Why should movies have all the fun of resurrecting old TV shows, when TV itself can autocannibalize with the best of ’em? Here’s a teaser from the new Bionic Woman pilot set to air this fall on NBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAd86zqrh9E I can’t help but wonder if this sort of exercise hasn’t been superceded by all the…
Via Blog@Newsarama: The Springfield (Ill.) State Journal-Register reports on the financial problems faced by the family of Tom “TC” Artis, the comics artist who died on May 1. Artis, 51, suffered a massive stroke last June that left him comatose, and reliant on a ventilator and feeding tube. He was best known for his work…
My favorite story headline was run by the New York Daily News after a bus and subway strike that had crippled the city was resolved over the weekend in time for the start of the work week. The headline: Sick Transit’s Glorious Monday. But now, the AP has matched it with a story about tightrope…
Remember Fantastic Four #256, when the FF returned from the Negative Zone and the unstable molecules of their uniforms turned negative? Apparently, the same thing happened to Neil Gaiman… See? He’s in a spacesuit and everything. Either that, or Neil was killed by the Kindly Ones, and this is the new Neil. Look at his…
Big week this week– the end of 52, the wrapup of Wonder Man, Buffy #3… what else? We want to hear from you, argue back and forth the way we’re supposed to. Kick it off in the comments section, and let’s see what worked and what didn’t. (Artwork from the newspaper comic Retail; copyright 2007…
When I was in Friends of Lulu, one of the main incentives to keep up membership was the opportunity to vote in the annual Lulu Awards, given to women of distinction whose contributions to comics kept getting ignored year after year by the major comics awards. Now an era appears to have come to an…
The lineup for the 2007 Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled, and Marjane Satrapi’s much-anticipated Persepolis, based on her graphic novel, will be among the films competing. Here’s a shot of Satrapi, who currently lives in France, from last year’s festival, flanked by actress Chiara Mastroianni and “Persepolis” co-writer/director Vincent Paronnaud: Also selected were Quentin…
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…
It was all a misunderstanding, admitted the Billings, MT chief prosecutor. Seems a deputy prosecutor misinterpreted an e-mail from a colleague who used the phrase "unicorn defense" as an actual statement from Phillip C. Holliday Jr., whose truck crashed into a light pole last week. Seems "unicorn defense" is a slang term used by prosecutors…
Yes, I know it’s offline, as is BobGreenberger.com. I’ve got my webmaster hat on and I’m trying to resolve the problem ASAP. UPDATE: Servers restored.
Following up on our earlier post, auction coordinator Deb Geisler writes: "We’re delighted to tell you that the auction raised $4,030, which will be donated to the special fund set up by the Friends of the Minneapolis Library in Mike’s name. We had so many donations (more than 70!) that we divided the auction into…
Fresh from their oscar-nominated performances in Little Miss Sunshine last year, Steve Carell and Alan Arkin will be appearing together in the Warner Bros. film version of Get Smart as Maxwell Smart (Secret Agent 86, as if you’d forgotten) and the Chief, respectively. Also cast in the film is Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. But…
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