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News today that Nickelodeon have dropped $60mil on the rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Can this be right? Or remotely sane? For that they could commission and make 20 original animated series, they could launch and fill a whole new channel.
Also, if any more nitpickers have got a problem with our news headline we'd like to point out that while fully aquatic turtles do not hibernate, semi-aquatic ones do, which is what we assumed the TMNT were when we saw them running down alleyways and fighting with nunchucks.
Hopefully that will save anyone else phoning up and embarrassing themselves.

This is the vistablet comp post. Add as a comment the answer to the question posed in the November issue of the Imagine magazine. First correct response wins.

the comic lot are insisting that motion comics aren't animation but are more like moving graphic images, not really a world away is it. quite a lot of Manga films use very similar camera pan and voiceover techniques. Take a look at this trailer for the new X-men ones, not half as cool as the SpiderGirl one but decent nevertheless and clearly something the publishers are investing a lot in at the moment.

You know we have a fondness around here for graffiti-style stop frame, as popularised by Blu, at least partly because these guys aren't blatantly trying to suckle on the banksy teat like the rest of the stencil firm. This starts out not looking so good but gets great by the end.