This week we review Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon, which is very much Tweeks Approved for all ages, even if it caused us to rant about movies so loosely-based on our favorite books that we suspect the rights to only the title were bought (Yes! We’re talking to you too, The Giver, Percy Jackson, & Insurgent)!
On this day in 1841 in Philadelphia, PA, Edgar Allen Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” was published in Graham’s Magazine. It has been called the first detective story ever, with C. Auguste Dupin as the first true detective in fiction, the precursor of everyone from [[[Sherlock Holmes]]] to [[[Scooby Doo]]],…
David Cronenberg, the director best known for creepy fare such as The Fly and Scanners, is about to change genres. Variety reports he is in negotiations to direct The Matarese Circle, the political thriller written by Robert Ludlum. The MGM film would star Denzel Washington and its story is set back when there was still…
In last year’s collection of Fletcher Hanks comics, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, one of its best features was an epilogue written and illustrated by Paul Karasik that explained his effort to track down Hanks, or at least one of his relatives. Karasik ended up at the door of Fletcher Hanks Jr., a…
Dustin Harbin continues to both surprise and amaze. The Heroes are Hard to Find comics shop employee is also THE GUY when it comes to Heroes Con, seeming to be everywhere at once, making sure everything was just right. He also donned one sweet white suit for the nightly bar crawl, but that’s neither here…
Fred (Fred Othon Artistidès) was born on this day in 1931. A French comic strip creator, Fred created his first comic in 1954. In 1960 he became art director of Hara-Kiri, and illustrated several pieces for the magazine (and its first 60 covers!) over the next few years. He is best known for his comic…
And then one day you find ten years (and two weeks) have got behind you… Since everybody thinks it’s the end of the decade, we’ll do a recap of the decade to go along with our recaps of 2009. This is by no means a definitive list of “the best of the decade”, just our…
