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Nerd Notes (4/22/23)

Posted on 04/22/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

If you read this in time there was a Immersive Art Pop Up for The Boys at a mall in California the weekend of 4/22/23-4/23/23. I hope those who saw it got an amazing experience.

A deepper dive quick cut comparison of Michael Firman’s intro animation of actual episode footage from 2 Player Productions amazing docuseries Double Fine PsychOdyssey.

I don’t know how long this COCAINE BEAR game will survive on the internet but as long as its up, go play it!

Super exicted for the Muppets Mayhem TV series and this short music video only adds to the excitement.

The song is okay but it’s the visuals by Venturia Animation that really puts this over the top to excellence.

Remastered in 4k, the ultra modern instaclassic 2017 music video of Dirty Heads – Vacation starring Dennis Haskins

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Lessons in Chemistry from Apple TV+ Press Release & Teaser

Posted on 04/21/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

Apple TV+ unveils first-look teaser for “Lessons in Chemistry” and announces fall premiere for highly anticipated drama starring and executive produced by Academy Award-winner Brie Larson

Hailing from Apple Studios and based on the bestselling novel from Bonnie Garmus, “Lessons in Chemistry” also stars Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Stephanie Koenig, Kevin Sussman, Patrick Walker and Thomas Mann

Apple TV+ today unveiled the first teaser for its upcoming drama series “Lessons in Chemistry,” starring and executive produced by Academy Award-winner Brie Larson (“Captain Marvel,” “Room”) and based on the best-selling, debut novel from author, science editor and copyrighter Bonnie Garmus. “Lessons in Chemistry” is set to make its global debut on Apple TV+ this fall.

Set in the early 1950s, “Lessons in Chemistry” follows Elizabeth Zott (played by Larson), whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a patriarchal society. When Elizabeth finds herself fired from her lab, she accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes.

Starring alongside Larson in the highly anticipated drama is Lewis Pullman (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Outer Range”), NAACP Image Award-winner Aja Naomi King (“How to Get Away with Murder,” “The Birth of a Nation”), Stephanie Koenig (“The Flight Attendant,” “The Offer”), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory,” “The Dropout”), Patrick Walker (“Gaslit,” “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”), and Thomas Mann (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”).

Hailing from Apple Studios, “Lessons in Chemistry” is produced by Aggregate Films. Six-time Emmy Award-nominee Lee Eisenberg (“WeCrashed,” “Little America”) serves as showrunner. The series is executive produced by Academy Award-nominee Susannah Grant (“Unbelievable,” “Erin Brockovich”) alongside Larson. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan (“Ozark,” “A Teacher”) executive produce for Aggregate Films. Natalie Sandy executive produces through Piece of Work Entertainment alongside Eisenberg. Louise Shore also serves as executive producer.

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Nerd Notes (4/20/23)

Posted on 04/20/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

Footage from Early Morning Guy Steele’s Early Morning Show and more in Brian Zane’s newest Wregret.

High Desert on Apple TV+. Patricia Arquette, Matt Dillon, Brad Garrett, Christine Taylor. The first original series from an established team of writers on mystery and comedy and comedy mysteries.

LEGO x Sonic the Hedgehog. Hilarious commercial.

A Cinema Verite of Tina Satter’s Is This A Room based on the FBI interview transcript of Reality Winner.

VENTURE BROS Movie Clip! VENTURE BROS!

The Wonderful Women of Psychonauts 2 and Double Fine. Nice little documentary pieces showing off artists, coders, etc. who should be honored everyday.

OxenFree II trailer. I am excited.

‘Ello, ‘ello. I already know how great Robert Englund is beyond Nightmare, but a documentary covering him and his lack of flowers meaning, getting his flowers is great.

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Crafting Pinocchio: A MOMA Art Exhibit Photo Retrospective

Posted on 04/19/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

From December 11th, 2022 – April 15th, 2023 an exhibit showing the intense work Guilermo Del Toro and the team at ShadowMachine as well as Mackinnon & Saunders put into making the stop motion Pinocchio that can be seen on Netflix. Before the exhibit closed P-CS made sure to check it out and take as many intricate photos as positiong, crowd control and security allowed.

