Hulk is on Sci-Fi Channel right now (at least from where I am sitting in Pacific Daylight savings Time). When I first saw the schedule I assumed that it was one of the older television movies starring Bill Bixby. As it is Sci-Fi spent their promotional time budget on advertisements for the Travolta/Cage Face-Off. I …
Monthly Archive: September 2006
Sep 30
Beware the claws of….
This is just a prelude to my mild extrapolation of the Human Fly. I gathered all I could find for now but I’m not writing it yet. There’s not too much data available but there’s a point. The obvious theme is that the hero is that is cool not only because of seemingly unrealistic assets, …
Sep 30
I’m no longer qualified to be a music critic
So I cannot definitely say that the music in the most recent advertisements for the Battlestar Galactica season premiere is pop rock and not rock. I believe it is, however, a piece of pop music despite the guitar riffs at the end of the ads. Watch the ad: All of this is just a prelude …
Sep 29
IIIII Am IRRRONNNN MAAAAAN!
Robert Downey Jr. will play Iron Man. Not being a Marvel fan and having never read any more Iron Man than a Hostess advertisement, I don’t really have any feelings one way or the other on this. What do you all think?
Sep 27
The Spock’s Brain of Voyager
UPDATE: Sorry, the link was mis-formatted and did not appear earlier. The Agony Booth has been making its way through the various Star Trek TV shows in chronological order, doing two horrible episodes from each show. Now they’re up to the worst of the worst, the pitiful Star Trek Voyager episode, Threshold. That’s the one …
Sep 27
Unrealistic realism
So long as I’m posting about comic book writing, I’ll transition to this piece I’ve wanted to link to for a while. (Of course, if you read from the top of the blog, is there any way to transition topic to topic?) Andrew Klavan of Libertas wrote an essay about the “realistic” dialogue in United …
Sep 27
Alex Toth’s letter to Steve Rude
jasonlatour – Be careful what you ask for… Jason Latour (or LaTour…hard to tell when it’s all written together in lowercase) has posted a 14-page letter that artist Alex Toth wrote to Steve Rude in 1986. Steve apparently asked Toth to give him feedback about his pencils for an issue of Comico’s Jonny Quest. I …
Sep 24
iTunes sucks now
I don’t know that this falls under any category of our usual talk here, but I just feel obliged to warn you all: IF you are still using iTunes 6.x and iTunes is bugging you to upgrade to iTunes 7.0, don’t. At least not until they fix all the bugs. I love love love love …
Sep 21
Big whopping major announcement!
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, what’s been taking up all my time, why I haven’t been posting much, or what I’m doing to try to make money while I’m looking for a job… HERE IT IS! It’s the all-new, all-different “Comics Relief”, my site where I’m selling off my comic book collection. Thanks …
Sep 20
Cinnamon: El Ciclo
I’m going over a few of the better books I bought from Scott Beatty during his last clearance sale. “Cinnamon: El Ciclo” is fantastic! I wish I’d bought this and supported it at the time. It’s a taught thriller with compelling characters, plenty of violence and grit (though without anywhere near the swearing and gore …
Sep 20
Comic Book Historian Gets Hit By Car
Legendary continuity cop and charter member of the Comic Book Historical Society Alan Kistler was hit by a car on Friday, one that was parking, backing up, driven by a guy who parks cars for a living! As a result Mr. Kistler will be laid up for this week, thus we expect lots of comic …
Sep 19
The Kryptonian Alphabet
Kryptonese Alphabet I think my brain melted just from trying to comprehend it. Yet I have a friend who is turning that into a font! Why is it we have people who are making fonts for comic book alien alphabets and translating the works of Shakespeare into Klingonaas, but there are still tens of thousands …
Sep 19
I don’t know that I can watch this one!
“The Ring” is just one of the scariest movies I ever saw. Hard to explain why…I think it’s more the atmosphere and the editing than anything else. I mean, even the DVD MENU is frightening! I once put the DVD in, pressed play, went to get a drink…and when I headed back downstairs there’s just …
Sep 18
First episode of “Heroes” now available online
The first episode of the much-hyped NBC program, “Heroes,” is now available online at tv.yahoo.com. Kistler did a great job reviewing the episode, so I won’t waste space here repeating anything. I will say that I’m looking forward to watching more of the series. It debuts on NBC on Monday, September 25… but why wait …
Sep 18
Graphic Adaptation of the 9/11 Report
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, certainly seems to fit the description of a comic about the events of September 11. The presentation is on Slate.com‘s website, a politically liberal site. I discovered this a week too late to post it on the anniversary, and honestly, I have not …
Sep 18
Boldly Go…Again
A new 3-minute video promo for the digital hi-def Star Trek is now online. Man. I’m actually rather excited to see it.
Sep 16
Why I’m reading “52″
Spoilers. Spoiler space. Don’t click on the extended text unless you’re reading 52 or really don’t care at all about DC and never, ever plan to read it even a year from now in a trade. But I have to talk about this because I’m fit to bust.
Sep 14
if we don’t start posting new junk soon, I’m going to start talking politcs
As it is…. am I the only one who thinks that old guys Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford wearing earrings actually makes the two look less dignified? Moreover: Does it make them look stupid? A larger question of course is why would old dudes embrace the “fashions” and trends of the young? Is it emulation? …
Sep 12
Robot Chicken Star Wars parodies on youtube reposted
Embedded YouTube videos, Robot Chicken episodes, have been posted here. Then removed from the host by the Users or the host. So I repost copies. You’re welcome. Seth McFarlane plays the Emperor as we realize how he took the news after that whole Yavin 4 deal. Now we see how Luke reacts to revelations of …
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