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The plot is fresh and original. The story is about the Incredibles who help people in society. It starts with the main character, Mr. Incredible. He helps the police to catch the thieves in the city. But due to some political problems, the Incredibles cannot do their jobs. The government does not want them to use their super power. So all the Incredibles need to give up their jobs and go back to their normal lives.

For the Average Joe, many novelty and humorous hood ornaments then abounded. These were manufactured by various supply companies and were purchased easily because of their affordability. Among these, figures of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, whimsical traffic cops with spinning arms and even busts of Uncle Sam were just a few of these novelty ornaments seen daily. The Wiggler Company in Buffalo, New York introduced the 'Spinning Rotoscope', a whirling ornament featuring four bright red cup shaped discs intended to twirl in turbulent airstream.

HOLY SHIT. This movie was freakin AMAZING. Full of emotion, this phenomenol DREAM work transformed paroxysms of laughter into silent sobs of anguish. I highly recommend all of you FINDING NEMO, THE INCREDIBLES lovers to run out to the theaters tonight. There were soo many sexual connotations in that movie, but funny thing is– the wee little 6 yr olds were bursting with laughter when a hippo surfaces from the water screaming sex appeal. Oh, better yet, when Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) was about to ram a gigantic wooden trunk up Melvin the giraffe’s...

Adams received widespread praise for his unique realistic style on such ’60s and ’70s comics as “Uncanny X-Men,” “Green Lantern and Green Arrow” and “Batman”.

Neil Gaiman is one of those writers whose books I can’t seem to be able to put down when I start reading them. He is probably more famous for his graphic novels than for his books, but the books are what attracted me in first place. The few of his graphics novels I’ve skimmed didn’t impress much. But that is probably because I’m not much into comics anyway.

Cartoons featuring blogging are interesting, but how about a blog cartoon? Here I am getting back to Scott McCloud's idea that if we had all continued drawing from childhood, we'd be writing and drawing comics rather than just writing.

Also of note, Cartoon Network aired their preview for the summer/fall Toonami schedule today. A brief Naruto preview with no show dialogue was aired, looks good so far. Hopefully the dubbing studio Viz selected will do us proud.

POA was able to pick up the Spacey at yesterday’s Spacey Awards in the Favorite Movie category, beating out: The Incredibles, I, Robot, Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2.

Doonesbury

For the record, I have no problem with Mr. Trudeau listing the war dead but I wish he and his liberal media cohorts would stop acting like they actually care about our troops.

Ok. So, not that anyone has been paying any attention, but Yirmumah had been updating at PV Comics on Sundays and Mondays. Well, we’re not doing that anymore. I can’t figure out any real reason TO do that anymore, or what purpose I’m serving there.

The Castle Films company started out distributing newsreels, mostly to schools, in the 1930's. A few years later they began issuing a catalog of films for home use. 16 mm projector owners bought and watched abridged versions of Abbott and Costello comedies, horror movies, and cartoons much the way we collect and watch DVD's. Castle Films continued producing these films until the mid-1970's.

Some recent superhero comics, quickly (though I always say that) recapped:

Marvel Knights Spider-Man, by Hudlin, Tan and Sibal. This issue reveals last issue as Reginald Hudlin’s Spider-Man shakeout cruise - it had its entertaining bits but the ending was so off in tone from the rest of the book as to ruin the whole thing. Also, Billy Tan’s art on the classroom scenes only worked if Peter Parker taught science to midgets. Parker is a high school teacher, but the kids only came up to his waist. This issue is far more surehanded. I’m glad my enjoyment of Hudlin’s Black Panther #4 convinced me to give...

Hi gang. I’ve finally got today’s update posted; sorry for the delay. It’s in the “Webcomic” section, where I’ve added another incredible daily for “Clan of the Cats” by Jamie Robertson. It’s a daily from January of this year, and features kitten Sebo saving Chelsea from harm. As always, there’s the original art pictured with a full-color print of the final page. Go and check it out, and don’t forget to visit the COTC site as well! Tell Jamie I said hi!

I've been noticing that Dreamworks always uses many famous actors to voice in their animated movies, and Pixar uses less. But I find most Pixar movies have better plots than Dreamworks. The only good Dreamworks movie I can remember in the last 2 years is only The Shrek 2. Good actors don't always guarantee good movies...

Tonight we went to see “Kung Fu Hustle.” A totally different genre from “Head-On,” it’s a comedic send-up of kung fu movies, but complete with all the cool kung fu moves and special effects. It is FUNNY. Ebert wasn’t kidding when he said it’s Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton meets Quentin Tarantino and Bugs Bunny. But really, the most important thing is that it’s a comedy.

