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‘Transformers’ and ‘G.I. Joe’ sets coming to DVD

Shout! Factory, the happy folks behind, well, lots of DVD collections (I’m fond of Greg The Bunny myself) has signed a multi-year deal with Hasbro to release DVDs of several animated properties based on the toymaker’s product lines, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Included in the deal are episodes of the 1980s animated Transformers and G.I. Joe TV series , and the direct-to-DVD animated movie My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish AdventureThe Transformers: The Complete First Season  25th Anniversary Edition releases June 16, 2009.  For those of you about to check your calendars, that is a week before Paramount and DreamWorks release Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on June 24.

According to ICv2, Shout Factory plans to release improved versions of the episodes that were previously released on DVD by Rhino, and to complete the GI Joe run, which was only partially completed by Rhino. The episodes will have remastered video and a new stereo soundtrack created from the original audio.  Extras will include a printable script, rare PSAs, toy commercials, concept art, a limited edition Autobot magnet, and the featurette “Triplechanger:  From Toy to Comic to Screen:  The Origins of the Transformers.”

And of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point to the wonderful comics currently coming out from IDW.

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Of course you realize this means (holy) war…

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Apparently, some folks in San Diego are upset:

Looney Tunes Last Supper Parody Draws Complaints | Animation Magazine

A parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper that features Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang on display at the Chuck Jones Gallery in San Diego has drawn a consistent stream of complaints.

The San Diego Union Tribune reports the painting titled The Gathering, created by Dallas artists Glen Tamowski and put on display a couple weeks ago, has drawn a number of angry telephone calls and unfriendly notes demanding the painting be removed.

I should consider myself lucky. My last supper in San Diego, there were a bunch of us, and somebody took a photo of me in the center of a long table, surrounded by twelve guys, and if you’ve seen what I look like with long hair…

Anyway, have more Easter stuff. And remember… keep smiling…!

Free Death Note movie tickets

For a limited time, beginning April 13th, F.Y.E. and Suncoast customers who purchase any Death Note DVD or Death Note related merchandise (in-store only) will receive a free ticket to attend the English-dubbed screening of Viz Pictures’ Death Note L: Change The World on April 30th, while supplies last.

For store locations please visit www.fye.com or Suncoast.com.

Helping ‘Theater Hopper’ out

Theater Hopper has been dropped from Google’s listings temporarily, due to some spam infesting its site code.

Luckily, you know what helps sites get reindexed? Links.

Links to some of the funny strips.

Links to some of their poignant strips.

Links to deep philosophical questions.

Just links in general.

And it really helps if you have a large website with a lot of Googlejuice of your own to spare.

No, no– we must use this power only for good.

The Point – April 10th, 2009

This weekend the first new DOCTOR WHO episode of 2009 premieres in the U.K. and we celebrate with a visit from the sixth Doctor, Colin Baker,  who is still riding The Tardis. Mike Gold looks at just who is really downloading WOLVERINE and Twitter without typing – it’s here.

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Happy Good Friday!

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For your reading pleasure, we point you to Dial B for Blog which has collected the scrolls of Bennie David, better known to the world as Son O’God. And yes, that is Neal Adams artwork.

Now if we can only get to the inevitable battle against this guy.

That would be a real Final Crisis.

 

‘Twilight’ is 16% of book sales for 1Q09

And you thought Watchmen warped book sales charts for comics. That’s nothing– according to USA Today, Watchmen came in ninth in sales for the first quarter of 2009. The first four books were the first four books in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. In fact, a whopping 16% of all books sold in America in the first three months of the year were Twilight books– four books out of every twenty-five books sold.

The rankings:

  1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
  4. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
  5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
  6. The Shack by William P. Young
  7. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
  8. The Associate by John Grisham
  9. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
  10. Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide by David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding
  11. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
  12. The Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick
  13. The Appeal by John Grisham
  14. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
  15. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  16. Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan by Suze Orman
  17. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
  18. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
  19. Marley & Me by John Grogan
  20. The Yankee Years by Joe Torre, Tom Verducci

Sarah Michelle Gellar coming back to Buffy? Not for the next nine months or so…

Well, that’s one way to squash a rumor.

Stories had been appearing about Sarah Michelle Gellar finally being ready for a big-screen version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer appear to have been trumped by the announcement that she and her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. are expecting their first child.

On the other hand, the rumors had Buffy being a mom too… naaaah.

In the meantime, I’ll stick with the Buffy comics from Dark Horse.