Showing posts with label Pop links. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pop links. Show all posts

Pop links: Batman by Neal Adams, the Orb and Gilmour team up, Asterix sells burgers, Conan O'Brien teams with Jack White

See a nice batch of Neal Adams-illustrated Batman covers.



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Trippy 1990s techno band have recorded a new album featuring Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour. roceeds from album sales will go toward fighting the extradition from Britain and to the United States of computer hacker Gary McKinnon.



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Depressing: Asterix is being used to advertise for McDonald's in France.

Asterix co-creator Albert Ulderzo (Goscinny is deceased) was consulted on the use of the character and his studio created the image.  And Asterix was used in a previous French McDonald’s promotion, in 2001, that tied to the release of an Asterix film. 



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Conan O'Brien is releasing a spoken word recording plus a rockabilly duet with the White Stripes' Jack White.



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The Beatles "red" and "blue" compilations were popular ways for youngsters to get into the band's music when I was a kid in the 1970s. Now, they join the rest of the band's catalog in newly remastered form. The 2-CD packages will be out Oct. 19.

Pop links: January Jones to star as Emma Frost in X-Men First Class, rare Jack Kirby, Marvel Comics stickers, retro comics school folders

January Jones of "Mad Men" will play Emma Frost in "X-Men: First Class."


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See some relatively obscure Jack Kirby covers for Marvel Comics.



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Jon presents a great array of Marvel Comics stickers. I think I've mentioned before how annoyed my parents were when I plastered a batch of these on my wall as a kid.



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I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but apparently you can outfit your kids for school there with cool folders illustrated with retro comic book covers.

Pop links: Basil Wolverton, Green Lantern 2 and animated GL, 3-D Tarzan, Wrightson's unreleased Batman tale

See a gallery of Basil Wolverton's covers to DC Comics' Plop humor title.

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An animated, 3-D (aren't they all these days?) Tarzan film is in the works.

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A writer has been hired to pen Green Lantern 2 before the first movie is even out.

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An animated Green Lantern TV series is also in production.

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DC Comics is set to release a previously unpublished Batman story illustrated by Bernie Wrightson.

Pop links: Jack Kirby, Marvel humor cards, Avengers "teaser", Marine Boy, new home owners discover copy of Action #1, is James Bond dead?

The Fabuleous Fifties presents a whole mess of Jack Kirby-illustrated sci-fi and suspense tales.

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See a big batch of 1960s Marvel Comics humor cards at Jon's Random Acts of Geekery.

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Here's a "teaser" for the yet-to-be-made Marvel Comics Avengers movie.



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Hey Booksteve, I used to watch this show too!

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I've bought three houses in my life. Each one came with at least a few items of the previous owner's old crap. Did I ever find a $250,000 comic book left behind? No, I did not.

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Will there be a James Bond movie again anytime soon? I think they should go retro with the franchise, setting it in the 60s, so Bond can truly be Bond again.

Pop links: Harvey Pekar, Carl Barks, Bronze Age Marvel Comics

The Comics Journal presents the first installment of  a lengthy 1984 interview of cartoonist/writer Harvey Pekar, who passed away earlier this week.


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How Carl Barks was identified as the "good duck artist."

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See  a collection of mind-shattering splash pages from Marvel Comics titles published this month in 1975. I miss the Bronze Age.

Pop links: Wally Wood, Major Matt Mason, Badfinger!

Read a Wally Wood-illustrated Jungle Jim story.



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See Matt Mason toys galore in this 1969 Mattel Toys catalog.



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Read an interview with Badfinger's Joey Molland.

Pop links: Iron Man 2 annotated, Disneyland slides, Captain America movie ready to roll, CBGBs: the comic book, Wally Wood meets Peter Max

See an annotated guide to Iron Man 2.

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View some great souvenir slides from Disneyland here and here.



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The Captain America movie will be filmed in London.

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Boom! Studios is publishing a comic book series about legendary punk club CBGBs.

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Wally Wood meets Peter Max.

Pop links: Marvel Comics stickers, Son of John Peel, Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, Gene Colan

See some more of those 70s's Marvel Comics stickers. Much to my parents' annoyance, I plastered these all over my bedroom closet as a lad.



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The son of legendary DJ John Peel, Tom Ravenscroft, is hosting his own BBC radio show.
"I'm thrilled that 6 Music have asked me to present a weekly show," he said.