Following are those photos as well as photos of text printed on the wall of exhibit converted to easy reading in blockquotes. You can also still see MOMA’s exhibit page for more information.

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The World at the End of the Rabbit Hole Grows Larger in ALICE NEVER AFTER

Posted on 04/18/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

Come back and explore the dark corners of Dan Panosian’s Wonderland!

LOS ANGELES, CA (April 18, 2023) – Dan Panosian (An Unkindness of Ravens) and Giorgio Spalleta’s (Magic) twisted take on Alice in Wonderland will continue to blur the lines between fantasy and reality this Summer in ALICE NEVER AFTER, only at BOOM! Studios.

Alice finally got her wish. Wonderland has become her new home, but with her abuser’s avatar with the uncanny grin turning the mad residents of a moonstruck world against her, she’s clawing for a little rationality amongst the chaos.

As Alice’s sister, Edith and her childhood friend Earl fight for a way to bring her back, Alice has to contend with whether or not her torment is due to her father, herself, or maybe a curious combination of both…

Dan Panosian is comic book writer and artist for Boom Studios as well as Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse, Dynamite and Mad Cave – with a long list of credits ranging from Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men to Slots and Alice Ever After. He’s also the Co-Founder of the Original Drink and Draw Social Club. You can follow his work on Twitter and Instagram via @UrbanBarbarian

“Following Alice down the rabbit hole is one thing, but getting out is harder than it looks! Ask Alice – she’s stuck there – PERMANENTLY! Join Giorgio, Francesco and I on a little trip to Wonderland… Bring some tea, we’ll provide the mushrooms and madness!” said writer Dan Panosian.

Giorgio Spalletta is a cartoonist and illustrator born in 1989. He has collaborated with Editoriale Aurea, Bugs Comics, Sergio Bonelli Editore, Editoriale Cosmo, IDW Publishing as assistant to David Messina, and as an illustrator for Ferrari. Since 2018 he has been a professor at the International School of Comics. He has published for Sergio Bonelli Editore La Divina Congrega series of which he is creating the second volume. In 2022 BOOM! Studios announced his new series Alice Ever After written by international superstar Dan Panosian.

“Dan pushed me back down the rabbit hole! It’s great to get lost in Wonderland again, I think I’ll stay there,” said artist Giorgio Spalleta.

ALICE NEVER AFTER features covers by Dan Panosian, Jenny Frison (Wonder Woman), and InHyuk Lee (Alien).

“I’m so happy Dan and Giorgio wanted to come back to their weird and macabre Wonderland. They’re having a ton of fun with how they’re approaching the story and injecting it with some more thematically heavy elements that build off the first series beautifully. Readers are going to be ecstatically surprised by what madness they have in store,” said supervising editor Bryce Carlson.

ALICE NEVER AFTER is the newest release from BOOM! Studios’ eponymous imprint, home to critically acclaimed original series, including BRZRKR by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt, and Ron Garney; Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera; Once & Future by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora; Eve by Victor LaValle and Jo Mi-Gyeong; The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V and Filipe Andrade; Wynd by James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas; Grim by Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano; Briar by Christopher Cantwell and Germán García; Stuff of Nightmares by R.L. Stine and A.L. Kaplan; The Approach by Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, and Jesus Hervas; Damn Them All by Simon Spurrier and Charlie Adlard; Behold, Behemoth by Tate Brombal and Nick Robles; Specs by David M. Booher and Chris Shehan; Once Upon a Time at the End of the World by Jason Aaron, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Leila del Duca, and Nick Dragotta; Know Your Station by Sarah Gailey and Liana Kangas; A Vicious Circle by Mattson Tomlin and Lee Bermejo; Mosely by Rob Guillory and Sam Lotfi; Harrower by Justin Jordan and Brahm Revel; The Neighbors by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Letizia Cadonici; and The Seasons Have Teeth by Dan Watters and Sebastián Cabrol. The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties, including Dune: House Harkonnen from Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, and Michael Shelfer; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Melissa Flores and Simona Di Gianfelice; Magic from Jed McKay, Rich Douek, and Ig Guara; and The Expanse: Dragon Tooth by Andy Diggle and Rubine.

