Daffy Duck’s Rhapsody, 1953
Warner Bros. released a single of Daffy Duck singing, “Daffy Duck’s Rhapsody”: “Bang! Bang! Bang! I’m only 16 yards ahead!” (Thanks, Dr. O!)
Good-bye, Oracle. Hello, Batgirl.
Comics Alliance says good-bye to Barbara Gordon as Oracle and hello her as Batgirl in the DC relaunch, with some nice art by Phil Noto.
James Sturm on Selling a Cartoon to the New Yorker
James Sturm spent three months dallying with gag cartoons. “I spent no more than an hour with any one cartoon, and many took far less time than that. For the first two weeks I was feeling my oats. I already had a half-dozen keepers and was confident there […]
Rolling Stone Interviews Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison notes some things about superheroes, the comics industry, Mark Millar, sexism and rape in an interview with Rolling Stone: “I suddenly think how many times has somebody been raped in an Alan Moore story? And I couldn’t find a single one where someone wasn’t raped except […]
The Next Entry in the Aliens Expanded Universe
It’s a plea often heard in the Aliens universe when your number is up…
Return of Deus Ex
Professional curmudgeon Shamus Young finds his reservations slipping away for Deus Ex Human Revolution: “The videogame sections of this blog can be boiled down to a single long, frustrated lament at everything that’s been going wrong in the industry… The truth is, this is a really good game.”
The Cultural Gutter 