The New York Times on Frank Miller, Will Eisner, and The Spirit movie.

“ ‘Frank, Will was your mentor; you’ve got to write and direct this,’ ” he recalled saying. “And Frank looked at me like I was out of my mind. He said: ‘Touch the work of the master? How could I do that?’ About 10 minutes later he tapped me on my shoulder and said, ‘I can’t let anyone else touch it.’ ”

And…

But the current film-comic infatuation isn’t for everyone. “I think they once made a movie out of ‘Ulysses,’ the Joyce novel, and it can’t be done,” said Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist behind “Maus.” “I’m not saying that Eisner is Joyce, but the things that are great” about “The Spirit” “are likely to be lost in translation.”

Also…

Despite the movie’s director and star wattage, buzz for “The Spirit” on fan Web sites has been muted, a reaction Lionsgate is eager to change.

Wait…what? This thing is all over the web. Isn’t that why they moved up the release date? I’m thinking “muted” is spin for “tepid.” Although I’ll go on the record as saying I’m still really interested in seeing how this turns out.

And hey, the HBO Preacher series is happening? Really?

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