ALICE NEVER AFTER will be available in comic shops July 2023. It is available for pre-order at your local comic shop. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Kindle.

For continuing news on ALICE NEVER AFTER and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.

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Nerd Notes (4/17/23)

Posted on 04/17/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

A hodgepodge of trailers, music videos and a free video game link.

Take a 2016 short by Nick Vokey & Nate Sherman, bring in Carson Mell to expand it. Get Luke Wilson to voice the lead and you get Fired On Mars, the series.

Music videos that tell stories and also are amazing music creating eye and ear candy are my favorite.

The new trailer for The Boogeyman is cut really well and makes the jump scare thriller from a team of writers & directors behind some of the aughties best and most popular horror movies ever based on a 1970s Stephen King short story and unrelated to the prior film series of the same name.

Less story and more stimulating visuals here, but man… that beat.

Helen Mirren is always fantastic. I am putting trust that the writer, director and production team worked hard to adapt R.J. Palacio’s heavily researched graphic novel (which I proudly own a copy of)… the trailer shows promise for White Bird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8Fz0ObiEw

ACME FOOLS and WB100 celebration continues as Looney Tunes gets mashed up with The Flintstones. What will be next? There’s plenty from the WB catalog to do..

A movie about making a movie starring a dog. Came out in 2019 and available on AU platforms but finally getting official US distribution.

8-Bit Universe always rocks it and here they do it again with the Gary Numan classic CARS.

and while you can, go grab puzzle game illie for free on Indie Gala:

https://freebies.indiegala.com/illie

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Nerd Notes (4/6/23)

Posted on 04/06/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

Back in the days of LJ before Social media became the advent of everything and we were all about snippets quick and hard I would collect all my favorite trailers, music videos, news, etc. from the net and would collect as something I called Nerd Notes. When I started Pop-Culture Spectrum I planned to continue it but social media really got in the way. Now I have decided it’s time to bring it back, so here’s a collection of movie and television trailers and maybe something else.

A documentary from a noted documetarian on Michael J. Fox

Paul Bettany as a bong?

Ari Aster makes great movies

They moved this Superman cartoon from CN to AS and that makes me even more excited.

We have no interest in Super Mario anything here at P-CS but this Bowling For Soup song and the pixel art animation video is awesome.

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Magnetic Press to Support Animal Cruelty Prevention Month With Graphic Novel MY FRIEND TOBY

Posted on 03/27/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

A Heartwarming Canine Adventure by Triple-Eisner nominee Gregory Panaccione Premiering on Kickstarter March 28th.

CHICAGO, IL (March 23, 2023) — Celebrated graphic novel and art book publisher Magnetic Press has announced plans in support of Animal Cruelty Prevention Month throughout April, starting with the launch of MY FRIEND TOBY, a heartwarming, wordless graphic novel by triple-Eisner Award-nominee Gregory Panaccione (A SEA OF LOVE).

This feature-length hardcover follows Toby, an average, energetic Terrier living on the coast with his artist friend, Marcel. When Marcel goes through a broken-hearted rough patch, their future grows uncertain, but carefree Toby gives life all the fun and meaning a loyal pet can provide. This adorable adventure will appeal to dog and animal-lovers of all ages.

MY FRIEND TOBY will be offered through a Kickstarter campaign launching Tuesday, March 28^th.

In addition to the book, supporters will be able to pick up various book bundles featuring Gregory Panaccione’s Eisner-nominated A SEA OF LOVE, as well as many of Magnetic Press’s other celebrated books about animals, wildlife, anti-cruelty, and wordless stories. Each order will include an exclusive orange “Animal Ally” Anti-Cruelty awareness ribbon, with additional campaign-exclusive bonuses offered with different bundle pairings. For example, the “Cats & Dogs” Bundle will include a copy of LOVE: THE MASTIFF by multiple-Eisner Award-nominees Frederic Brremaud and Federico Bertolucci and CATS CATS CATS, a collection of hilarious cat cartoons by Lapuss and Larbier, along with a bonus 3” foam rubber ball for your favorite fur buddy to enjoy.

