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• The Shows Go On with Lance Fensterman
  Lance Fensterman is increasingly running an empire of his own. As v-p at Reed Exhibitions, not only is he the show runner for BookExpo America and the four-year-old New York Comic Con, but a growing portfolio of consumer shows, including the just-concluded video game show PAX (in partnership with founders Penny Arcade), the New York Anime Festival (to be held Sept. 25-27), and next April's C2E2 comics show in Chicago.
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• Tokyopop: Good News, Bad News
  The past week was a mixed bag for manga publisher Tokyopop: They revealed they would no longer be doing business with the Japanese publisher Kodansha but also announced a handful of new licenses and put several stalled series back on schedule.
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• ADV Shuts Down; Assets, Staff Shift to New Companies
  U.S. anime distributor and manga publisher AD Vision is no more. The company's assets (and an undetermined number of its employees) have been divided up among four separate companies: AEsir Holdings, SXion 23 (Section 23) Films, Valkyrie Media Partners, and Seraphim Studios.
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• Costumes and Comics at Dragon Con
  Dragon Con, North America's largest fan-run pop culture convention, was held in downtown Atlanta over the Labor Day weekend. Now in its twenty-second year, Dragon Con is remarkable not merely for its size—the annual show generally attracts more than 30,000 fans—but for its variety.
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Bestsellers

• September Comics Bestsellers
  Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid: Last Straw continues its long run at the top, followed by Viz’s Vampire Knight vol. 7, Naruto and Tokyopop’s Fruits Basket, Vol. 23. Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader is #5 and just below the Top Ten are Darwyn Cooke’s The Hunter, David Mazzucchelli’s Asterios Polyp and David Petersen’s Mouse Guard: Winter 1152.
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Reviews

• The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook
  Eleanor Davis. Bloomsbury, $10.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59990-396-5
  Meet red-headed Julian, glasses-wearing science geek. Starting at a new junior high school, Julian is determined to hide his intelligence and his interests in order to be more like a normal kid and in hopes of not getting bullied and teased. Two unlikely figures emerge from the crowd: Greta, a tough girl known to be a "dangerous maniac," who wears a bike helmet at all times, and Ben, talented athlete and supposed "dumb jock." Julian is surprised to find that these two share his love of science, and the three form the titular alliance, inventing pranks and contraptions, and stopping a crime.
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• Some New Kind of Slaughter
  mpMann and A. David Lewis. Archaia, $19.95 (126p) ISBN 978-1-932386-53-0
  Powerful and gorgeous, this graphic novel looks at catastrophic floods and the stories we tell about them. In the framing story, the Sumerian king, Ziusudra, guides his people through a massive flood. As the water rises and his wife lies in a coma, he has visions of other floods and flood victims in other lands, such as the biblical Noah a modern ecologist trapped in a Katrina-like hurricane and flood myths from around the world.
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• Prince Valiant, Vol. I: 1937-1938
  Hal Foster. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-60699-141-1
  Medieval swordplay and adventure have never been as glorious as in Foster's Sunday-only comic strip. Although much reprinted (including an earlier version from the same publisher), this edition has been reproduced from pristine printer's proofs to give the gorgeous artwork its crispest version ever. The story takes young Prince Valiant, exiled heir to the conquered kingdom of Thule, from a witch's evil prophecy to adventure at the court of King Arthur, with stops for heroic rescues, conniving foes, beautiful maidens, Viking invasions and even a broken heart or two.
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Panel Mania

• Panel Mania: Beast
  In Marian Churchland's first solo graphic novel, Beast, Colette, a struggling young sculptor, is commissioned by a mysterious man to carve his portrait in marble. Over the course of the job, Colette discovers it is more sinister than it seemed.
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