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...Walt & Skeezix by Frank King (Drawn & Quarterly...
...Finally exposing the work of a nearly forgotten master cartoonist, Walt & Skeezix reprints the first two years of Frank King's deeply American comic strip "Gasoline Alley" in the debut of what will (hopefully) be an annual reprint series for the next twenty years or so. Famous for characters who age in real time, like Walt, the dedicated bachelor and his adopted son Skeezix, the strip amounts to a daily diary of an American family as it goes through the depression, WWII, the post-war boom and beyond. This first volume features many car gags, but they soon give...
Fifty-five years after C.S. Lewis published the “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media have spent more than $250 million bringing the first of his seven hallowed Narnia novels to the big screen.The live-action adaptation of “Wardrobe” hits theaters today. The filmmakers are hoping it can tap into the lucrative market for big-budget make-believe exposed by the “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter” franchises. But in raising...
Directed by Andrew Adamson The Walt Disney Company 2 stars Slip behind the wardrobe, past the lamppost on the right, and you’re in the land of Narnia with the gentle voice of author C.S. Lewis as your guide. Young readers and their parents have made this journey for over 50 years. It’s a simple path, one that has now been ruined. In adapting the universally beloved fantasy series, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,” Disney attempts to join the ranks...
...inputting the numbers. And the last shot we see is Michael typing into the computer to a mysterious being at the other end. The last text shown on the screen is “Dad?” Does this mean it’s the triumphant return of Walt? Knowing this show, probably not. Quit phunking with my heart, “Lost!”—Jessica C. CogginsThe OCFOX Thursdays, 8p.m.In last week’s episode, academics were discussed for the first time in three seasons. Say what?! Yeah…that?...