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1996 Fools: [NEWS] Ziv Video acquired by Amalgam Comics
Article 232300 of rec.arts.anime: Path: news.jhu.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!concert!newz.oit.unc.edu!phil From: phil@email.unc.edu (Phil Lee) Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime Subject: [NEWS] Ziv Video acquired by Amalgam Comics Date: 1 Apr 1996 23:00:33 GMT Organization: Ziv Video Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4jpn6h$b58@newz.oit.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: login1.email.unc.edu Keywords: lush trudeau ziv amalgam In a suprise press release made earlier today, joint spokesmen Lush Trudeau of Ziv Video and Dave Sim of Amalgam Comics announced that Ziv Video will become the property of Amalgam by the end of the week. While last minute negotiations are still be ironed out, the deal is effectively set in stone. Says Trudeau, "We're psyched. Finally, Llama 1/2 will recieve the audience it so richly deserves. Poor saps." For the past two months General Mills, Ziv Video's parent company, had been approaching prospective buyers for the struggling company. The offical response from General Mills claimed that Ziv's sales were simply not up to snuff, despite the recent introduction of such pointless excercies in gore as Kappa Slayer and Hime-chan no Ribbon. However, sources within GM indicate that the marketing tie-ins with the Ziv product line simply wasn't selling cereal. Llama 1/2 Breakfast Crunchies ("It Changes With Milk!") was a major disapointment for the prominant food chain. Amalgam has announced a number of projects in the works involving the Ziv acquisitions. Due in the fourth quarter is a two-week run of comics merging popular characters from both Ziv and Amalgam. Titles announced included "Bullets, Bracelets, and Hyperdimensional Sledgehammers", "Please Save My Slumping Market Share", "Maison XavierCave", "Cooking with Linda Carter...and boy can she cook", "Justice League Nerima", "Dr. Tofufatelove", and "X-Llama - The World's Greatest Heroes". Amalgam also plans several entries into the video market, including both direct to video and network television, with tentative plans for a theatrical release of the popular "Llama 1/2 Interactive Movie", as seen at Epcot Center. "Fox Television is currently considering proposals for several projects, including 'Want To See My Mermaid's Scar', which will be expanded into a 108 episode daily series by including footage from other popular Japanese television shows, such as 'Go Go Mach', 'Urotsukidoji', 'Marmalade Boy', 'The Frugal Gourmet', 'Red Riding Hood Cha Cha', 'Victory Gundam', and the ever popular 'Miyazaki's Sumo Wrestling Action Hour'. -- Phil Lee - phil@email.unc.edu - http://sunsite.unc.edu/phil - FnordChan "I do have a cause though. It's obscenity. I'm for it." - Tom Lehrer
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