From now until August 1, the beautiful hardcover edition of Frank Miller’s epic 300 is 50% off!

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Meltblog readers and Meltdown customers:
You’re Invited!

Posted under Art, Hollywood, News, Nightlife

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San Diego, CA 92101
(www.kavalounge.com)
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 Alan Moore, creator of the seminal graphic novel The Watchmen, would be appearing in an episode of The Simpsons. Now comes word that the episode, “Husbands and Knives,” will air on October 7 and will feature not only Moore, but two other big comic book names: Art Spiegelman (Maus, Maus II, In the Shadow of No Towers) and Daniel Clowes (Eightball, Ghost World, David Boring, Meltdown Logo).

The three men figure into a subplot centered on Comic Book Guy, who finds himself in direct competition with a new comic book shop called “Coolsville Comics & Toys,” run by a fella named Milo (Jack Black). I’m not sure what the main plot of the episode will be, but it would seem the title is a spoof of the Woody Allen movie Husbands and Wives.

Posted under Hollywood, News, Tivo zombie

The team behind the thriller Disturbia will tackle the adaptation of DC/Vertigo’s Y: The Last Man for New Line Cinema.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, DJ Caruso will develop and direct, while Carl Ellsworth will write the film, based on the comic-book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.

The series, which began in 2002, centers on Yorick Brown, the sole surviving man of a mysterious, spontaneous plague that wiped out every other male mammal on Earth (except for Ampersand, Yorick’s Capuchin monkey). Yorick sets out to discover what caused the catastrophe.

J.C. Spink, Chris Bender and David Goyer will produce the film.

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Don’t wait till SDCC to get your copy, Meltdown will have plenty this Wed. 7/25, come on down and get yours!

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…I am no longer physically with the Meltdown family. At least not for a season. I will still be be blogging, though, taking on the prestigious mantle of Meltdown East Coast Correspondent.

Also, I will be at San Diego. How could I miss Nerd Prom?

So if you see me down there, say hello. And feel free to drop by my brand spankin’ new eponymous website anytime to say hello: CalebMonroe.com.

Your Meltblog: now going bicoastal!

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1. Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected thirty-five Oscars?
2. Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy?
3. In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer’s name is Yensid, which is Disney spelled backwards?
4. The Black Hole, 1979, was Disney’s first PG-rated movie?
5. Walt Disney’s first cartoon character was called Oswald the Rabbit?
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Found on Ectoplasmosis:

A PC build into a whiskey bottle, or as Eliza Gauger puts it,  “the only known photograph of Warren Ellis’s actual brain. Not pictured: the Red Bull firewire peripheral drive, and the cigarette port.”

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“‘Look at all that stuff Kirby came up with,’ [Dean Haspiel] says. ‘Kirby just INVENTED on paper, he didn’t bother to build any of it. He already thought of it. It was enough to just think of it — he was just blueprinting the future…’

“‘Sometimes I feel like all science is doing now is reverse-engeneering Jack Kirby. All the iPhone is is a retarted Mother Box,’ I declare.” -Paul Pope, on Jack Kirby

“At a time when most mainstream comics were a brutal embarrassment, garishly drawn and written at subliterates, all reacting to an explosion that was, at that point, half a decade old, there came this Jagger-mouthed and Ashcroft-cheeked madman from Ohio, wearing girl’s jeans and running his own photographs and drawing goofy inkbursts and loping left-hand comics from Mars.” -Matt Fraction, on Paul Pope

“It’s Independence Day, yes, when we here in Great Britain celebrate our Great Project — creating an entire country for comedy purposes in the guise of ceding America its independence. Thank you for giving us literally hundreds of years of laughter.” -Warren Ellis

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