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A Good Day for ‘Monty Python’ Fans

A Good Day for ‘Monty Python’ Fans

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  • November 20, 2008

It’s a good day for Monty Python fans.  First, Amazon is offering the just-released box set of the entire pioneering television deeply discounted for 24 hours. The normal $99.99 list price is down to a mere $39.99 until midnight.

Meantime, the Monty Python troupe now has a YouTube channel featuring about 24 collections of clips, outtakes and interviews with the gang. And instead of pretending its all about getting to know its audience, the group admits the channel is a direct ploy to sell Monty Python DVDs and merchandise, utilizing YouTube’s new partnership with Amazon (see above).
 

‘Eureka’ Goes BOOM! in December

‘Eureka’ Goes BOOM! in December

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  • October 24, 2008

In a somewhat unique manner, BOOM! Studios cofounder Andrew Cosby took to YouTube to announce that the Sci Fi series Eureka will become their latest title. The comic adventures will be co-written by Crosby, who created the series, and Brendan Hay (The Daily Show) with art by Diego Barreto, son of DC mainstay Eduardo Barreto.

 "I see this as Season 1.5," Cosby says on the video. The story will fill in gaps between the first and second season and be considered part of the show’s mythology.

The first issue will be out in December with a covers by J.K. Woodward (Fallen Angel).

Eureka debuted on the Sci Fi Channel in 2006 and was a ratings and critical hit.  The first two seasons are currently available on DVDThe third season will comprise 21 episodes and began airing July 29.  In August, a soundtrack album was released.

 


 

An Animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

An Animated Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

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  • August 15, 2008


Long after the notion of a Buffy Animated Series has come and gone, a brief clip from what would-have-been has popped up on YouTube. The idea that the show is still in the works seems pretty far fetched, seeing as how most of the cast has moved on far from the world of Sunnydale and Vampires, but its still a nice piece of Buffy nostalgia to watch.

 

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at San Diego Comic-Con 2008

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at San Diego Comic-Con 2008

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  • August 4, 2008

One of the most popular bootleg videos at comic book conventions before the YouTube era was of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog making fun of geeks waiting in line for Star Wars.

Our favorite foul mouthed puppet set his sites on nerds once again when The Late Show with Conan O’Brien sent him to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. And this time you don’t have to buy burned copies from a weird guy at a booth with Micronaut figures. I kid. I kid. (Oh, and consider this your official "Not Safe For Work" warning.)
 

 

 

[EDITOR’S NOTE: That’s PvP webcomic creator Scott Kurtz getting the Triumph treatment around three minutes into the video. Owch! -RM]

The Saga of “Italian Spiderman”

The Saga of “Italian Spiderman”

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  • August 1, 2008

Sure, he has nothing to do with the Spider-Man we know and love, but The Italian Spiderman recently caught the eye of Newsweek.com, who examined the viral video saga’s origins — as well as that of its creators. The final chapter of the YouTube sensation, which chronicled the adventures of a swingin’ 1960s Italian superhero, was posted just a week or two ago.

According to Newsweek, the video’s rise to viral superstardom was an unplanned — but pleasant — development for its creators:

The trailer was supposed to be a one-time lark. But Russo says that when he posted it on YouTube last November, it was watched 1,800 times within two days. In March, it was featured on YouTube’s homepage. As of this writing, it has been watched more than two million times. When Russo realized he had touched a nerve with his joke, he raised a little money ("we could have bought a 1990 or ’92 Toyota Corolla for what this project cost," he says) and began filming Italian Spiderman episodes in January. The first was posted on May 21 to both YouTube and the website for Russo’s production company, Alrugo. A new episode followed every week and eventually a fictional back story evolved—that only one 1968 print of "Italian Spiderman" ever existed, that it was recovered from a shipwreck last year.

