http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=137640 Dabel Brothers, the comics publisher best known for the Sci Fi/Fantasy book adaptions, made official today what has been known since the author announced it on his website several weeks ago. They will be adapting Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files series of novels. But before the first direct adaption comes out in mid-2008, the first book Storm Front, Jim …
Monthly Archive: November 2007
Nov 26
Is selling a Wii illegal in a hurricane?
Want to know why I haven’t posted all weekend? Because I’ve been trying to find a Wii. Warning: This post is long and whiney, full of petty details about my personal life, but it also has some helpful shopping advice and a bit of philosophy as well. A few weeks ago, during my trip to …
Nov 22
Announcing Comics For Soldiers*
As of today, Thanksgiving Day, Monitor Duty is launching a major fundraiser for Operation Gratitude. For several years, Operation Gratitude has been sending out care packages to our people stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other remote parts of the world where contact with home is infrequent. A package of goodies and notes from stateside can …
Nov 21
G-Farce
Jerry Bruckheimer is producing G-Force. Sadly, it has nothing to do with the late 70s anime of the same name. As for Animal Commandoes, the North Koreans beat them to it: Incidentally, I have no Idea what anyone’s saying. I do know that the ‘cute’ animals represent the North Koreans, the rodents …
Nov 21
I know what “Chuck” is, BBA.
I just don’t watch it, that’s all. Mr. Arndt, if you check your IM logs, you will see that all you said was that a show with Adam Baldwin was on opposite “Big Bang Theory”, so I had to ask you to explain it because I haven’t watched “Chuck” and didn’t know he was on …
Nov 20
Hutch, your not knowing what “Chuck” and “Heroes” is will cost this site its geek credS
I mean, seriously, just an hour ago you told me that you didn’t know what Chuck was.
Nov 20
Okay, I’ll explain that Lost Boys thing…
A few moments ago I referenced “The Lost Boys” and how it tries to fake its way through geekiness. So Chris/”Blue Spider”/”Stupid New Long Nickname That Clutters Up Our Author Archives” is IM’ing me and asks, “What’s Lost Boys?” And I realize, that movie is twenty years old. A lot of you may have never …
Nov 20
Lucas can do ANYthing with CGI these days!
(REPOST! I didn’t realize that it was mis-coded when I posted this earlier. Sorry.) If only real storm troopers were 1/10th this coordinated.
Nov 20
Best of the Big Bang Theory
UPDATE: Umm…did I do that? These videos all had thousands of hits. Then I link to them tonight and inside of two hours they are all removed by YouTube! I can’t believe how much work I put into this post and now all the videos are gone. I’m sorry you won’t be able to …
Nov 20
Drew Carey’s trip from nears-suicidal nerdy kid to five-star game show host!
John Stossel writes. I knew it was the Marines but I still love this story. I hate the component about self-help books. All I want is a Bible, some political consulting biographies, my campaign management how-to manual, Seven Habits of Highly Productive People, and… I guess it’s different strokes for different folks, but in my …
Nov 20
I like Stilt-Man!
Granted, the character, when written properly and in-character, is not a joke-villain, and not a professional leg-breaker. He’s simply one of those characters that gets thrown into the disrespect-list simply because so many nerds, I mean, Marvel fans, expect all the bad guys to be a Green Goblin, Electro, or Dr. Doom. Stilt-Man is like …
Nov 19
He’s got issues
This is an interesting look into the history and evolution of African American superheroes in the 60s and 70s. So Black Goliath once defeated Stilt Man? Heh. Technically AUNT MAY could defeat Stilt Man!
Nov 19
Forum is moved to new location!
In keeping with the moving of Monitor Duty to its new URL, I’ve also moved the Forum (which had been inactive for a while due to spam anyway). We’ve pruned all of our users of spam accounts so that there are only verified users left, and the new board has spam-fighting controls. Check it out …
Nov 18
who is Boba the Fett?
The answer: The song is “Fett’s Vette” by MC Chris. The video was created using Star Wars Galaxies, purportedly. I don’t care that the video seems to star Jango rather than Boba. It’s still funny.
Nov 17
Catching up with Alpine
What’s better than a G.I. Joe parody? A well-researched G.I. Joe parody that even knows which characters are married!
Nov 15
There’s a reason Dale uses the fake I.D.!
I think one of the funniest stories of the week is that an American jihadist has sworn out a fatwa against “Rusty Shackleford”. No, not the dual identity of Dale Gribble of Dale’s Dead Bug, but the internet username of an anonymous blogger who posts at The Jawa Report. The details of the story are …
Nov 15
The unaired pilot from 24: the Early Years
However I feel about prequel series aside, this is just too realistic.
Nov 14
Tim Kring apologizes for the second season of Heroes
Now, I have been too busy to keep up past episode 4 this season, so I’m going to use the NBC.com feature to view it. So I don’t care for spoilerific discussions now and I won’t even ready any comments. But yes, I did see the first few episodes this season and while I did …
Nov 13
Scott Kurtz is my inspiration (even more so)
UPDATE: Welcome, everyone who found this post after it was mentioned on the Webcomics Weekly Podcast and left them speechless in real time. (Sorry for the dead air.) He’s still big in the world of online comics, but in person Scott Kurtz has lost 150 pounds since last August. Amazing, and as a fellow chair-stresser …
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