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Friday Runaround – Ain't It Cool To Pirate?
PirateWatch: Yesterday's tip top Robert Kirkman interview at Ain't It Cool was full of all sorts of interesting stuff about the comic and its move to AMC TV series.
There were some interesting illustrations used. As well. Such as this one;
Which was, a few hours altered to this;
I guess maybe it's not the done thing to use an image, in an interview with the comic's creator, that still has the tag from the illegal download it was acquired from, still so prominently…
KeepItInTheFamilyWatch: James McAvoy, who starred in the movie based on Mark Millar and JG Jones' Wanted – is now to star as Professor X in Matthew Vaughan's X-Men: First Class.
OzzieWatch: Peter Foster is trying to get a graphic novel adaptation of For The Term Of His Natural Life off the ground.
SuperSecession Me: Morgan Spurlock writes an intro to the new DMZ collection…
We're lucky here in the United States. There hasn't been a war fought on American soil in more than 145 years. We've been distanced, protected, and made safe from the fear and horrors of war, especially from the possibility of having one in our own backyard.
LegalWatch: Tampa officials have now officially declared that Steve Perry was murdered. Test results are likely to be released in the next week.
AVWatch: Leonard Pierce of the A.V. Club on what infuriates him in comics;
Comics already have a (largely justified) reputation as cretinous fodder for arrested adolescents, but writers like Millar, Geoff Johns, Jeph Loeb, and Garth Ennis do the medium no further favors by continually writing brain-dead, utterly thoughtless stories whose only value is shock value, and whose only standard is the double standard.
ShellWatch: Michael Bay produces Turtles? Brilliant. As long as I don't actually have to see it, I'm tidy.