Visible Earth: a catalogue of NASA images and animations of our home planet. Amazing images with a very good resolution of countries, agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, hydrosphere, land surface, cryosphere and more. BTW, here is the gallery of photos of my country and my city. (Thanks Andr�!)

The latest computer-animated extravaganza from DreamWorks is certainly an improvement over last year’s desperate “Shark Tale,” but it’s not as crisp start-to-finish as the “Shrek” movies. And it falls into the same trap as so many films of this genre (with the notable exception of “The Incredibles"): In an effort to seem hip and high-energy with a litany of pop-culture references, the writing (from a team of four) instead comes off as hackneyed and lazy.

Free-range filming? Orange is something like that: A proposed 3D animated short film to be made collaboratively and with the use of open source software, chiefly Blender. What’s more, it will be released sans traditional copyright, free for anyone to download, watch and pass on.

So, should Hollywood (or, at least Pixar) start sweating hard?

I came across some more short films. This time from the amazing company Pixar Animation Studios. The only down side to these short films online is the fact that they are previews. You’ll have to find the whole short film released on Pixar Animation Studios movies. I’m not aware of any other place to see them in there entirety.

Finding Nemo is an underwater adventure between a father and son. Nemo, a boy clownfish, is tragically stolen away from the safety of his coral reef home, and his timid father must search the dangerous and unforgiving ocean to find him. Not only that the movie is beautifully made but the kind of struggle that that boy clownfish goes through to get back to his father is really inspiring. The father fish also shows tremendous love for his baby to go through hardships to ultimately find his son.

How happy is your office? Many corporations invest thousands of dollars in surveys to take a pulse on organization's cultural health. According to consultant Rick Brenner of Chaco Canyon Consulting,you don't have to wait for a survey, just have to walk around your office and look for Dilbert.

Hugh McLeod author of the Gaping Void blog is a great cartoonist. His Dilbert style cartoons are much funnier than any rat bert or dog bert one liner. The cartoon in "Blog As is Your Life Depended on it" is hilarious. You open up his page and you are always greeted with a great laugh guaranteed. The guy gives better delivery than a Starbucks. Gaping Void, its my frappuccino. Comfortable atmosphere where you always know what you are getting when you go there. If you really like the stuff you can get blog cards and limited edition t-shirts....

Based on the vampire hunter character created by Marvel Comics this is the third and final film in the Blade series. In Blade Trinity, Blade has a few new friends who call themselves Nightstalkers. A group of "human-rebels" led by none other than Whistler’s long lost daughter Abigail. Dominic Purcell (TV’s "John Doe") plays Drake (Dracula) the villain in this the final (?) Blade movie.

Hey if you’re reading this, please note that there will be some changes soon, as Webcomicsnation is finally launching. Two changes in stages will happen to this RSS feed. 1. I’m adding artist statements to each strip, making a sort of blog I’ve been wanting to do for some time. 2. This address for the feed will change soon, at which point everything should be relatively integrated.

The man, Joe Bulmer, is the main character in Th1rt3en - a comic reprinted by DC but originally on 2000 AD comics. He's an incredibly scruffy, sneering punk you want to knee in the groin, grab 'hold of his hair and push your tongue in his mouth. But due to the fact that he's straight, he'd probably blow me away with his telekinetic powers, which he uses to great effect in the book. It doesn't keep me from adding him to our cavalcade of crushes over here on this site and in my cold, black heart.

What’s so great about comics? It’s simple. Comics combine images and text on a page but still make the reader conjure up their imagination. Comics give the reader a template as to what the world and the characters of a work of literature should look like. But I’m not here to talk about how great comics are. I want to offer an educational initiative that has been thought about ever since the 40’s: to use comics for educational purposes.

Another MIT acquaintance of mine has started digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a Technical Director on the forthcoming film Cars. Both my ILM friend and my Pixar friend majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS, or Course 6) at MIT, so if you're interested in working on the next special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department.

Yesterday, David Willis (Roomies!, It’s Walky!, Shortpacked!), one of the web’s best cartoonists, teamed up with five other cartoonists to form their own comics label, Blank Label Comics. This means that they will be leaving KeenSpot and going independent.

Thurl Ravenscroft, best known as the voice of Tony the Tiger in the Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes commercials, has died at the age of 91, the cause being reported as prostate cancer. His rich, bass voice was also known to audiences from his many years as a singer, plus you could hear him all over Disneyland. (That’s Thurl singing, “Grim, Grinning Ghosts” in the Haunted Mansion, and one of the busts along that ride was fashioned to look like him.) He also sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” on the animated TV...

Like to send e-cards to friends and relatives but tired of the same tired Flash-animated cartoons? Try the Museum of Modern Art's e-cards. They are free - and they feature artists like Klee, Brancusi and Modigliani. (And that's Chagall's L'Anniversaire painting above - also available as an e-card.)

