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The Scotsman is reporting that Ian Rankin, writer of the extremely popular Inspector Rebus crime fiction series, will be doing a six-issue run on DC’s Hellblazer. Rankin approaches the venture with appropriate trepidation: "Let’s wait and see if I can do it; maybe it will turn out that I can’t. It is much more like…
VP Candidate Rep. Paul Ryan and “Smiler” Gary Callahan from “Transmetropolitan”
In light of Mitt Romney’s announcement of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate for the 2012 Presidential Election, we’d like to point back to our article from April of 2011: On the left is Gary Callahan, a.k.a. The Smiler, from Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson‘s Transmetropolitan. On the right is U.S. Representative Paul Ryan…
The Point – May 11th, 2009
The STAR TREK crew warps into the record books with a Big Box Office, but what do all these numbers mean anyway? We break them down for you plus Showing Soon on Facebook, it’s WATCHMEN. Then there’s GUITAR HERO the TV series and that man on the right – merely the most powerful man in…
It’s official: Fox’s Marvel heroes go to Disney, along with everything else
Here we go, kids. The acquisition of 20th Century Fox by Disney is official today. Ryan Reynolds is getting into the spirit of the thing: And some happy soul has helpfully embedded Deadpool into Avengers: Endgame… The Hollywood Reporter, umm, reports: Reynolds’ Deadpool is expected to be the only iteration of the X-Men to make…
MoCCA presents ‘Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood’ this Thursday
"The Art of Watchmen" co-curator, comics historian Peter Sanderson, will lead a screening and discussion of the two new short films Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood at MoCCA. Sanderson will discuss the role of the two books within the Watchmen graphic novel from DC Comics. Executive produced by Zack Snyder,…
BBC Video Unveils Palin Box Set, ‘Sarah Jane’, ‘Doctor Who’
Coming to stores next month, BBC Video offers a 19-disc Michael Palin Collection – on October 7, 2008. All of eight of Palin’s fascinating travelogues — Around the World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Himalaya, Sahara, New Europe, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure, and Great Railway Journeys – will be included, the last three new…

