Daily Archive: April 6, 2006

Apr 06

Watch “Bring Me The Head of Boba Fett”

Eltingville is the pilot episode for a Cartoon Network Adult Swim series (that never made it past the pilot) about four comic book/sci-fi/fantasy geeks. I don’t know what’s more shocking: A) That Cartoon Network won’t produce more of these despite it being way funnier than some of the drekky shows that are on Adult Swim …

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Apr 06

Siegels get the rights to Superboy

Comicon’s “The Beat” has the story. DC is challenging the copyright ruling, but if the Siegel family wins the rights to Superboy, what will it mean for “Smallville” and Superman? Is a teen Clark Kent who lives in Smallville on a farm, dates Lana Lang and fights Lex Luthor before he grows up to be …

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Apr 06

Alex Toth Hospitalized

Heidi MacDonald’s comics blog The Beat is reporting that Alex Toth has been hospitalized and is encouraging people to send him get well messages. Here’s a blurb she reprinted from a fan site: No underachiever, but rather one of the last living comics masters and a tremendous influence on many of the great talents working …

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Apr 06

Black bears run away from you; brown bears run at you!

I meant to point these to you last week. Sorry! NBC.com > The Office’s April Fools PSAs

Apr 06

I’m just trying to be a better person

Rebeca Cusey reviews “My Name Is Earl”, which is currently one of my favorite TV shows. In addition to the excellent cast and the high humor content, it’s got something going for it that almost no other TV show does: values. Not that it’s a super-clean show that you can watch with little kids, but …

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Apr 06

No no no no no no NO!

To: Hollywood From: America Re: Remakes Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Miami Vice and now CHiPs (2008) with Fez as Ponch? It’s not as if there isn’t worthy material that could deserve serious re-envisioning in other media many decades later. I wouldn’t say that. But why is it never anything GOOD, like Knight Rider? …

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