The Doctor Has a Little Talk – With Superman & Batman

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In honor of DOCTOR WHO’s 50th Anniversary, which is – yowsa! – today, TVWriter™ is thrilled to bring you this very special episode of How It Should Have Ended’s Super Cafe.

Cuz as far as we’re concerned, this is genuinely funny as hell: read article

Yo, Superman and Batman Fans: Here’s Your Last Shot at a Bruce Timm Warner Bros. Cartoon

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Remember all those Saturday morning animated versions of D.C. Comics heroes you loved in the ’80s and ’90s? A lot of very talented people took part in their creation (we’re talking about you, LB buddy Stan Berkowitz – how many Emmy awards did you end up with for those?). But the dude who put together the team and made it all work was Bruce Timm, who recently left his long-running Executive Producer gig at Warners.

So we’re smiling from ear to ear as a result of learning, via a short mention in the Hollywood Reporter, that Maestro Timm is returning to take part in an animated short honoring Superman’s 75th anniversary. It’s called SUPERMAN UNCHAINED. The creators of this 2-minute enterprise are writer Scott Snyder and D.C. co-publisher and artist Jim Lee.

According to some linked details, the production will be: read article

DEXTER & BURN NOTICE: Fun in the Sun? Or Something Much Darker?

And now, a little overthink for those of you who prefer it when your cortexes go ka-blam!

Miami Justice: Two Sides of the Same Coin – by Ben Adams

Why do we punish? And why is it so much fun to see punishment doled out? From crime procedurals like Law and Order to superheroes dominating the box office inThe Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers, we seem to have a collective fascination with the punishment of wrong-doers. But where does the urge to punish come from? Why are we so insistent that the wicked suffer? Because that’s the key question – punishment, but it’s very nature, is generally backwards looking. Punishing the murderer doesn’t bring back the dead. What good does it do anyone to inflict further suffering, even if it seems like someone “deserves” it? My colleague Matthew Belinkie has explored the legal side of punishment at length, so I’m going to turn my attention towards the extra-legal side of punishment – the vigilante. read article

All the Cool Guys R Drummers

Gene Krupa, Bill Cosby,  Billy Bob Thornton, Buddy Rich, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Kimmel, Keith Moon, David Letterman, Mel Torme, John Bonham, Fred Astaire, David Chase, Larry Brody…

Oh, and these two guys:

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An Unauthorized, Way Cool Stop-Motion Batman Video

“Batman: Dark Knightfall” is a Batman fan made stop-motion animation directed by Derek Kwok and Henri Wong of Parabucks Co. using Batman action figures made and sold by Hot Toys.

We’ve loved stop-motion ever since do we really have to say? okay, okay the GUMBY reruns of our childhood. This, though, is better than GUMBY – much. read article