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DVD: "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." season one

Out Dec. 12 this is a five-disk set including:

* Commentary by: Jim Nabors (select episodes)Dolby Digital 2.0
* All 30 episodes from the 1964-65 season on five discs
* Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. pilot episode from The Andy Griffith Show
* Audio introductions by Jim Nabors on select episodes
* Jim Nabors interview on The David Frost Show
* The Jim Nabors Hour clip

It's available for pre-order from Amazon now.

DVD: "Forbidden Planet" Ultimate Collector's Edition

Out Nov. 14, this is a two-disk remastering of the classic 1956 film packaged in a tin box.

Extras include: Bonus features, vintage memorabilia and a Robby the Robot replica.

The two DVDs, minus the tin box and memorabilia, also will be available in standard packaging on the same date.

Both sets are available for pre-order from Amazon (click the box art below):

Pop Artifact! Archie board game

Vintage DC Comics House Ad

Pop Culture Roundup Sept. 6, 2006

Fantagraphics, now publishing complete runs of "The Peanuts," "Dennis and Menace" and soon "Pogo," wishes it could've snagged "Dick Tracy," but alas, IDW is handling that project.

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A hardcover omnibus collecting Frank Miller's Daredevil comics from issues #158-191 is slated for release soon. Here's the description:

Frank Miller's spellbinding scripts and pulse-pounding pencils herald one of Daredevil's greatest eras, just in time for the Kingpin and Bullseye's efforts to rob the Man Without Fear of everything he holds dear! Featuring the first appearances of Elektra, Stick and the Hand! The daring discovery that drew Ben Urich into Daredevil's domain of darkness! Such forgotten-yet-formidable foes as Death-Stalker and the Gladiator! Guest-starring the Hulk, the Avengers, and Power Man and Iron Fist! Collects Daredevil #158-191.

These were good comics, before Miller slipped into hardboiled shtick and was actually doing something new, and before the comics industry devolved into relentlessly copy him.

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The "Lost" driving curse continues.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje of the hit TV series "Lost" was arrested on a traffic violation in Waikiki this weekend, police said.

The 39-year-old actor, who plays Mr. Eko on the ABC drama, was arrested early Saturday for disobeying a police officer and driving without a license. He posted $500 bail and was released after spending a little more than six hours in jail, police said.

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Dial B for Blog checks out the song stylings of Frank "The Riddler" Gorshin.

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Today's Best Song Ever: "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" -- K.C. and the Sunshine Band

Oh come on! Don't be a snob! You know you love disco, no matter how badly you disparaged it at the time. Whether you wear your love on your sleeve or hide it away shamefully in a closet of guilty pleasures, there's no denying the fad spawned some enjoyable music. This tune being a perfect example.

And why do you like it? Because you're supposed to. The song is specifically engineered to connect with that primitive part of the brain that loves in-the-pocket drums, funky bass and scratchy guitars. Plus, the horns. Great horns on this track.

The lyrics are stoopid great too. Nothing to 'em. They simply voice what the music is already telling you to do: Stop being so uptight, get out there on the dance floor and shake it--not in a sleazy way, but in a fun way that shows to the world you're not a stuck-up jerk.

Sure, there's lots to hate about disco culture: The narcissism, the drugs, the clubs and clothes, the horrible movies and all the bandwagon-jumping music. But there's lots to hate about nearly every subculture, especially once it breaks into the mainstream and becomes a big trend.

But this song, you can't hate it. It came before all the ugliness and is pure in its honesty and in it's cajoling us into having a good time.

Sample it

Availability:
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Vintage DC Comics House Ad

More details on vintage "Sesame Street" box set

As mentioned here before, a three-DVD set of material from the first seasons of "Sesame Street" is due out Oct. 24. The name of the set, originally dubbed the "Sesame Street Nostalgia Box," is now "Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 1."

