If you didn't see tonight's episode of The Simpsons-"Husband & Knives" bribe whoever has it on their TiVo and sit back and enjoy. This episode is all sorts of awesome!
The first ten minutes of the episode are all about the cool new comic book store in town run by a guy with a.....wait for it.......GIRLFRIEND! I know the stuff of fiction, right???
Naturally since the new comic book guy is all hip to the indie comix he gets autreurs Alan Moore, Art Spiegelman, & Daniel Clowes to do a signing at his store. But things get ugly though when Comic Book Guy attacks the cool new store (whose owner *gasp* cares what customers think). Thank God
The League of Extraordinary Freelancers is there to defend all things good, pure, and indie! Gotta love the beefcake!
<-----Alan Moore irked (like my Canada-inhabitating self) that DC isn't releasing Black Dossier outside of the US.
<--On the other hand Daniel Clowes wouldn't mind it if DC would get more of any eye for details. Especially when it comes to Batman's utility belt- complete with a money dispenser for the billionaire crime fighter "in case he has to take the bus".
Now filming in Vancouver for a 2009 release....
All the dialogue in the comic book shops is gold (Reason #425 of why you should support the WGA) but I particularly love this line-
"These books are meant to be read and enjoyed not hoarded and then sold when you get divorced"-Cool Comic Book Guy With a Girlfriend Who Wears a Pork Pie Hat (voiced by Jack Black)
Academy of Television Arts & SciencesFor Your ConsiderationAlan Moore for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
(Entry clip)
Bart: Alan Moore! You wrote my favorite issues of Radioactive Man!
Alan Moore:
Oh really! So you like that I made your favorite superhero a heroin addicted jazz critic who's not radioactive?!
Hank Azaria-The Simpsons 8pm FOX: Mmm because being insanely talented is not hot?!?!
Nathan Fillion-Desperate Housewives 9PM ABC: Ah Mr.Fillion, My Captain! I'm sorry that Drive didn't take off but I'm glad that I'm getting to see you on a weekly basis on DH. And if you haven't seen Waitress do yourself a huge favor and go and get it. It is such a sweet & charming movie and one of my top ten movies of 2007.
Kyle MacLachlan- We like the same thing- a "Damn fine cup of coffee". And while being one of David Lynch's muses, he wisely avoided the misfortune of starring in Inland Empire.
Dave Annable-Brothers & Sisters 10PM ABC: Well he's hot when his character Justin isn't going through detox. However rare that may seem.
Matthew Rhys- Oh those Welsh boys!
Seth Green- Family Guy 9PM FOX: I really hope that they bring back Oz sometime soon in Buffy Season 8. Though I have this feeling that if they were to bring him back they would make him a Big Bad and then kill him off. Hey it worked for Becoming 2! And Seth's Robot Chicken is absolutely offensively brilliant. I'm seriously offended by how funny that show is. That's how you use "offended", right?
Michael C. Hall- Dexter 10PM Showtime: He's just sooo ridiculously good looking. Who knew serial killers could be so hot?
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