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A Very Good Friday Runaround Indeed

Published Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:30:57 -0500

Last updated Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:03:35 -0500

FoolWatch: Some of you were fooled by yesterday's Avatar Press suing James Cameron story, but why couldn't Steve Bissette's announcement of a Tyrant movie, with Phil Tippett, Roger Avary, Sir Kenneth Branagh and Moebius be true? And Comics Alliance with Top Shelf's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1988 was quite an attractive proposition too.

And I did like Den Of Geek being corrupted by Kick-Ass.

LawWatch: The remaining shareholders of the remnants of Stan Lee Media won't be getting the rights to Spider-Man. To be fair, not like they were ever going to.

ThorWatch: The LA Times addresses rumours about Sir Antony Hopkins acting up on set.

I am having the time of my life making Thor with Ken and Chris. They have made every day immensely fun and collaborative, and we're all puzzled that someone would fabricate a story suggesting otherwise. I'm proud to say that Thor has been one of the great experiences of my career.

ConWatch: And the best April Fool of all? Gareb Shamus telling the Orange County Local News Network that

He threw his first Comic Con 15 years ago in Chicago after buying the long-standing Chicago Comic Con. That show is now the second-largest in the industry, he said.

If you conveniently ignore NYCC and the upcoming C2E2 that is…

CapWatch: In non-April Fool news, Sebastian Stan was confirmed as playing Bucky Barnes,

Right now, Radio 4 is running a documentary by Nev Fountain and Jon Culshaw on Douglas Adams and Doctor Who. Will be available at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 for a week or so.

VaginaWatch: ITV seems to be running a piece on the Kick Ass controversy about.. well.. it not really being much of a controversy.

In an era when viewers lodge their objections about talent show judges and prank phone-ins, a child saying the 'c' word in a film seems likely to attract complaints. But most critics have turned a blind eye to the transgression which occurs in Kick-Ass.

VaginaWatch2: A couple of ads on the tube made an impression on me yesterday. One will go up as part of a Swipe File in an hour or so. Anyway here's the second and the related website. We live in another world, we really do.

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