Today we learned some wild stuff from Dark Horse. The most exciting news I heard today was Dark Horse’s announcement of the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service live-action movie by Dark Horse Entertainment.

If that mouthful of a name isn’t familiar then it is time to check it out. “Kurosagi” as it is known by fans (and the name has been butchered by speedy-fingered news sources today) is about a Buddhist college club/side business team of diviners, mediums and ?? characters who as a group can find misplaced dead bodies, read their “minds” and return them to their proper burial places. The trick is getting paid. Read my review of the first volume of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga here. This one gets better as it goes along, and the idea of a live action movie is VERY appealing. The manga goes places no [non-gornogorphy] movie ever could but this is a clever, funny and graphic tale that could actually work on the big screen, if done correctly.

Not in the same breath from initial sources, but it has been announced that Univeral will also partner with Dark Horse Entertainment for a big-screen adapatation of MPD-Psycho. Nine volumes of MPD-Psycho are available in English and this is the thinking adult’s roller coaster of violent and psychotic manga. Check out a few more detailed reviews I did here and here and here. I have stated many times that MPD-Psycho is my favorite series in English release right now, and the prospect of a proper DH Entertainment release is very appealing. On the other hand, this is difficult…difficult material, so I can’t imagine anything as as mentally challenging (characters with multiple personalities) and globally epic (a hijacked plane crashes into a cruise-liner). However, it can be done. I wasn’t behind Takeshi Miike’s straight to video attempt in Japan (I love Miike, but he could make “The Three Little Pigs” more convuluted and confusing than Tim Burton).

G4 advertised their five hours of live coverage from Comic-Con today pretty heavily. Saturday tends to be the last day of announcements, but the three hours of live coverage with Kevin and Olivia were admittedly pretty entertaining. However, the two-hour “Star Wars Panel” hosted by Kevin and Olivia was like watching an X-Wing crash into the surface of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin in slow-motion. Did I mention that the X-Wing was full of puppies riding in Jek Porkins’s fighter? Puppies. Burned alive.  Ouch.

G4 has been covering Comic-Con for years, but they seem to just be figuring out that everyone wants real-time news one the announcements that are happening. The 24-hour news cycle turns into a 24-minute news cycle for the millions that are interested during the 92 hours that are SD Comic-Con. It really isn’t fair to anyone, as the announcements tend to be for things that will come out in 10 to 30 months after the moment they are announced, but it is the center of tempest…the heaven meets earth moment of a tempest where creators, publicists, marketers, artists, actors, and fans can all mix and swill in one giganitic storm of everything that is cool and wrong at the same moment.

It can be a little much for us Sci-Guys, but it also sound like it is a little much for everyone. Is this the legacy of SD Comic-Con or has this bus gotten out of control? I am sure we will be discussing our next show.

By Sci-Guy-John