What is it with Marvel reminding me of Heathers? Anyway, when reading Ray Randell’s scathing summary of the final issue of Marvel Team-Up (found via Postmodern Barney), I couldn’t help but think of that funeral scene for the jocks. “I love my dead, gay son!”
That great black comedy rightly makes Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 50 best high-school movies ever made. Alas, Saved does not, which is just wrong.
To assuage me, EW provided a profile of the endearingly bitter Rachael Harris, who is set to appear in Christopher Guest’s For Your Consideration. The prospect of watching Harris improvise opposite Parker Posey makes me even more excited about the movie.
At Yet Another Comics Blog, Dave Carter provides the promised additional comparative data on Tokyopop and Viz release trends. In the comments on the first post, Jake Forbes notes another point of comparison: that Viz has a reliable source of longer manga series, while Tokyopop has to work with smaller publishers who tend to put out shorter stories.
Forbes, who provides fluid, literate adaptations for Fullmetal Alchemist and other series, weighs in on the alteration of a sequence in the eighth volume of FMA over at MangaBlog.
And thanks to Lyle for ensuring that the theme music from Paranoia Agent will be in my head for at least three more days. More, if I keep compulsively clicking on the video clip.