R-E-S-P-E-C-T / Find out what it means to me / R-E-S-P-E-C-T / Take care, TCB When Otis Redding wrote that song back in 1965, I doubt he could foresee its impact on our culture. Everybody related to its sentiments, and today it’s common do see the word used as a major bone of contention in…
Gaming website Kotaku recently reported that Stan Bush wanted his song “The Touch” from the classic, animated Transformers: The Movie in Guitar Hero or Rock Band music videogames. We couldn’t agree more. It’s a rockin’ song that we’d love to play on our fake plastic instruments with our friends. But why stop with one Transformers…
Another animation company has been formed as Marvin Gleicher, co-founder and former CEO of Worldwide Operations for Manga Entertainment, has opened Marvin Media. His first effort will be adapting Paul Kanter’s Floating Moon as a feature-length animated film. It will be directed by Keiichi Sato (Wolf’s Rain) from Manabu Ishikawa’s screen adaptation. The movie can…
Note: Click here for last week’s victim! The Crime Scene: "Finding Freebo" From Showtime: "Dexter and Rita have to make a big decision about their family, forcing Dexter to think about what it means to be responsible for kids. Is he ready to commit to this new family? Meanwhile, Dexter and Assistant District Attorney, Miguel…
Back in my DC Comics days, I was sitting in my office pretending to work when Mark Waid stuck his head in. “Hey, do you know when Paul McCartney wrote ‘Silly Love Songs?’” he asked. “Pretty much his whole damn life,” I replied without looking up. That about summed up my feelings about Paul McCartney….
With the Emmy Awards four days away, much so being made of the main event although many awards have already been given out. The 2008 Creative Arts Emmys were presented and among the winners of note include: Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming One Hour or More went to the “Imaginationland” special episode of South Park…
Warner Home Video has announced a sixth DVD box set in their Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. The new set will be released on October 21 with 60 classic, fully re-mastered and restored cartoons, presented in their original un-edited format. Most of the shorts in the collection have never been available on DVD before. Retailing…
The Fox network wants to make certain college kids can get a chance to see the season premieres of both Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (September 8) and Fringe (September 9). Students using a log in with an .edu e-mail account will have a chance to see the episode on line at fox.com along with…
The past few months have brought a swell of attention to indie comics writer Elizabeth Genco, who scored a coup by having a story included in the Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo collection from Image Comics, and then her graphic novel Blue — a modernization of the Bluebeard legend — sold well in part thanks…
Reaction to Robert Kirkman’s recent "mission statement" video has been creating quite the buzz around the comics industry lately, and rather than surfing every message board, column and blog in the comics world to find out what everyone’s saying, there are a few good places to go for roundups. First off, here’s the video that…
Today sees the release of one of the most odd comics projects of late, a compilation of stories based on the music of Tori Amos, Comic Book Tattoo. Spinner has a lengthy interview with Amos on the subject, as well as chats with many of the project’s creators. Read it all right here. Amos offers…
Bluesman By Rob Vollmar and Pablo G. Callejo NBM, August 2008, $24.95 [[[Bluesman]]] was published once before, as three album-sized collections, but this is the first time the entire story has been collected between two covers. It’s a moody tale, told in black and white – but mostly in grays, from the background to the…
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