Pop Culture Roundup: DC Comicmobile; Richard Kyle; Disneyland; Booksteve

Take a nostalgic spin in the DC Comicmobile!


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The Comics Journal spotlights Richard Kyle - early booster of the graphic novel.


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Take a peek at the "Summer '67 Disneyland Guidebook"!


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Our pal Booksteve announced he's taking a break from blogging for the foreseeable future. Over the years, he's posted steadily on his flagship site and several other comics and movies-related spin-off blogs. He also regularly works doing proof-reading and other tasks on books and magazines  I enjoy. Here's hoping you have a great, restorative break, Steve, and that we see you back in action, someplace, soon.

Walt Simonson returns to pencil Thor for upcoming Legacy issue

Legendary comics creator Walt Simonson has provided a cover and interior art for Marvel's Mighty Thor #700, which sees the character returned to his roots. The issue is out Oct. 28.

Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonso shared this cover preview on Twitter:


Hear Brian Wilson's lost tune "Some Sweet Day"

The song, co-written and recorded with Andy Paley, in the 1990s appears on the Wilson solo anthology, Playback, out Sept. 22.

You can hear it via Rolling Stone here.
"Brian and I originally wrote 'Some Sweet Day' together in the early Nineties for a movie," Paley told Rolling Stone in a statement. "The idea was that it would be sung by a female in the style of a Sixties girl-group like the Chiffons. It ultimately didn't end up getting recorded with a woman's voice but still I like the recording with Brian singing lead. That's Brian and me and my brother Jonathan singing the background parts. I'm playing one of the pianos, Brian's playing another one. I'm playing drums and guitar Jonathan's playing six-string bass. Brian hired a violinist and Michael Andreas played the woodwind part. It's a track that I've always been very proud of so I'm happy that people are finally able to hear it."


"I think it's a great song with good lyrics and a cool melody," Wilson adds.

New character posters for "Thor: Ragnarok"

"Thor: Ragnarok" is out Nov. 3.

The cast includes Chris Hemsworth as Thor; Tom Hiddleston as Loki; Cate Blanchett as Hela; Idris Elba as Heimdall; Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie; Karl Urban as Skurge; Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk, and Anthony Hopkins as Odin.








Panels: "There are lots of things I hate about Clark Kent ..."


Listen: BBC streams 1970s sci-fi radio drama "Island Genesis" featuring Peter Cushing and Vincent Price

Listen here:
The curiosity of the inhabitants of the remote Scottish island of Luig is aroused when two strangers arrive for the funeral of the local doctor.
The two men are no strangers to each other, nor were they to the late Dr Hugh Dexter.
One is Professor Curtis Lark - a flamboyant American explorer, scientist and Nobel Prize winner whose research has been in the field of telepathy and telekinesis; the other is John Cornelius - the eminent British brain surgeon.
What starts as a brief visit by two colleagues to honour an old friend quickly develops into a series of bizarre and frightening events uncovering the presence of forces unknown bent on world domination...
Stars Peter Cushing as John Cornelius, Vincent Price as Professor Curtis Lark, Henry Stamper as Minister Donald Schooler, Shirley Dixon as Mrs Kyle, Sandra Clarke as Flora Kiery, Irene Sutcliffe as Mary and Frazer Carr as Dr Hugh Dexter.
Written by Rene Basilico from an idea by Robert Holmes.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977.

Trailer: "Professor Marston & the Wonder Women"

William Marston, the eccentric inventor of the lie detector and creator Wonder Woman, gets profiled in this bio-doc, out Oct. 13.

I bet its audience will be substantially larger than originally expected, thanks to the huge success of this summer's blockbuster based on Marston's creation.