Comic book previews
Mile High Comics has first looks at: 100 Bullets #67; Authority the Magnificent Kevin #5; Captain Atom Armageddon #3; DMZ #2; Fables #44; Wildcats Nemesis #4; Books of Doom #2; GLX-Mas Special #1; Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #7; Marvel Knights Spider-Man #21; New X-Men #21; Son of M #1; Uncanny X-Men #467; X-Factor #1 and X-Men #179.
Details on upcoming "Teen Titans" episodes
From the Cartoon Network:
"Calling All Titans" Jan. 7, 8 p.m.
The final game has begun. While the Titans are spread out throughout the globe on one last mission, Brotherhood mastermind the Brain makes his move. Robin has a strategy of his own, but as all the villains begin taking down all the superheroes all at once, will it be enough to save his friends?
"Titans Together" Jan. 14, 8 p.m.
All seems lost for young heroes across the globe: they have been spread far and wide, their lines of communication have been severed, and one by one, the Brotherhood of Evil takes them down. But as The Brain claims his victory is assured, one brave hero manages to slip thorough the Brotherhood of Evil's grasp.
"Things Change" Jan. 21, 8 p.m.
After months of fighting the Brotherhood of Evil around the globe, the Teen Titans are finally back home. But a walk through the city reveals that things are no longer as they remembered. And while Beast Boy wants everything to be just like it was in the past, he has to face the fact that in life things change.
See the Best Teen Titans Sites on the Web.
"Calling All Titans" Jan. 7, 8 p.m.
The final game has begun. While the Titans are spread out throughout the globe on one last mission, Brotherhood mastermind the Brain makes his move. Robin has a strategy of his own, but as all the villains begin taking down all the superheroes all at once, will it be enough to save his friends?
"Titans Together" Jan. 14, 8 p.m.
All seems lost for young heroes across the globe: they have been spread far and wide, their lines of communication have been severed, and one by one, the Brotherhood of Evil takes them down. But as The Brain claims his victory is assured, one brave hero manages to slip thorough the Brotherhood of Evil's grasp.
"Things Change" Jan. 21, 8 p.m.
After months of fighting the Brotherhood of Evil around the globe, the Teen Titans are finally back home. But a walk through the city reveals that things are no longer as they remembered. And while Beast Boy wants everything to be just like it was in the past, he has to face the fact that in life things change.
See the Best Teen Titans Sites on the Web.
Quick hits
Booksteve shares bits of a Canada-only Captain Marvel story published in the 1940s.
PCL LinkDump has a roundup of lots of Christmas sharity, including everything from Bernard Herrmann to Fats Domino.
The Rev over at Spread the Good Word whips up another eclectic mix of Christmas tunes.
Here's an NPR story on Elvis Costello's upcoming collaboration with New Orleans musical legend Allen Toussaint.
And here's NPR on the legacy of Richard Pryor. The comedian passed away over the weekend.
Comic Book Heaven checks out some slick-lookin' Batman and Superman playsets via his 1973 Montgomery Wards Christmas catalog. (I had that Batman set...)
The animated Batman may be getting a familiar sidekick next season, Toon Zone reports.
PCL LinkDump has a roundup of lots of Christmas sharity, including everything from Bernard Herrmann to Fats Domino.
The Rev over at Spread the Good Word whips up another eclectic mix of Christmas tunes.
Here's an NPR story on Elvis Costello's upcoming collaboration with New Orleans musical legend Allen Toussaint.
And here's NPR on the legacy of Richard Pryor. The comedian passed away over the weekend.
Comic Book Heaven checks out some slick-lookin' Batman and Superman playsets via his 1973 Montgomery Wards Christmas catalog. (I had that Batman set...)
The animated Batman may be getting a familiar sidekick next season, Toon Zone reports.
Quick hits
Bubblegumfink discovers an H.R. Pufnstuf blog. The endtimes are nigh.
The endtimes are nigher: Comics scribe Warren Ellis is reviving the Jim Shooter-era "New Universe" for Marvel.
Dial B for Blog displays some rare Superman art by the great John Buscema.
The endtimes are nigher: Comics scribe Warren Ellis is reviving the Jim Shooter-era "New Universe" for Marvel.
Dial B for Blog displays some rare Superman art by the great John Buscema.
