The weekend wrap-up of comic-related news items that might not generate a post of their own, but may be of interest… * Tom Mason interviews Dan Thompson about his new strip RIP HAYWIRE at Comix 411. * The Comics Reporter: Dan Vado on the recent changes at Diamond: …the thing that slaps us up in…
England’s The Sun is reporting that Catherine Tate will be seen once more as Donna Noble in one of the four Doctor Who specials now filming for 2009. Bernard Cribbins will also return as Donna’s grandfather Wilf. The paper also reports that John Simm will also return as The Master, despite apparently dying in front…
With Hellboy 2: The Golden Army coming out on Friday, it’s probably no coincidence that Dark Horse just posted a preview of the next Hellboy comics series online. Head over to MySpace to see the cover (at right) and first six pages to Hellboy: Wild Hunt #1, which is set to debut in December. The…
Various news sites are reporting that church leaders in England are studying the "religious parallels" between the BBC television series Doctor Who and certain themes of Christianity. According to Telegraph: They have been urged to use examples from the programme in their sermons in an attempt to make Christianity more relevant to teenagers. At a…
Alice in Sunderland Bryan Talbot Dark Horse Books, 2007, $29.95 Even for an artist as hard to pin down as Talbot, [[[Alice in Sunderland]]] is odd and unique: it’s one-half a local history of the town in northern England where Talbot lives now and one-half a popular history of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll)…
John Barrowman, the actor who plays Capt. Jack Harkness on the hit BBC series Torchwood, says he plans to stay on the series as long as they’ll have him. In this interview with SciFi Wire, Barrowman said he hopes to see a few more seasons come out of the darker, more adult-oriented Doctor Who spin-off…
On this day in 1963 on BBC television at 5:15 pm, viewers saw a notice about the assasination of John F. Kennedy, and then saw something not unlike this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKg9tuSbXmk …and with that, Doctor Who began its 44 year hold on England’s psyche, racking up the title of longest running science fiction television series, and…
Boy, when this Mary Jane was threatened by a villian, he wasn’t kidding around. Today in England, 1888, marked the death of Jack the Ripper’s last known victim, Mary Jane Kelly. Like most psychopaths, Jack started off killing his victims a certain way and once he got the taste for it just became more and…
After a successful pilot was aired at the end of last year, the second Doctor Who spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures, will begin airing in England the end of this month. Oriented more towards children the way Torchwood is geared towards adults, the ten-episode season will see the return of various Doctor Who villains, including…
At the end of last week’s exciting episode, the cute schoolteacher and I were involved in a tense debate about which showing of the new Harry Potter movie we would attend. (Yes, we media people do have lives that throb with excitement.) We decided, and went. The schoolteacher, who really does carry Potter devotion to…
Via Lisa at Sequentially Speaking, the BBC has launched an interactive Comic Maker section of its ever-growing Dr. Who website. If you’re not from England, however, don’t bother clicking here, because rights restrictions will prevent you from using the site’s Flash portion. Nothing like proprietary software rights to take the fun out of things. Apparently…
Aardman Animation , of Wallace and Gromit fame, signed a three-picture deal with Sony Pictures, it was announced today. The company, based in England, had been without a Hollywood partner since being dumped by Dreamworks in January. "We couldn’t be more excited about working with the entire Aardman team," said Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal. Aardman…
