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It’s Hourly Comic Day.

The Words and Deeds Love Meme closed to new comments yesterday—kate_nepveu has decided to continue it here.

Emerald City Comicon website hacked.

How was the encore presentation of Rifftrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space?

RiffTrax Live: Birdemic is now available as a VOD—this is a sample.

Peter David is going home early. Best of luck to him for a speedy recovery.

The Line It Is Drawn #124: A Punderful Tribute To Peter David.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #404. This week, all the legends relate to the 60’s Batman television series.

95 Specials, Movies & Marathons to Watch on TV on Super Bowl Sunday -- Instead of Super Bowl XLVII

'Puppy Bowl IX': Catch a preview of Sunday's action

Super Bowl Teaser Spot For World War Z.

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Art Print.

Matt Smith And David Tennant Are In The Red Nose Day 2013 Trailer.

Phantom comics reissue keeps early masked hero alive

Terry Pratchett and other fantasy authors score at this year’s ALA Awards

Who’s Got A Spare Half Million For A Detective Comics #27?

JLA Profiles: Geoff Johns Approaching Hawkman In A New Way.

9 intriguing details from Burton’s newly leaked Superman Lives script.

Small Screen Survivors: TV Shows That Lived On As Comics.

Mark Millar On X-Men: Days Of Future Past – Sentinels And Kitty Pryde Fans Won’t Be Disappointed

Best Art Ever (This Week): February 1st.

Ask Chris #139: An Extensive Discussion Of Batman Punching Animals

Jim Lee - With Great Power Extended Interviews

AV Club Q&A: Pop culture too extensive to start.

Vintage Horror Cinema: Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein.

Ellen Muth will guest star on Hannibal, playing a character named Georgia.

New Bates Motel Teaser.

Critics’ Roundtable: The Vampire Diaries.

10 of the Most Bizarre Fairy Tale Adaptations.

Lifetime picks up Witches of East End.

Sabrina Carpenter joins Girl Meets World.

Replica Ghostbusters Proton Pack.

Read Harrison Ford’s original script notes from Raiders of the Lost Ark

Mondo’s Lost Boys Posters.

James Horner will be scoring the Ender’s Game adaptation.

Jack The Giant Slayer Set Visit: Interview Highlights.

NBC’s Do No Harm Scores Lowest Rated In-Season Premiere Ever.

Spiral staircase inspired by a whale’s spine.

Guillermo Del Toro’s 'Pinocchio’ Is Not Fossilized Just Yet.

Byzantium - International Trailer

Smodcast #24: Beverly Hills Bat: The Dark Knight Returns Pt. 2 Panel at The Paley Center. The panel includes Bruce Timm, director Jay Oliva, writer Bob Goodman, Andrea Romano, Ariel Winter, and Peter Weller.

Saturday B Movie Reel #97—Tasmanian Devils.

Movie Issues Podcast: Black Dynamite (2009)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 130—Yars’ Revenge.

Macmillan will sell e-books to libraries in pilot program at $25 per title

How Was SFSketchFest/Best of RiffTrax? I managed to go to the Manos screening. Due to an awful movie (one of the Wayans brothers spoofing the Paranormal Activity franchise—I walked in during what seemed to be the guy being jealous as he watched someone loudly having sex with a ghost; not being interested in watching this moment with Dad, we turned and left, opting to stay in the hall until it finished) running too long, Rifftrax wouldn’t have had time for the trivia/joke cards at the start. So the manager let everyone vote—we decided even if it went overly long, we wanted it. Things were fine, until midway through one of the shorts—the power in the whole theater went out. 5-10 minutes later, it came back, and we started where we left off. Someone that had been there for the previous showing (and its interruption by tornado and power outage) said it had happened at that same point, too. The manager (who also personally went in and cleaned up after the previous viewing of that movie) came in and apologized.

Unfortunately, the heat didn’t come back on. Instead, about 20 minutes before the end, the air conditioning was going full blast—so I had my coat on. Got out around 9:45 PM, and made it home shortly before the sleet (which the Weather Channel has dubbed Winter Storm Khan—feel free to insert your own Kirk scream here) started. Outside of all of that, I have to say it was great.

J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars: Episode VII.

Who Would You Like To Direct The Next Star Wars?

Star Trek Character Names And Roles Chart.

If only one past Doctor could appear in Doctor Who’s anniversary special, which would you prefer?

