Fang feud: 'Jennifer's Body' vs. 'True Blood'

05:00 PM PT, Aug 18 2008

There's sooo many vampires.

No, that's not a line from "Buffy," but there does seem to be a blood-suckapalooza in TV and film nowadays. It's not a new phenom, but "Twilight," "Underworld 3," "True Blood" and "Jennifer's Body" (which may not technically be vampiric, but she apparently eats people) have brought it back to the forefront. What's next, a vampire Mr. Toast? Is nothing sacred?!

Maybe it's too much for the creative marketing folks to handle. Look at the poster mash-up (that seems to be everywhere) for "True Blood," HBO's series starring Anna Paquin, and "Body," a film that once featured a barely clothed Megan Fox.

Of course!Why didn't I see it? One has a tongue with a trickle of blood going to the left, the other is going to the right. Guess that's different enough to not be confusing. Just remember -- "Body" = tongue to the left, "Blood" = tongue to the right.

-- Jevon Phillips

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I think you need to be more specific: You mnemonic phrase should be "Body" = tongue to YOUR left, "Blood" = tongue to YOUR right. Or you could have "Body" = tongue to the right and "Blood" = tongue to the left. Or you could do BoTTY Left. Or, oh forget it…

Posted by: Cliff Kline | August 20, 2008 at 11:38 AM

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Growing up, Geoff Boucher always wanted to be a mild-mannered reporter working for a major metropolitan newspaper....or maybe a wookiee. He came to the Los Angeles Times in 1991 and, after years covering crime and local politics, he switched to the Hollywood beat covering film and music. Now he's the paper's go-to geek.

Also contributing: The Legion of Super-Bloggers here at the Hero Complex includes Jevon Phillips, a Times staffer who specializes in our favorite television shows, especially "Heroes" and the frakking brilliant "Battlestar Galactica;" Denise Martin, another Times staffer, who has an undying passion for "Twilight" and anyone ever enrolled at Hogwarts; Gina McIntyre, a Times editor who learned her craft by watching too many slasher films; and Yvonne Villarreal, whose earliest memory of wanting to be a journalist stems from watching broadcast reporter April O'Neil on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series.