I hope it's cool.
Sure he does. I'm pretty sure he gets royalties, one way or the other. That being said, I'm also pretty sure he doesn't want to his signature creation trashed.
Still ... the reaction to the news is uggghhhhly, all around. I can't recall the last time I saw reaction to the possibility of a movie being so uniformly negative.
People learned their lesson from The Cat in the Hat.
The Adelaide Advertiser has a piece from The Hollywood Reporter.
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It seems I am an inadvertant guest blogger on the media studies blog, Church of the Sonic Death Monkey, run by my friend Trevor Byrne-Smith. The subject of course, is the dark shadow of the "Buffy" movie.
Off topic, but nice commentary on Jon Stewart's segment on the White House poetry jam (and the media's typcially hyperventilating coverage of same).
Yeah, Trevor does good work.
Yeah, the Daily Show post was a good one. It's amazing to me that the complainers are so un-self-aware, that they can't see they are perpetuating the exact stereotypes they're fighting against (i.e. humorless self-importance).
Sunnydale 10 Year Reunion, Where Are They Now? [link]
This one needs to be in spoiler font -
"Now a Broadway star, Michael is our second-most-famous student, after reality-show star Harmony Kendall. (Hi, Harm!)"
I love that they are following comics continuity.