Marvel got a half of a billion dollars to do 10 movies.

Marvel said the 10 characters in the arrangement are Captain America, The Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, and Shang-Chi.

My predictions:

• Captain America – No surprise here given the current jingoistic climate. The Red Skull will be recast as a Muslim fundamentalist. Cap’s white star motif will be replaced with a looped ribbon.
• Avengers – It will attempt to be a mediocre X-Men and succeed. Whoever plays Scarlet Witch will not be as hot as the comic version.
• Nick Fury – The flying bathtub HQ could be cool.
• Black Panther – Will not be confused with Huey Newton because the target audience won’t know who he is.
• Ant-Man – Really?
• Cloak and Dagger – The costumes will be the only draw.
• Dr. Strange – This could be fantastic if they replace Dr. Strange with the parody version from Venture Bros.
• Hawkeye – One guy will be really disappointed if he doesn’t get a casting call; Orlando Bloom.
• Power Pack – I never read their books because they were used in a PSA about child molestation. What still haunts me is that creepy stare of one of the Power Pack kids in the ad. It was like his essence was drained like in the Dark Crystal. All that aside, it’ll be the film equivalent of Muppet Babies.
• Shang-Chi – No way. How many kung-fu movies come out every year? And you can’t beat Galactus with kung-fu.

The V For Vendetta trailer is online.

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic that appeared each Saturday in newspapers starting in 1905. The two-panel comics follow the same formula: In panel one, Mr. True gets confronted by a person who annoys him, and in panel two, Mr. True has an outburst. Sometimes it’s berating, but ususally it’s berating plus physical violence. Despite the old-fashioned mores and the occasional bigotry of the era, and the art is great, and it’s hard not to read another.

Fucking yahoo news.

Does anyone have his book?

Here’s the complete text of one person’s review:

This book is by far the most hilarious thing ever! All in all, it’s the sweetest thing, and Ali-g is the man!!!!

Which is followed by Amazon’s survey:
“Was this review helpful to you?”

Ebert blasts Deuce Bigalow 2, which is not surprising, except he ends the review with a great bit. Read the whole thing here.

I like when smart people make dumb people look dumb.

Ricky Gervais will be writing an episode of the Simpsons. Info and storyboards here.

Here is a cliffs notes version of the recent R. Kelly tune. Awesome. And the picture below is just the funniest R. Kelly picture I could find.