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If you like Fritz Lang, Giger, Superman, Sin City and Bernard Herrmann, you are sure to like this short SF film!

It's funny because it's true.

Hero Complex has debuted a holiday themed motion comic called "The Angel" by Dean Haspiel and Daniel J. Kramer with a soundtrack by Moby. Since it was created to be a motion comic it's actually entertaining! It's kind of an animation/poetry/music video mashup more than a comic but we're not really keeping score at this point.

We've often written about our admiration of the graphic novel ELMER by Gerry Alanguilan, both for its lush art and its daring, thoughtful storyline about a world where talking, thinking chickens struggle to be accepted as...people. But it turns out Alanguilan is much better known to the world at large as..."The Greatest Man On The Internet" thanks to a series of popular YouTube videos

Viral, unauthorized look at what he's doing now. Warning: Vocals need compression!

Looks like the NHL is pretty serious about these Stan Lee/Neal Adams superheroes. Above is the 2nd intermission show that was put on complete with video projections, a guy in a costume, a mysterious villain, and narration by Stan "The Man" Lee himself.

As you may have read, a gunman down in Panama City, Florida walked into a school board meeting, sprayed a V for Vendetta symbol on the wall, walked around with a gun, making a lot of statements, started shooting and eventually was shot by a deputy, then killed himself. (Reports differ on this, but the most credible reports are that he used his gun on himself.) This video is pretty unbelievable, especially the part where a woman sneaks behind him and whacks him with her purse. And gets worse from there.

http://www.youtube.com/v/afcWyJhsBXo?version=3 Speaking of The Golden Globe nominated The Walking Dead, here's a video mash-up of all the zombie deaths from the first six episodes. Let's...

Over on YouTube, you can watch The Comic Strip Hero, 1981 documentary made by the BBC about the history of Superman. WE haven't had time to watch the whole thing, but it promises a fantastic look back with contemporary footage of Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

A series of videos interviewing Vancouver comics legend Colin Upton . His website is here.

http://www.youtube.com/v/tX0g6t__D_M&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3 Is there NOWHERE we are safe from him?

When you have an hour to spare you could do worse than watch this webinar presented by Booklist and the American Library Association on the subject of "graphic novels and their increasing importance for the mix of reading material in public and school libraries, including contributions from folks from Lerner Publishing and SLG." Via Forbidden Planet International