Matt Smith Singing in the Rain - Behind the Scenes Exclusive On Top Gear.

An interview with David Tennant.

Trailers From Hell: Brian Trenchard Smith on Pirates Of Blood River

We’re Ready To Believe You T-Shirt.

Ghostbusters Fan Art: 55 Central Park West.

One Page Preview Of New Ghostbusters #1.

An interview with Joel Hodgson.

New Oz: The Great And Powerful Poster Spotlights Rachel Weisz. More character posters can be found here.

The Very Last Thing Broadcast On G4’s Attack of the Show Before The Lights Went Out.

Being Human (UK Version) Series 5 Trailer

Being Human (American Version): Meaghan Rath Talks Being Undead, Roommate Romance, Craving Brains, and More

Top 10 Movie Apocalypses.

Top 10 Fairy Tale and Fantasy Movie Adaptation With A Twist.

Supervillain Origins: Deadshot.

Kevin Smith - With Great Power Extended Interview

10 Ways Buckaroo Banzai Has Infiltrated Pop Culture.

10 TV Shows That Deserve A Second Life. They list MST3K, which does have a second life in Rifftrax. I agree with the inclusion of Pushing Daisies.

Impressive Robocop Cake.

Army of Muppet Zombies vs. Bruce Campbell.

Best Art Ever (This Week): January 25th.

The Best Batman Planter You’ve Ever Seen (Hopefully).

Comic Book Legends Revealed #403.

Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen Heading to Broadway in Waiting For Godot

Both The Avengers and The Cabin in the Woods win Golden Tomato Awards.

Alternate Avengers concept art released.

About Those Phantasm II Bonus Features…

All My Children and One Life To Live Set To Premiere Digitally On Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes.

Tales From The Code: The Near Extinction Of Sheena

Keith Giffen Leaves Legion Of Superheroes After Two Issues?

Movie Issues Podcast: The Covenant (2006)

Mission Log #25—Episode 25: The Devil In The Dark.

Junk Food Dinner #144: Society (1989), No Retreat, No Surrender (1986), and Vampire’s Kiss (1989)

Smodcast On Batman #23: Kevin Smith and Kyle Higgins on Dick Grayson, Part 2.

The Batman Universe Podcast—Bat-Books For Beginners Episode 96: Birds of Prey: Old Friends, New Enemies (Birds of Prey #1-6)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 129: Dungeons And Dragons The Animated Series.

Mystery donor who gave $35,000 to The Oatmeal’s Tesla museum fund revealed.

Holiday Love Meme 2012. Since it's been a rough couple of months, my thread.

A Friending Meme.

CBLDF’s Holiday Gift Guide

Magical Used Book Store Dispenses Random Literary Treasures.

First Official Photo From The Hobbit: There And Back Again Released.

Gandalf Confronts The Goblin King In A New Still From The Hobbit: There And Back Again.

First ever image from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shows one terrified burglar.

The 10 Most Interesting Facts Gleaned From The Hobbit Press Conference.

Philippa Boyens: Del Toro’s Hobbit would have been amazing.

Preview: Sherlock Holmes: The Liverpool Demon #1.

Pan’s Labyrinth Being Adapted As A Stage Musical.

5 great geek crossover TV episodes.

First look at Being Human series 5.

Brian De Palma's The Fury the Latest Cult Favorite Going Blu-ray in 2013

Development Deal: Adam Strange.

Dark Shadows Actress Kathryn Leigh Scott Wants To Help With Your Holiday Shopping

List Of IMAX Theaters Showing 9 Minute Star Trek: Into Darkness Preview Available Now.

Once Upon A Time has cast Gregory Itzin as Victor Frankenstein’s father, Alphonse.

Trailer and poster for Blancanieves, a Spanish-language 1920's set Snow White tale.

Stranger than fiction: Jumanji to be rewritten by Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium scribe Zach Helm

Incredibly Strange and Ridiculously Cheap: Albert Pyun's 30-Year Career in B-Movies

Trailers From Hell: Sam Hamm on The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.

Snow Sculpture Win.

The Evolution of Sigourney Weaver.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—December 7th.

Twenty Years Ago—Spider-Man’s 30th Anniversary.

New Portrait Of Man of Steel’s Superman On Magazine Cover.

Famke Janssen Talks Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Alan Moore’s Essay For The Activist Occupy Comics Anthology.

