Pop links: Fables TV series, Famous Monsters publisher dies, deal on Lost DVDs, Golden Age Flash and Green Lama, mod videos

ABC is interested in developing DC Comics' "Fables" as a TV series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

David Semel has come on board to direct "Fables," which revolves around characters from fairy tales and folklore living in exile in modern-day New York.

"Their lives become interconnected in vary big way," Zicherman said. "They share a secret and a bond."

Zicherman and Metzner wouldn't elaborate which fairy tale characters will be featured in the TV series, but noted that Big Bad Wolf and Snow White, who are central to the comics, will have a similar role on the show.

The comic book series' first storyline followed Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, who investigates the murder of Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red.

"We set up a structure to allow any fairy tale character to show up in any one episode," Metzner said.


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Famous Monsters of Filmland publisher Forrest J Ackerman, passed away late last week, The Los Angeles Times reports.

Ackerman, a writer, editor and literary agent who has been credited with coining the term "sci-fi" in the 1950s, died Thursday of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, said John Sasser, a friend who is making a documentary on Ackerman.

As editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland, Ackerman wrote most of the articles in the photo-laden magazine launched in 1958 as a forum for past and present horror films.

"It was the first movie-monster magazine," Tony Timpone, editor of horror-movie magazine Fangoria, told The Times in 2002.


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Today only at Amazon: Season 1-3 of "Lost" for $58.99, regularly $120.98.

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The Fortress of Fortitude
presents a Mac Raboy-illustrated Green Lama tale from 1945.

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Awesome! Mojo magazine has posted a "video playlist" to go along with the Heavy Mod compilation CD attached to it's latest issue. Click here for video performances by The Creation, The Pretty Things, The Move, The Small Faces and other way cool bands.

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Pappy presents a Golden Age Flash tale from 1948.

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