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X-Men 3 did well this Memorial Day weekend, pulling in an astonishing 120.1 million over four days, ousting DaVinci Code from the current top spot and breaking the previous Memorial Day record of 90.1 million dollar record set by Jurassic Park way back in 1997. Friday's haul of 45.5 million on X3 loses out only to Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (50 million) for biggest single day gross ever, and the three day take of Friday through Sunday of 103.1 million is amongst the top four, just behind Spider-Man (114.8), Star Wars Episode III (108.1), and Shrek 2 (108).

The financial success of this film pretty much guarantees the making of an X4.

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Worth1000 recently had a photoshop contest to insert superhero imagery into works of art.

Superhero Modern Renaissance 2
Superhero Modern Renaissance 2

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According to a recent article in Comic Book Resources, Judge Harold S.W. Lew of the Ninth Circuit District Court ruled that the heirs to the creator of Superboy (Jerry Siegel's wife and daughter) recaptured the Superboy copyright as of November 17, 2004.

"The ruling was based upon changes made in 1976 to the Copyright Act, where the length of copyright renewal was extended from 28 years to 47 years, and allowed that any copyright transfers could be terminated so that the original copyright owner (or his/her heirs) could gain the benefit of those extra 19 years of protection (with the presumption being that it would be unfair to the original copyright owners, as any deals they made before the change were based upon the 28 year duration, not 47)."

Interestingly enough, DC Comics still owns the trademark to Superboy.

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On Sunday, I went to the Alternative Press Expo, held in the Concourse in San Francisco. APE is the independent comics convention for the Bay Area, featuring a lot of small print publishers and local comic shops, as well as the independent self-publishing artist types. I'm always inspired by the local artists, who man their booths and share their art with the world.

The Flight people were there (Kazu Kibuishi,Amy Kim Ganter Erika Moen, Michel Gagne, Chris Appelhans, Neil Babra, Clio Chiang), as were Derek Kirk Kim and Raina Telgemeier.

I attended the Flight panel, and Raina's presentation. Notes on those two sessions are in the extended. I took the notes with my Nokia 6820. My fingers have since recovered from the trauma.

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