Time to take a quick break from the mundane reality of your day-to-day life and hang out with me, your Velocity Comics newsletter scribe. Let's dive right in an enjoy this weeks installment of out newest feature, Billy Baldwin/Alec Baldwin.
Billy Baldwin: Bleeding Cool leaked DC's new logo this week, a sort of gunmetal gray thing supposedly called 'The DC Peel.' Fans were not kind. Message boards were filled with comments like "Hi, I'm Joe Paterno's grandson Miles Paterno, and I can honestly say that this DC peel is the worst thing that will happen to me or my family this week. I'm writing this on 1/15/12. Mark my words." And this gem: " DC peel? More like DC steal, Marvel's market share, only to then give it all back when this new logo sinks the company." It looked like DC might have been in trouble...
ALEC BALDWIN: Until they unveiled the official version of the thing, and as it turns out it's actually very cool. Take a gander: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-entertainment-new-logo-120119.html
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SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS GN 16.99
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Tom Batten
