Pop links: TARDIS saved! More Doctor Who! TV Bat trio reunites! Bat Cycle! Buscema!

An endangered police call box, similar to Doctor Who's TARDIS time-traveling machine, has taken on a new life as a city information booth in Sheffield, the BBC reports.

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The inaugural Anaheim Comic Con, April 16-18, 2010 will feature guest appearances by Batman TV show guests Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar. More info.

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Coming from Mattel, a 1/12 version of the TV Bat Cycle.





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A Spanish gallery is hosting an exhibit of works by the great Marvel Comics artist John Buscema.

CD new releases Sept. 15, 2009

New CD releases of interest this week. Click the links to order discounted titles from Amazon.


Get Lucky by Mark Knopfler


Keep An Eye On The Sky by Big Star

DVD new releases Sept. 15, 2009

New DVDs of note this week. Click on the links to order discounted titles from Amazon.


Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season


X-Men Origins: Wolverine


Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008 Christmas Special)


X-Men, Volume Three (Marvel Collection)


X-Men, Volume Four (Marvel Collection)


Army of Darkness (Screwhead Edition) [Blu-ray]


Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse


Dark Shadows: The Haunting of Collinwood


Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Clone Commandos (TV Series Season 1, Vol. 2)


Directed by John Ford


Soundstage: Ringo Starr and the Roundheads - Live

Vintage DC Comics house ad

Pop links: RIP comic book covers; trailer for Disney's Christmas Carol; Jimmy Thompson's Robot Man; remembering Jim Carroll; Hembeck, more!

Bully takes a look at a favorite comic book cover convention: RIP covers. I posted my own batch a while back here.



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Watch a trailer for Disney's "A Christmas Carol."



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A great, overlooked talent of comics' Golden Age? Cartoon Snap makes the case for Robotman artist Jimmy Thompson.



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"Punk poet" and author of "The Basketball Diaries" Jim Carroll has died at age 60, The New York Times reports.

As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs and poetry. This highly unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to “The Basketball Diaries,” the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the new Bob Dylan.



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Kanye West must be stopped.



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Time to check out a great new batch of Fred Hembeck 'toons!

Vintage comic book ad

Vintage comic book ad

Vintage comic book ad

Pop links: Joe Sinnott! White Out reviewed! Ditko! Lucky Luke movie!

Pappy presents a swell, Joe Sinnott-illustrated horror tale from 1952.



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The New York Times doesn't seem overly impressed with the film adaptation of "White Out."

The first thing Kate Beckinsale does in “Whiteout” is take a shower. This may be because her character, a United States marshal named Carrie Stetko, needs to rinse off the grime of Antarctica, where she is stationed. Or, as seems more likely, it may be because the filmmakers, realizing that she would be spending most of the movie swaddled in thick parkas and layers of thermal protection, felt that some audience members might enjoy seeing Ms. Beckinsale in her underwear and then out of it behind a strategically fogged glass door.

Which is not to imply that the shower scene, interrupted by a knock at the door — “I’m in the shower,” Carrie cleverly replies — is more contrived or absurd than anything else that happens in this studiously mediocre little thriller

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For all you Ayn Rand fanatics: Golden Age Comic Books showcases Steve Ditko's Mr. A.




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Check out some clips from an upcoming live-action adaptation of Lucky Luke.

Make your own flying Dumbo!

From Vacation in Disneyland #1: