Year-end window closing wrap up, part 1
This is my first step towards fulfilling my new-year resolution: to post items of interest in a timely fashion. (There are two assumptions there: that I can post anything in a timely fashion, and that this is interesting, but bear with me.) If I close these windows, my browser will run faster and new posts will go up faster. That’s the theory, if that doesn’t work, I’m getting a new computer and declaring email bankruptcy.
* In the strictest sense, this probably counts as a comic strip. And now the song will be stuck in your head.
* If you’ve recently become unemployed, here’s what you’ve been missing– part Dilbert, part Kafka, part symbolic self-immolation.
* How comics can save us from scientific ignorance.
* Will Elder, remembered by the New York TImes Magazine.
* "I usually dream up a dozen or so profoundly stupid ‘high concepts’ for stories every day." — Brian K. Vaughan, interviewed in Esquire. Explains why J.J. Abrams hired him for Lost, I suppose. (Via io9.)
* Star Wars: A Musical Journey. Run, Luke, run.
* Baby, if you’ve ever wondered… wondered if there ever really was a WKRP in Cincinatti… there is now, but it’s a TV station.
* We hate to burst bubbles, but there’s no way the Lone Ranger melted silver over a campfire to make bullets. (And we mean silver the element, not the horse. That’s just disgusting.) This also means that any medieval werewolf stories are in trouble too…
Beginning Monday, while everyone is home from school, kids can catch up on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. While new episodes return in 2009, the ten aired on Cartoon Network will be available at both StarWars.com and CartoonNetwork.com. Supervising director Dave Filoni provides commentary. 
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2009’s Free Comic Book Day will be Saturday, May 2 and the Gold Sponsor titles have been announced.
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The Toy Industry Association nominees for the 2009 Toy of the Year Awards were announced this week. The 9th annual TOTY Awards will be held at Chelsea Piers in NYC, on Sunday, February 15, kicking off Toy Fair Week. 
Scott Allie, Dark Horse’s editor charged with the Buffyverse, spoke with 
Long before AleX Ross, Bob Larkin became the first major painter to be known for super-hero covers thanks to his work on Marvel’s black & white magazine covers throughout the 1970s. He was also tapped to paint the Marvel super-heroes when Fireside Press began collecting origins of the heroes.
On tonight’s episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the dreaded Jar Jar Binks makes a return appearance. In “Bombad Jedi”, Jar Jar Binks and C-3PO team up to save Padme Amidala from the evil Viceroy Nute Gunray, which is made more complicated when the Separatists assume that the Gungan is a Jedi.
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