Oscar nominations were announced today and there was a stunning upset in the animation category: And for the first time since the animated feature film category was added in 2001 that no nominees were made using computer-generated imagery. The nominees: the hand-drawn “Howl’s Moving Castle,” and the stop-motion films “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” and “Wallace …
Monthly Archive: January 2006
Jan 31
Any coffee drinkers here?
I don’t want to get all “activist agitator” with you folks, but here’s the problem: I want to support a coffee company but I don’t actually drink coffee, nor does my wife. Our parents drink coffee at our house once in a blue moon, which means the one bag we own has lasted for some …
Jan 30
Busted Knuckles gets Freakie Friday’d
I never mentioned Buzzscope before, and now twice in one day. Weird. Seems they wanted to have “Busted Knuckles” to be written by a woman, but when Beau Smith went to the sex change operation they broke the saw. Until they can find something that cuts through brass, they opted instead to switch Beau with …
Jan 30
Zoo Crew
I haven’t commented on the “Whatever Happened to Captain Carrot?” storyline in the recent Teen Titans because I was too disappointed in it. I’m not a basher of Geoff Johns, as you all know; I think he’s been the best thing since Mark Waid in turning the comic industry back towards “fun” from the dark …
Jan 30
Comic industry sexual harrassment
I’ll admit, I hadn’t heard anything about this story in the last month, but many of you may already know of it. I guess I’m late to the game on this one. The story started the day after Christmas, when I wasn’t even near the Internet much, so I can see how I missed it. …
Jan 27
“Trapped in the Closet” trapped in the vault
Tom Cruise kills South Park episode People in the UK will not be able to see the notorious South Park episode in which Tom Cruise is hiding in a closet because Stan, who Tom believes to be the reincarnation of Scientology leader L. Ron Hubbard, says that Tom’s acting is only OK, though he’s no …
Jan 27
Return of the Zinc Saucier
I’m just so jazzed to hear that Futurama is coming back (as earlier reported by Chaim Keller). I’ve missed Bender so much. There’s nobody else like him. Who else could, upon winning a cooking contest, declare: “I decline the title of Iron Cook and accept only the lesser title of Zinc Saucier, which I just …
Jan 27
Meh. I suppose it’s manly.
Beau Smith has been having a “Manly Cover Competition” with Chuck Dixon where each week they offer a comic from their collection and compare which one is mas macho. Chuck has a pic of Tarzan with a machine gun, then Beau fires back with a WWII superhero and his sidekick mowing down an entire platoon …
Jan 26
Preview of “Justin”
8 pages of previews for the upcoming “Truth, Justin and the American Way” from Scott Kurtz and Aaron Williams are now up on Newsarama.
Jan 26
Pet Pro looking for artist
The Pet Professional online comic is looking for a new artist. It details the adventures of a hired gun who accepts contracts on animals.
Jan 26
DC First Look at Ion #1
Comics Continuum has the First Look of Ion #1. Ron Marz, creator of Kyle Rayner, retuns to writing Kyle as, One Year Later, he once again has more power than any Green Lantern.
Jan 26
Way to go, Brad!
Brad finally gets a kiss from Toni Daytona! I’ve been a reader of the comic strip “Luann” for years, but I think Brad is infinitely more interesting than the main character, the boys-and-clothes-obsessed Luann. In a case of Life Imitates The Onion, the November 14th issue of The Onion poked fun at cartoonist Greg Evans …
Jan 26
JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED Returning Early
The last we heard Cartoon Network said new episodes of Justice League Unlimited wouldn’t be airing until late Spring/Summer. But Comics Continuum has revealed that, apparently, Cartoon Network has changed its mind and new episodes will start airing February 11 at 10:30 Eastern. 9 episodes will be in this block.
Jan 26
How Spinal Tap are these bands?
A COMPARISON BETWEEN ‘SPINAL TAP’ AND OTHER HEAVY METAL BANDS is pretty funny…though I must disagree with the guy’s analysis since I like Def Leppard.
Jan 24
Superman And Aquaman Find New Home
The WB and UPN will merge into a new network called The CW (“C” for CBS and “W” for Warner Brothers). Plans are for The CW to debut this Fall. The new network will air the most popular shows from both networks, including Smallville and, presumably, the new Aquaman show.
Jan 23
Cox and Forkum interviewed
Cox & Forkum are two of my favorite cartoonists, and now part two of a two-part SNN interview has been posted as a podcast. Part One. Part Two. I’ve only listened to part one. Frankly, these SNN podcasts aren’t really to my tastes, especially their correspondent in America (Warning: contains rated R language and general …
Jan 23
The Autobot Leader gets his name
Wikipedia reveals that Optimus Prime was named by Denny O’Neil. Thanks to Scott “Condiment” King.
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