Pop Culture Roundup May 10, 2007

Tim Roth will appear as villain the Abomination in "The Incredible Hulk," according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film stars Ed Norton as Bruce Banner and Liv Tyler as Betty Brant.

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TwoMorrows Publishing has announced digital editions of some of its great comic book-related magazines, such as Back Issue and the must-read Alter Ego.

...beginning with our July issues, we’ll begin offering digital editions of all our new magazines, at only $2.95 per download (way less than half the price of the printed versions)!

While we kept the file size down on our Free Comic Book Day downloads by using lower-resolution images, for our future digital editions, the images will be much higher resolution and crystal clear (and thus, larger files). Not only that, but our new PDF editions will feature much of the art from our printed magazines’ black-and-white pages in FULL COLOR!

As a special bonus, subscribers to our printed magazines will get FREE access to the digital versions of the issues in their subscription, which will generally be available 2-3 weeks BEFORE copies are even printed. So if you’ve hesitated to subscribe because our mags show up in your local comics shop before they’re in your mailbox, you can now see the whole issue digitally (and in color) weeks earlier, for no extra charge!

We’re offering these digital editions as a test to see if there’s a market for it, not a way to do away with printed magazines. But we’re relying on the honesty of our readers, to NOT share their digital editions with others. We rely on sales from every printed copy and download to keep the magazines going, and if readers illegally share these files with others, the TwoMorrows mags you love so much will cease to be published in any format. So enjoy the files, but make sure you pay for yours!


Cool idea. Though, I gotta admit I'm a bit addicted to the archaic idea of collecting print issues of things Alter Ego.

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Donald Duck fights V.D.

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Entertainment Weekly has skinny from "Lost" producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse about their plans on wrapping up the show.

CUSE: ...We've done 72 hours and we have 48 hours to go.
LINDELOF: We're 60 percent done.
CUSE: We're over the top of the mountain and heading down the backside. And we believe that our most exciting storytelling is yet to come.


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Cartoonist Darwyn Cooke talks to Comic Book Resources about his enjoyable new "The Spirit" series from DC Comics.

Cooke, who admits writing and drawing a monthly series is a heavy workload, says he is committed to the project through at least the end of 2008.

“I'm in for two years, and then who knows? As long as it's fun and we dial up the creative challenges as we go, I'm in. My role as full time artist may end at some point, though. It is a massive job on a monthly schedule.”


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George Lucas plans yet more Star Wars movies.

Lucas tells me he will make two more live-action films based in the "Star Wars" era.

"But they won't have members of the Skywalker family as characters," he said. "They will be other people of that milieu."

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