"It's great to be offered a home on a station with such amazing DJs who open your ears to lots of exciting music, both new and old.

"I intend to do the same and can't wait to get started."
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Read some Hoppy the Marvel Bunny stories from 1944.



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Read some Gene Colan-illustrated suspense and war tales.

Pop links: Don Martin! Ditko!

I either never realized or forgot that there ever was such a thing as Don Martin Magazine. Here's a peek at the first issue.



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Read, "Assignment Treason," a 1958 sci-fi tale illustrated by the great Steve Ditko.

Pop links: Andy Partridge, the Who

Read an huge long interview with XTC's Andy Partridge.

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The Who's 1969 performance at Tanglewood, which includes a complete run-through of Tommy, will air for the first time April 29 on Wolfgang's Vault. I can't figure out, though, if the show will be available for download, or just streaming.

Pop links: Wally Wood! Jack Kirby!

Booksteve presents the Wally Wood-illustrated Ripley's Believe it or Not tale "Ghost Ship."



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See Jack Kirby's stories from In the Days of the Mob.

Pop links: Steranko covers! Doctor Who's new screwdriver! New Rockford Files TV series!

Who doesn't like a few Jim Steranko comic book covers?



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The new Doctor Who also has a new sonic screwdriver.

Smith trails off, apparently brewing further thoughts about his first episode. But then, with a conspiratorial grin, he asks, 'Have you seen the new sonic screwdriver yet?’ and pulls it from his pocket. It’s a very shiny metal toy with a green light and, when Smith flicks his hand, metal claws that pop out at one end. Smith is evidently as chuffed with it as all the eight-year-old boys who are given replicas of it for Christmas will be. The titanium sparks on the Cathedral Green in Llandaff are now a distant memory.

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"Firefly" star Alan Tudyk is joining the cast of a TV remake of "The Rockford Files." Dermot Mulroney takes the title role.

Pop links: Pink Floyd gets mad! Matt Baker jungle girls! Unpublished Wally Wood! Happy 13, Buffy! John Carter of Mars scored!

Pink Floyd, the ultimate "album band," doesn't like its music being parcelled out song-by-song online.

Fans of Pink Floyd could soon be unable to buy their songs individually on websites like iTunes after lawyers for the rock band won a High Court ruling against EMI.

...It prevents EMI from allowing the band's albums – including Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall – from being chopped up for sale as individual track downloads, a process known as 'unbundling'.

Makes sense. Some LPs are best heard as a whole, although I'm also a big fan of mixing up individual songs of all sorts when my iPod's on shuffle.

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Check out a "Rulah, The Jungle Girl" story with art by the great Matt Baker.



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See a batch of unpublished Wally Wood comic book covers.





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Happy 13t anniversary (a day late) "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."



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Michael Giacchino, composer of music for "Lost," "Up" and "The Incredibles," will pen the score of Pixar's upcoming live-action John Carter of Mars film.

Pop links: Mad Men Barbies! Neal Adams! New Superman book! Weird Hulk ads!

"Mad Men" fans: Start saving for special Barbie collector dolls based on the show's characters.





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Visit Big Glee to see the big version of this awesome piece of original Neal Adams art featuring Deadman and the Spectre. I remember the published version in one of those cool DC Comics calendars that used to adorn my bedroom as a kid.





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Tom de Haven, author of the I've-heard-it's-pretty-good-but-haven't-read-it Superman novel has penned a non-fiction book about the Man of Steel.

Our Hero: Superman on Earth is part history — a summary of the ways Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were ripped off will break your heart — and part philosophy.



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Weird foreign Hulk ads.

Pop links: Iron Man 2 trailer! She & Him video! Fantagraphics goes manga! Steranko!

Check out a new trailer for Iron Man 2. You can see screen shots from same here.





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The splendid She & Him (Zooey DeSchanel and M. Ward) have a new, "High School Musical"-themed video out to promote their upcoming album.





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Fantagraphics is launching a new manga line.

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Visit Booksteve to see a big version of this groovy Jim Steranko illustration of the S.H.I.E.L.D. cast.



Pop links: More Phantom on TV; New Doctor Who goes on tour

A TV series based on Lee Falk's "The Phantom" is set to air on Syfy on the heels of a mini-series on the network. It begins in June.



