Doctor Who: The End Of The World

Eldhrin
writes, Doctor Who: The End Of The World
This received 36/42 from Eldhrin in total, with 4/6
for the overall score. That score would have been
higher had it been more than a one-shot episode. With
luck, they’re going the same route Buffy and
Smallville did, starting with some one-shots
to slowly build an audience, and then moving to longer
arcs after a few weeks.
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Countdown to Infinite Crisis

Identity Crisis revealed some shocking, but entirely plausible, secrets of some top-name DC heroes, secrets which actually made sense of issues raised by past stories. The series cast shadows over DC history.

Countdown to Infinite Crisis, an expensively-produced but inexpensively-priced comic ($1.00 U.S. for 80 pages!) picks up from that story, and functions as a prologue to several comic series that will shake up the DC Universe further, a kind of Crisis on Infinite Earths for the 2000s.

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The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis II

Awhile back, Bongo comics brought the characters from Futurama into the world of The Simpsons with the parodically-titled Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis. In 2005, they collide these two worlds once more– and throw in unlicensed appearances by numerous characters from literature, and superheroes from DC and Marvel comics.

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Warner talks home video

Home Theater Forum had a chat with people from Warner
Home Video the other day, which has been transcripted
over at this
digital bits page. The article is huge, so I
can’t cover all of it, but some genre notables
mentioned as being on the schedule include The
Flash, Witchblade, Smallville:
Season Four, Lois and Clark: The New
Adventures of Superman, Superman serials
from the 1940s, King Kong (finally! Yay!),
Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Vol. 3, a new
release of The Wizard of Oz, possible special
editions of the Batman and Superman
films, Poltergeist, and a lot of animated
titles. (When asked about “Tiny Toon Adventures,
Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Road
Rovers, the Quick Draw McGaw Show, the Son of Kong,
Mighty Joe Young 1949, John K. and Spumco’s Yogi and
Jetsons shorts, seasons 2 and 3 of the Jetsons,
Flintstones on the Rocks, Ralph Bakshi’s Hey, Good
Lookin’, the unsold pilot of ‘Gizmo and the Gremlins’
and/or Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs,” the answer
was “YES.”) They also discuss several non-genre
releases, including a second Film Noir box
set, which really catches my attention.