Other bundles include a digital mega-bundle of 20 animal-centric graphic novels from Magnetic Press’s digital library, many of which have collected awards and nominations worldwide. Animal lovers are encouraged to visit https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neurobellum/my-friend-toby-graphic-novels-for-animal-lovers on March 28th for the full list of titles.

Independent of the funds raised in Kickstarter, Magnetic will make a donation to the Anti-Cruelty Society commensurate to the success of the campaign. Founded in 1899, The Anti-Cruelty Society is dedicated to placing homeless animals with caring families while fighting instances of animal cruelty. Other online actions are planned throughout the month to help raise awareness of this precious effort to assist animals in need.

(The Anti-Cruelty Society is not formally associated with the campaign; donations will be made independently by Magnetic Press.)

Written and illustrated by award-winning storyboard artist Gregory Panaccione, MY FRIEND TOBY is a light and often hilarious tale about a dog any pet owner would recognize: curious, carefree, and always hungry. Through the course of this 144-page adventure, Toby will stand by his stressed friend Marcel, comforting and occasionally inspiring him through tough times, as any loyal pet will do. Told completely without dialogue, Panaccione explores the true thought processes of man’s best friend in a way that anyone can understand.

“We’ve been passionate animal allies since long before launching Magnetic Press nine years ago,” says Mike Kennedy, Magnetic Press’s Publisher. “There’s a reason we have so many animal-centric titles in our library. Any opportunity to help the Anti-Cruelty Society is a good one. We adopted our cat, Lando, from ACS, and we want to help them find homes for many, many more loving housemates this month.”

The limited pre-order campaign for MY FRIEND TOBY will run for 18 days on Kickstarter, ending Friday, April 14^th at 5pm CST. Books are expected to ship to supporters and bookstores in July, 2023.

More info about Magnetic Press is available on Facebook, Twitter, and the official website, www.magnetic-press.com.

Bookmark the campaign today

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Sarah Jessica Parker to Keynote at U.S. Book Show

Posted on 03/27/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

– A-List Authors Roz Chast, Lauren Groff and Mitch Albom to Speak at Book Show –

NEW YORK—March 27, 2023—Sarah Jessica Parker, Roz Chast and Mitch Albom are among the marquee stars who will keynote at the 2023 U.S. Book Show. Also appearing in person are the bestselling authors Lauren Groff, Booker longlistee Kiley Reid and Young People’s Poet Laureate Elizabeth Acevedo. Now in its third year, the show is a four-day hybrid event for publishing professionals, media, librarians and booksellers, taking place May 22 – 25, 2023, in person at New York University’s Kimmel Center and livestreaming for a virtual audience.

“I’m thrilled to be introducing Kim Coleman Foote in person at the U.S. Book Show. Kim has the rare talent of completely immersing you in time and place, and her stunning debut novel, Coleman Hill, places you into the lives of two families across eighty years of secrets and humor, feuds and love affairs, tenderness and connection. I am beyond thrilled to be publishing such a sweeping yet intimate family saga—I know you will come to love the Colemans and Coleman Hill as much as I do,” said Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured here), who will participate in person with Ms. Foote in a one-on-one conversation at the lunchtime keynote on Adult Books Day.

Sarah Jessica Parker is an Emmy– and Golden Globe–winning actress and television producer best known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex in the City, which ran on HBO from 1998 –2004. Her new imprint, SJP Lit, launched a year ago with independent publisher Zando Projects. Ms. Parker is working with Zando’s CEO and publisher, Molly Stern.

Kim Coleman Foote is the debut novelist who will be in dialogue with Ms. Parker at the show. Coleman Hill (SJP Lit/Zando, September) fictionalizes the author’s family’s experience of the Great Migration from Alabama and Florida to Vauxhall, New Jersey, from 1916 – 1980s.