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New Doctor Who actor Matt Smith is touring the UK in the run-up to the show's new season, which begins over there on Easter.

The tour will target hard-to-reach communities relatively underserved by the BBC.

The locations are Belfast, Inverness, Sunderland, Salford and Northampton.

The first stop is Belfast on 29 March, with the tour winding up in Salford on 31 March.

Pop links: John Buscema! The Shadow! Jaime Hernandez

Oh nice! A 1958 comics adaptation of "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" with art by the fabulous Big John Buscema.





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Several people want to make a movie based on the Shadow, but there's some confusion as to who holds the rights.

Sony has let the film rights to the seminal crime-fighting vigilante lapse, so the Sam Raimi-produced project has gone into turnaround. CAA, which reps Raimi, is preparing to shop the rights, with Raimi attached to produce. One possible suitor is 20th Century Fox.



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Check out some Planet Comics stories by pioneering female comics creators Lilly Renee and Fran Hopper.



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Check out this series of YouTube videos featuring an interview with cartoonist Milt Caniff.

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Indy cartoonist Jaime Hernandez draws some mainstream comics heroines.

Pop links: Sarah Jane Adventures! Danger Mouse!

The BBC has ordered two new seasons (the Brits call them "series." WTH?) of Doctor Who-spinoff "The Sarah Jane Adventures."

The series will go into production in Cardiff later this month with series three producer Nikki Wilson stepping up alongside Russell T Davies as executive producer and new producer Brian Minchin joining the team.


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This is, indeed, the coolest letterhead ever.

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If you didn't download it when it was available free online because it couldn't get record label release, the pretty dang good Dark Night Of The Soul album by Danger Mouse and Sparkhorse will now be officially available. The album features a wide range of singers including James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega and Vic Chesnutt.

Pop links: Gilligan's Island movie! Carmine Infantino! Star Wars t-shirt transfers! Buffy! Robyn Hitchcock!

A new "Gilligan's Island" movie is in the works. Is this necessary? Well, no. We all know what it'll be like: Some relatively big comedy stars amusingly cast in in overlong, only occasionally funny flick that lampoons the already-silly original while also including humor that would have been considered wholly inappropriate back when the original program was aired. Granted, this is just a prediction. Don't hold me to it.

Anyway, Entertainment Weekly has, predictably, posted an article asking people to choose who they would cast as the Professor, Mary Anne and the rest.

I gotta admit Christina Hendricks as Ginger is a brilliant choice, though.

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Nifty! Big Glee shares this Carmine Infantino-illustrated model sheet from the 1968 Batman cartoon show.





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Star Wars iron-on transfers! Will these work if you print them out on the right paper?



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The first six seasons of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" are coming to the Netflix box. Of course, my household already owns them all on DVD, but it's still cool news.

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Robyn Hitchcock has a cool new video out. (Krazy Kat fans will want to tune it).

Pop links: Stan Lee! New Gorillaz and Broken Bells albums streaming!

Not only does Stan Lee have a new series coming out in collaboration with Archie Comics (The Super Seven, mentioned here a week back or so), but he's collaborating with Boom! Comics, as well. The deal was hinted at via a bunch of crypic "Stan's Back" ads placed on various comics Web sites.

According to a Boom! press release, the partnership will premier three new super hero titles presented by Lee. Boom! EiC Mark Waid ("Irredeemable," "Incorruptible") and two other writers will be steering the titles beginning later this year, along with unannounced artists.

So, despite the hype, these titles are really Stan "presenting" stuff, as he did for years after his writing days at Marvel, not really taking an active, creative role, it seems. Not surprising, or shameful, at this point of his life and career. But also not much to get overly excited about.

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NPR is featuring a free listen of the new album by Gorillaz, the cartoon pop/hip-hop band helmed by former Blur singer Damon Albarn. I like their past stuff, so I'll be checking it out.



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This seems like it could be great -- also on NPR:

Broken Bells' self-titled debut, available here in its entirety for the week leading up to its release on March 9, is a smart pop record full of melody and invention. It's pretty and at times unorthodox, and it finds both Brian Burton (a.k.a. Danger Mouse) and James Mercer (of The Shins) drawing on each other's talents to make a record unique to each of them.