#454: The Best Laid Plans, Part One March 17, 2010

NOTES FROM THE MANAGER

Related Strips: #376: Hiding in Plain Sight; #416: Past, Present and Future?, Part One; #428: Merry Whatever, Part Two

This is the first of a short arc featuring Devi and Jason, finishing off the current chapter — and Book 4, as well.

They are at the Davis Theater in Chicago this time around. You can see a few photos of the inside and out on my Flickr page (here's the photo I used for the big panel — don't give me grief for taking a few minor liberties with things like the lamp post and the lack of trash receptacle in front, please). You can read a bit about its history at Cinema Treasures, as well as this recent article at The Center Square Ledger (which happened to use a couple of my photos).

Some of you OCD fans will notice that the current chapter is now chapter 20, not 21; this is because I reorganized the strips in Book 2 to make it 5 chapters instead of 6. Some of the chapters were much too slim; I'd have felt bad (eventually) selling an eBook that was less than 24 pages long. (It's safe to say that until an eBook of a chapter is released, the actual strips included in each chapter may change, but the starting and stopping points for each book are, I think, pretty firm.)

Thank you again to Jackson Ferrell for Monday's guest strip, which can now be found in the Guest Strips section! Check out his comic Borderline Boy!

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Hank Azaria, Katy Perry join cast of The Smurfs
Posted by Trisha Lynn on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:59:38 +0000

EW’s Nicole Sperling must be over the moon and/or pissed off at a lot of her fellow journalists right now because it looks like almost every news site out there is reporting on her exclusive without giving her credit.

Over at their Hollywood Insider site, Sperling announced that her sources told her that Hank Azaria would be playing the human role of Gargamel in the live-action/animated adaptation of The Smurfs with Katy Perry taking on the voice of Smurfette, the lone female Smurf (if you discount the shark-jumping Sassette, which I do). She also added that “Glee” guidance counselor Jayma Mays would be playing the pregnant wife of Neil Patrick Harris’ previously announced Johan, both human characters.

While Sony Pictures declined to comment, Sperling went on to say that the Raja Gosnell-directed picture would start filming next month in Central Park.

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