhattan.

Can that be right? It seems like I remember seeing Spider-Man every year in the parade for as long as I've been watching. But I tend to drink heavily during the holidays so I'm probably not the most reliable source.

If you'd like an incredibly brief preview before showtime you can (just barely) see Spidey in this video, sandwiched between the Pillsbury Doughboy and Ronald McDonald:

Ronald never looked creepier. Enjoy the turkey folks!