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After an arduous week scraping gum off The Stately Beat Manor ceiling and cleaning crushed PBR cans out of the infinity pool, the Beat Staffers were ready for a week long nap when suddenly, Lobo blew the hinges off the long-locked bathroom door, howling with anger and flexing his arm hairs threateningly. His bushy locks trailed in […]

The first issue the Invader Zim comics, based on Jhonen Vazquez’s cult cartoon, arrives on July 8th, and Oni is making a big deal out of it because…well it is a big deal. The alien conqueror’s return will be celebrated in several ways: A panel The Return of Invader Zim, Saturday 7/11 at 2 pm in Room 29AB with Vasquez, original show staff and creative staff on the new Zim comic Aaron Alexovich, original show writer and comic staff Eric Trueheart, Inker on the new Invader Zim comic Megan Lawton, and Oni Press Editor-in-Chief James Lucas Jones. And then you will be able to buy a SDCC exclusive variant at the Oni Booth  (#1833).

There will be signings but please note, tickets will be required for Friday and Saturday. Tickets will be given out at the Oni Press booth from the start of the show on respective days with fans selected for spots in those signings announced at the Oni Press booth and via Oni Press’ Twitter an hour before the Friday and Saturday signings. Attendees will be limited to signings for two items.

Thursday 7/9
11 am – Aaron Alexovich, Megan Lawton

Friday 7/10

4 pm – Jhonen Vasquez, Bryan Konietzko

Saturday 7/11

3:30 pm – Jhonen Vasquez, Aaron Alexovich, Eric Trueheart, Megan Lawton

Sunday 7/12

2 pm – Aaron Alexovich, Eric Trueheart, Megan Lawton

And here’s the variants!

This unique Jhonen Vasquez (creator of Invader Zim) cover (shown at top of post) for this first issue of Invader Zim #1 will be available at all retailers.

K.C. Green (Gunshow) variant available through Ghost Variant Partner Stores: http://bit.ly/1U95zbz

Vincent Perea (Where’s My Water?) variant available through Comics Dungeon: http://bit.ly/1GpfKo8

Aaron Alexovich (Invader Zim) variant available through Rebel Base Comics & Toys: http://bit.ly/1LDLzdv

Aaron Alexovich (Invader Zim) variant available through Midtown Comics: http://bit.ly/1ejTjEe

Julieta Colás (Rick and Morty) variant available through Books-a-Million stores :http://bit.ly/1JxsHx2

J.R. Goldberg (Jellyfist) variant available through Newbury Comics: http://bit.ly/1GPoTn1

Tyson Hesse (World of Gumball, Bravest Warriors) variant available through Hastings: http://bit.ly/1BZf5Ih

Mariel Cartwright (Skullgirls) variant available through GameStop: http://bit.ly/1U9alFN

Dave Crosland (Scarface) variant available through Hot Topic: http://bit.ly/1LDO6nT

Mariel Cartwright (Skullgirls) variant available through I Want More Comics:http://bit.ly/1FRXI7n

Ian McGinty (Bravest Warriors, Adventure Time) variant available through Diamond Comic Distributors: http://bit.ly/1FDMgAH

Bryan Konietzko (Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra) variant available through Oni Press at San Diego Comic-Con 2015

Standard retail cover by Aaron Alexovich (Invader Zim)

Hulu and Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom announced earlier this week a deal that will bring the Nicktoons library to the online streaming service.

Animator Dave Nimitz has informed me that Lucille Bliss passed away on Thursday night (November 8th). Bliss was a pioneering television voice actress who’s vocal career began by voicing TV’s first cartoon character, Crusader Rabbit (1949), and crowned her extensive experience as the memorable “Miss Bitters” on Nickelodeon’s popular Invader Zim.

Other notable roles Bliss voiced included step-sister “Anastasia” in Walt Disney’s Cinderella (1950) and playing “Smurfette” in nine seasons of Hanna Barbera’s The Smurfs.

A New York City native, she settled in San Francisco in the 1950s as the hostess of a live local children’s TV show, ABC/KRON-TV’s The Happy Birthday To You Show.

Her vocal career brought her roles in Disney features (Alice In Wonderland, 101 Dalmatians), Hanna Barbera cartoons (The Flintstones, Space Kidettes), Don Bluth’s The Secret of Nimh (1982) and Blue Sky’s Robots (2005). Bliss appeared in several Warner Bros. and MGM theatrical cartoons in the 1950s. She was Suzanne in Friz Freleng’s A Kiddie’s Kitty (1955) and voiced characters in A Waggily Tale (1958). She was Jerry’s companion “Tuffy” in the MGM cartoon Robin Hoodwinked (1958), and played the Leprechaun in MGM’s Droopy Leprechaun (1958).

Needless to say, her unique vocal stylings will be missed. Click here for an extensive interview with Bliss, conducted in 2005 by Television Academy. Below, a gallery of her most famous characters, followed by the first episode of Crusader Rabbit.

