2000 Year Old Man

is an American comic book series created by Warren Ellis (writer) and John Cassaday (artist), published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. Planetary also refers to the group portrayed in the series. Planetary was previewed in the September 1998 issues of Gen¹³ (#33) and C-23 (#6), and issue #1 was cover-dated April 1999. It was originally intended to be a 24-issue bi-monthly series. However due to illness of Ellis and other commitments by Cassaday, the series was put on hiatus between 2001 and 2003; it has since restarted and concluded with issue #27 in October of 2009. Laura Martin (also credited as Laura DePuy) has colored almost every issue of the series. When the first issue came out, Clinton was still president of the United States; not that anybody who has patiently waited through all these years has any reason to complain, because this series is, to quote almost everyone who has read it, "so damn good." If it were published more or less regularly, then it would have walked away with so many Eisners. Suffice it to say that this series compilation is one of those the serious comic buff would want to collect, even if only in digital form. IGN calls Planetary "one of the smartest and cleverest pieces of science fiction of all time" and then gave the last and final Issue #27 an "Incredible" 9.5 Rating and its top Editor's Choice Award for the comics week of october 7, 2009. That's better than "Outstanding" and that's about as high a rating as any comic book could ever get.

Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it's 1929! A cultural scavenger, musician and broadcaster, he was a pioneer in the preservation of 78rpm records and the roots music produced in pure and undiluted form in the 20s and 30s. Bussard has rescued priceless shellac artefacts from attics and basements across the US for more than 50 years. He has amassed a vast collection of more than 25,000 rare discs. At 65 Bussard has the enthusiasm and energy of a 16-year-old and will happily spin 75-year-old records all day for anyone who will listen. All the while he gives a running commentary on the music and performer, reliving the day it was made and relating some crazy tale of how he came to rescue the record!

It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death-rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day (originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed until now) is his latest graphic novel, a masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one life – indeed, one century in a human life – through a series of carefully crafted, consistently surprising and enthralling vignettes. There is hope and joy, there is bullying and grief, there is war (so much war – this is after all the 20th century), there is love, there is heartbreak. This is very much a singular, standalone story that will help cement Hernandez's position as one of the strongest and most original cartoonists of this, or any other, century. Introduction by novelist Brian Evenson. "A haunting performance and about as perfect a literary work as I've read in years. Hernandez accomplishes in 100 pages what most novelists only dream of – rendering the closeted, phlegmatic Julio in all his confounding complexity and in the process creating an unflinching biography of a community, a country and a century. A masterpiece." – Junot Díaz

Record collector Joe Bussard parties like it's 1929! A cultural scavenger, musician and broadcaster, he was a pioneer in the preservation of 78rpm records and the roots music produced in pure and undiluted form in the 20s and 30s. Bussard has rescued priceless shellac artefacts from attics and basements across the US for more than 50 years. He has amassed a vast collection of more than 25,000 rare discs. At 65 Bussard has the enthusiasm and energy of a 16-year-old and will happily spin 75-year-old records all day for anyone who will listen. All the while he gives a running commentary on the music and performer, reliving the day it was made and relating some crazy tale of how he came to rescue the record!

Director: Ridley Scott
Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are "water filtration systems," bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations–which they never collect…

Originally broadcast over two years on CBC and Radio Canada, Canada: A People's History was the most ambitious documentary production in Canadian history. It employed 15 directors, 7 cameramen, dozens of historians and more than 240 actors (not including extras) and chronicled Canada's history from the earliest peopling of the New World in 15,000 BC right up to the end of the 20th century.

Two well-meaning youngsters find they're cut out for a career in smut in this Japanese comedy-drama.
Atsushi (Hideo Nakaizumi) and his girlfriend Mari (Miku Matsumoto) are a young couple who move from the outskirts of Japan to Tokyo in hopes of finding fame and fortune. While looking for a job, Atsushi is introduced to Miki (Yuri Komuro), a woman who works in casting for adult film producers. While Miki at first seems mostly interested in Atsushi, in time she thinks that Mari might have a future in the Japanese porn industry; unlike American porn videos, in Japan filmmakers are forbidden to show explicit sex (or the actors' genitals), so Mari could appear in the videos without having to be entirely unfaithful to Atsushi…