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This Vanity Fairinterview with Stan Lee is FULL of awesomeness, and shows that Lee can still turn a quip like a young man of 70. But the bit that is getting the most excitement this day is the part where Stan answers the question he dodged in MALLRATS all those years ago — the one about whether the Thing’s junk was made of orange rock. Only they didn’t call it junk back then–they called it a dork!
According to DC’s March 8th retailer email, BATWOMAN #1 by JH Williams III, W. Haden Blackman, and Amy Reeder has been delayed again. The book had been delayed from an earlier launch, although Williams said it was always a bit nebulous:
History repeats itself as one more Roger Langridge’s Muppet comics have been put in the vault by a business move.
Fans of his near-universally acclaimed run on Boom’s Muppet franchise may recall that his run on the beloved puppets began as a strip for Disney Adventures magazine, which was cancelled before the strips could run. Langridge made a few mini comics which he furtively handed out at cobs and the legend of the strips greatness grew. Result: when Boom got the license a call went out.
This Saturday marks the first occurance of a new comics event claiming to be “The Capital’s Bohemian Comic Show” and seemingly replacing the now defunct UK Web & Minicomix Thing UK Web & Minicomix Thing .
Oh, PS, until they make that Spider-Man: The Musical opera, here’s Ward Sutton’s more humorous take.
Someday, we predict, someone will write an opera about the Spider-Man musical, which will be all about immensely talented egos, wasted money and mythic archetypes; it will be the Nixon in China for those days.
Seriously, how could you have predicted the scene when fucking BONO would have to step out in front of a theatrical group and take the reins as creative leader, saying they had to move forward without the director he himself had chosen?
TweetWhew, a lot to catch up on, so here’s a major link-dump. § Dept. of Tokyopop: More background has been coming out about how the Borders situation impacted the latest downsizing at the manga publisher. Calvin Reid has an in-depth “Rise and Fall of Tokyopop” piece that includes a long conversation with CEO Stuart Levy. [...]
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