10 years from now, fandom’s failure to support Dredd 3D will be seen as a cock-up of Firefly-level proportions. Coming out of the theater I was acutely aware of the film’s dismal box office performance and profoundly sad that I …
TEACHERS: STEAL MY PPT PRESENTATION BELOW.
As I write this post, I am in the middle of grading the essays to which it refers. I suppose this post is an example of noble procrastination.
One of the thematic units that …
A week late, but here’s our report from the Cincinnati Comic Expo. Not so much a report, actually, as an impromptu podcast recording with the Yellow Menace staff hunkered around a tabletop mic at a lonely end of the …
Disney Corp. is buying out Marvel Comics. Some random thoughts…
1.) Pixar Marvel flicks? Yes, please…
2.) Incredibles: The Comic? Yes, please…
3.) The chance that any forthcoming Marvel superhero pics will suck just quadrupeled. And yes, this includes …
Yeah, I’m pretty tired of hearing ComiCon news – since I won’t be there (grrrrr…). For you lucky bastards who are attending, Olivia Munn has some advice on what to check out. The list is a little Attack of the …
Sorry, io9 – Schumacher still has the distinction of having made the worst Batman movie ever. You can’t honestly tell me that the 1993 Filipino production Alyas Batman En Robin is less entertaining than Batman & Robin.
I mean, …
Wired posted a brief analysis of the obscenity charges brought against U.S. manga collector Christopher Handley, who was arrested for trafficking in ‘obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children’, aka smutty manga. AnaKhouri has blogged about this in …
Yay Eisner Award nominees.
Nominee List
There is lots of manga on the list. In fact, I didn’t know this, but there is an entire category just for Best Presentation of a Japanese Manga in English. Or something like that.…
X-Men / Wolverine star Hugh Jackman (and Sexiest Man Alive, apparently) was blabbering to MTV and made some off-hand comments regarding the setting of a possible Wolverine sequel.
“The most intriguing thing to me was the Japan story. I love …
A Japanese man wants to marry an unnamed comic book character, and have it all nice and legal.
Seriously…
That’s a good idea, because I bet those superhero leagues have great insurance and if you’re legally married you can get …
Man, if you believe the headlines these days, it looks like Japanese comics are the new video games. Prosecutors making the case against a pair of Italian students indicted in the murder of 21-year old Meredith Kercher made sideline allegations …
Deb Aoki, who writes About.com’s manga blog, recently chatted with Elfquest creator Wendy Pini about her online yaoi adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s Masque of the Red Death. Plague victims and man-love – yummy!
Here’s a brief excerpt:
Q: …