Top 10 bestselling graphic novels, DVDs, CDs and toys/action figures
Graphic Novels
1. Black Hole
2. Watchmen
3. Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library [Amazon.com Exclusive]
4. The Art Of George R. R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire
5. Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous
6. The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire
7. V for Vendetta
8. The Acme Novelty Library
9. Batman: Year One Deluxe Edition
10. Bone: One Volume Edition
DVDs
1. March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
2. Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Widescreen Edition)
3. Family Guy, Vol. 3
4. Madagascar (Widescreen Edition)
5. The Sound of Music (40th Anniversary Edition)
6. Lost - The Complete First Season
7. Fantastic Four (Widescreen Edition)
8. The Polar Express (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
9. Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin - The Untold Story
10. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Widescreen Edition)
CDs
1. Born to Run: 30th Anniversary 3-Disc Set [Original recording remastered] ~ Bruce Springsteen
2. The Essential Johnny Cash [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered] ~ Johnny Cash
3. American Idiot [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics] ~ Green Day
4. Cream - Royal Albert Hall - London May 2-3-5-6 2005
5. Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast ~ Various Artists
6. The Legend [Box set] ~ Johnny Cash
7. Aerial ~ Kate Bush
8. Prairie Wind ~ Neil Young
9. At San Quentin (The Complete 1969 Concert) [Live] [Original recording remastered] ~ Johnny Cash
10. Get Behind Me Satan ~ The White Stripes
Action Figures/Toys
1. Marvel Mega Morphs Series 2: Captain America
2. Batman Begins Total Control Figure: Batman
3. Justice League Unlimited Sonic Zoom Superman Figure
4. Batman Begins Deluxe Batmobile
5. The Batman Triple Mission Batmobile
6. Marvel Mega Morphs Doc Ock
7. Batman Batwing with Pilot Batman (110 pieces)
8. Batman Begins Flying Batman Figure
9. Justice League Watchtower Playset
10. Batman Begins Action Figure: Roto Blade Batman
Remembering John
I got the news the next morning, Dec. 9, on the radio. And, just having turned 15 and being a fan who lived and breathed the Beatles, I was shattered.
It was a horrible awakening to how randomly cruel, insane and violent our world can be. Somebody I cared a lot about had been taken from me. Had been taken from us all.
On this day, I don't want to remember how it felt to hear the news or to re-hear news coverage of the event or, really, to relive it at all. It was bad enough to experience 25 years ago.
But I am meditating on how we're now living in a time of insane violence on a much larger scale--a war that's killed thousands of U.S. and Iraqi citizens, which was started by the United States and has no end in sight.
Any real tribute to John Lennon and what he held important needs to mention that fact.
Rather than dwell on past tragedies, we need to figure out how to end the ongoing, much larger one we're in the midst of now.
It was a horrible awakening to how randomly cruel, insane and violent our world can be. Somebody I cared a lot about had been taken from me. Had been taken from us all.
On this day, I don't want to remember how it felt to hear the news or to re-hear news coverage of the event or, really, to relive it at all. It was bad enough to experience 25 years ago.
But I am meditating on how we're now living in a time of insane violence on a much larger scale--a war that's killed thousands of U.S. and Iraqi citizens, which was started by the United States and has no end in sight.
Any real tribute to John Lennon and what he held important needs to mention that fact.
Rather than dwell on past tragedies, we need to figure out how to end the ongoing, much larger one we're in the midst of now.
Quick hits
A great series of Beatles "beatleg" podcasts continues with a new entry today. You can download it and previous releases here. All are great collections of group and solo outtakes and rarities, interview snippets and more.
Here's a cool, free Christmas tune compilation featuring everyone from Louis Armstrong and Ringo Starr to Chet Baker and Esquivel.
More sharity: Pinicchio´s Easy-Listening & Instrumental-Corner presents some tasty Paul Weston lounge/jazz with the great Barney Kessel on guitar. (And if you haven't downloaded the Three Suns' Ding, Dong, Dandy Christmas there, you're missing one of the wildest, most bonkers holiday LPs ever.
TV Guide has an interview with "Smallville" Lois Lane actress Erica Durance.
Here's a cool, free Christmas tune compilation featuring everyone from Louis Armstrong and Ringo Starr to Chet Baker and Esquivel.
More sharity: Pinicchio´s Easy-Listening & Instrumental-Corner presents some tasty Paul Weston lounge/jazz with the great Barney Kessel on guitar. (And if you haven't downloaded the Three Suns' Ding, Dong, Dandy Christmas there, you're missing one of the wildest, most bonkers holiday LPs ever.
TV Guide has an interview with "Smallville" Lois Lane actress Erica Durance.
