The corporate need for a Watchmen 2 has been brewing ever since the movie trailer hit and the book sales went into the stratosphere. Our friend, Rich Johnston, was talking about the near inevitability of a sequel and how you’d be hard pressed to get anyone to believe that the issue hasn’t become a personal matter [...]

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Ghost Town is a cynical supernatural comedy that had the misfortune of getting turned into a sentimental date movie in the last act of the film.
There’s a popular theory with American film makers that you absolutely have to give the audience someone to identify with. In England, especially with comedies, there’s a tendency to create characters [...]

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You may have heard, Marvel Comics is launching their own line of original comics for online distribution. Bundling them with the “Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited” program (monthly subscription to a digital library), they’re launching with an Iron Man comic and a Hulk comic – both of which follow the movie continuity and are timed to coincide [...]

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You’ve probably heard all about Ben Gordon’s bad relations with the Chicago Bulls, in terms of his contract status. Gordon’s felt jerked around about his contract since initial extension talks began over a year ago and felt jerked around on the court for longer (the Bulls seemed to delight in elevating to starting guard and then [...]

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Over in Lying in the Gutters,  Rich Johnston unearthed a hitherto unannounced Batman trade paperback on Amazon: Batman: The Strange Deaths of Batman.

Amazon lists the book at 160 pages.  I can’t tell you what all 160 pages are, but about 68 pages of it look to be from a 1977 David Reed/John Calnan Batman sequence [...]

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