Many kids will beg, plead, and annoy their parents into letting them get a puppy or kitten, but few have the skill or foresight to request the best kind of pet, a ROBOT.  Just imagine how awesome your life would have been if you had thought to get yourself one of these useful and quirky companions.

GODDARD

Jimmy Neutron, a young genius inventor, created Goddard as a helping hand and best friend.  One of Jimmy’s few inventions that doesn’t threaten to burn down the entire town of Retroville, Goddard can reportedly do 11,000,004 things.  Goddard however is unable to clean up after his  own “messes” (which are nuts and bolts).

GIR

In aiding Invader Zim’s quest to take over the Earth, GIR is at best a distraction.  Often, he is the cause of Zim’s epic “Wile E. Coyote” failures.  Despite his extremely convincing Earth disguise (a green dog suit with visible zipper) he is indeed a highly powerful yet malfunctional robot.

The Robot from Lost in Space

A Model B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, the robot from Lost in Space has no given name.  The Robot is most famous for his catch phrase, “danger Will Robinson!”  It seems that the fun of a robot slave was lost on the young Robinson who tolerated the robot as a kind of metal nanny rather than enlisting it into more mischievous purposes.

SPEED BUGGY

While a sputtering delivery of “Roger-Dodger!” and “Vroom-a-zoom-zoom!” may grate on more adult nerves, a talking, self driving dune buggy is just the thing I would have died for as a kid.  Speed Buggy even had a remote control making him the world’s largest, most awesome RC car.  

C3P0

So he’s a bit of a wanker, C3P0 is still a marvel of engineering from an 8 year old.  R2D2 is obviously the preferred choice of the pair, but I would argue that C3P0’s personality make it possible that he can be classified as an actual “pet”, whereas R2D2 is a sassy service droid.

THE DINOBOTS

Big, metal, dumb as rocks.  They are the Dinobots and Grimlock is their King!  Much like GIR, they are often more trouble than they are worth to the Transformers who built them.  The Dinobots combine the awesomeness of Dinosaurs with the sexy sleekness of Robots.  One of my most epic dreams ever involved the decimation of my ninja enemies by my pet mechanical Brontosaurus.  Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!

And all I ever got was this!!!?

“I love you.”  Yeah, yeah.  Come back when you can breath fire and/or open locked doors with mathmatical algorhthyms. 

I know I must be missing some great Robot Pets, so please leave a comment if you can think of any more!

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Many kids will beg, plead, and annoy their parents into letting them get a puppy or kitten, but few have the skill or foresight to request the best kind of pet, a ROBOT.  Just imagine how awesome your life would have been if you had thought to get yourself one of these useful and quirky companions.

GODDARD

Jimmy Neutron, a young genius inventor, created Goddard as a helping hand and best friend.  One of Jimmy’s few inventions that doesn’t threaten to burn down the entire town of Retroville, Goddard can reportedly do 11,000,004 things.  Goddard however is unable to clean up after his  own “messes” (which are nuts and bolts).

GIR

In aiding Invader Zim’s quest to take over the Earth, GIR is at best a distraction.  Often, he is the cause of Zim’s epic “Wile E. Coyote” failures.  Despite his extremely convincing Earth disguise (a green dog suit with visible zipper) he is indeed a highly powerful yet malfunctional robot.

The Robot from Lost in Space

A Model B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, the robot from Lost in Space has no given name.  The Robot is most famous for his catch phrase, “danger Will Robinson!”  It seems that the fun of a robot slave was lost on the young Robinson who tolerated the robot as a kind of metal nanny rather than enlisting it into more mischievous purposes.

SPEED BUGGY

While a sputtering delivery of “Roger-Dodger!” and “Vroom-a-zoom-zoom!” may grate on more adult nerves, a talking, self driving dune buggy is just the thing I would have died for as a kid.  Speed Buggy even had a remote control making him the world’s largest, most awesome RC car.  

C3P0

So he’s a bit of a wanker, C3P0 is still a marvel of engineering from an 8 year old.  R2D2 is obviously the preferred choice of the pair, but I would argue that C3P0’s personality make it possible that he can be classified as an actual “pet”, whereas R2D2 is a sassy service droid.

THE DINOBOTS

Big, metal, dumb as rocks.  They are the Dinobots and Grimlock is their King!  Much like GIR, they are often more trouble than they are worth to the Transformers who built them.  The Dinobots combine the awesomeness of Dinosaurs with the sexy sleekness of Robots.  One of my most epic dreams ever involved the decimation of my ninja enemies by my pet mechanical Brontosaurus.  Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!

And all I ever got was this!!!?

“I love you.”  Yeah, yeah.  Come back when you can breath fire and/or open locked doors with mathmatical algorhthyms. 

I know I must be missing some great Robot Pets, so please leave a comment if you can think of any more!

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