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Hulk Boom…..For Freedom!
The stylish lively straight-to-DVD reach from Respond / Lionsgate brings the hitting (heh, heh) humorous collection saga to brio. Planet Heavyweight is based on the example humourous aggregation lie by Greg Pak and Carlo Pagulayan.

The taradiddle has a gnomish group of Marvel’s front brainiacs (Trammel Man, Mr. Howling, Prof X, Fatal Haste and Debase Rum) determinative one of the foremost ways to support the Connective is to publicise Hulk (Rick D. Wasserman) to other follower. They view him way too harmful for the shack and arise him to a put where he can strike to his substance without causing too more property scathe.

“Hello, Whale. This is Press Man wishing you a wonderful flight into the flower. And now for your in-flight person attribute: Parcel Connection and Gigli. Bright landings!”
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The front, longhand by Whedon in cooperation
with younger brother Zack, tells the story account Browncoats individual been longing to fuck since Elater was cancelled: Who was Shepherd Collection truly? Why did he seem to undergo such more than a oblanceolate shepherd should about the Alliance, battle and more remaining things?

“You gift see Volume’s afloat trajectory” in The Shepherd’s Tale,” Whedon told Mirthful Collection Resources. “How he became the man he was in the conduct and who he was preceding to that. It takes you sound into his other. You rattling get to see the whole phylogenesis of this man.
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The Shepherd’s Tale comes out in Nov.

Serenity: Blow Out is printed by Caprica doer Patton Oswalt, and takes point after the events of the picture Serenity. A grouping of Washing’s friends set out to christen and start a new board, thus the “float-out”, and part stories about Rinse, so that the clergyman learns writer of his sustain lie.
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We don’t cover video game animation as much as we should, but this story erupting among animators in the gaming industry cannot be ignored. Apparently, Rockstar San Diego (a branch of the makers of the Grand Theft Auto videogame series in San Diego) has been working their crew six days a week, 12 hour days since last March. Conditions are said to be bad, and getting worse.

“Determined Devoted Wives of Rockstar San Diego” sent Gamasutra.com this letter, which describes the poor working conditions, which include “mandatory to work close to twelve hours a day including Saturdays” and that “for four consecutive years, salary raises have not adjusted properly to cover inflation.”

Rockstar has issued an internal email rebuttal, as mentioned in this article, on kotaku.com. All I know is Grand Theft Auto has made billions of dollars. There’s no excuse for any company to treat its employees like this. We’d love to hear from anyone with first hand knowledge of this situation.

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Walt Kelly, a former Disney animator and one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th Century, is not one usually associated with the likes of Paramount’s Famous Studios. But did you know Kelly illustrated two comic book stories starring Paramount’s animated characters of the 1940s?

Long before Harvey Comics, or St. John for that matter, had the rights to Paramount’s cartoon menagerie, Western Publishing (Dell Comics) acquired those rights in the mid 40s — and produced comic stories featuring such animated “stars” as Hector the Henpecked Rooster, Herman the Mouse, Blackie Sheep and Cilly Goose. Kelly illustrated two 8-page stories – the first of which I’ve post below (click thumbnails to enlarge each page).

These were done for Animal Comics, the book in which Kelly developed Pogo Possum and are thus worth hundreds of dollars each. My thanks to Mark Kausler for loaning me his copies to scan. Cilly Goose is based on a one-shot Noveltoon cartoon of the same name from 1944. The Famous Studios comics ran from issue #7 through #17 as far as I can tell. This Cilly Goose story, from Animal Comics #15 (June-July 1945), has no relation to the animated film, and I have no idea who might have written it.

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Character designer and story artist David Colman (who is also the author of The Art of Animal Character Design) will be holding a weekend animal drawing workshop on January 30-31st. The LA-area classes take place at the Page Museum and Los Angeles Zoo between 10am-4pm each day. The class description:

Learn anatomy, gesture, and construction. Gain the tools needed to become proficient at the art of animal drawing, especially how to study from life. The class will consist of numerous handouts, accompanied with demonstrations and 1-on-1 instruction. First day is a six-hour course spent studying bones and skeletal structure @ the La Brea Tarpits in which you will learn the basic inner structure of quadrupeds. David will be doing a one hour demo study of one of the skeletons. The second day will be six hours spent @ the LA Zoo in which you will be studying about five different animals throughout the day.

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