Here’s a follow-up about Cartoon Network’s inept campaign to publicize Aqua Teen Hunger Force. See the video on the right of the page. Some more pictures would really help us to understand the nature of the “devices” scattered around Boston, but from what I can tell, they appear to be a computer keyboard and a …
Monthly Archive: January 2007
Jan 31
This is just freaky…
According to the following news report, police in Boston investigated suspicious packages around the metro Boston area, which were believed to have been bombs. Well, according to this article, they were a promotional gimmick by Adult Swim for Aqua Teen Hunger Force! At least it had nothing to do with the Venture Brothers…
Jan 31
Jerry “The King” Lawler Pens Superman
Legendary wrestler Jerry “The King” Lawler to draw Superman. Jerry has been the color commentator on WWE Raw for several years and is perhaps best known outside of wrestling as the man who slapped Andy Kaufman silly on David Letterman. Yes I know the term ‘pen’ is usually assoiciated with writing rather than drawing but …
Jan 30
Kids still love superheroes!
Shhh! Don’t tell kids that they’re not allowed to read comic books because they’re all PG-13 content (except for the hard R-brutality). So far as kids know, superheroes are still for them! The proof is all around me. This summer, my neighbor kids went nuts when they saw all the comic book stuff I was …
Jan 30
Silver Surfer Gives Interview
Gotta say, it’s nice to hear that the actor took the time to read the comics and seems to have a good idea on the persona of the character. Hopefully the director agrees with him and this will be indicative of what we see in the movie. http://video.scifi.com/player.html?dlid=58455
Jan 28
Lileks on Batman
Can’t help it. I’m on a Lileks kick, as I’m listening to his old podcasts. In this Bleatcast, he claims that “every era gets the Batman it deserves”, and he examines the music of every Batman. (Okay, okay, every major Batman. I know there are others like the serials and the animated shows, etc.) You …
Jan 28
Celery damages underwear elastic?
James Lileks analyzes “The Peculiar Art of Mr. Frahm”, a pin-up artist given to drawings of women placed in compromising positions by an armful of groceries and undergarments that don’t follow the laws of science. Lileks poses the question of whether it’s the celery in every picture which causes the accident. Oddly enough, he later …
Jan 26
52 Week 38 — Spoiler filled discussion
Don’t read this until you’ve read “52 Week 38″. That’s the one with the three Horsemen figures on the cover. Yeah, that’s three characters standing in front of each other so that you have to squint at the monstrosity to make sense of it, especially since you’ve never seen these characters before. What was that …
Jan 25
the two things that Sam Raimi omitted from Spider-Man
There are two items of negligence by director Sam Raimi from the first Spider-Man movie. 1) Spider-Man is one of those repressed freaks that no matter what he is like without the mask, he is not given to just let fly with whatever it is he is thinking, unless under some circumstances. More importantly whatever …
Jan 24
Like Underoos, but it’s a hotel room
Spend a Night in the Bat Cave. This is a hotel room made up of Bat-memorabilia. You can pretend you’re Batman, except that Batman sleeps in a regular bedroom in Wayne Manor. Sounds awesome! Oh wait…it’s a kids’ room. Wellllllll…that’s OK, I guess. I mean, lots of kids would love to stay in a Batman …
Jan 24
Map to Atlantis
Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #48 contains a map of Atlantis which Kurt Busiek created after asking for information from everyone’s buddy John Wells. John tells me he included every underwater society he could find, including the race that kidnapped Elongated Man on his honeymoon.
Jan 23
Tom Russell’s Thoughts on Lady in the Water
I strongly disagree with Hutch’s analysis of Lady in the Water, and I was going to post my analysis of Lady as a comment on Hutch’s post. But it would be a very lengthy comment, not concise at all, and I’m basically reposting a review I wrote for my own website, http://turtleneckfilms.blogspot.com, a few months …
Jan 23
Not even worth mentioning, but I will
If anyone cares, the Oscar list is also up. The Academy Awards continues its decline. This list puts me to sleep. Going all the way down into the bottom of the list, I’ve only seen three movies: Cars, Superman Returns and United 93. Cars, mind you, is such a good film that it should be …
Jan 23
Razzies announced
The Razzies 2006 Nominees are now up. I’m glad to see that they call out “Little Man” as an out and out theft of a Looney Tunes Cartoon. However, I have to disagree with their lambasting of “Lady in the Water,” which I just watched two nights ago. I think the unhappiness with that one …
Jan 23
Civil War Prediction
CIVIL WAR PREDICTION So, we all know that the noisy Marvel summer-ish crossover of 2006, Civil War is reaching its end. And when there are noisy summer crossovers, there are deaths: meaningless deaths, “important” deaths that will be retconned away in a couple years– because we all know that the story doesn’t “count” unless there’s …
Jan 22
New TMNT trailer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Trailer 2 I know I’m supposed to supply links and commentary, but I honestly don’t know what to say about this. They were making TMNT movies up to the mid-1990s, so this isn’t exactly like rediscovering some forgotten, beloved property. People still joke about TMNT lunchboxes and underoos. I think …
Jan 21
Kistler on The Transformers: Movie vs. Cartoons/Comics
This is a companion piece to an Interview with Optimus Prime, in which Peter Cullen talks about the upcoming movie. A while ago a bunch of toys came out called the Transformers. To help advertise, a cartoon show and a Marvel comic book series came out featuring the characters in parallel but distinctly different continuities. …
Jan 19
R.I.P Bam Bam Bigelow.
My second favorite Bam Bam from wrestling. Surely one of the most colorful and talented super heavyweights in Wrestling entertainment history. He even did a couple of movies. Scott Bigelow by all accounts was a very honorable and kind hearted person as well. Rest well big guy.
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