Geeks the world over rejoice at the return of Sam & Max... as a web-comic!
I may weep openly
Can I hear a w00t? A-men!
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The first 27 (out of 65) episodes of Ducktales is now out in a 3 DVD set. Unfortunately, it doesn't contain the pilot, but I'll probably snag it anyway. I remember talking about Ducktales with Don Rosa (probably the most famous $crooge artist after Carl Barks), back on the old Compuserve Comics forum. Basically he admitted that, while they didn't get $crooge at all right according to his lights (the real $crooge McDuck lived in his money-bin and would never waste money on a mansion). the shows were enjoyable in their own right. He liked to think of them as a TV show broadcast in Duckburg, based loosely on $crooge McDuck and completely unauthorized.
What I'm really hoping is that this portends a release of Darkwing Duck on DVD in the near future. I was right when I reasoned that DangerMouse would soon be followed by Count Duckula, so I've got my fingers crossed.
TalkAboutComics reports that Carla Speed McNeil's awesome Finder comic is going to be published free on the web, and the comic books are going away. She'll continue to put out the TPBs as she accumulates material, but apparently the comics have been a loss leader for the profitable TPBs anyway. This is pretty much the same line of reasoning/business model that Girl Genius went with. I think it's brilliant, and I really hope it works out for Carla, both because she's a wonderful person and because I'd like to see more of it.
My pal Jeff Parker points to an article in Variety.com - Graphic detail for Contrafilm
Continuing its search for new action-adventure franchises, New Line has licensed graphic novel "Interman."
Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are set to produce via their New Line-based Contrafilm shingle.
Created and self-published by Jeff Parker, "Interman" concerns a young man raised in seclusion who discovers he was genetically engineered by the government to be a superhuman killing machine. The military is after him, and he has to fight his instinct to become a killer.
Congrats to Jeff. I hope he makes a ton of money from this, and that the film doesn't completely suck. That the adaptation is being "penned" by the screenwriter who brought us Exorcist: The Beginning doesn't exactly raise my hopes sky-high, but we'll see.
Girl Genius is becoming a web-comic, with a MWF schedule. The individual comics are being cancelled, but the collections will continue.
Narbonic Volume 2 is coming! I bought 7 copies of volume 1, because I knew that I'd be thrusting them on my friends, babbling "You must read this!" I'd like to thank late industrial capitalism, which made it all possible.
And he's a centrist like me, so there!
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Interesting opinion by Posner, upholding Gaiman's claim to co-ownership of the copyright for Medieval Spawn and Count Cogliostro. It's not often that you'll see a US District Court opinion recite--in detail--the origin story of a comic-book character.
I wonder if Todd has yet understood that keeping his promises in the first place would have been the wiser course.
link via The Volokh Conspiracy
