Here’s the opening to a Wonder Woman clone, called Wonder Ghong Zu (princess)… and guess who this is supposed to be… Rather than strike fear, I can see criminals laughing to death at that color scheme!
Monthly Archive: April 2008
Apr 29
Star Wars + Country Music = Something Pretty Interesting
Take Country singer Brad Paisley’s recent single “Letter to Me”, add some selective clips from all 6 Star Wars movies, do some creative editing and you wind up with an entertaining video.
Apr 28
The Penguin’s origin doesn’t work anymore
I’ve been thinking about the origin of the Penguin. No particular reason, but when a friend advised me to come up with some new material to pitch to DC (what with so many of my traditional faves being kaput or inaccessible) I started thinking of characters I’d like to update. The origin of Oswald Cobblepot …
Apr 24
Time for the annual “announcement too late to be useful” announcement
MicroCon is this Sunday at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul. For the first time in several years, I’ll be an attendee instead of a guest. It’s been a while since I published my last book, and competition for space at MicroCon is fierce. I’ve been honored that they have invited me back year …
Apr 24
Correction to the Addendum
This is getting silly. I told you how I found out you can get MST3K’s Giant Gila Monster for a special low price on a single disk from Rhino. Then I updated you that it was no longer available… and as a result, I was selling my Volume 10 in order to buy 10.2. Now …
Apr 24
It’s coming…
Season 3 of the Venture Brothers! Coming in June! (Like that G.I. Joe parody at the end!)
Apr 24
From Hellboy to Hobbit
Oddly enough, I was taking a break from re-watching “Hellboy” out in the kitchen and Dirty Harry tipped me to the following: Guillermo del Toro, director of the Hellboy movies as well as Pan’s Labyrinth, just signed on to direct “The Hobbit” and a sequel. Previous talk of splitting up The Hobbit into two parts …
Apr 22
Rhino doesn’t sing whenever it sings whenever it sings
A follow-up to my post about “Giant Gila Monster”: Unfortunately, the limited printing of disks has been sold and it’s now out of print. I’ve decided to sell my Out Of Print MST3K Volume 10 and collect the 80 Bajillion bucks it’s going for, and use that money to buy the 10.2 for $40. The …
Apr 22
Is he Doc Hopper or Sgt. Rock?
Libertas’ Dirty Harry brings it to our attention that the frog legs entrepreneur who pursues Kermit the Frog cross-country was actually a decorated World War II hero. Charles Durning lied about his age in order to storm the beaches of Normandy at 17, survived several deadly confrontations to get patched up and back out onto …
Apr 21
MST3K Goodness
I have been anxiously awaiting the chance to buy the single DVD disk of “Giant Gila Monster” from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 series. See, what happened was that after their 10th box set was released, there was a rights issue regarding the Godzilla movie contained therein. Rhino pulled the title, removed Godzilla from the …
Apr 18
Defending Your Keanu Reeves
I was reading a “Street Kings” review and I felt it was time to say something to forestall the inevitable “Keanu is a ‘whoa’ guy who can’t act” avalanche. I’ve always liked Keanu Reeves as an actor, he strikes me as a hard worker, and from what I understand in person he’s one of the …
Apr 18
An X-Files movie?
There’s going to be a second X-Files movie. X-Files was an absolutely ruined show in its later years, so I don’t know how it’s going to work, but the poster sure is cool! I enjoyed the first movie, though it too also fell apart in its final act.
Apr 17
It’s Two, Two, Two Spocks in One!
E! Interviews Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto at last weekend’s Grand Slam Sci-Fi Summit.
Apr 17
Dallas proclaims May 3rd Free Comic Book Day in Dallas in honor of CAPE.
April 14th — For the third year in a row, the city of Dallas proclaims the first weekend in May “Free Comic Book Day” in honor of CAPE, the comic and pop-culture expo. CAPE 4 (www.capeday.com) takes place on Saturday May 3rd at Craddock Park from 10am-6pm in the heart of Dallas. This festival of …
Apr 17
Pull List Review – April 16, 2008
Batman and the Outsiders #6 – You may recall that last month BATO shot to the top of my “Most Anticipated” list, due to Ralph and Sue Dibny exchanging their Thin Man homage for a Topper homage. Unfortunately, they don’t appear this month, but I’m sure they’ll show up before the end of the story. …
Apr 16
Hellboy II – New trailer
I loved the first trailer, but this new one is really playing off of the success of “Pan’s Labyrinth”. Many more disturbingly weird and nightmarish creatures in this trailer.
Apr 15
Clone Wars trailer released online
Some Russian site leaked the Star Wars “Clone Wars” trailer a month early, before it is officially shown before Speed Racer. IESB has it. Meh. I don’t think I’ll even go to the theater for this one. The Prequels just sucked the joy out of Star Wars. I probably could have ended that sentence after …
Apr 15
Who Am Iron Man?
Is Iron Man’s movie going to be based on the original character, the old fiercely anti-Communist patriot, or is he going to be another John Henry Irons moaning “I made all my money selling munitions and I suddenly realized that someone could get hurt”? That seems to be one of many questions dogging the blockbuster-in-waiting. …
Apr 11
Bargains and deals and I won’t see a penny
No, this isn’t a chance to flog some Amazon products and get you all to throw some cash my way. I wish. No, this is just me being a nice guy and directing you to some of the geekly bargains I’ve come across. Tower.com has Dr. Katz, the Complete Series for $80, which is the …
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