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Hurrah!  Steve Jobs recently secured the blessings of EMI, and you'll soon be able to buy most of the 5 million — yes, million — songs produced by Electric and Music Industries via iTunes!  EMI is the third largest of the "big four" record labels — Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner — and this move is expected to lure the other three big players into offering DRM-free music in the near future.

God be praised!  A major record label has realized that pirates are a minority and that DRM only hurts the honest folk!  Read on to see my opinion on DRM and why this is a brilliant move by Apple and EMI.  If you don't want to read my rant but would like to chat about this in the forums, head over here .

Saturday, as I watched Frank Miller's comic-turned-film 300, the thought occurred to me that over the last three decades dozens graphic novels have made their way to  the big screen.  Most of them haven't been worth a squirrel fart, but a few shining stars exist amidst the fodder!  I simply couldn't stand the thought of fine OTC folks missing on out 3 decades of lackluster film perforated by a shining star or two, so I took it upon myself to write this article.

Join me as I take a short trip into the history of comic book films — noting which were great, which were mediocre, and which stank like twice-baked turtle turds.  Fear not, movie-goers, as the following rants are totally spoiler-free!