Keatinge & Dallocchio Take On Starfire for ‘DC Universe Presents’

99 Cent Sale On Dark Horse Digital.

Sandman covers before and after Photoshop.

David Tennant on his Doctor Who pride.

Free, partial TARDIS piñata.

Classic Julie Newmar Catwoman, drawn by Pedro Figue.

Joe Quesada—With Great Power Extended Interview.

Cinemassacre: Public Domain Horror VHS Art.

Comic Book Legends Revealed #396.

Gift Guide: Brain Cube.

Japanese Iron Man 3 Trailer.

10 Most Unlikely Things That Were Influenced By J.R.R. Tolkien.

Are we at the start of a new golden age of superhero TV shows?

Back to the Future Hoverboard Hands On: So This Is What A Real Life Hoverboard Looks Like.

Lee Pace Confirms He’s Auditioning For Guardians of the Galaxy; Says Script Is ‘Great.’

Horror Comedy Death Becomes Her Gets Small Screen Redo.

Return To Nuke ‘Em High Poster Revealed.

48 Things We Learned From The Casino Royale Commentary.

The Bigfoot of Endor T-Shirt.

Movie Issues Podcast: Black Christmas (2006)

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #154: Steele Justice (1987)

Retroist Podcast—Episode 125—The Wonder Years.

Youtube has altered their main page again. So if you want to get to your subscriptions, you’ll have to go to this page from now on. After which, update (in Firefox) this script. It will allow you to have the x to remove videos. Loading new videos seems to have a bit of a hang up at the moment, however.

Lucille Bliss has passed away, at the age of 96. May she rest in peace. She was the voice of Smurfette from 1984-1989 in the Smurfs tv series, as well as all of the 80’s specials. She may also be remembered for doing voicework for one of the stepsisters (never knew they had names, but she was Anastasia) in Cinderella. She also had roles in numerous other Disney and Hanna-Barbera titles.

Margaret Nicholas has passed away, at the age of 82. May she rest in peace. She directed the 80’s Transformers, The Glo Friends, Inhumanoids, Moon Dreamers, Potato Head Kids, Fraggle Rock, My Little Pony n’ Friends, The Addams Family (the 1992 cartoon) as well as many, many other shows. For X-Men fans, she was the animation director for Pryde of the X-Men.

Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered.

Exclusive: Larry Blamire and Cleve Hall To Produce The Lost Skeleton Walks Among Us And More.

Scarecrow Video’s VHS Art New Wave Exhibition Revives Video Store Weirdness.

Terry Pratchett Leaves Discworld To His Daughter.

Lost Girl sets its return date, gears up for season 3.

Sandman box set is out.

February Start Planned For The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Asgardian Storm, as drawn by Mike McKone.

‘GIF’ Named America’s Word of the Year.

The Only Fridge That’s Bigger On The Inside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle house development appeal upheld.

Warner Bros. Launches ‘For Your Consideration’ Awards Campaign For The Dark Knight Rises.

David Tennant interview.

Children In Need: Publicity Photo.

Personality Quiz: Could You Survive As The Doctor’s Companion? Looks like I would survive unscathed.

From Think Geek: Doctor Who Bathrobes.

Hero Complex interviews Bill Willingham about Fables.

P:R Approved: Jason Ho’s Sons Of The Bat.

Full Trailer For Oz: The Great And Powerful.

Joe Biden’s 1993 Cameo on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego.

The House That Jack Built.

DC Histories: Eclipso.

Michael Uslan’s 1980 choice for Joker up for sale.

Perfectly Gruesome Evil Dead Nike Air Foamposite Pro Sneakers.

Watch Rare Home Movie Footage of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein In Color.

The Iron Cyberman.

First Look At Thor: The Dark World Villain Malekith and Army of Dark Elves Via Set Photos.

10 Bizarre Death Rituals From Around The World.

A live Twitter chat with Jane Espenson today at 7 PM PDT.

Rick Baker To Be Honored With Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

New TV Spot For The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Secret Circle Creator Heads To ABC With Fantasy Drama Saga.

Hitchcock Clip #2.

Hitchcock Clip #3

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: Back To The Future (1985).

Now Playing Podcast: Die Another Day (2002)

Comic Issues Podcast #92: Darth Mickey

Geek Fest Rants, Episode 114: Blade Runner, 30th Anniversary.

Saturday B Movie Reel #86: Ghost Storm (2012).

