Comics previews
Mile High Comics has first looks at: Doom Patrol #18, JLA Classified #14, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere #5, Plastic Man #19, Amazing Fantasy #15, Black Panther #10, Captain Universe Silver Surfer #1, Exiles #73, Generation M #1, Incredible Hulk #89, Nightcrawler #12, Sentry #3, Wolverine #36 and X-Men and Power Pack #2.
Quick hits
Archie Comics and singing group The Veronicas have come to legal terms.
The Comics Treadmill remembers the zany Haney days of Brave and the Bold #s 77 and 78.
Charlize Theron studied geckos in preparation for her "Aeon Flux" role.
The New York Times reports on the Hollywood blockbuster-type aspectness of DC and Marvel Comics' latest "event" series. And here I thought they were just the same type of gimmicky maxi-series the publishers have been doing regularly for the past 20 years...
Dark Horse Comics is launching four new manga series.
After shooting him in the head, DC Comics plans to "honor" the Blue Beetle character by reviving him (or some manifestation of him) in a new series written by comics vet Keith Giffen. Newsarama has additional info about DC's post-"Infinite Crisis" plans.
The New York Times reviews Donovan's new autobiography.
ABC has released the fourth official "Lost" podcast.
Well, it's after Thanksgiving, so let the Christmas music sharity begin. Spread the Good Word has a nice x-mas mix featuring everything from the Sonics to Soupy Sales. And the FaLaLaLa seasonal sharity site is back up with new offerings.
The Comics Treadmill remembers the zany Haney days of Brave and the Bold #s 77 and 78.
Charlize Theron studied geckos in preparation for her "Aeon Flux" role.
The New York Times reports on the Hollywood blockbuster-type aspectness of DC and Marvel Comics' latest "event" series. And here I thought they were just the same type of gimmicky maxi-series the publishers have been doing regularly for the past 20 years...
Dark Horse Comics is launching four new manga series.
After shooting him in the head, DC Comics plans to "honor" the Blue Beetle character by reviving him (or some manifestation of him) in a new series written by comics vet Keith Giffen. Newsarama has additional info about DC's post-"Infinite Crisis" plans.
The New York Times reviews Donovan's new autobiography.
ABC has released the fourth official "Lost" podcast.
Well, it's after Thanksgiving, so let the Christmas music sharity begin. Spread the Good Word has a nice x-mas mix featuring everything from the Sonics to Soupy Sales. And the FaLaLaLa seasonal sharity site is back up with new offerings.
"Doctor Who: The Beginning" DVD set out March 28
The three-disk set includes the three earliest "Doctor Who" adventures plus five hours of extras.
"An Unearthly Child" - Two teachers follow a mysterious student home to a police box and the Doctor takes them all on an excursion back to 200,000 BC.
"The Daleks" - The TARDIS lands on the dead planet Skaro, where the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan explore a deserted city inhabited by the notorious Daleks!
"The Edge of Destruction" - An explosion aboard the TARDIS triggers irrational feelings of aggression, paranoia and despair.
See the Best Doctor Who Sites on the Web.
See the Best Doctor Who Sites on the Web.
Upcoming "Teen Titans" episodes, "Krypto Holiday Special"
Via Comics Continuum:
"Revved Up" Dec. 10 at 8 p.m.
Robin's most prized possession is stolen by the hip hot-rodder Ding Dong Daddy, and to get it back they're going to have to beat him in a cross-country road race. But with Ding Dong Daddy making the rules and a few unexpected rivals joining in the competition, it's anyone's guess who will cross the finish line first!
"Go" Dec. 17 at 8 p.m.
How did Robin meet Starfire? What was Beast Boy's first joke? Why did Cyborg build his Sonic Cannon? When did Raven first call the Titans her friends? Return to the very beginning and see how it all started -- from the word 'GO!'
Krypto the Superdog: Storybook Holiday Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Kevin learns a lesson about the importance of family when he and Krypto are magically transported to Storybook Land, where the characters resemble Kevin's relatives. Encore presentations include Friday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 17, at 3 p.m.; Monday, Dec. 19, at 8 a.m.; Friday, Dec. 23, at, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 24, at 8 a.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 25, at 7:30 a.m.
