The rumor’s provenance was impeccable: director Bryan Singer.
Center for Cartoon Studies stars in “The ‘Junc?”
04/01/2013 by 2 Comments
And speaking of the Center for cartoon studies, perusing their front page there’s some unbelievably exciting news on a variety of fronts, including news that Jon Chad has been accepted into the US astronaut program, and news of the CCS kickboxing team triumphing over Dartmouth. What caught our eye was the news that after vewing the CCs movie, a producer thinks White River Junction would be a great setting for a reality tv series. The ‘Junc?
April 1 alert: ZEUS COMICS
04/01/2013 by 3 Comments
A long lost comics company? Or is it just April 1st?
Tales of con: Meet The Sleepy Klingon
04/01/2013 by 1 Comment
While nerdlebrities are a big draw at comic-cons these days, as we’ve noted in the past, trying to throw a celebrity-only show can be a dismal affair. But with the rise of nerd culture, autograph shows seem to be picking up, even on the local level. For example: while going through our mail, we found a press release for a show called The American Music & Pop Culture Expo.
When is a movie a graphic novel? David Goyer has the answer
03/19/2013 by 10 Comments
Tweet David Goyer, a Hollywood vet perhaps best known for co-writing Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, is going to direct a a new version of The Count of Monte Cristo which is billed as having “a graphic novel approach” in Michael Robert Johnson’s script. Now what does this mean? This experience [producing the Man of Steel [...]
John Byrne’s Happy Space Toilet
01/21/2013 by 11 Comments
For those who don’t herd sacred cows, Tucker Stone’s weekly comcis reviews at TCJ are always worth a read, but especially because you might miss things like him highlighting a panel of a happy space toilet from a recent issue of THE HIGH WAYS by John Byrne.
Go listen: Ian Boothby’s Superheroes sketches on The Irreverent show
12/12/2012 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Eisner nominated writer Ian Boothby is probably best known for his work on The Simpsons comics, but he also contributes to the Canadian humour radio programme, The Irrelevant Show. Now all his superhero themed sketched have been collected in one webisode.: As an appetizer for the coming season, we’ve put together some of our [...]
Huge shake-up at DC Comics lunch counter
12/05/2012 by 26 Comments
Tweet We’re hearing that DC Comics is in turmoil today after popular lunch spot McGee’s changed their bean salad recipe: instead of cannellini beans, the salad now contains navy beans, and the change has everyone upset. Rattled staffers have been complaining bitterly. “Cannellini beans are mild in flavor and hold their shape well,” said one [...]
Real Life My Little Ponies seen racing across Staten Island
11/28/2012 by 6 Comments
Although shot in that innovative 9:16 ratio that everyone is talking about this TRUE LIFE video of a magical white pony and a zebra racing across a dramatic Staten Island landscape cannot help but remind you that friendship is TRULY magic.
SNL spoofs Hawkeye’s small quiver
11/19/2012 by 3 Comments
Tweet This weekend’s Saturday Night Live featured guest host Jeremy Renner who was all too happy to reprise his role as Hawkeye in a very amusing AVENGERS spoof that also featured Jason Sudeikis as Iron Man, Bill Hader as Thor, Bobby Moynihan as the Hulk, Taran Killam as Captain America, Kate McKinnon as a dead-on [...]
Diana Prince’s Diary is v.v. funny
11/14/2012 by 2 Comments
Tweet There’s a new socialite on the scene, and she’s penning Diana Prince’s Diary. Between whirlwind social events and world saving, it’s all a girl can do. Post-heroics drinks started out v. well. Etta met me at posh bar with proper wine list and everything. We were half way through first bottle when Bruce Wayne [...]
The very latest in comics/fine art mash-ups
04/20/2012 by Leave a Comment
You’ve always wanted to see Darkseid painted in the style of Francis Bacon, haven’t you? Of course you have. It’s part of the latest “The Line It Is Drawn” mashup contest at Comics Should Be Good, and there is much more of that ilk, like Black Canary Scream and so on.
Question of the day: "Where can I see DC or Marvel comics online for free?"
04/09/2012 by 32 Comments
Yahoo Answers….the raw id of our unknowledge….the cry for help in a darkling plain of the unknown. Some lass named Jann wandered in there and asked:
Separated at birth: Obama and Luffy?
03/15/2012 by Leave a Comment
What really happened in Jakarta???
It is to laugh: Ward Sutton's rejected Family Circus comics
03/07/2012 by Leave a Comment
Mocking the comfy tropes of The Family Circus is a joke that never gets old. Or as Stephen Colbert put it last night, “We’re getting all relaxed and average.”
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