Lost scenes from lifesize Mutant giveaway sculptures!

After Terry Pratchett donated half a million pounds (about $1 million US), a site started up called Match it for Pratchett. Pratchett says that while he isn’t accusing them of fraud the site isn’t officially linked to him and that if you’d like to donate to Alzheimer’s research to do so directly.

In April, manga creator Naoki Urasawa, and editor/producer Takashi Nagasaki, will be taking guest teaching posts at the Aichi Prefecture located Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design for manga classes. They will teach two or three "Modern Expression Course: Manga Classes" per year, with each class meeting every month. The class has been expanded from a five student capacity to about fifteen.

Members of the Church of Jedi have bought property on the moon.

Saiyuki Kagekiden: Go to the West (site in Japanese) is a stage musical based off of Kazuya Minekura’s loose (but fun!) manga adaptations of Journey to the West: Saiyuki and Saiyuki Reload. It’ll play September 13-21 in Tokyo’s Ginza district. Saiyuki is one of my favorite guilty pleasures, so if someone sneaks in a camera for me… you can have Kyle! (I kid! Maybe....)

Turner Classic Movies’ Underground website has webcomics of “Lost Scenes” from cult movies.

March 27-28, a poster from the original King Kong, a hydraulic Velociraptor from Jurassic Park 2, a Spinosaur head from Jurassic Park 3, the Batman costume from Batman Returns, and the Ming the Merciless cape from 1936’s Flash Gordon, plus about 1,100 other items will be auctioned off through Profiles in History.

Want an $8,000 7’ Cylon?

Also from the life size sculpture file, the Paper Moon doll-making company has started accepting orders for the title character of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, at almost $4,000 each (site is Japanese, and kinda creeps me out). If you’re in Tokyo and want a look, there’s one on display at Asobit Chara City in the Akihabara district.

Steampunk Daleks

Peanuts as Watchmen (site in German)