 

‘Watchmen’ Trailer Debuts

‘Watchmen’ Trailer Debuts

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  • July 17, 2008

The headline pretty much says it all, as the trailer for the much-anticipated adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’ groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen was released on Empire Online today. The Empire Online video is down, but the trailer has found its way to YouTube, of course. (As various verisons get posted and taken down, I’ll try to keep this thread updated with any that are still available. Be sure to check out our Watchmen trailer image gallery, too!)

 

 

(via a tip from UglyHill)

 

UPDATE: Well, you knew that was bound to happen. The YouTube video has been taken down, and the Empire Online page remains in a state of 404 Error. Here’s hoping you were able to catch the trailer while it was floating around — it was impressive, to say the least.

UPDATE: Thanks to another astute ComicMix fan, we’ve tracked down the trailer elsewhere on the ‘Tubes and embedded it after the jump. (Thanks, RJ, Jr.!)

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Mystery Writer Gary Phillips Talks ‘High Rollers’

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  • July 10, 2008

When I talked to mystery/crime novelist recently about his upcoming comic book series High Rollers, it came across very quickly just how much Phillips knows about his hometown of Los Angeles, where nearly all of his writing projects are set.

You can read that interview, in Publishers Weekly Comics Week, right here.

Now, Phillips is giving a sort of virtual tour of L.A. courtesy of Comic Book Resources, which has posted a video of Phillips visiting some of his favorite haunts in the city.

If you’re curious about High Rollers, read my review of the book in last week’s installment of the Weekly Haul.

 UPDATE: The video’s now on YouTube, which you can check out below.

Random Video: ‘Riki Oh’ – The Most Awesome Movie Ever?

Random Video: ‘Riki Oh’ – The Most Awesome Movie Ever?

The most awesome movie in the world features a villain with a hook hand and a glass eye that’s full of breathmints. It has extreme violence and horrific English dubbing. And it has Ricky, the real one-man army corps.

I happened across Riki Oh (also called The Story of Ricky) a couple years ago. It’s a little-known 1991 martial arts flick set in a futuristic prison run by gangs. If I had to guess, I’d say three quarters of the movie’s budget went to fake blood. Sure, it’s not comics, but it certainly qualifies as "comic book-esque."

You can now see this wonder in its entirety on YouTube – but be warned, it’s extremely graphic in a not-quite-believable Evil Dead sort of way. File it under my highest recommendation.

[NOTE: This film also provided the crazy head-smashing scene used during The Daily Show‘s "Moment of Zen" feature for several seasons. -RM]

Here’s one of my favorite scenes:

 

 

 

Webcomic News Roundup: Google Gets A Talking-To, Zero Punctuation Rages

Webcomic News Roundup: Google Gets A Talking-To, Zero Punctuation Rages

It’s a light one this week, as many of us on this side of the pond are enjoying a day off and trying to stay as far away from a computer as possible.

Attentive Twitter-stalkers already know that Diesel Sweeties‘ Rich Stevens and Octopus Pie‘s Meredith Gran spent some time in San Francisco last month as guest speakers at Google HQ, but now the video of their speech has been posted on YouTube for everyone to enjoy — not just the lucky cogs in the Great Google Machine.

The video is posted below, and once you get past the somewhat timid introduction, it’s a really enjoyable presentation that features some great behind-the-scenes elements of both webcomics.

 

 

On a semi-related note, Gary Tyrrell of Fleen is still waiting for any questions about Rich Stevens’ decision to opt out of his Diesel Sweeties print syndication deal.

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‘Watchmen’ Ad Contest Winners

‘Watchmen’ Ad Contest Winners

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  • June 26, 2008

Watchmen director Zack Snyder recently announced the winners of the "Veidt Enterprises Advertising Contest," in which YouTube users submitted commercials promoting fictional products of Veidt Enterprises, the company run by Adrian Veidt (a.k.a. "Ozymandias"). Contestants submitted the commercials for potential use in the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel.

While YouTube users voted on the Top Five commercials (the makers of which would receive a fancy new camcorder), Snyder recently announced the eight videos he’d be considering for use in the film. Among them was this throwback to Saturday morning toy commercials:

 

 

(via PopCandy)

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