Comics meets Sports

Bizarro made it on the cover of Sport Illustrated. The cover features Bizarro with the currently 1st place Tampa Bay Rays player punching the New York Yankees. If you follow baseball, you know that the Yankees are always in contention for the World Series and the Tampa Bay Rays are usually the basement dwellers of the AL east. Well this year the Rays are in first place and the Yankees are struggling. The great Mark Bagley does art for the great cover.

Runaways: The Movie

The Hollywood Reports reports that Brian K. Vaughan's much beloved by yours truely Runaways book comic series may be coming to the big screen... well in the works away...

Comics can get you a job!

Parents always tell you that comics are good for nuthin'. They are a waste of time and rot your brain. Little do they know that comics does have redeem qualities, like get you a job. Apparently, Bill Hader of Superbad, Knocked-Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall fame got his job as a movie writer while reading a Sandman trade paperback. So remember to keep reading those comics!

Hasbro regains right to its animated library.

Newsarama reports that Hasbro finally re-acquire the distribution rights to its animated library. Hopefuly we can some of the great animated shows re-released. I missed the last volume of Transformers when it was released by Rhino and it was going for a killing on the secondary market.