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Pop Culture Roundup July 10, 2007

Tomorrow's comics today: Check out the big list of what will be in comic shops this Wednesday.

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She-Hulk will be making a guest appearance on the animated Fantastic Four series.

Best Fantastic Four Sites

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Leonard Nimoy may appear in the upcoming "Star Trek" movie directed by J.J. Abrams, but not William Shatner, reports, um, Shatner:

"There's a Star Trek movie, and I called Leonard," Shatner said. "I said, 'Leonard, have you heard?' He said, 'Yes, I have.' I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'I've read the script.' I said, 'Is it a good script?' He says, 'Yeah.' I said, 'Am I in it?' And there was a pause. He said no, and then he began to laugh. I went through the phone as I grabbed him by the throat. He's in it. I'm not in it."

Best Star Trek Sites

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Booksteve remembers MLJ Comics' The Shield.

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Greg Sadowski is at work on another book about the great EC Comics artist Bernard Krigstein.

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The New York Times has an early review of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

Curiously enough, “Order of the Phoenix,” clocking in at a little over two and a quarter hours, is the shortest of the “Harry Potter” films. The nearly 900-page source has been elegantly streamlined by Michael Goldenberg, the screenwriter (who replaces Steve Kloves), and David Yates, the director (who follows Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell in the job). There is no Quidditch, and not many boarding-school diversions. Instead, “Order of the Phoenix,” which begins like a horror movie with a Dementor attack in a suburban underpass, proceeds as a tense and twisty political thriller, with clandestine meetings, bureaucratic skullduggery and intimations of conspiracy hanging in the air.

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The fort featured in the 1970s "Doctor Who" serial "The Sea Devils" is for sale.

The fort was designed and built in the 1860s to guard the approaches to Portsmouth from a feared French invasion that never happened.

In October 1971, when Jon Pertwee played the title role in the BBC's cult show Doctor Who, the crew came to Portsmouth for extensive location filming on an adventure called The Sea Devils, and the exterior of the fort was used.


Best Doctor Who Sites

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DVD new releases July 10, 2007

Beauty and the Beast - The Second Season

Bewitched - The Complete Fifth Season

Extras: The Complete Second Season

The Woman in the Window (MGM Film Noir)

Frankie & Annette MGM Movie Legends Collection (Beach Blanket Bingo / How to Stuff a Wild Bikini / Beach Party / Bikini Beach / Fireball 500 / Thunder Alley / Muscle Beach Party / Ski Party)

A Bullet For Joey (MGM Film Noir)

More upcoming DVDs

New CD releases July 10, 2007

DVD new releases July 10, 2007

Zeitgeist ~ Smashing Pumpkins

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga ~ Spoon

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ~ Nicholas Hooper

Family Tree ~ Nick Drake

Time on Earth by Crowded House

The Else by They Might Be Giants

Teenage Crush Vol. 5 by Various Artists

Phil's Spectre III - A Third Wall of Soundalikes by Various Artists

The Right Tracks - Complete Okeh Recordings 1963-1966 by Billy Butler

Into the Afterlife by The Zombies

More upcoming CDs

Today's video: The Kinks play "All Day and All of the Night"



Pop Artifact! Planet of the Apes model kit

Pop Culture Roundup July 9, 2007

Fred Hembeck, as only he could, finds a Silver Age precedent for the infamous Mary Jane Watson statue that caused so much online controversy a while back.

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DC Comics has launched an online comics imprint.

The imprint, called Zudacomics.com, will permit aspiring cartoonists to register at its Web site and submit an eight-panel sample of their work. Starting in October and each month thereafter, editors at DC Comics will select 10 entries, post them for public view and invite people to vote for their favorite. Editors may also declare as many as six submissions to be instant winners during the calendar year.

“We’ve always found interesting stuff in submissions,” said Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics. “One of the problems that comics have today, I think, is that open door is much more closed. This creates a more open door.”


However, questions are being raised over who owns the rights to these comics--their creators or DC.

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Download Dial B for Burbank's two-hour video documentary tracing the history of The Shadow.

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Work on the new Iron Man film has wrapped and clips will debut at the upcoming Comic-Con International in July.

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Graphitti Designs is launching a series of EC Comics-based t-shirt designs.



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Hear a BBC audio documentary on the Rolling Stones' traumatic 1967 experiences.

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Today's video: The Kinks play "Sunny Afternoon"