What if there were a world where all of the world’s logos lived and breathed? Logorama, the brilliant animated short that is nominated for an Oscar this year, answers that question brilliantly. Featuring over 25,000 logos, this is a true labor of love, an wonderfully conceived work of art.

There is some NSFW language in this film:

You can’t even say “Comic-Con” without preceding it with “San Diego”.  The San Diego Comic-Con has been a yearly phrase ever since 1970, when it first began operations. But, with time comes change, and with success comes competition and this is what San Diego is facing now as several cities are making a big push to host future Comic-Cons.

Anaheim, Las Vegas and Los Angeles are the big three, licking their chops at the fact Comic Con’s San Diego contract expires in 2012.

Hotels near San Diego’s convention center have offered Comic-Con 300,000 square feet of free meeting space and have proposed doubling the number of dedicated convention guest rooms to 14,000 in an attempt to lock in the convention through 2015.

By then, convention center officials hope to have completed a planned expansion that would leave the event with ample space.

“San Diego and Comic-Con go hand in hand like Batman and Robin,” San Diego Convention Center Corp. spokesman Steven Johnson said. “We want to make sure that dynamic duo stays together.”

Comic-Con spokesman David Glanzer acknowledged that the event has been straining against the limits of its current home and that it is considering whether the San Diego proposal would assuage those concerns.

“We love San Diego. The majority of the people who put the show on live here,” said Glanzer, who did not know when a venue would be chosen. “But we have to make a decision that’s based on what really is best for the event.”

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Zombies are the new salt; you just add them to anything and, so goes the theory, everything is improved. How else to explain the ongoing explosion of zombie-related material flooding theaters, television and bookstores.  Now, the Boom Town imprint has opted to convert various Republicans into zombies as a response to the recent dust-up involving Captain America.

Not familiar with happened with Captain America? In short, the most recent issue of Captain America depicted a scene involving the newly formed Tea Party movement; a scene that has infuriated the group, ultimately leading to an apology from Marvel head-honcho, Joe Quesada:

“There was zero discussion to include a group that looked like a Tea Party demonstration,” he said, according to ComicBook.com. “There was no thought that it represented a particular group.”

The writer of the comic, Ed Brubaker, told Fox News that he did not write the message on the sign.

“I don’t know who did it, probably someone who thought it was funny,” Brubaker wrote in an e-mail. “I didn’t think so, personally. That’s the sign being changed to something more generic for the trade reprint, because I and my editor were both shocked to see it.”

So offended was Boom at this apology, that they decided to make their new zombie book, Repuglicans:

No release date is given, though Repuglicans will be 130-pages and priced at $15. How much longer till we see Demoguts?

Wes Anderson is one of those directors you either love or hate. He created Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Acquatic, and most recently, the rather excellent Fantastic Mr. Fox.  Recently, when Sony was looking for a new director to replace Sam Raimi for the next Spider-Man movie, Wes Anderson was one of the names that emerged for a fleeting second. No one really though it would ever happen and they were right. However, one enterprising dude put together a video that depicts what a Spider-Man movie might look like if directed by Wes Anderson and it is nothing short of brilliant.