Weinberg’s House of Horrors: Episode 11: Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The Holiday Wish List meme is going around again. I’ll probably just let it pass, since I can’t think of anything. I’ll just wait until Fandom Stocking opens.

Janet Fielding is fighting cancer, and Peter Davison (with the aid of Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, and David Tennant) is launching a fund-raising effort called Project Motor Mouth with the aim to ‘not only raise money for a good cause but also keep Janet's spirits up.’

Dimestore Dames spotlights Wendy Jones (Windfall).

A brand new full-length trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Another clip from The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1.

The opening for Doctor Who: The Power of Three.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Noel Clarke.

Eco Sonic Screwdriver T-Shirt.

Newsarama discusses Death of the Family, #0’s, and the Red Robin decision with Scott Lobdell.

Happy Birthday To The Original Batman, Adam West.

Four Developments From Batgirl #0.

The 6th Annual Highlander Holiday Fic Exchange is open for sign-ups.

James Gunn Confirmed To Direct Guardians Of The Galaxy.

From Cracked: 7 Movies That Put Insane Detail Into Stuff You Never Noticed.

Photo Parade: Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo 2012

Tales From The Crypt Comes To FearNet.

Sony To Debut First Looks At Carrie and Evil Dead At NYCC.

The CW is developing a new take on Alice In Wonderland.

Marvel tells appeals court Friedrich signed away Ghost Rider rights.

Supervillain Origins: Juggernaut.

Robot Chicken: A Giant Hand.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Good Looking Heroes.

The Deadpool Costume T-Shirt.

Superman’s Bad Day.

The Proudly Resents Podcast talks to Kevin Murphy about MST3K and Rifftrax.

Now Playing Podcast: Moonraker (1979)

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 266: Leprechaun.

Pulp Nightmare Podcast: Twin Peaks Pilot Commentary.

Comic Issues Podcast #84: Piratical Talk.

Has Your ISP Joined The US ‘Six Strikes’ Anti-Piracy Scheme?

Demonoid Will Be Back, But Patience Required.

How @Gizmodo Got Hacked and How You Should Defend Yourself.

Briefcase company sues Marvel over The Avengers box set packaging.

TR Contest Special: Lesser-Known Bat-Villains.

Parting Shot: Dark Knight Rises Toy Needs A Spoiler Warning.

Colin O’Donoghue joins Once Upon A Time as Captain Hook.

G4’s Attack Of The Show interviews David Tennant.

Mike Nelson Talks Rifftrax Live, Manos The Hands Of Fate.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Ten Essential MST3K Episodes.

New trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

Greenbooks guest post: in defense of a Hobbit trilogy.

Star Trek Ten for Ward #5: 10 Trek Novels The Canon Passed Over.

Awesome Art Picks: Hawkeye, Justice League, X-Men And More. My favorites are the ones of Jean as Marvel Girl with Scott, and the impressive Magik that Mike Mayhew made on commission.

Obscurus Lupa takes a look at the 80’s Beauty and the Beast tv series, starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton.

Watch the First Doctor bid farewell to Susan—in color.

San Diego Comic Con 2013 Tickets Selling Briskly- But Not Insanely.

Now Playing Podcast: Dr. No (1962)

Movie Issues Podcast: Total Recall (1990).

Pop My Culture Podcast #87: Barry Bostwick.

Rapidshare was declared legal in court in Germany, and told that they must monitor external sites that link to copyrighted material they host, and ensure those files become inaccessible. They plan to take the case to the Supreme Court.

The next Rifftrax Live has officially been announced: on August 16th, Manos: The Hands of Fate will be riffed, and simulcast nationwide via Fathom Events. That’s the day before my birthday. If I’m able, and the local theater participates, I’ll likely be there.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Scandal Savage.

Insanejournal is having a Tax Time Sale—from now until April 17th, permanent accounts are 20% off.

The Dark Knight Rises will not have a panel at Comic Con 2012.

Rare Dracula poster discovered, sold for $143,400.

From Next Movie: Our 15 Favorite Lady Villains In Movies.

Four movies from Elvira’s Movie Macabre will be coming to DVD on May 8th.

Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Set, in limited edition coffin packaging is delayed again—it will now be released on July 10th.

Featurette: Eureka: A Look Back.

Major highlights in the history of space opera.

How to build a robotic squirrel-squirting water sentry-gun. Why did I see this, and think of Squirrel Girl?

