Author: Glenn Hauman

We’ve obtained preview footage of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode, “Journey to the Center of the Bat!” airing this Friday, January 30 on Cartoon Network at 8:00 PM.

This week Batman’s life hangs in the balance when he is poisoned by Chemo, who is under the control of the evil Brain.  The Atom races to the rescue with Aquaman by shrinking down and entering Batman’s bloodstream.  While Aquaman and the Atom battle the infection deep inside Batman’s body, Batman struggles to end Chemo’s rampage and defeat the Brain!  This week’s teaser features Elongated Man and Plastic Man teaming up to derail a bank heist and capture the criminal Baby Face. Take a look… (more…)

Lara Croft may be returning to the big screen in a continuation of the Tomb Raider franchise. Warner Bros. and producer Dan Lin are in early development of a project with Ian Livingstone of gaming publisher Eidos as co-producer. No word if Angelina Jolie will return to the role of Ms. Croft, or if they’ll recast the part.

Tomb Raider has been licensed as a Top Cow comic since 1997.

From Salon:

A Wall Street retiree wearing a red latex bodysuit and a black hood is strapped to a table…. Talking to Daniel Bergner in his new book, "The Other Side of Desire," the man compares his masochistic ecstasy to having onion skins stripped off his psyche.

"Is this a weird way to deal with life?" he asks Bergner at one point. "Consider the man who bought Mark McGwire’s seventieth home-run ball for three million dollars. Who’s weirder?"

Let’s see, who bought that home-run ball? Oh yeah… Todd McFarlane.

No doubt about it. Todd’s much weirder.

And this quote comes on the day when Neil Gaiman wins the Newbery. Hey, does Neil own Todd’s balls yet?

On Sunday, we wrote how inker Arne Starr had gone Hollywood, working on Grey’s Anatomy and Mad Men— except it turns out that with Hollywood gone comics crazy, he hasn’t put comics behind him. I’ll let Arne explain:

This all started when I found out from a friend who works on Grey’s Anatomy with me that Patrick Dempsey had gone to Marvel Studios to see about getting them to do Doctor Strange, with that certain synergistic connection of Dr. Strange starting out as a surgeon. So I did a piece of art that showed Patrick as the character. Since then, Kevin Feige of Marvel Studios has mentioned in an interview on MTV that we shouldn’t be surprised to see Dr. Strange on the 2012 movie slate.
At this time, I was also working on my other regular show, Mad Men, and brought this up to Jon Hamm, telling him I thought he’d be good as DC’s Hal Jordan/Green Lantern which was about to happen from Warner Bros.. When I brought Jon the preliminary pic (which is mostly the one here) he let me know he had run with it and actually had an appointment with the writer-director of Green Lantern [Greg Berlanti— GH] that week following the season’s wrap.

In the meantime, back on Grey’s, Kevin McKidd was introduced, and I had been a regular on his previous show Journeyman as well (though never playing the same thing twice) so we already knew each other. And it turned out he was already in the running for Thor… so I told him what I’d been doing and went forth and created TWO pictures (technically three) of him in character.

Sometimes, this is the way Hollywood works– somebody shows up at an audition in costume, or somebody has a piece of artwork attached that makes the project believable. And there’s a great bit of synergy going from Dr. McDreamy to Dr. Strange– heck, I could almost see that happening in Grey’s Anatomy continuity. I wonder if Ellen Pompeo would like to play Clea…

Arne was nice enough to provide all the drawings, they’re after the jump. (more…)

WARNING: Denizens of Cynosure that are planning on attending the Time Traveler Convention held forty-four months ago are reminded that the Chronarch strictly forbids intentional time travel within Cynosure city limits; and that the early 21st Century is a generally unstable chronological era. Travelers should try the 100th anniversary convention in 2105 instead.

Yes, Rond Vidar and Michael Jon Carter, this means you.

Failure to heed this warning may result in a repeated time loop, possibly infinite.

In the 80’s and 90’s, one of the busiest inkers in the comics business was Arne Starr. A protege of Dick Giordano, Arne’s work graced the pages of The Legion of Super-Heroes, Nexus, Star Trek, and Sachs & Violens (who are now showing up in Fallen Angel), even doing uncredited work on Crisis On Infinite Earths, and he was a mainstay of a lot of east coast conventions, usually running the movie previews. Then he left the business in the mid-nineties recession.

So how come you haven’t seen him lately?

Well, you probably have seen him– just not in places where you expected.

Arne Starr packed up his bags and moved to Beverly (Hills, that is) and has been doing lots of work as an actor, finding himself doing tremendous amounts of background work all over TV and movies. Some of his more recognizable appearances are as an Attending Physician on Grey’s Anatomy, and an artist at the Sterling Cooper agency on Mad Men, in a clear case of typecasting.

If you keep your eyes open, you can also spot him in episodes of CSI, Medium, Jericho, Sleeper Cell, Bones and as a semi-regular at the Crab Shack in My Name Is Earl. In movies, he shows up in Bedtime Stories, Frost/Nixon, as the Citizen Kane cinematographer Gregg Toland inMan In The Chair, and in a nod to his comic book roots, Iron Man.

Here’s a shot from an appearnce on Grey’s Anatomy:

It’s great to see Arne doing well. But more than anything else, I’m just amazed I got to a Hollywood comic book story before Mark Evanier did.