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Pop Culture Roundup Feb. 7, 2007

The Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog presents great images from the "Disney Studios Artist's Tryout Book" from 1938.

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The first season "Flipper" will be out in a four-DVD set April 24. You can pre-order it now for $27.99 from Amazon.

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From Booksteve: The Strangest Sub-Mariner Tale of Them All.

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A series of films based on the hard-boiled Hard Case paperback line is in the works:

First film, aimed for lensing later this year, will be "Little Girl Lost," based on the Richard Aleas novel about a young detective who discovers that his high school sweetheart has just been found brutally murdered on the roof of New York's seediest strip club.

More on Hard Case books.

Spider-Man 2.1 DVD details

Out April 17, "Spider-Man 2.1: Extended Cut," will include eight minutes of never-before-seen footage plus:

* Introduction by Grant Curtis and Avi Arad
* Featurette: Inside 2.1
* Commentary by Laura Ziskin and Alvin Sargent
* Sneak Peak at Spider-Man 3
* Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
* Audio: English
* Subtitles: English
* Bonus Previews

The 2-DVD set is available for pre-order now for $14.99 from Amazon.

Evanier announces Jack Kirby book(s)

Mark Evanier, writer, comics historian and former assistant to comics artist Jack "King" Kirby, says his work on a planned Kirby biography has yielded so much material he plans to do two books.

The first--set for publication this October--is a celebration of Kirby's art, while the second, the actual autobiography is still in the works.

Here's Mark on the details:

"Kirby: King of Comics"...will be released in October of this year by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., which is one of the world's most prestigious publishers of high quality art and illustrated books. It'll be a hardcover volume, 9" by 12-1/2", all in color and with a gatefold and all sorts of nifty features that we hope will make it worthy of its subject.

[It] will be a very nicely printed art book with a simpler but quite complete version of the Kirby biography. The volume will also be loaded with rare Kirby art, all of it in reproduced in full color, much of it shot from the original artwork. That needs a bit of explanation. Many of the pieces will consist of black-and-white artwork in pencil or ink but we'll be printing them in color so that you can see all the pencil marks, corrections, smudges and in some cases, notes in the margins. There will also be plenty of pages that print Jack's art in pencil form and, of course, color pieces and some things you've seen before but not in the way we're going to present them.

Later on — and don't ask me when but it'll be another year or two at least — I'll publish the gargantuan, Galactus-sized bio for the hardcore Kirby fan...the kind of person who wants to read every little detail of the man's extraordinary life. As soon as fresh data stops coming my way, I'll wrap that one up but in the meantime, you'll have the first book before this Christmas. I'll tell you more about it over the next few weeks.


Stay up to date via Mark's blog.

Comics shipping Feb. 7, 2007

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Remember: Lost returns tonight!

"Lost" is back on the air tonight, finally, for a 16-episode run that takes the show to the end of its third season.

But do you remember what was going on before the show went its seemingly interminable hiatus? Neither do we! That's why you've gotta read through the This is Pop Culture! "Lost" Season 3 Episode Guide to refresh yourself on all the happenings and clues.

Plus you can read these slightly spoilerish teasers for tonight's episode and the one after that.

ABC is hosting its own "Lost" Survivors Guide tonight before the new ep airs:

Hosts Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the executive producers of LOST, will provide an insightful glimpse into the lives of some of the survivors of the doomed Oceanic Airlines flight 815.

And there's a sneak peek at the episode here.

Also see the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.

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Lost Feb. 21 episode preview

Scroll over the hidden text for mild spoilers:

"Stranger in a Strange Land" - A power play ensues between Jack and "The Others" as Juliet's future hangs in the balance. Meanwhile, Kate, Sawyer and Karl continue on their journey away from "Alcatraz," on "Lost," WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

"Lost" stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie and Terry O'Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are M.C. Gainey as Mr. Friendly/Tom, Tania Raymonde as Alex, Blake Bashoff as Karl, Kimberly Joseph as Cindy, Bai Ling as Achara, Diana Scarwid as Isabel, Shannon Chanhthanam as Thai boy, Siwathep Sunapo as Thai man and James Huang as Chet.

"Stranger in a Strange Land" was written by Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim and directed by Paris Barclay.

Pop Culture Roundup Feb. 6, 2007

The groundbreaking mini-series, "Roots," will be available in a 30th anniversary DVD edition May 22. The seven-disk set will include new bonuse features.

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Beatle offspring Dhani Harrison and musical partner Oli Hecks have a new musical group called thenewno2, a new EP you can preview and buy here.

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Former Kink Dave Davies also has a new release out, his first since suffering a stroke a while back.



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The Return of Lost

"Lost" is back on the air tomorrow night, finally, for a 16-episode run that takes the show to the end of its third season.

But do you remember what was going on before the show went its seemingly interminable hiatus? Neither do we! That's why you've gotta read through the This is Pop Culture! "Lost" Season 3 Episode Guide to refresh yourself on all the happenings and clues.

Plus you can read these slightly spoilerish teasers for tonight's episode and the one after that.

ABC is hosting its own "Lost" Survivors Guide tomorrow night before the new ep airs:

Hosts Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the executive producers of LOST, will provide an insightful glimpse into the lives of some of the survivors of the doomed Oceanic Airlines flight 815.

And there's a sneak peek at the episode here.

Also see the Best "Lost" Sites on the Web.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 1 due in July

Next month sees the debut of a new Buffy series from Dark Horse Comics, which picks up where the TV series ended. This book, however, collects issues from Dark Horse's previous "Buffy" title.

Details:

The definitive comics collection of all things Buffy starts here. This first massive volume begins at the beginning-The Origin, a faithful adaptation of creator Joss Whedon’s original screenplay for the film that started it all. The newly chosen Slayer’s road to Sunnydale continues in Viva Las Buffy and Slayer, Interrupted. Next, Sunnydale, the Scoobies, and an English librarian lead the way into Season One continuity. Plus, The Goon creator Eric Powell provides pencils to "All’s Fair," featuring Spike and Drusilla at the 1933 World’s Fair.

The smash TV hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer led to nearly a decade of comics at Dark Horse-including multiple specials, one-shots, and guest miniseries. This omnibus series is the ultimate compilation of the Buffy comics Dark Horse has published, and runs along the TV series’ timeline. A fitting companion to Whedon’s comics-based relaunch of the show.


Includes:

Features: 15 Desktops, 7 Ecomics, 2 Games.


The book is available for pre-order now for $16.47 from Amazon.