If you’ve ever said something happens once in a blue moon, well, today’s the day.
According to the Farmer’s Almanac definition of the third full moon in a quarter of the year when there are four full moons, today is a blue moon.
So now you need a new excuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7krwq5hZPY0 Here’s Disney’s extended game spot for “John Carter”, directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe, and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars”. Coming to theaters March 9.
The Brooklyn (New York) Public Library has removed Tintin au Congo from its shelves. If you want to read the graphic novel, you’ve got to ask for it and risk that “what are you, a bigot?” glower from the librarian. In an act of insane political correctness, somebody looked at the tome and bitched about…
It’s snowing, albeit gently, here in the Northeast, and the temperatures are definitely of the stay-indoors variety, so why not do what I’ll be doing, catching up on ComicMix columns from this past week?: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #42: Raiders of Lost Knowledge Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer #42: Is Iron Man Mike…
Comic book and videogame fanboys freaked out a little recently when the news broke that Sega would be handling Marvel’s movie-based games. After years of bad Marvel Comics videogames, Activision turned out solid hits that satisfied the mainstream and comic fans alike, such as Spider-Man and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. While the Activision partnership continues, the New…
Looking for something to do before school or work begins again? Well, Hulu has just added the reviled Howard the Duck to its list of free feature films. The live-action Universal film, starring Tom Robbins, Lea Thompson, and eight different guys in an expensive duck suit, was considered one of the worst films of the…
Brand extensions can be tricky things. Sometimes you end up with Lucifer, but sometimes you get Witchblade Takeru Manga instead. Jack of Fables, from DC, was a clear attempt to extend the brand identity of the Fables series, written by Bill Willingham and mostly penciled by Mark Buckingham, with a companion series about one of…
