BoingBoing recently put the spotlight on Warner Bros. decision to shut down a series of original art auctions on eBay benefitting a childhood cancer charity. Apparently, many of the pieces of art in the auction (which the organizer had requested of his contacts in the comics community and they were more than happy to provide)…
After years of discussion, debate and rumor, it appears a third Ghostbusters film may finally be mounted in 2009. Columbia told Varietyyesterday that they have hired Lee Eisenverg and Gene Stupnitsky, producers of NBC’s The Office, to pen a screenplay that would reunite the original quartet — Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie…
I warned you that we’d be back to high school before we knew it, but did you listen to me? (OK, maybe you did. I don’t really know, to be honest.) It’s that time again: to cavort with sword-swinging, vampire-snogging, dog-spirit-cavorting high school students! To see lots of stylized tears, food-gobbling binges, and unexpected nudity!…
So there’s a time-war, right? People further up the timeline (the “kids”) are trying to fix things they don’t like in history, and people closer to our time (the “parents”) are trying to keep history as they experienced it. It’s not entirely clear if they really are two subsequent generations of the same population —…
This weekend I watched the movie [[[Paul]]] on BluRay. It seemed so lame to me when it first came out. When I saw the previews I decided I’d avoid it like Stevie Wonder avoids driving. I only rented it because it’s one of the few movies that I have not seen On Demand and I…
Holy Sh*t! The World’s Weirdest Comic Books By Paul Gravette and Peter Stanbury St. Martin’s Press, October 2008, $12.95 This is the kind of book I’m actually surprised to still see – I thought “look at this weird stuff” books had been entirely superseded by the greater speed and flexibility of the Internet. (I can…