See the Best Teen Titans Sites on the Web.
"Revved Up" Dec. 10 at 8 p.m.
Robin's most prized possession is stolen by the hip hot-rodder Ding Dong Daddy, and to get it back they're going to have to beat him in a cross-country road race. But with Ding Dong Daddy making the rules and a few unexpected rivals joining in the competition, it's anyone's guess who will cross the finish line first!
"Go" Dec. 17 at 8 p.m.
How did Robin meet Starfire? What was Beast Boy's first joke? Why did Cyborg build his Sonic Cannon? When did Raven first call the Titans her friends? Return to the very beginning and see how it all started -- from the word 'GO!'
Krypto the Superdog: Storybook Holiday Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Kevin learns a lesson about the importance of family when he and Krypto are magically transported to Storybook Land, where the characters resemble Kevin's relatives. Encore presentations include Friday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 17, at 3 p.m.; Monday, Dec. 19, at 8 a.m.; Friday, Dec. 23, at, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 24, at 8 a.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 25, at 7:30 a.m.
See the Best Teen Titans Sites on the Web.
Quick hits
Publishers Weekly releases its Best Comics of 2005 list.
The Joker got away. Found via The Great Curve).
Mike Sterling decapitates the Psycho Pirate.
PCL LinkDump shares a groovy collection of radio commercials featuring the likes of The Who, the Boxtops, Ravi Shankar, the Velvet Underground and more.
Pinicchio´s Easy-Listening & Instrumental-Corner shares some more lounge-ariffic Les Baxter.
Behold the oxymoronic Galactus mini-mate!
The indispensable Dial B for Blog remembers Major Matt Mason.
Check out a clip for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe."
Walter Simonson and Howie Chaykin tell Newsarama about their upcoming "Hawkgirl" series for DC Comics.
Fred Hembeck peeks under Doctor Doom's mask.
The Joker got away. Found via The Great Curve).
Mike Sterling decapitates the Psycho Pirate.
PCL LinkDump shares a groovy collection of radio commercials featuring the likes of The Who, the Boxtops, Ravi Shankar, the Velvet Underground and more.
Pinicchio´s Easy-Listening & Instrumental-Corner shares some more lounge-ariffic Les Baxter.
Behold the oxymoronic Galactus mini-mate!
The indispensable Dial B for Blog remembers Major Matt Mason.
Check out a clip for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe."
Walter Simonson and Howie Chaykin tell Newsarama about their upcoming "Hawkgirl" series for DC Comics.
Fred Hembeck peeks under Doctor Doom's mask.
"Lost" preview season 2, episode 8 Nov. 23
* Preview for tonight's episode.
* Preview pictures from tonight's show.
* Despription of the episode.
See the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.
* Preview pictures from tonight's show.
* Despription of the episode.
See the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.
BBC radio presents a whole lotta Lennon
Non-UK readers oughtta be able to find these via the Beeb's audio-on-demand site:
BBC Radio 4 is to give the first UK broadcast of excerpts from the 1970 interview which John Lennon himself referred to as "definitive".
The interview, with Rolling Stone founder and editor Jan Wenner, took place shortly after the Beatles split.
In it, Lennon accuses former band-member Paul McCartney of being "form and no substance" and claims their song-writing relationship was over as early as 1962, after which "we did our best work apart".
The interview, to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 3 December at 7.00pm in the Archive Hour, is taken from tapes of Wenner's extensive interrogation of Lennon.
It documents the Beatles' career and split with painstaking emotion, and at times excruciating detail, and serves as a major and controversial point of exorcism for Lennon.
It was the last interview he ever gave with such candour.
In it, he speaks bitterly of his strained relationship with McCartney: "One of the main reasons the Beatles ended is because... I pretty damn well know, we got fed up with being sidemen for Paul."
"After Brian [Epstein] died we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us. But what is leading us when we went round in circles?"
"Paul had the impression... that we should be thankful for what he did, for keeping the Beatles going... But he kept it going for his own sake. Not for my sake did Paul struggle."
Yoko Ono can be heard in the background and, of her, he says: "It seemed that I either had to be married to them or Yoko. I chose Yoko... And I was right."
"... They despised her. They insulted her and still do... they can go stuff themselves."
The Archive Hour: The Wenner Tapes is part of a major John Lennon season on BBC Radio to mark the 25th anniversary of his death.
BBC Radio 1
Previously unheard and unedited footage of a Lennon and McCartney interview is revealed on OneWorld on Monday 5 December at 1.00am.
The show also presents a re-worked version of The White Album with some of the show's favourite artists – including Bedouin Soundclash, Deerhoof and Animal Collective, adding their own personal touches to each track on the album.
BBC Radio 2
New interviews with Yoko Ono, Cynthia Lennon and Maureen Cleave alongside rarely heard archive material and a transatlantic broadcast feature in Radio 2's programming.
Bigger Than Jesus, on Saturday 3 December (8.00-9.00pm), presented by Paul McGann, tells of Lennon's interview with Maureen Cleave - in which he stated: "We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first - rock'n'roll or Christianity" - and its aftermath.
In Good Morning Sunday on Sunday 4 December (7.00-9.00am) Cynthia Lennon joins Don Maclean to talk about her life with and without John Lennon.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of, arguably, the Beatles' folkiest album Rubber Soul, Mike Harding presents a musical tribute from the cream of the folk music community of the British Isles on Wednesday 7 December, 8.00-9.00pm.
Lennon Night, on Thursday 8 December from 7.00 to 11.00pm, is broadcast simultaneously on Radio 2 and across the USA on Sirius Satellite Radio.
The evening begins with Lennon, presented by Mark Radcliffe, which includes a new interview with Yoko Ono and, from the archives, rarely-heard interviews with Lennon, including the first Beatles radio interview from 1962.
At 8.00pm Lennon Live is three hours of music presented by Stuart Maconie, performed by a line-up of artists giving their interpretations of Lennon songs live, both in Abbey Road Studio 2, and in the studios of Sirius Satellite Radio in Manhattan.
BBC Radio 4
Monday 5 to Friday 9 December, at 3.30pm, Robert Sandall explores five songs written by Lennon about key relationships in his life.
Strawberry Fields describes his complex relationship with his home town, Liverpool; Julia looks at his complicated family background and reaction to the death of his mother; How Do You Sleep focuses on his relationship with Paul - the song was written after the break up of the Beatles at the point their relationship was at an all-time low; The Ballad of John And Yoko is followed by Beautiful Boy which is about his relationship with Sean Lennon.
British journalist Ray Connolly was a friend of Lennon and was due to interview him the day John was shot.
He has written a highly unusual and personal look at the murder that shook the world in Unimaginable, which is the Afternoon Play on Thursday 8 December at 2.15pm.
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music has uncovered a long-lost recording of John Peel's Night Ride programme, dating back to 11 December 1968, when the young Radio 1 DJ was joined live in the studio by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Clips will be available online - bbc.co.uk/6music - as part of the network's John Lennon Day on Thursday 8 December.
In Nemone's Dream Ticket there will another opportunity to hear the Beatles live, as captured in session for Radio 1 at The Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 1964.
6 Music will also be revisiting archive television footage when it takes over the BBC's Big Screen in Liverpool for the evening.
6 Music will also broadcast a new Yoko Ono interview, throughout the day, in which she shares her recollections of the first time she met John; her thoughts on what he would have been doing if alive today; and – from Iraq to the internet - what he would have thought of the 21st century world.
The new Lennon compilation, Working Class Hero, is album of the day and the network will play songs chosen by the man himself in John's Jukebox.
This feature will provide an insight into Lennon's musical tastes and inspirations, playing soul, R&B and rock'n'roll from amongst the 40 records discovered on his own portable jukebox.
Artists featured include Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, The Isley Brothers, Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan.
For more information about BBC Radio's Lennon coverage, please visit bbc.co.uk/lennon.
