Archive | June, 2006

Gaiman’s Eternals

25. June 2006

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Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr’s new take on the immortal Jack Kirby’s Eternals has made Entertainment Weekly’s “must List” according to Newsarama.

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Wallace and Gromit statue

25. June 2006

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Moves are afoot to honour Oscar-winning Aardman Animation by creating a statue of their most famous stars, Wallace and Gromit, in their home-town of Bristol. Doesn’t that sounds like the sort of statue you’d prefer to see in a public space rather than the usual sombre memorials to deceased politicians, judges and generals? As a [...]

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Dark Phoenix statue

23. June 2006

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One of the pivotal moments in X-Men history is served well here with the Dark Phoenix statue of the Phoenix herself (being better served here than in the movie perhaps!). This cracking, limited edition statue is the final part of the Dark Phoenix range, which includes Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler (absent from the movie), Wolverine and [...]

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Watchmen movie

23. June 2006

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Comics blog The Beat carries news that the off-on, off-on, off-on-off project which is the attempt to film Watchmen is back on again. Zack Snyder is on board working on a treatment. Snyder is working at the moment on another comics adaptation, Frank Miller’s 300, which uses a lot of virtual sets in a manner [...]

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New cult TV books

23. June 2006

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A couple of new cult TV books added on to our webstore this week – first off is one on the excellent Kumars at No 42 series on the BBC, The Kumar’s Guide to Success. The show takes the format of celebrity interviews – part scripted, part improv comedy and part genuine interview – in [...]

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Unstoppable manga rolls on

23. June 2006

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The manga conquest of both specialist comics and general bookstores continues unabated. Gollancz (also home to some top SF&F writers) in the UK unveiled a range of manga being reprinted in the UK last summer; Random House UK have now followed suit with their new Tanoshimi imprint, collecting a number of titles (previously published by [...]

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Moore’s Lost Girls drawing flack

23. June 2006

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I think we all expected that Lost Girls by Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore was going to draw some flack because of the explicit nature of the work. As reported here earlier this week, Neil Gaiman has posted a longer version of his thoughts on Lost Girls, erotica, pornography and storytelling which he wrote for [...]

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Luthor was here

23. June 2006

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The official Superman Returns site has been hacked. By Lex Luthor. The site has been slightly altered so after the intro we have Kevin Spacey yelling ‘wrong!!’, whereupon the Superman Returns text is scrawled over with Lex Luthor Was Here painted over the S shield and a link called Get to Know Me which takes [...]

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That Futurama return

23. June 2006

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You may recall several posts over the last few months regarding the return of Matt Groening’s Futurama animated series. We heard that it was probably going to happen, possibly as a couple of TV movies or specials, then that it may return for an actual season of episodes. Several times we’ve heard that it is [...]

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Early Lasseter animation

22. June 2006

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Boing Boing draws my attention to this YouTube posting of an animation, supposedly by Pixar’s John Lasseter while a student at CalArts in the 1970s. It is set in a lamp store where the merchandise is getting excited at the expected arrival of an important customer; one lamp falls from the shelf and breaks his [...]

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Prestonpandemonium – new Scottish comic mart

22. June 2006

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Jan Barker drops me a line to remind me that Scotland’s newest comics mart is coming up in historic Prestonpans, East Lothian (an easy train or bus ride from Edinburgh): “Scotland’s Newest Comic Mart – PRESTONPANDEMONIUM – takes place on SATURDAY JULY 22ND – 11.00 a.m.– 3.00 p.m. upstairs in THE PRESTOUNGRANGE GOTHENBURG (a.k.a. “The [...]

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New Frontier animation?

22. June 2006

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Blog @ Newsarama (formerly The Great Curve comics blog) carries intriguing news of an interview with Stan Berkowitz, writer on Justice League Unlimited, who mentions writing for a direct-to-video (or DVD these days) animation of Darwyn Cooke’s enormously popular and well received New Frontier (DC has an Absolute New Frontier due this autumn). However, they [...]

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Oy vey – Fanta goes all Jewish funnyman on us

22. June 2006

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Nestling among this autumn’s new releases from the good folks of Fantagraphics is Old Jewish Comedians – a New Blab! Storybook. Reuben award-winner Drew Friedman brings us 28 full-page portraits of Jewish comedians, some famous, some less so, some practically forgotten but all linked by the fact they are Jewish funnymen born before 1930. Since [...]

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Missing Doctor who gaps filled

21. June 2006

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SFX reports that the BB of C is using animation from Cosgrove Hall (home of Dangermouse – please feel free to join me in a quick sing of the theme song!) to fill in the gaps in missing classic Doctor Who. As most fans know many older episodes were wiped or destroyed decades ago, with [...]

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Shriek movie blog

21. June 2006

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Good chum of the FPI blog, serial exerciser (not to be confused with a serial exorciser, such as Felix Castor), importer of fine ales and sometimes writer, Jeff VanderMeer has created a blog especially for the forthcoming Shriek movie, which I think a lot of us are keen to see.

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