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Art of Jim Starlin

Creators Of The Superheroes

The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies Volume 2: 1937-1939

Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades

Bond Girls

Bond Villains

The Art of District 9: Weta Workshop

Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives: Asian Voices)

Sucker Punch: The Art of the Movie by Zack Snyder

Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes

Whedonistas: A Celebration of the Worlds of Joss Whedon by the Women Who Love Them

Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster

See FOOM magazine, issue 1

Jon takes a look at Marvel's 1970s fan magazine.

Spider-Man musical, you guessed it....

Delayed again (not that I'll likely make it to Broadway to see it anyway, but I find the whole debacle interesting. Like everyone else, I guess.) This time the delay is so cast members can rehearse a new ending. Hopefully nobody will get hurt.

The show had been scheduled to open in February.

Earlier this month it was announced that U2 stars Bono and The Edge, who wrote the score, would return from touring to help fix the show's problems.

Four actors from the production have been injured during previews, while frequent technical glitches and negative early assessments from critics have caused further problems.

In December lead actress Natalie Mendoza announced she was pulling out of the show.

Despite its fraught preview performances, the musical is still selling out the 1,930-seat Foxwoods theatre in Times Square almost every night.

Pilot a go for new Charlie's Angels TV series

Via Entertainment Weekly:

The producers (Leonard Goldberg, Drew Barrymore, Nancy Juvonen), Sony Pictures TV and Flower Films will now dive into casting to figure out the tricky task of finding TV’s new Angels. We hear there’s an offer out to Mark Piznarski (Gossip Girl) to direct.

New full-costume pic of movie Captain America

Here's a new shot of actor Chris Evans in costume.

New Sucker Punch movie poster

Startling Stories pulp covers

Red Riding Hood movie poster

Disney's Lone Ranger movie logo revealed

From producer Jerry Bruckheimer's official site:

Entertainment Weekly gives Green Hornet a C-

This doesn't bode well.

John Lennon's psychedelic limo on display

A Rolls Royce that Lennon had painted in psychedelic paisley is on display at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria, British Columbia.

The museum, which acquired the vehicle as part of its permanent collection in 1987, says it can't keep the car on display all-year round because of crowds and its large size so it is only displayed for a short time each winter.

The Beatles singer purchased what was then a black Rolls Royce in 1965, the same year he received his driving permit. The vehicle was custom-made with a rear seat that converts into a double bed and also has a telephone, portable refrigerator, Sony television and custom sound system.

The car was painted yellow two years later. A Dutch gypsy artist friend of Lennon's used latex house paint to apply the flower-power design, complete with swirling vines and spiral hubcap covers.