BBC Radio 4 is to give the first UK broadcast of excerpts from the 1970 interview which John Lennon himself referred to as "definitive".
The interview, with Rolling Stone founder and editor Jan Wenner, took place shortly after the Beatles split.
In it, Lennon accuses former band-member Paul McCartney of being "form and no substance" and claims their song-writing relationship was over as early as 1962, after which "we did our best work apart".
The interview, to be broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 3 December at 7.00pm in the Archive Hour, is taken from tapes of Wenner's extensive interrogation of Lennon.
It documents the Beatles' career and split with painstaking emotion, and at times excruciating detail, and serves as a major and controversial point of exorcism for Lennon.
It was the last interview he ever gave with such candour.
In it, he speaks bitterly of his strained relationship with McCartney: "One of the main reasons the Beatles ended is because... I pretty damn well know, we got fed up with being sidemen for Paul."
"After Brian [Epstein] died we collapsed. Paul took over and supposedly led us. But what is leading us when we went round in circles?"
"Paul had the impression... that we should be thankful for what he did, for keeping the Beatles going... But he kept it going for his own sake. Not for my sake did Paul struggle."
Yoko Ono can be heard in the background and, of her, he says: "It seemed that I either had to be married to them or Yoko. I chose Yoko... And I was right."
"... They despised her. They insulted her and still do... they can go stuff themselves."
The Archive Hour: The Wenner Tapes is part of a major John Lennon season on BBC Radio to mark the 25th anniversary of his death.
BBC Radio 1
Previously unheard and unedited footage of a Lennon and McCartney interview is revealed on OneWorld on Monday 5 December at 1.00am.
The show also presents a re-worked version of The White Album with some of the show's favourite artists – including Bedouin Soundclash, Deerhoof and Animal Collective, adding their own personal touches to each track on the album.
BBC Radio 2
New interviews with Yoko Ono, Cynthia Lennon and Maureen Cleave alongside rarely heard archive material and a transatlantic broadcast feature in Radio 2's programming.
Bigger Than Jesus, on Saturday 3 December (8.00-9.00pm), presented by Paul McGann, tells of Lennon's interview with Maureen Cleave - in which he stated: "We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first - rock'n'roll or Christianity" - and its aftermath.
In Good Morning Sunday on Sunday 4 December (7.00-9.00am) Cynthia Lennon joins Don Maclean to talk about her life with and without John Lennon.
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the release of, arguably, the Beatles' folkiest album Rubber Soul, Mike Harding presents a musical tribute from the cream of the folk music community of the British Isles on Wednesday 7 December, 8.00-9.00pm.
Lennon Night, on Thursday 8 December from 7.00 to 11.00pm, is broadcast simultaneously on Radio 2 and across the USA on Sirius Satellite Radio.
The evening begins with Lennon, presented by Mark Radcliffe, which includes a new interview with Yoko Ono and, from the archives, rarely-heard interviews with Lennon, including the first Beatles radio interview from 1962.
At 8.00pm Lennon Live is three hours of music presented by Stuart Maconie, performed by a line-up of artists giving their interpretations of Lennon songs live, both in Abbey Road Studio 2, and in the studios of Sirius Satellite Radio in Manhattan.
BBC Radio 4
Monday 5 to Friday 9 December, at 3.30pm, Robert Sandall explores five songs written by Lennon about key relationships in his life.
Strawberry Fields describes his complex relationship with his home town, Liverpool; Julia looks at his complicated family background and reaction to the death of his mother; How Do You Sleep focuses on his relationship with Paul - the song was written after the break up of the Beatles at the point their relationship was at an all-time low; The Ballad of John And Yoko is followed by Beautiful Boy which is about his relationship with Sean Lennon.
British journalist Ray Connolly was a friend of Lennon and was due to interview him the day John was shot.
He has written a highly unusual and personal look at the murder that shook the world in Unimaginable, which is the Afternoon Play on Thursday 8 December at 2.15pm.
BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music has uncovered a long-lost recording of John Peel's Night Ride programme, dating back to 11 December 1968, when the young Radio 1 DJ was joined live in the studio by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Clips will be available online - bbc.co.uk/6music - as part of the network's John Lennon Day on Thursday 8 December.
In Nemone's Dream Ticket there will another opportunity to hear the Beatles live, as captured in session for Radio 1 at The Playhouse Theatre, London, in November 1964.
6 Music will also be revisiting archive television footage when it takes over the BBC's Big Screen in Liverpool for the evening.
6 Music will also broadcast a new Yoko Ono interview, throughout the day, in which she shares her recollections of the first time she met John; her thoughts on what he would have been doing if alive today; and – from Iraq to the internet - what he would have thought of the 21st century world.
The new Lennon compilation, Working Class Hero, is album of the day and the network will play songs chosen by the man himself in John's Jukebox.
This feature will provide an insight into Lennon's musical tastes and inspirations, playing soul, R&B and rock'n'roll from amongst the 40 records discovered on his own portable jukebox.
Artists featured include Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, The Isley Brothers, Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan.
For more information about BBC Radio's Lennon coverage, please visit bbc.co.uk/lennon.
Quick hits
The Sci Fi Network has ordered a third season of "Battlestar Galactica."
Dial B details "Superman's Mission for President Kennedy."
Dial B details "Superman's Mission for President Kennedy."
New CD releases for Nov. 22
New CD releases of note:
Cluster & Eno After the Heat
Ray Davies Thanksgiving Day EP
Eno Moebius Roedelius Begegnungen and Begegnungen II
Dr. John Sippiana Hericane EP
John Lennon Walls and Bridges
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Sometime in New York City
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos In London
The Rolling Stones Rarities 1971-2003
VA Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now
VA Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
See Last Week's New CD Releases.
Cluster & Eno After the Heat
Ray Davies Thanksgiving Day EP
Eno Moebius Roedelius Begegnungen and Begegnungen II
Dr. John Sippiana Hericane EP
John Lennon Walls and Bridges
John Lennon and Yoko Ono Sometime in New York City
Buck Owens & His Buckaroos In London
The Rolling Stones Rarities 1971-2003
VA Hurricane Relief: Come Together Now
VA Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents Higher Ground: Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert
See Last Week's New CD Releases.
DVD new releases for Nov. 22
The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete Fourth Season
Astro Boy:Collection Box Set (1980)
Batman Vs Dracula gift set
C.S.I. Miami - The Complete Third Season
Dark Shadows Collection 21
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 2nd Gig, Vol. 2
King Kong (1976)
King Kong (2-Disc Special Edition) (1933)
King of the Hill - The Complete Fifth Season
Leave It to Beaver - The Complete First Season
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
The Polar Express (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Seinfeld - Season 5
Seinfeld - Season 6
War of the Worlds (Widescreen Edition)
See More Upcoming DVDs
Astro Boy:Collection Box Set (1980)
Batman Vs Dracula gift set
C.S.I. Miami - The Complete Third Season
Dark Shadows Collection 21
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - 2nd Gig, Vol. 2
King Kong (1976)
King Kong (2-Disc Special Edition) (1933)
King of the Hill - The Complete Fifth Season
Leave It to Beaver - The Complete First Season
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
The Polar Express (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
Seinfeld - Season 5
Seinfeld - Season 6
War of the Worlds (Widescreen Edition)
See More Upcoming DVDs
Marvel Legends Series 12
Here are some offical pics of the Marvel Legends Series 12 action figures:
Bishop (Order from CmdStore)
Iron Fist(Order from CmdStore)
Astonishing X-Men Wolverine(Order from CmdStore)
Maestro Hulk (Order from CmdStore)
Sasquach (Order from CmdStore)
X-23 (Order from CmdStore)
See the Complete List of Marvel Legends Action Figures.
Bishop (Order from CmdStore)
Iron Fist(Order from CmdStore)
Astonishing X-Men Wolverine(Order from CmdStore)
Maestro Hulk (Order from CmdStore)
Sasquach (Order from CmdStore)
X-23 (Order from CmdStore)
See the Complete List of Marvel Legends Action Figures.
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