If anyone can sympathize with George Lucas amid all of the criticism he's recently received over the new Star Wars Blu-ray changes, it's comic book creators. Ron Marz and Eric Canete both came to the franchise founder's defense with some stern words today.
On a much more serious note, creators have been banding together to raise money to help cartoonist Dylan Williams, who's currently battling cancer. If you want to help out, you could do a lot worse than picking up the Batwoman artwork that Steve Lieber put up on eBay. Check out a link to that, pressing questions and a proposed casting choice for a "Stronium Dog" movie.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for September 1, 2011.
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The wildest week on the comic book industry calendar is officially underway in San Diego right now. Opening night tweets percolated out of Comic-Con International last night, featuring fear, costumes and even some humility (for charity) from 
If there's one thing that heavy movie-watching Internet users cared about on the Internet yesterday, it was Netflix's announcement that they would be overhauling their payment and service plan models. Costs may go down or up, depending on what your habits are, and 
Amid all the hubbub over the last week about 
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Tuesday brought sad news for punk rock fans with the death of former X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene. Flagrant music lovers 
Twitter rumors got a little out of control this week as people started thinking that Jackie Chan had died. 
Creators seem to have mostly abandoned the Windy City now, following a heavily tweeted Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo over the weekend. In its wake, C2E2 left us with sketches, cosplay images and even a fancy menu prepared by Rick Bayless that was served to the Marvel gang.
Two pop culture icons left their mark on Twitter yesterday.