Traveling Wilburys albums set for reissue, finally
Long out of print, the two Traveling Wilburys albums will be packaged together--with assorted extras--in deluxe and standard CD/DVD sets from Rhino Records June 12.
Click the links below to order either set.
Here are details from the press release:
Nearly twenty years after the creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys will be reissued on June 12, 2007, in the U.S. and June 11, 2007, worldwide. Rhino Entertainment announced the project today and will distribute the package from the Wilbury Records label.
The previously released albums Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 and Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 feature inarguably some of music's greatest singer-songwriters -- George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan -- as the iconic band The Traveling Wilburys. Both CDs will be combined into one release, The Traveling Wilburys Collection, and will feature bonus tracks of rare and newly mixed previously unreleased music along with a bonus DVD featuring a 24-minute documentary showing unseen footage of the Wilburys and their five video clips.
The Traveling Wilburys collectible packages will be available in four configurations. Each configuration is a remarkable commemoration of this unique group.
Standard Package - Features 2 CDs (Volumes 1 and 3) with bonus tracks, bonus DVD of content and a 16-page collectible book.
Deluxe Edition Set - Linen-bound deluxe edition features 2 CDs (Volumes 1 and 3) with bonus tracks, bonus DVD, and a 40-page collectible book with photos, original liner notes, new liner notes and a uniquely numbered certificate of authenticity.
In trying to explain how the Wilburys originally came together, George Harrison once said, "The thing about the Wilburys for me is -- if we'd tried to plan it, or if anybody had said, let's form this band and get these people in it -- it would never happen, it's impossible. It happened completely, just by magic, just by circumstance. Maybe there was a full moon that night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing really."
The Traveling Wilburys BACKGROUND
The Traveling Wilburys was not a carefully planned band, not formed from deep premeditation. Rather, the band was created in a casual blending of genuine friends one ordinary afternoon, which turned out to be anything but ordinary.
George Harrison needed a B-side song to accompany a European single release from his widely regarded Cloud Nine album. While in Los Angeles, George approached Jeff Lynne for help with the B-side, since he had co-produced the album. It happened that Jeff was working with Roy Orbison on the upcoming Mystery Girl album. Roy readily agreed to lend a hand in the musical effort. As fate would luckily dictate, George's guitar was at Tom Petty's house, and he too offered to join in and make some music. When the group showed up to record, Dylan also lent a hand to help complete the half-finished song George had written. George has often been quoted as saying, "And so everybody was there and I thought, I'm not gonna just sing it myself, I've got Roy Orbison standing there. I'm gonna write a bit for Roy to sing. And then, as it progressed, then I started doing the vocals and I just thought I might as well push it a bit and get Tom and Bob to sing the bridge." The final result was a song called "Handle With Care." George later said, "I liked the song and the way that it turned out with all these people on it so much that I just carried it around in my pocket for ages thinking, Well what can I do with this thing? And the only thing to do I could think of was do another nine. Make an album."
The album they created was called the Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 -- a playful nod to the reality that subsequent volumes were unlikely. Volume 1 was released in October 1988 preceded by the single "Handle With Care." The album achieved wide critical acclaim, and most critics agreed that the music was so extraordinary because of the modest ambitions of the band, which translated to a fresh and relaxing sound. Rolling Stone Magazine instantly called it one of the Top 100 Albums of all time. The album also saw commercial success; it reached #3 on the Album charts, garnered double-platinum status and earned the group a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.
In 1990, following the unexpected death of Roy Orbison in December 1988, the remaining members reconvened to record Traveling Wilburys Volume 3, dedicating the album to Lefty (Roy) Wilbury. With Harrison and Lynne producing again, both "She's My Baby" and "Wilbury Twist" became radio hits as the album reached #11 in the U.S. and achieved Platinum success.
Track Listing:
Disc One
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 1
--Handle With Care
--Dirty World
--Rattled
--Last Night
--Not Alone Any More
--Congratulations
--Heading For The Light
--Margarita
--Tweeter And The Monkey Man
--End Of The Line
Bonus Tracks:
--Maxine*
--Like A Ship*
Disc Two
DVD -- The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Music Videos:
--Handle With Care
--End Of The Line
--Inside Out
--She's My Baby
--Wilbury Twist
Disc Three
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3
--She's My Baby
--Inside Out
--If You Belonged To Me
--The Devil's Been Busy
--7 Deadly Sins
--Poor House
--Where Were You Last Night?
--Cool Dry Place
--New Blue Moon
--You Took My Breath Away
--Wilbury Twist
Bonus Tracks:
--Runaway (B-side to "She's My Baby" UK CD and 12")
--Nobody's Child (previously released on Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal)
Click the links below to order either set.