The set will include five complete episodes from the series from 1969-74, including appearances by James Earl Jones, Jesse Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Jackie Robinson, plus such segments as "Rubber Duckie" and "C Is for Cookie."

You can pre-order the set now from Amazon.

Pop Culture Roundup Sept. 5, 2006

Are romance comics staging a return?

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Stan Lee writes "The Watchmen."

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From Booksteve: A 1948 letter from the editors of Timely (Marvel) Comics defending the industry from some of the attacks then being launched at it. More Marvel Comics.

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Bubblegumfink presents a Johnny West toy TV commercial. More Johnny West.

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Hear a mashup of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper.

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TV Guide interviews Charisma Carpenter, quizzing her about a couple recent reunions with fellow "Buffy" cast members. More Buffy.

Review: "Justice Society Vol. 1"

The Justice Society of America, in DC Comics' "JSA" title, is enjoying a very long and successful run. But it wasn't always that way.

Before "JSA" there had been numerous attempts to bring back the JSA, which debuted in the Golden Age of the 1940s and then vanished in the early 1950s when superheroes fell out of favor. The "Justice League of America" (the JLA was itself and updated version of the JSA) reintroduced the Golden Age characters in annual crossovers starting in 1963. But, outside of those appearances, the team never really caught on with readers in their own adventures.

This new trade paperback collects the first 10 issues of a failed 1976 attempt to revive the JSA, plus a 1977 issue of "DC Special" featuring the team.

The scripts for these stories, by Gerry Conway and Paul Levitz, are pretty much by-the-numbers superteam stuff, not much different from anything you'd find in Justice League stories from the same period. A crisis brings the heroes together, they split up to tackle individual aspects of the problem, then they come together to put the big kibosh on things. Gardner Fox should've put a patent on it.

And, because this was the mid 70s and because this was DC, none of the characters really has much of an individual personality. Not that Conway or Levitz had much to work with. Back in the 1940s, when the JSA was introduced, superheroes didn't have personalities, not other than being heroic and super and occasionally quippy. Superheroes with varying moods and personal crises were introduced by Marvel Comics in the early 60s.

Levitz and Conway do the best they can, giving the Golden Age Green Lantern a financial crisis to cope with and turning Power Girl (first introduced in this series) into sort of a "Maude"-style feminist. With a huge in her costume to display her cleavage. None of it is really enough to make the stories compelling in the same way as, for example, an issue of the "Fantastic Four" or "Avengers" from the same time might've been.

What makes the reprint worthwhile, however, is the art. Much of the work is by a young Keith Giffen and the wonderful Joe Staton (these days working on "Scooby Doo" comics, but a great superhero artist with a real flair for character and action scenes). But the big draw (no pun intended. Really!) is Wally Wood, featured in seven of the issues, sometimes on his own, others assisted by Giffen. Those issues are beautiful to look at, with nice examples of Wood's sci-fi machinary backgrounds and figure work. If it's just to see Wood drawing Superman (not Superduperman, like he did for "Mad" back in the 1950s) the book is worth picking up. And, no doubt, some folks will pick it up because it's Wood drawing Powergirl, who seems to become more buxom with every issue he turned in.

The reproduction of said art is great. The color reconstruction by Drew R. Moore is nice and bright and loyal to the originals.

The only thing that's a problem is that, for some lamebrained reason, all the credits from each issue's splash page has digitally disappeared. So, while we get lump artist, writer, inker credits (letterers don't count, I guess) at the front of the book, we can't easily determine who wrote and drew each individual issue. Since the stories, I'd guess, are being republished mainly out of historical interest, this maneuver was just plain dumb. Plus, it's an offense to the original creators. I'm morbidly curious about what sort of inexcusable reason the editors would give for doing this. Oh well.

The back cover of the collection says this is the first of two "JSA" collections, so I guess we'll see the remaining five issues of the run and perhaps some other 70s JSA appearance in a second book soon.

Disappearing credits. Now you see 'em: