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MAY 11 UPDATE: MANY ITEMS

ITEM NUMBER ONE

POODLE AT CANNES SHORT FILM CORNER

Pleased to announce Poodle will be screening this year at CANNES in the Short Film Corner.

Here is our listing.

This will likely be the last festival screening of POODLE, so if you're

1) in France and
2) attending Cannes

Then please do consider attending a screening of Poodle, Thank You.

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ITEM NUMBER TWO

COMICS WITH PROBLEMS #16
SPECIAL MYSTERY ISSUE

We're having some fun with CWP this month, posted today is our very first MYSTERY issue.

DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW??

THE MYSTERY IS DEVOURING YOU ISN'T IT??

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ITEM NUMBER THREE

POODLE FRAMES 125 through 200 ADDED

Continuing with Poodle, we've posted 75 new panels in the Bonus Features section. Very happy to share these new images as they contain one of my favorite moments in the whole piece, where Reagan snaps up from the grave and then splits back in half again.

Here's some thumbnails of that moment:

This was before President Reagan literally snapped up from the grave in the appearance of statements from the recent Republican Presidential Debates, too.

Also added are six new animated Gifs, including these two:

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ITEM NUMBER FOUR

New item added to our ever-growing comic book inventory

1971 "POWER FOR PROGRESS"
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT COMIC BOOK

With all the talk about Iran and others trying to attain Nuclear Power, I thought it might be interesting to see a comic book produced by one of the US' largest Nuclear Power companies, from 1971. Seems to me there's a pretty good argument that any country worth its salt needs some of this stuff. Or at least I can see why the rest of the world views the US as a bunch of assholes for deciding the haves and the have-nots.

But enough about that, check out Jean:

So, what we have here is a damn cool comic on Nuclear Power, with cute girls, a science lesson, and a funny cover that forces the pollution issue right on you. Go Michigan!

CLICK TO READ "POWER FOR PROGRESS"

ITEM NUMBER FIVE: POSTSCRIPTS

postscript number one:

FUNNY TYPO SPOTTED IN THIS MONTH'S DWELL MAGAZINE

I love Dwell magazine, sincerely, and recommend it to everyone, but found this in-house typo too silly to not scan in and share:

This is made funnier, to me anyway, since it's an ad for an event called THE INTELLIGENT HOUSE, here's the full advertisement:

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postscript number two

Harry Osbourn: Foul Drunk?

Went and saw Spiderman 3 this weekend. Ends poorly, but a fun two hours or so before it falls apart. Surprisingly, though, there's a pretty funny and overt anti-alcohol message worth noting. Harry Osbourne (played by James Franco) begins the film trying to kill Peter Parker -- only to bang his head on a lead pipe and become a man without a memory. He's then a loving person for twenty minutes. This is without liquor. Viewers will notice he returns to insanity mere seconds after swigging whiskey, and I mean INSTANTANEOUSLY, and continues on an angry bender from there on out (until the bullshit ending where he's sober and a team player). As a piece of film direction, Harry's boozing is not neccessary - so the question becomes: is this a message about temperence? If it is, we suggest such a statement could have been handled better without being followed almost immediately by a gigantic product placement covering the entire gigantic screen, for Maker's Mark.

This is better than the "intended-or-not" 100000+ surge of troops to defeat Persia message at the end of 300, though. That was bullshit, no matter how you shine it. All in all a good year for message movies from the comic book film adaptation department.

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Thank you - More soon -

Best - Ethan

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