Pop Culture Roundup March 17, 2006

Archie Comics will be published in Arabic in a new deal between Teshkeel Media Group, KSC, and Archie Comic Publications, Inc.:

According to the terms of its multi-year partnership with Archie Comics, Teshkeel's product offering will feature such popular characters as Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Little Archie.

"Archie characters were some of my favorites growing up," said Naif Al Mutawa, CEO of Teshkeel. "They provide positive, wholesome role models which are well suited for children in any region. We're all very excited about working with Archie comics to bring them to an Arabic speaking audience." Al-Mutawa also stated that Teshkeel will begin Arabic publication of several of Archie's more well-known and successful titles by mid-2006.


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Comics artist Neal Adams talks about his upcoming six-part Batman project and his curious scientific theories in an audio interview here.

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Via Down in the Groove: A batch of vintage Ringo Starr promo films.

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Let's Make It is a new blog offering audio snippets of the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and others at work on in the studio during the 1960s.

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From Booksteve: It's St. Patty's day and who's greener than the Hulk?

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Well, the Green Lantern is pretty green, too, notes Dial B for Blog.

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And then there's Green Arrow.

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Looks like the excellent "Veronica Mars" has been picked up for the third season. It'll be a on the new CW network, a merger of UPN and the WB.

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Hanna-Barbera's "Godzilla" toon will be out on DVD June 6.

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Just in time for it's U.S. debut tonight on the Sci Fi Channel, The New York Times has a review of the new "Doctor Who":

Like so much British science fiction, especially Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, this "Doctor Who" has a goofy, homemade quality; it's less interested in gizmos than in characters.

...between the Doctor and Rose there is genuine, old-fashioned chemistry, and their interaction, which occasionally takes on the aspect of screwball comedy, is much the best thing in the show.


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