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In other news, I spent the weekend watching the entire 2 seasons of Big Guy and Rusty. For those much younger than I (sob, sob) this was a series aired on Fox's defunct Fox Kids animation block ten years ago. Produced by the same team of the animated Men In Black, the show was loosely based on a Dark Horse published comic of the same name ( Read more... )

Some of the recent reactions to Frank Miller’s Spirit movie made me think about this phenomenon though. As Peter David commented on Blog@Newsarama and Heidi MacDonald somewhat echoed on The Beat, “Even when Frank Miller falls, he falls from heights that most of us cannot hope to achieve, myself not excluded. If it’s too much to think that you ( Read more... )

South Asia: The first anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination amidst growing tensions between India and Pakistan after the Mumbai attacks (BBC | LA Times).

Middle East: Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip kill 225 people (BBC | Guardian | Times UK | WA PostEntertainment: The Spirit debuted in 2,509 theaters and was pulled from theaters only ( Read more... )

Haha, oh man, am I glad to have missed this the first time round. Ever since I sat in on The Spirit panel at SDCC I have been embarrassed for LA Times' Geoff Boucher and his ass-kissing of Frank Miller. Seriously dude, enough with the man-crush. Calling Miller visionary is a bit like calling toaster strudels the greatest thing since sliced bread. ( Read more... )

Yesterday, whilst chatting with a bloke at ye old LCS, I was nearly floored by a simple question posed to me.

Bloke: Wait, so The Spirit has nothing to do with Sin City?
Me: ... *curses Frank Miller times infinity*

I have seen the second trailer, but was trying my best at denial. This new trailer makes the movie seem like a live-action adaptation ( Read more... )

Frank Miller is a creepy old man. Sh'yeah, like this is no big surprise. See, I tend to think the best of people even after they've proved me wrong countless times. It's this weird tic I have. So when Miller says all the right things about making Ellen Dolan a strong female character and how much he's learned since then, I think 'Finally'. Then he ( Read more... )

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Oh dear god. The Comicon was... does a word that could accurately describe the damnable and giddy level of fandickery that is the SDCC exist? After an hour at Wednesday's Preview Night, I felt like my sanity had snapped. But in a good way, you know? As in, picking at a scab that hasn't healed yet ( Read more... )