Via Bedazzled: The Pretty Things perform on Swedish TV, plus Herb Alpert in Scopitone!
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The White Stripes' next album, Icky Thump, will be out later this year.
Tentative song titles include "I'm Slowly Turning Into You," "Catch Hell Blues," "Little Cream Soda" and "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told)."
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The Kids WB! has a new animated Spider-Man series in the works for 2008. From the press release:
Tentatively titled “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the new series is being produced by Culver Entertainment. Greg Weisman (“Gargoyles”, “The Batman”) is supervising producer, Victor Cook (“Hellboy: Blood and Iron” and “Buzz Lightyear of Star Command”) is producer/supervising director. The series will premiere on Kids’ WB! on The CW, the No.1 rated Saturday morning kids broadcast slate.
Riding the crest of Sony’s anticipated summer blockbuster “Spider-Man 3,” the new animated series picks up the original web-slinger’s mythology at the beginning of his hero’s journey – as a not-so-typical 16-year-old entering his junior year of high school. Having spent the summer engaging common criminals with his new-found powers, Peter Parker must conceal his secret identity while engaging a new level of terror – the multi-leveled pressures of teenage life at home and school while combating bigger, badder super-villains in the real world.
“Our goal is to reinterpret these great characters and concepts for our millennium,” Weisman said. “We’ll have plenty of resonant material for the Spider-Man fan, while engaging the Spider-Man novice with the same thrills we experienced when we were first exposed to the character. Our stories will appeal on multiple levels with plenty of eye-candy, action, humor and colorful characters for the youngest demographic balanced with extensive character development for ‘tweens, teens and adults.”
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Dark Horse Comics has four art books planned for the coming year: "Art of Bone" featuring the work of cartoonist Jeff Smith (June); "Art of Grendel," tracking the 25 years of Matt Wagner's character (August); "Conan: The Phenomenon," including the paperback cover art paintings by Frank Frazetta and other works (September), and "Buffy: Panel to Panel," featuring works from Dark Horse's various "Buffy" series (October).
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Contrary to earlier reports, Galactus apparently is in the second Fantastic Four film, says director Tim Story.
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SciFi Wire has some details about the next season of "Heroes."
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Fantagraphics Books is having a tough time finding a good quality version of a 1965 Peanuts Sunday strip for use in its "Complete Peanuts" books. The original isn't in the Charles Schultz archives. Give 'em a holler if you happened to have clipped a color copy out of your local paper 40-odd years ago.
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Cool images from a 1976 Hasbro Toys catalog.
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