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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Patton Oswalt’s “Star Wars VII” for the 30th Anniversary of “Return Of The Jedi”
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of Return Of The Jedi and the 36th anniversary of the release of Star Wars, we have something a little bit different for you.
Last month, for an episode of Parks and Recreation, Patton Oswalt ad libbed a seven-minute vision of what Star Wars VII ought to be, complete with the Avengers and several Greek gods. Now his rant has been animated by YouTube user Izac Less:
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Oh, and here’s the original:
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And consider yourself lucky. If we really wanted to do Saturday morning cartoons to commemorate Return Of The Jedi, we would have gone with this:
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Yubnub yourself, buddy.
Man finds “Action Comics #1″ being used as wall insulation
While remodeling his newly purchased home in Elbow Lake, Minn., David Gonzalez noticed something unusual amid the old newspapers that had been used as wall insulation.
It was a copy of Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, the very first comic to feature the granddaddy of all superheroes, Superman.
Read the rest at Man finds comic book worth $100,000 being used as wall insulation | The Sideshow – Yahoo! News .
The Wackiest commercial you’ll see all day
This is a commercial from Brazil touting the new Peugeot 208. I’d heard street racing had gotten bad down there* but this is just… well, wacky.
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Our only question– since in this video we see Dick Dastardly and Muttley in the Mean Machine #00, the Slag Brothers in the Bouldermobile, the Gruesome Twosome in the Creepy Coupe, the Red Max in the Crimson Haybailer, Penelope Pitstop in the Compact Pussycat, Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly in the Army Surplus Special, the Ant Hill Mob in the Bulletproof Bomb, and Peter Perfect in the Turbo Terrific, does this mean the man driving the Peugeot is actually Pat Pending Jr.? Is that a new Convert-a-Car?
And one final question: do the Slag Brothers insure through GEICO?
* Okay, I watched The Fast And The Furious 5.
Monday Mix-Up: Andy Warhol and Nico as Batman and Robin
Photoshoot for Esquire Magazine.
Paolo Rivera wins the 2013 Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards for Comics
The 20th Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards were announced this evening at the awards ceremony at Spectrum Live, a weekend long celebration of fantastic art, in Kansas City. Paolo Rivera won for his cover to Daredevil #10. The awards for comics are:
Gold: Paolo Rivera, Daredevil #10
Silver: David Petersen
, Mouse Guard
Black Axe #4, Page 19
Jennifer L. Meyer, Aesop’s Ark, Ch. 2, P2
Paolo Rivera, Captain America #1
João Ruas, Fables
#121
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners! Read the rest at Announcing the 2013 Spectrum Fantastic Art Awards | Tor.com .
Can you beat me on GeoGuessr?
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“Moth City” Brings Thrillbent Up To Five Days A Week
We’ve been lax in telling you about the new stuff coming from Thrillbent, and with Tim Gibson bringing his stunning comic Moth City to Thrillbent starting today, we have our story hook.
Moth City is a compact manufacturing island given to an American tycoon, Governor McCaw, by the Chinese Nationalist government. In exchange, McCaw is to outfit the government’s vast army as it attempts to destroy the Communists and unite the world’s greatest nation. Now, after a brazen and brutal murder, McCaw must unravel the island’s secrets before everything he has built is wiped out by the warring factions. New issues will be posted on Thrillbent.com for free, every Tuesday. Here’s a video preview:
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And here’s the first chapter:
Tim spent three years illustrating worlds, characters and monsters for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, with film credits including Tintin, District 9 and Avatar to his name. Moth City is the project he’s been secretly working on along the way. Tim lives with his fiancée in Wellington, NZ.
Moth City will be joining Thrillbent’s other continuing series, including:
Arcanum, written by John Rogers with art and colors by Todd Harris:
Insufferable, written by Mark Waid with art by Peter Krause and colors by Nolan Woodard:
The Endling, written by Jonathan Larsen, illustrated by Cecilia Latella, and coloring by Paul Mounts and Jenn Manley Lee :
The Eighth Seal, written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by Jeremy Rock, and colored by Nolan Woodard
The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood, written by Christina Blanch and Chris Carr, artwork by Chee:
All strips are lettered by Troy Peteri.
I got off lucky…
This is the story Harlan Ellison tells of that day in 1982: He had just assaulted his publisher. Before anyone could think to call the police, Ellison’s editor sneaked him out of the building in the freight elevator. He jumped into a cab and 15 minutes later walked into a studio to tape a talk show with Isaac Asimov, Gene Wolfe, Calvin Trillin and Studs Terkel.
“I have just come from physically assualting the CEO of Grosset & Dunlap,” he recalls telling them. That didn’t get captured on tape — see the video of the show here — but he did mention being frustrated with his publisher. When I reached him by phone to ask about that day, he told me this tale of the assault, with no small amount of glee.
via Harlan Ellison recalls the day he assaulted his publisher – latimes.com.
