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While watching Cartoon Network's Adult Swim one night, I was expecting for "King of the Hill" to be on, but instead was shown a B-movie that was of porn quality. There was terrible acting, a terrible plot, but I completely mesmerized and couldn't change the channel. At the time I actually thought it was something Adult Swim put together as a joke. Well, it was no joke. The movie is called "The Room" and is the brainchild of Tommy Wiseau, who wrote, directed, produced and starred in it. Apparently, he raised a few million dollars and made this movie back in 2003. For some reason, it became known as the "Citizen Kane of bad movies" and is now drawing enormous crowds of fans, including Alec Baldwin and David Cross, who want nothing more than to make fun of it. "It's not like there's one or two or three things that are bad about it.

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In a story from Variety American Original has put together a group of established comedians to help produce the graphic novel series Comedy Death Ray.
Some of the first contributors to the anthology will be Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, B.J. Novak, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Scheer and Zach Galifianakis. Each of the comedians will create a comicbook.
The plan is for the individual books in the Comedy Death Ray series to create spinoffs for TV or film that can be produced by American Original.
American Original currently has a publishing deal with Top Cow.

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Celebrity-created sequential art is always a sensitive subject among serious comic book fans. Many stars, such as “Mayhem” creator Tyrese Gibson candidly address their motivations for entering the medium, while others take a less hands-on approach to addressing audience skepticism. While it’s far too early to tell which route a given star will take, there should be plenty of opportunities to tackle the topic as Jeff Katz's American Original puts comics behind comics with the production of a new line of graphic novels collected under the “Comedy Death Ray” banner.
Announced during San Diego Comic-Con, the line is planned to feature titles by Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman (pictured), Patton Oswalt, B.J. Novak, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Scheer and Zach Galifanakis among others.
Although the talent assembled for the collection seems to indicate a future in other media, such as television and film, the creative forces behind each
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