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...Comic-Con International at San Diego, the largest comic convention in the world, took place last weekend to the biggest attendance in its history: more than 70,000 people, according to organizers. Lasting four days, the San Diego Con, as it's known, spans nearly five football fields on two floors, hosting retailers, publishers, creators and fans. While it sounds like a comix Brigadoon, a magical island that appears just once a year, many in the comixcenti scowl at its mention, fuming at the mix of toys, models, movies, videogames, animation, trading cards, t-shirts and ancillary merchandise that they...
...surefire way to whip up a crowd this summer: "All governments are liars and murderers," says the voice of the late American outlaw-comic Bill Hicks, in a sound loop repeating over and over as 6,000 fans watch a giant screen flash images of George W. Bush and Tony Blair. Boos turn to cheers as the crowd recognizes the opening strains of The Man Don't Give a F__, the Super Furry Animals' 1996 cult classic and traditional set-closer. Everyone shouts out the chorus, with its riff sampled from Steely Dan's Show Biz Kids: "You know they...
Imagine the pitch meeting. "It's a comic book about PRINCESS DIANA! Superpowers? Uh--let's make her a mutant! She's dead, you say? Great! We'll totally save on legal fees!" The foregoing is completely made up, but this isn't: on Sept. 10, Marvel Comics will publish a comic book featuring a resurrected mutant Diana, Princess of Wales. According to Marvel, the comic is a media-savvy satire on celebrity in which Diana must escape evil Eurotrash. The title? Di Another Day. No, that's not made up either...
Rush and Depp offer a congenial collision of acting styles: the one purring with assured menace, the other weirder, more daring. In a role that requires him to be both the lead and the comic relief, Depp plays the roguish coquette, sporting another of his odd British accents (as in Sleepy Hollow and From Hell). Only he could make this spiked cocktail of quirks so potent and piquant. Now Pirates could give Depp what he may never have wanted: a movie franchise...
...Blankets" will be available next Wednesday at smart comic shops and at regular bookstores sometime the following week...