Paul Dini doing Battle of the Planets?
Paul Dini back to animation already? Too much rough Countdown coverage from the blogs?
Imagi Animation Studios has inked a deal with writer/producer Dini to collaborate on the screen for its upcoming CG animated movie, Gatchaman. Directed by Kevin Munroe and slated for release in early 2009, the movie is based on the original classic Japanese anime series Gatchaman (1970s), which aired in the US as both G-Force and Battle of the Planets. Dini has written for and/or produced TV series including Batman: The Animated Series, Duck Dodgers and Lost and a range of comics such as Detective Comics, The World’s Greatest Superheroes and DC Comics weekly series Countdown. Imagi is best known to comics fans for its recent CGI TMNT film.
Seventy-one years ago today, 
On this day in 1947, 
No, you geek, I’m not talking about Bilbo’s birthday of September 22, 2890 of the Third Age, being born to Bungo Baggins and Belladonna Took. That’s tomorrow.
While we be on the topic of pirates, we note with pride that 
This could be fun: Marvel wants to see you in your costume and they’re handing out prizes to the best-dressed Marvel fans. All you have to do is head over to 
Happy birthday to the voice of, among others (deeeeeep breath) Rocket J. Squirell, Natasha Fatale, Nell Fenwick, Ursula, Granny, Witch Hazel, Miss Prissy, Grandmother Fa, Jokey Smurf, Mrs. Wilson, Broom Hilda, Pogo Possum, Mam’selle Hepzibah, Aunt May Parker, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the lady from the Daughters of the American Revolution and the World War I Historical Society, Jane Kangaroo and Cindy Lou Who – who still, all these years, remains no more than two.
On this day in 1976, the first Space Shuttle, 
