All I Want for Christmas

...Actually, I could probably think of a few more things.  But this'll be a great start, for those of you keeping track:

In stores October 25

I've been eagerly awaiting this DVD's release since watching  the trailers when they were first posted over a year ago.  Grant Morrison is easily my favorite writer.  There are barely a handful of other guys in the comic industry that can even hold a candle to Morrison, and even then only Alan Moore can really be a fair comparison.  He's written the best Superman story.  He's on track to write the best Batman story.  Best event story.  Best Dada stories.  Best fourth-wall-crushing, anarchic-existential-pilgrimage-and-chaos-magic-practicing, unified-theory-of-everything story.  And best story about a guy who talks to animals.

Someone once said that Morrison is this generation's Bill Burroughs.  After reading most of his work it's pretty easy to see why.

Here are a couple of trailers to Talking with Gods:

All Star Superman Gets Animated

Via Bleeding Cool (via MTV) here's a trailer for the upcoming animated version of All Star Superman.  I agree with BC's Brendon; it's cool that they're making an animated version, but what I'm seeing in the trailer is a long, long way away from the greatest Superman story ever told.  Because that's what All Star Superman is. 

Origin story in four panels.  Yeah.

I'm not being hyperbolic.  It is. 

I guess the animators didn't even want to attempt to replicate Frank Quitely's gorgeous artwork from the book, so instead they're going with the same blocky, big-chinned WWII era animation style that Warner Brothers uses for every stinking DC animation project.  So that kind of sucks.  Also, the scenes from the trailer look like they're mostly from the last few issues of the comic.  Which, to me, implies that they're probably not going to touch on much of the middle issue-stories that made All Star Superman the greatest Superman story ever told.  So that sucks too.

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But still.  It's an animated version of All Star Superman.  It could be a two-hour movie staring this guy and I'd still be stoked.