Archive | January, 2007

The Doctor Who Chainsaw Massacre

27. January 2007

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The Register carries a story about some rental DVDs of season 2 of Doctor Who in the US which apparently have some incorrect footage included on them, with a scene from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre suddenly appearing part way through an episode. I love family friendly viewing.

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“Eat plutonium death, you disgusting alien weirdoes!”

27. January 2007

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Oh WOW! Gather round, my fellow Space Cadets, for we have something wonderful to share with you – my colleague Crowbar has just added these quite splendid Dr Grordbort’s rayguns to our webstore. Designed by WETA there is something here for all occassions, from the Wave Disruptor Gun to the Manmelter 3600ZX Sub-Atomic Disintegrator. How [...]

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DC’s cryptic image

26. January 2007

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This image has been appearing all over the online comics community from DC with the text “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.” No-one knows what the smeg it actually represents but speculation is growing already, which was probably the point of releasing it in the first place. [...]

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Sin City PD

26. January 2007

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Artwork from a new, gritty, urban noir comics thriller? Nope – the Police Department of America’s ‘sin city, Las Vegas, are using comics imagery similar to Frank Miller’s Sin City in a recruitment site. Priceless. Wonder if Frank is entitled to royalties? (Link from Boing Boing who picked it up from Warren Ellis) I wonder, [...]

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I Met the Walrus animation

26. January 2007

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Drawn has a link to this very cool animation set to an old interview of John Lennon by Jerry Levitan, recorded when he was fourteen back in 1969, directed by John Raskin with hand-drawn elements by James Briathwaite and vector illustration by Alex Kurina. If you watch carefully there are some especially nice little touches, [...]

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Angoulême – World’s best comics Expo hitting the skids??

26. January 2007

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My colleague Kenny Penman, who has been lucky enough to attend the Angoulême festival several times offers us up his own personal experiences as well as considering some of the recent discussion about problems with the event: As many of you may know the largest European (and one of the World’s biggest) convention/expo’s is currently [...]

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Top Shelf’s Korgi

26. January 2007

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Chris Staros of excellent independent comics publishers Top Shelf seems to be rather excited by one of their upcoming titles: “Christian Slade, a former Disney animator and currently full-time freelance illustrator, has brought to Top Shelf a gorgeously illustrated woodland fantasy about a young girl Ivy, her dog Sprout, and their amazing adventures in Korgi [...]

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Suicide Rabbit

26. January 2007

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The Washington Post has an article on the web cartoon Suicide Rabbit created by Chinese cartoonist Liu Gang last year. The hapless rabbit – loosely inspired by Andy Riley’s Book of Bunny Suicides – is often the victim of all sorts of unfortunate events, from his hospital IV drip being diverted to a bottle marked [...]

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Japan-Korea comics war

26. January 2007

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The site Chinese in Vancouver tells of a cultural war between Japanese and Korean comics creators as Korean artist Kim Sang-mo reacts to the Japanese comics Hyomhallyu (which the site translates are ‘hatred toward Korean popular culture’). Kim has created Hyomillyu (‘hatred towards Japanese popular culture’) which is apprently going to be published in Japan [...]

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Oscar winner injured by zombies

26. January 2007

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Nicole Kidman was injured while shooting a scene for the movie Invasion, leading to a line you don’t see every day on the BBC: “Kidman’s publicist, Catherine Olim, said the star was trying to shake zombies off the bonnet of her Jaguar when the car spun off the road.”

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The Joker IDed

25. January 2007

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As in many countries new rules are being brought to bear in the Netherlands regarding personal identity. The Register carries news that one Dutchman decided to show his feelings towards the government’s new rules by painting his face to look like the Joker from Batman; amazingly he actually had his picture taken and got one [...]

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Garth Ennis’ The Boys cancelled?

25. January 2007

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Newsarama reports that DC has pulled the plug on mature title The Boys by Preacher scribe Garth Ennis and Darick ‘Transmetropolitan’ Robertson. The title was apparently doing well sales-wise, it seems to be the even-stronger-than-usual Ennis content that may have made DC decide belatedly that this wasn’t the title for them. Given some of the [...]

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Ray Harryhausen Creature List

25. January 2007

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Via Drawn (which I am glad to see is back on the virtual air once more) comes a link to the Ray Harryhausen Creature List, a site sure to appeal to the heart of any fan of the great master of fantasy film effects and stop-motion animation. Even better the list has links which open [...]

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Alan Moore on Resonance FM

25. January 2007

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You may recall mention here recently of the comics focus this month on London-absed Resonance FM‘s I’m Ready For My Close-up. Presenter Alex Fitch has kindly dropped me a line to say that tonight’s show on Resonance 104.4FM will go out at 10.30pm and feature a certain promising young writer and his beard, who some [...]

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Joe Haldeman video

25. January 2007

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Award-winning SF writer Joe Haldeman, author of the Forever War, can be see on a videocast speaking at MIT dicussing ‘the craft of science fiction’ (link via SF signal).

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