Marshall, MO final notes
A few items that have drifted in over the day regarding the library cencorship story that everyone is tracking.
One of our correspondents notes that Marshall, MO is where WAITING FOR GUFFMAN was filmed,...
Do you like Penguin Classics’ comics covers? — LINK FIXED
Over at Galleycat they are having a little survey about Penguin's recent comic-esque covers to the Classic series.
Go and let 'em know how you feel.
Industry watch: WATCHMEN, Who wants to renew a reality show?
Director Zack Snyder talks about his planned WATCHMEN movie at Empire:
And despite widespread assumptions, Snyder isnât planning to update it from its Cold War setting to the present day, despite both eras sharing a...
Robert Anton Wilson – UPDATE
UPDATE: Boing Boing has a further report, saying that Wilson has enough money to live out his last few weeks, as reproducing a note from him, which we're going to quote.
Dear Friends, my God,...
BLANKETS and FUN HOME on hot seat in MISSOURI
A Marshall, Missouri woman has requested that FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel and BLANKETS by Craig Thompson be removed from the library shelves, because she feels they are inappropriate, writes the Marshall-Democrat News. ...
Real official 300 trailer up — YOW
The official 300 trailer is up and on our newish iMac monitor the high def version looks...whoa. Wow. Yow.
Yikes. We're speechless. Click on the above screencap for a larger image.
You can see a...
GHOST RIDER poster and trailer
Oft delayed, GHOST RIDER is blazing into theaters next February 16th, just in time for Valentine's day, and a poster and trailer have been unleashed on the world. Make sure you watch this BEFORE...
FREAK SHOW comics
Kevin Merose at the Blog@ had a post yesterday all about FREAK SHOW, the new David Cross-created cartoon now airing on Comedy Central. We caught about 50% of the debut last night, and it...
DRINKY CROW cartoon preview?
Over at the TCJ board, Danny Hellman posts what is purported to be a preview of the DRINKY CROW cartoon pilot.
Marvel’s MMO
Here's a story we didn't really cover as we should have: Marvel teaming with Cryptic Studios to create their long-rumored MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online game). The story is amusing because Marvel was formerly SUING...
News notes: MAD, Heroes, Weird Al on FBR
§ The November issue of MAD features a bunch of top comicy types in a "LESSER KNOWN SUPER-VILLAINS" ISSUE
Mike Mignola, Kevin Nowlan, Humberto Ramos, Chris Bachalo, John Cassaday, Terry Dodson, Glenn Fabry and Sam...
Video of the Day: David O”Reilly
We were cruising along the other day and came on this site (via the WFMU blog), presenting mostly-animated videos by someone named David O'Reilly. In particular, we liked this, which is one of...