For those who don’t know, Space Ghost Coast to Coast is on the Cartoon Network and recasts a 1960’s cartoon character as a talk show host. Space Ghost “interviews celebrities” and they generally talk nonsense. The interview subjects are actually filmed ahead of time in front of a black screen without really knowing what the show is about and then the show creators edit together old cartoon footage and re-dub Space Ghost’s lines.

Nohemi and I just got back from watching the movie. I have to refer to the link that I posted a few days ago because the microseries shown in Cartoon Network makes this episode more fun. It explains the Clone Wars which is what happens between episode 2 and 3. The microseries ends about the same day that episode 3 starts. It explains why General Grevious breaths funny. The movie itself is awesome and lightsaber fights up the wazoo. However, ultimate lightsaber fight is still Darth Maul vs OB1 & Qui Gon.

Just wanted to let you know that I’ve added a Wish List and a link to my friend Jeff’s website. You have to read the OMG! Ninja Turtles comics he created. I think they’re hilarious but check them out for yourself.

As SpiegelOnline reports, the Mozilla Foundation has published three funny commercials for Firefox at Funnyfox. Go check them out :-).

Ever wonder what the Simpsons would be like without pictures? Like everything else about the Simpsons, it turns out to be unexpectedly strange.

Nothing on the "boob" last night so the J-man slapped in "The Incredibles." The movie's grown on me. Thought it was okay on first viewing; improves with later viewings. Best lines from the movie.

10. You cannot really appreciate Dilbert unless you've read it in the original Klingon.

Devine (2000) describes incidents of anti-Scottish racism in political cartoons during the mid to late 1700’s and notes that David Hume declared, ’ some hate me because I am not a Whig, some because I am not a Christian, and all because I am a Scotsman’, (Devine (2000), p28). In its time the 1757 Militia Act incensed the Scots because it excluded Scotland from a force for home defence, English retaliation for the Jacobite rebellions, in conjunction with attempts to eradicate symbols of Scottish nationality, such as the Kilt, this...

Secondly, if the Government tolerated political cartoons, which Dr Lim also described as part and parcel of “democratic life in any country”.

A Pixar movie based on the human body, with different cell types for different characters, could be both incredibly cool and educational. Antigen presentation and B-cell isotype switching would never be the same.

Pixar, if you’re reading, I’d be happy to consult on the film.

Today’s “Doonesbury” - May 16, 2005 - slight error by Garry Trudeau!

The character B.D., the veteran of the War in Iraq and who lost his leg, tells his daughter that he has to return to the hospital to check out his new prosthetic leg.

“You’re going back to the hospital again, Daddy?” “Last time. At least, I hope so, Alex,” says B.D.

Umm, B.D. - I could have sworn that your daughter’s Sam (as in Samantha). ;-) “Alex” is the name of Mike Doonesbury’s daughter and she’s currently being recruited by the US Army for the war (much against Doonesbury’s stern objections).

Tim Yang provides us with a list of 15 things that RSS can do for you: a nice list of things for which RSS comes in handy (getting comics, finding out what others are saying about you, eBay bargains, weather updates, and more). I'll guarantee you that at least one of these will be a new idea for you. Viva la RSS!

Thanks to Sara for the link to this site where you can make yourself into a South Park character. How’d I turn out? And for the record, yes, I do carry a purse because my phone is so big it makes me look like I have a tumor if I carry it in my pocket.

Luxo, the Pixar animation fan blog, has a indepth look at the Pixar presence in Disney themeparks. The story includes some great concept art for rides that are still on the drawing board and some that are rumored to have a greenlight.

Again, I should not get so wound up about it. Maybe I wouldn’t if I didn’t have twins 5 years after first child. See, as sick as I am of the McDonalds toys, Finding Nemo and Monsters, Inc. were still great films. They don’t take away from the original idea’s quality. As weak as most film sequels are, I can still watch the originals and appreciate them on their own merits.

An interesting essay on comics as a medium by the creator of Aeon Flux, Peter Chung.

The first is a live action program based on "Star Wars," but don't expect it to focus around any of the main movie characters. The untitled project will be set somewhere between Episodes III ("Sith") and IV ("A New Hope"). The other show, "Clone Wars," is a half-hour 3-D animated series based on the existing series of shorts that were shown on the Cartoon Network. Broadcast dates, networks, and Muppet-related appearances have not yet been announced for either project.

When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.

When two days of last week’s Doonesbury lamented how the John Bolton affair was just the latest skirmish in a neverending ideological re-fighting of the 1960s, I thought it was a bit of a stretch.