Opening the Adult Books segment of the show is Lauren Groff, author of the forthcoming The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead Books, September). The bestselling novelist and short story writer is a the author of six acclaimed books, most notably Matrix and Fates and Furies.

The New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast is slated to discuss I Must Be Dreaming (Bloomsbury, October), her forthcoming graphic narrative. Winner of a Heinz Award, Chast also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her 2014 New York Times #1 bestseller, the graphic autobiography Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant.

The children’s program opens with a previously announced keynote by Meg Medina, the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and Newbery medalist whose middle-grade books dive into Cuban American and Latino culture.

The adult “Big Books” panel this year features three lauded authors. The poet and YA author Elizabeth Acevedo (The Poet X) makes her adult fiction debut with Family Lore (Ecco/HarperCollins, August). Mitch Albom, the bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven, discusses his first adult novel set during the Holocaust, The Little Liar: A Novel (Harper, November). To round out the panel, Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age, long-listed for the Booker Prize, dives into her second novel, Come and Get It (Putnam, January 2024).

The U.S. Book Show is presented by Publishers Weekly and hosted by the NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts.

See the full schedule of author appearances here.

Registration is open for the U.S. Book Show; early-bird rates are now in effect.

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DIMENSION X RANGERS Make an Explosive First Appearance in MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS/ TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II #4

Posted on 03/25/2023 by Pop-Culture Spectrum

With the upcoming Power Rangers: Now and Forever and the series going into another season on Netflix I feel fervor for MMPR will build and when people discover there’s already a comic book crossover of MMPR and TMNT with variants by OG TMNT creators people who are unware will clamor for it.

Highly Anticipated Sequel of the Hit Comic Book Series Continues in March 2023

LOS ANGELES, CA (March 23, 2023) – BOOM! Studios, under license by Hasbro, Inc., a global branded entertainment leader, and in partnership with IDW, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Consumer Products, is proud to reveal an exclusive first look at MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II #4, the penultimate issue of the highly anticipated sequel comic book series from acclaimed writer Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Rogue Sun), fan-favorite artist Dan Mora (World’s Finest, Once & Future), colorist Raúl Angulo, and letterer Ed Dukeshire. The sequel comic book series continues in the world of the hit crossover in the all-new adventure with fan-favorite teen fighting teams in March 2023.

The penultimate issue heats up as the Mutant Rangers are in dire straits, but a familiar mentor brings new allies to turn the tide! But the battle also rages in Dimension X, where the hero and villain roles continue to blur as they fight old foes and unfamiliar monsters. The Mutant Rangers shouldn’t celebrate too soon though, as their worst enemy arrives in a monstrous new form!

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II #4 features main cover art by Dan Mora (Once & Future) and variant covers by acclaimed illustrators Kevin Eastman & Freddie Williams II (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) with Andrew Dalhouse, Jordan Gibson (America), Taurin Clarke (Miles Morales: Spider-Man), Paolo Rivera (Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.), Simone di Meo (We Only Find Them When They’re Dead), Karen S. Darboe (Bloodline), E.M. Gist (Harrower), Miguel Mercado (Magic), and Goñi Montes (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).

Print copies of MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS/ TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II #4 will be available for sale on March 29, 2023 at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the one nearest you) or at the BOOM! Studios webstore. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers like comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Kindle.

Power Rangers is celebrating 30 continuous years on the air, making it one of the longest-running kids’ live-action series in television history, with more than 900 episodes aired to date. Created by Haim Saban and launched in 1993 with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the series celebrates its 30th year with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, an anniversary special coming exclusively to Netflix on April 19, 2023. The 30th overall season of Power Rangers, “Power Rangers: Cosmic Fury,” premieres Fall 2023 exclusively on Netflix in the U.S

For continuing news on the MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS series and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.

For more on Power Rangers, please visit www.powerrangers.com and follow Power Rangers on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

For more on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, please follow the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Also, for the latest TMNT comic book news, visit IDWpublishing.com and follow @IDWpublishing on Twitter.