What makes a good book-to-film adaptation?

A unique interview (since the one interviewing is 12 years old) with Mark Sheppard, while he was attending the Doctor Who convention last weekend.

Watch a clip and behind the scenes interview for The Wicker Tree, the sequel to (the Christopher Lee version, not the Nicholas Cage remake) The Wicker Man.

Justin Lin is attached to direct an adaptation of Lone Wolf And Cub.

Dan Didio: The Crisis Years.

Jamie McKelvie talks to Newsarama about his Carol Danvers redesign.

The 10 Most Awesome Moments From Game of Thrones’ First Season.

From Cracked: The 7 Biggest Jerk Moves In The History Of Superheroes.

This latest tv spot for Snow White And The Huntsman shows more footage. Io9 interviews the director, Rupert Sanders.

Joss Whedon carefully selects which Avenger he’ll doom forever in these adorable behind-the-scenes pics.

Emma Stone and Marc Webb discuss the character of Gwey Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Emily Andras will be the new show runner for season 3 of Lost Girl.

Michael Bay, take a cue from these Ninja Turtles designs.

Hunger Games Cake.

Todd Spence’s fantastic Back to the Future painting.

David Tennant on his role as Charles Darwin in The Pirates: An Adventure With Scientists.

Now Playing Podcast discusses The Hulk—the one directed by Ang Lee. In the late 90’s, they wanted Jim Carrey or Adam Sandler to be the Hulk. Also, it would have been a comedy. I never knew that. So...it could have been so much worse.

If the rumor that David Tennant and Georgia Moffett are now married is true, congratulations and good luck to the two of them.

Matt Parkinson is the new VP of Marketing for Dark Horse, replacing the recently departed Micha Hershman.

From Newsarama: 10 To Watch In 2012: Movies.

ABC will have a Once Upon A Time marathon on New Year’s Day.

Comics Beat gives an overview of Misfits, since it’s available on Hulu.

The Finish-A-Thon is moving to Dreamwidth.

Ewok Cake.

Gingerbread Serenity.

Rejected Parallax concept art for the Green Lantern movie.

Watch the new promo for the Blade animated series.

Last time I’ll be posting this one, since unscreening is right around the corner—my fandom_stocking is located here.

Dreamwidth now allows community imports from users with paid accounts, in addition to regular journal imports.

Pop Culture Resolutions For 2012.

Sir Christopher Lee discusses The Hobbit and (briefly at the end) Dark Shadows in his Christmas message.

Micha Hershman leaves Dark Horse.

Bryan Hitch is leaving Marvel, after ten years.

This may be the first real look at The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man.

The Dark And Obscure Gems of the Disney Vault. Includes a mention of The Watcher In The Woods, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Black Cauldron, The Devil And Max Devlin, and several others. I would have included Return to Oz, Mr. Boogedy/Bride of Boogedy, and The Child of Glass.

For seven days, you can download (for free—it’s their Pick of the Week) BBC Radio’s The Pied Piper of Hamlin, as read by David Tennant.

From Cracked: 10 Real Survival Guides For One Very Fake Apocalypse.

Erica Durance wears the costume from the failed Wonder Woman pilot (the corset portion looks slightly better on her since she’s not spilling out, even if the whole emsemble looks awful) in an episode of Harry’s Law.

Watch the unaired pilot for Ronald D. Moore’s 17th Precinct.

Marvel’s lawyers are trying to prove that mutants aren’t human, in order for Marvel to get cheaper tax rates for certain toys.

Find out Krypto’s fate and Superman’s new origin story in issue #5 of Action Comics.

Yesterday, for me at least, Youtube switched back to the old layout (while I was in IE) and the x button to remove videos from the subscription was restored. Today, the glitch must have resolved, since it’s back to the newer, horribly done one, minus the x. So it’s back to watching videos there through Firefox, where Greasemonkey’s code can allow me to use the original layout.

Side note: For all those interested, Ghostbusters Blu-Ray has been marked down from $19.99, to $7.99 for a very limited time on Amazon. If I happened to have a Blu-Ray player, I would purchase that immediately--in lieu of that, for those that do have one, I'm just spreading the word on the deal. Thanks to yendi for spotting it first.

The local news says that for the year, we've had a grand total of 74.85 inches of rain. I'm not surprised by that. Most of that hit us in April, accompanied by tornadoes--which triggered flooding for the region.