Marvel Entertainment has announced a new sweepstakes, the winner of which will win a walk-on role in an upcoming Marvel Studios movie. Usually these things are only reserved for folks like Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, so it’s nice to see regular ol’ folks given the chance at unpaid, uncredited extra work. Sweepstakes entries…
As I write this, the nation is still reeling from the deadliest shooting massacre in its history – if you don’t count wartime battles, and they never seem to. Once again, a disturbed young man decided that the best response to his problems lay in premeditated violence against total strangers. Once again, trusted and trained…
In a gimmick reminiscent of Time Magazine naming the second person singular "You" as Person of the Year for 2006 using a reflective cover, thus skirting any responsibility for actually choosing a Person of the Year, Marvel has decided to give its usual cover artists a break by putting out a blank cover for its…
Teresa Darden Clapp, an ordained Christian minister and a chaplain in Rockland County, New York (my ancestral spawning grounds and current home to ComicMix columnist Denny O’Neill), was suspended for distributing Jack Chick’s religious comic books to the prisoners under her care. The tracts refer to Muslims as idol-and devil-worshippers and portray the prophet Muhammad…
One of my favorite web cartoonists, August Pollak, hits a home run with his Some Guy with a Website strip called "Internet Argument." If you ever want to explain the world of blogs to anyone, you could do much worse than this strip.
I’ve been rooting for Pulp Secret to flourish ever since their executive producer, my old college friend David Levin, first gushed to me about it. And in the short time they’ve been around the site has branched out from their 5-minute video news segments to a weekly talk and interview show to David making good…
A couple months ago we reported Michael Rosenbaum’s confirmation that the next season of Smallville will be his last. Now in an interview with JewReview’s Shmuel Reuven, Rosenbaum reveals more news of the show and talks about his character. “It’s a great year, the ratings are consistently high,” Rosenbaum notes. “Our show’s ratings are just…
Looking for a gift to get the child in your life who’s just wild about Spider-Man? Why not look into getting a personalized photo CD of a Spider-Man cartoon with said child’s photo digitally mapped onto the space where Spidey’s face goes, for a full-length cartoon? Sayeth Kideo, “This 26 minute action packed animated adventure…
Forbidden Plant International leads us to another glowing review of Bryan Talbot’s amazing Alice in Sunderland by Steve Flanagan. The catch is that Flanagan’s review is illustrative, done in the style of the book it’s discussing. Flanagan’s 7-part comic strip review discusses Talbot’s presumed influences for this book, his stylistic choices, perceived structural weakness and…
Marvel editor Tom Brevoort mentioned he had a problem with the way certain parties referred to the Marvel Universe as "Earth 616" — a designation he mistakenly credited to Alan Moore. He promptly followed up by passing along the actual origin of the appellation, courtesy of Alan Davis, who notes, "Although credited to Alan Moore,…
Via Wil Wheaton, it took a team of 10 engineering students at UCSC five hours and 6400 sticky pieces of paper to re-create the first level of the arcade game Donkey Kong. Here’s a silent time-lapse video of the assembly: And here’s what it looks like in the daytime: I hope they got extra…
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…
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