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This week, we're all about giving thanks for the people, projects and peripheral stuff that makes our jobs so much fun. After kicking things off with some words from comics legend Stan Lee about what he's thankful for this year, we heard from "Star Trek" duo J.J. Abrams and Chris Pine, "Inglourious Basterds" writer/director Quentin [...]

The "Spider-Man 4" rumor mill was in overdrive the last few weeks, with unconfirmed reports flying around the 'Net about which characters would factor into the film and who would play them. Several widely circulated casting rumors focused on potential actresses taking the role of Black Cat, and while we already put it to readers [...]

THE STORY: "Chew: " by John Layman (W) and Rob Guillory (A) – Image Comics WHAT IT'S ABOUT: If there's one cop who understands the adage "You are what you eat," it's Tony Chu. As a Cibopath, Chu sees the secret history of everything he eats. Eating an apple, for example, gives him a psychic impression [...]

Looks like cfobmania got thanked in the Fall Out Boy greatest hits album! Thanks to everyone who has emailed with clues, pictures, news, comments, or has been there to share all the shenanigans we have all been apart of in the past year or so. This blog wouldn’t be anything without any of you. You’re all as much as part of this as I am, so congrats to you! Of course thanks to @Princessp1193 for giving me the heads up about it and of course our wonderful friends over at ICH for posting scans of the booklet.

Commenter TheNeonJesus pointed this out: The comments on “You’re A Magician…” are quotes from The Prestige. One of the characters in the movie does say “Abracadabra” at some point, but I can’t remember when and what it was related to. In The Prestige there is a key to the illusion, and the word is “TESLA” though this is incorrect when you type it into intelligenceisartificial.com…In The Prestige the key is unlocked using a transposition cipher which this postcard could turn out to be in it’s entirety? Hmmmm…interesting.  How many of you have seen this movie?  I absolutely loved it, but it didn’t even occur to me when I was reading over the blogspot.  But with this, I’m wondering if the whole thing has to do with the explanation of a magic trick: Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.”

…more shenanigans! The newest post at Pete’s Tumblr is a photo of a postcard, apparently for Patrick Stump.  Underneath is a warning: dont click this. it will only make things worse for some of us and better for the rest. Of course, you’ll want to click it, because it sends you to another sign-up sheet at intelligenceisartificial.com.  There’s also instructions to Twitter with the tag #abracadabra if you receive something.  And apparently we should be watching that tag as well, might be a password or something involved. Hmmm…”only make things worse for some of us and better for the rest of us?”  Sounds strangely MVP-esque, doesn’t it? UPDATE: The image of the postcard is apparently a slightly zoomed out version of the one from here.  Also, “You’re a magician, not a wizard” ties in with #abracadabra.

Editor’s Note: After a longer-than-expected delay, we have put together the honorable mentions to the Wolverine: Get Sharp contest. If you haven’t seen our winners yet, check here then come back for these honorable mentions. Congratulations for these 26! - Chris Aitor Iñaki Eraña Basterra Dean: 8. I love the character of this one. The uniform is [...]

Editor’s Note: The following entries are the winners and finalists from our Wolverine: Look Sharp contest, with prizes provided by DCBService.com. We received over 160 entries in this contest, and proved to be one of our biggest ones yet! Our guest reviewers for this contest are the creators of the new Marvel series Wolverine: Weapon [...]

Hi there, P:R fans! Thanks for all your recent comments about how awesome we are…and how much you’d like us to hurry up and post the Wolverine: Look Sharp winners. We appreciate your support and impatience. Well, the first one anyway. Running massive public contests like these takes a good bit of time and hard [...]