Here are details from the press release:
Nearly twenty years after the creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys will be reissued on June 12, 2007, in the U.S. and June 11, 2007, worldwide. Rhino Entertainment announced the project today and will distribute the package from the Wilbury Records label.
The previously released albums Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 and Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 feature inarguably some of music's greatest singer-songwriters -- George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan -- as the iconic band The Traveling Wilburys. Both CDs will be combined into one release, The Traveling Wilburys Collection, and will feature bonus tracks of rare and newly mixed previously unreleased music along with a bonus DVD featuring a 24-minute documentary showing unseen footage of the Wilburys and their five video clips.
The Traveling Wilburys collectible packages will be available in four configurations. Each configuration is a remarkable commemoration of this unique group.
Standard Package - Features 2 CDs (Volumes 1 and 3) with bonus tracks, bonus DVD of content and a 16-page collectible book.
Deluxe Edition Set - Linen-bound deluxe edition features 2 CDs (Volumes 1 and 3) with bonus tracks, bonus DVD, and a 40-page collectible book with photos, original liner notes, new liner notes and a uniquely numbered certificate of authenticity.
In trying to explain how the Wilburys originally came together, George Harrison once said, "The thing about the Wilburys for me is -- if we'd tried to plan it, or if anybody had said, let's form this band and get these people in it -- it would never happen, it's impossible. It happened completely, just by magic, just by circumstance. Maybe there was a full moon that night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing really."
The Traveling Wilburys BACKGROUND
The Traveling Wilburys was not a carefully planned band, not formed from deep premeditation. Rather, the band was created in a casual blending of genuine friends one ordinary afternoon, which turned out to be anything but ordinary.
George Harrison needed a B-side song to accompany a European single release from his widely regarded Cloud Nine album. While in Los Angeles, George approached Jeff Lynne for help with the B-side, since he had co-produced the album. It happened that Jeff was working with Roy Orbison on the upcoming Mystery Girl album. Roy readily agreed to lend a hand in the musical effort. As fate would luckily dictate, George's guitar was at Tom Petty's house, and he too offered to join in and make some music. When the group showed up to record, Dylan also lent a hand to help complete the half-finished song George had written. George has often been quoted as saying, "And so everybody was there and I thought, I'm not gonna just sing it myself, I've got Roy Orbison standing there. I'm gonna write a bit for Roy to sing. And then, as it progressed, then I started doing the vocals and I just thought I might as well push it a bit and get Tom and Bob to sing the bridge." The final result was a song called "Handle With Care." George later said, "I liked the song and the way that it turned out with all these people on it so much that I just carried it around in my pocket for ages thinking, Well what can I do with this thing? And the only thing to do I could think of was do another nine. Make an album."
The album they created was called the Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 -- a playful nod to the reality that subsequent volumes were unlikely. Volume 1 was released in October 1988 preceded by the single "Handle With Care." The album achieved wide critical acclaim, and most critics agreed that the music was so extraordinary because of the modest ambitions of the band, which translated to a fresh and relaxing sound. Rolling Stone Magazine instantly called it one of the Top 100 Albums of all time. The album also saw commercial success; it reached #3 on the Album charts, garnered double-platinum status and earned the group a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.
In 1990, following the unexpected death of Roy Orbison in December 1988, the remaining members reconvened to record Traveling Wilburys Volume 3, dedicating the album to Lefty (Roy) Wilbury. With Harrison and Lynne producing again, both "She's My Baby" and "Wilbury Twist" became radio hits as the album reached #11 in the U.S. and achieved Platinum success.
Track Listing:
Disc One
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 1
--Handle With Care
--Dirty World
--Rattled
--Last Night
--Not Alone Any More
--Congratulations
--Heading For The Light
--Margarita
--Tweeter And The Monkey Man
--End Of The Line
Bonus Tracks:
--Maxine*
--Like A Ship*
Disc Two
DVD -- The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Music Videos:
--Handle With Care
--End Of The Line
--Inside Out
--She's My Baby
--Wilbury Twist
Disc Three
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3
--She's My Baby
--Inside Out
--If You Belonged To Me
--The Devil's Been Busy
--7 Deadly Sins
--Poor House
--Where Were You Last Night?
--Cool Dry Place
--New Blue Moon
--You Took My Breath Away
--Wilbury Twist
Bonus Tracks:
--Runaway (B-side to "She's My Baby" UK CD and 12")
--Nobody's Child (previously released on Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal)
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