Marvel’s Phase Three and The Infinity War!
Marvel Studios wowed fandom yet again last week with their announcement of a hugely ambitious slate of films leading up to a third and fourth Avengers film in 2018 and 2019. My reaction? Pretty much bliss!! I still remember the excitement of seeing Iron Man for the first time (cli
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Let’s begin today with these fantastic clips from The Simpsons Live, the recent Simpsons musical extravaganza at The Hollywood Bowl featuring Conan O’Brien, Jon Lovitz, Hank Azaria, and others. These clips are amazing. Prepare to lose several hours from your day perusing
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Did you know that genius Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson recently drew a few new comic strips? I sure didn’t!! Here’s the whole crazy story of how master artist Bill Watterson wound up collaborating with Stephan Pastis on his comic strip Pearls Before Swi
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Ok, I thought the first Guardians of the Galaxy trailer was awesome, but this new one is even better. I cannot wait for this!! “The only good human…!!” I can’t wait for July 11th!! I’m also really loving this peek at Christopher Nolan’s Interste
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This “Modern Seinfeld” twitter feed is pretty amusing. I guess the premise is these guys are coming up with Seinfeld ideas, if the show was being made today. This one really made me laugh: George gets dumped for being a “toilet texter.” GEORGE: “What
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Is a TV-show adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming’s wonderful comic-book series Powers finally going to happen? This project has been developed for YEARS, most recently at FX, but now it seems there’s a 10-episode order from Sony Pictures TV for P
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First up, a big thank-you to everyone who has backed the kickstarter for the Jewish Comix Anthology! This 250-page hardcover will feature the work of 47 Jewish artists, including Art Spiegelman, Harvey Pekar, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Joe Kubert… and me! There’s only
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In one of my earliest posts on the site, I wrote my own follow-up to the famous Comics Journal article “Martin Wagner Owes Me Fifty Bucks,” in which I listed several comic book series that remained tragically never-completed by their authors. At the top of the list was D
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This is fantastic: The Seinfeld reunion episode from Curb Your Enthusiasm season #7, edited together. Enjoy! This is a great site that lists the various actors and actresses who played multiple characters in different Bond films. Great fun for the Bond fans out there! Speaking of
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This is fantastic: Tom Hiddleston (who played Loki in both Thor movies and The Avengers) doing a phneomenal impression of Owen Wilson, had Owen been cast as Loki. Check this out. West Wing fans! Did you see this clip of Allison Janney performing The Jackal on The Arsenio Hall Show