Mimzy gets the early word…

The Turtles‘ director Kevin Monroe gets himself interviewed, The Last Mimzy gets itself reviewed, Team America goes to the tube, more on Jimmy Olsen, this Friday’s Anime Awards telecast, the Top 10 best-selling comics, and the latest in television and movie stuff.

All this to be found on the very latest ComicMix Podcast, which you can listen to in all its glory by clicking right here:

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www.ComicMix.com ComicMix Listen to this if you can. Come on, listen, you know you want to. Hi, it's Mike Raub in the middle of the week.

Thank you for joining us on the podcast. News today to get to, of course, we'll take a little trip back in time and some fantasy superhero movies coming up this weekend. We'll give you a sneak peek at those as well, all on March 22nd, 2007. News.

A few days ago, we told you about those 1950s and 60s Jimmy Olsen stories that were kind of cute. Well, here's your chance to find out if we were right or not. There's a trade paperback coming in June called The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen featuring Jimmy as the elastic lad, the wolf man of Metropolis,

the human porcupine and a lot more. Again, that'll be out in June along with two editions of Showcase, one featuring a collection of Batgirl stories and the other collecting all those 50s and 60s Martian manhunter stories from the back of Detective Comics.

Again, all coming from DC in June. The Anime Network will tell you why there's a first annual American Anime Awards coming up on Friday with a two-hour program starting at 8 p.m. These are the awards, by the way, that were given out a couple weeks back at the New York Comic Con.

Steven Pochko, the guy behind Hills Free Blues, LA Law and Yes! Cop Rock has joined the ranks of multi-platform producers. He's got a new web series called Cafe Confidential. It's a 44-webisode series consisting of teens and 20-somethings who talk about things that have happened in their life,

shot kind of MTV style. You may want to check it out. There'll be a website we'll post on ComicMix coming up as soon as we know it. Comedy Central has paid a whopping $10 million for the cable rights to Borat, which they share with USA Network,

Reno 9-11 in Miami and Team America World Police. It begins in 2010 with Borat, which extends for five years and the film will ping pong between Comedy Central and USA during that time. Reno 9-11 comes to Comedy Central in 2009, right after it finishes up on PayTV and HBO.

And Team America comes to Comedy Central this June for an exclusive four-year deal. Carol Burnett has filed a $2 million lawsuit against 20th Century Fox's family guy claiming copyright infringement. Her suit alleges the show used a depiction of her cleaning woman character during an 18-second fantasy segment last year,

plus stepping on her copyright infringement, fringing on her rights to use the character in other media. Obviously, she's not watched much family guy. With 300 surging ahead and almost $130 million after two weeks in the theaters and Ghostwriter not far behind at $110 million after a little bit longer in the movies,

comic book films are again the focus of Hollywood attention. So what's going to be the next big thing? Four brothers. Genetically reborn in the sewers of New York. Named after the great Renaissance masters.

And trained as a ninja. Opening this Friday, the newly rebooted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A fresh look at the 80s icons, but not a revival. Writer-director Kevin Rowe explains. Behind the CGI, you're going to hear voices from Sarah Michelle Geller, Patrick Stewart,

and even Kevin Smith among the characters. And it opens worldwide on Friday. My question is, are they going to bring back vanilla ice? We are back, dudes!

Also opening this weekend, The Last Mimsy, another long-awaited fantasy property brought to the screen. So how'd it come out? Well, let's find out what one guy thinks. Here's Matt Raub. That's right, movie geek. Sit as I, Matt Raub, back once again. You know, last we speak, you guys got to hear my very bitter rant on 300 and how much I truly hated it. But I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell.

And this week we're going to be switching roles from epic gladiator movie to heartwarming sci-fi kids movie in Robert Shea's The Last Mimsy. It's about Alice going to a looking glass. How could she have Mimsy? That was 100 years ago. You shouldn't get what you're supposed to do.

It could be a combination of the fact that I truly enjoy kids movies or the fact that I've really been looking for a movie to love lately. Seeing as how the past dozen movies or so I've seen, I've really just loathed. But deep down I really enjoyed this flick. Granted, I had a few issues with it, but on the whole I had a great time.

This film had the emotion and the energy of something like a Jumanji or a sandlot, but still kept its heavy science fiction overtones. The premise of the film is that a brother and sister have come across a mysterious box on the beach. It's explained to us that the box is from the future and is filled with all kinds of futuristic, mysterious sci-fi gadgets, or as the kids very affectionately called them, toys.

Once they start to play with these toys, both the boy and the girl begin to gain special powers. Now, fans of the USA show the 4400 may be saying, wait a second, the future is sending back people with powers to save things? That sounds a little familiar and I agree with you. The concept of the future sending back technology and time to save the human existence does sound a bit familiar,

but this is done entirely through the perspective of two kids, which I will give it to them pretty creative. My favorite aspect of the film is the star value. Not only does this film have both Timothy Hutton and Michael Clark Duncan, but this is the first film, aside from last summer's my super ex-girlfriend, but who really saw that, to showcase the awesomely geekish Rainn Wilson,

best known for his work as Dwight on the Office, and all I have to say is that it's about time. You know, I have been a huge fan of Wilson's work since the very beginning of The Office, and for him to play the nerdy science teacher in this film, it's as if the role was just made for him. If I tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself, I can deliver food.

I can drive a taxi. I can and do cut my own hair. And those are just a few of the tidbits from me to you personally, and for more on that you can check out my full review at ComicMix, and I will see you very soon with my review of the ultra-anticipated TMNT. You know what that stands for?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant That's right, 80s fans. And until next time, I'm Matt Raub. www.ComicMix.com ComicMix Top 10 Well, for those of you who like to keep track of such things,

here's a top 10 best-selling comics for February, starting at number 10 with 52, number 42. Slod number 8 and Slod number 9, well they both had 52 in there. 52, number 41 came in at number 9. 52, number 40 came in at number 8. I'll give you a moment to ponder all that.

At number 7, the Alex Ross book, Justice, number 10, also from DC Comics. Number 6, best-selling comic, Wolverine, number 51, which was a Civil War crossover. At number 5, Astonishing X-Men, number 20. Two more Civil War crossovers next. At number 4, New Avengers, number 27, and Amazing Spider-Man, number 538 came in at number 3.

Number 2, best-selling comic, Dark Tower, Gunslinger-Born, number 1, from Stephen King and Marvel Combined. And the number 1 best-selling book, did you really have to have me tell you this? Civil War number 7, last of that series from Marvel. www.ComicMix.com ComicMix timeline, March 22nd, 1990 Well, in comics, it was Superboy, the comic book number 2.

That was based originally on the TV series, but it was just something to keep that character alive in the 90s. Rich Burning and Andy Cooper did their incredible Adam Strange miniseries, which debuted this week. Got an early issue of Sandman from Neil Gaiman, number 14 in our bag, and action comics, number 651. First appearance, A Cable, we grabbed that one in New Mutants, number 87. The movie adaptation of The Turtles movie and the last issue of The War from Marvel, as well as Robocop, number 1.

In news, Ronald Reagan testified on videotape in the Iran Contra trial, and Gloria Estevan was operated on for spinal injuries for her recent near-fatal car crash. A unique form of protest was dropped on the White House when 10 tons of broccoli were delivered to known veggie hater, President George Bush. On TV, there was Married with Children, The Cosby Show, Night Court, Wise Guy, Knots Landing, what a lineup. And the incredible China Beach from ABC.

Still a great show that holds up if you get a chance to grab it either in repeats or on DVD, do it. In movies, the very first Turtles movie was out this week, kind of synchronicity there. Hunt for Red October and the ultimate chick flick. A movie career was made, we got to see Richard and Julia together for the first time, and we learned that even hookers need love too. While women dominated the radio at the start of the new decade from Taylor Dayne to Sinead O'Connor,

the girls from Wilson Phillips and Madonna and Paula Abdul too, but the very big dance record of the early part of March came from a fully clothed Janet Jackson, a song called Escapade. www.ComicMix.com What have you done? Nothing. Nothing except read comic books.

You also lose our jobs on a kind of comic books. You keep me awake every night with your bad dreams on a kind of comic books. Alright, that is the voodoo that we do so well. Thank you very much for coming along. Weekend not far away, we will be back then, but between now and then, we're going to work hard to put together a couple things for you. Including our very first look at free comic book day and some of the things you want to get in line for to make sure you do not miss when retailers start handing those puppies out.

All that and more coming then, let us know what you think. Podcast at ComicMix.com. See you in mere hours. Bye. www.ComicMix.com