WTF? MySpace?
As someone whose first reaction to the news about Bravo acquiring Television Without Pity was, "Uh, what’s Television Without Pity?", I greatly identified with, and applauded, this clever substitution of Captain America’s dialoge from a page of Civil War Frontline #11, wherein one Sally Floyd conflates pop-culture trendiness with actual American values instead of a weak parody thereof. Tetsubo observes, "note that Sally’s dialogue is unchanged and untouched." Domo arigato, Tetsubo.
More good news for all those teen readers! Meg Cabot, author of the popular Princess Diaries series, will be making the foray into comics with Avalon High: Coronation, a manga sequel to her novel Avalon High brought to us by the ever-expanding Tokyopop (which also answers the question "whatever happened to Jinky Coronado?", as Coronado is set to draw the graphic novel). This should hit stores in July.
Now that comics have earned mainstream respectability, can videogames be far behind? Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, is at the forefront of gaining recognition of this hobby and industry as having "a history worth preserving and a culture worth studying."
Looking for that video of Stephen Colbert 
Cartoonist Matt Groening confirmed the rumor the upcoming release of four brand new direct-to-DVD 90 minute movies based upon his popular Futurama teevee series. The entire original cast will be returning, including Katey Sagal, Billy West, John Di Maggio and Maurice LaMarche, and the original animators and animation house have also returned for the effort.
