“The New Frontier” would be one of the first three adult-oriented DC projects to be given the straight-to-DVD treatment and will sit alongside similar full-length adventures of Superman and Batman; DVD collections of the animated television series “Superfriends,” “Justice League” and “Batman Beyond,” among others, have been popular with fans. “I was kind of floored by the call and the fact that this was being done,” said Darwyn Cooke, 45, the writer and artist behind the comic. The news came from Gregory Noveck, the senior vice president of creative affairs at DC Comics, a unit of Time Warner. The company wanted to produce a series of direct-to-DVD animated films that would, unlike its previous efforts, more closely follow the source material.
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"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," will be even bigger and more visually stunning than its predecessor, reports Sci Fi Wire.
"Narnia had been created approximately 900 years before the last film took place," director Andrew Adamson said. "This is now another 1,300 years later. Narnia has been oppressed by Telmarines for a large period of that time. So it's a dirtier, grittier, darker place than the last world was. When the kids come back in, they bring a lot of nostalgia with them, and they think they are going back to the place they knew. And instead, they've come back to a very changed world."
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From Booksteve: A 1972 comic con poster by the great Sergio Aragones.
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Toonzone reviews legit DVD sets collecting the 1960s "Marvel Superheroes" animated series. Trouble is, they haven't been released in the U.S. yet. If your DVD player can handle Region 2 disks, you can order from Amazon UK using the links here.
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Some viewers weren't thrilled by the Beatles' worldwide TV broadcast of "All You Need is Love" 40 years ago--and the band was never told.
Newly released documents revealed some viewers considered the Liverpool band unworthy of representing Britain in the show, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday.
..."Have we nothing better to offer? Surely this isn't the image of what we are like. What a dreadful impression they must have given the rest of the world," one comment read, the newspaper reported.
Another viewer, impressed by contributions from elsewhere, said "after all the culture ... shown by the other countries, the Beatles were the absolute dregs," the newspaper claimed.
"We did not do ourselves justice," another viewer commented.
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