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Tuesday Trending Topics: Spoiling Spider-Man

Published Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:29:35 -0500

Last updated Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:29:45 -0500

The act of storytelling for profit is increasingly [meta] now, and even when you realize that, it's sometimes tough to tell when a move is clever or dumb. Remember when we started bitching about too much information in the distro catalogs? A couple decades later, we're still pushing the pre-release blurb to its logical conclusions. Cussing and discussing a comic before it comes out is part of why we're here, but how much is too much? That's for each of us to decide.

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Marvel Spoils The Death Of Spider-Man In National Press Today

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DC Roadshow Hits Dallas – Million Dollar Ad Spend, Justice League Beyond And Black People

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Read The Script Then Tell Us: Would Robert Smigel's Green Lantern Have Been The Better Option?

To my mind, Smigel was an intriguing, wildly unexpected, choice for the job. How could he not find a compelling angle on the material?

Studio Ghibli's Arrietty UK Poster Premiere, Voice Cast News

Here's the first UK poster for the next Studio Ghibli picture, Arrietty. It has been adapted from Mary Norton's The Borrowers by Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa and director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. As you'd expect, it looks wonderful.