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Thursday, December 07, 2006

KA-BLAAAAAM-OWWIE!!!!

Check out these guys firing a .577 T-Rex Rifle!

(they don't call it a "T-Rex" for nuthin, right Honey?!)

Great Merlin's Beard!! While I was on vacation, the great 80's DUNGEONS & DRAGONS cartoon came out on dvd!!!! When I was kid, this was one of my all-time favorite shows! I've seen many of the episodes recently, and while it doesn't hold up as well (obviously) I still freaking loved it! Uni was still equally annoying as shit, tho.

Santa, Jimmy wantie!

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

WATER ON MARS, BABY !

Holy shit! NASA announced today they believe they've found evidence of not just the existence of water on Mars but that water STILL flows occassionally on the planet!!! So when do we get really expensive bottled Mars water?!

Check it out here!!

PREACHER SHOW INTERVIEW

Here's a snippet from an interview with Mark Steven Johnson who is developing the awesome comic PREACHER into an HBO series. It gives me SOME hope.... haven't seen GHOST RIDER yet (early reviews are good, tho, surprisingly) and his DIRECTOR'S CUT of DAREDEVIL was a huge improvement of the Studio Cut that was put out into theaters..... fingers crossed.... not a huge fan of his work thus far, but it could be worse and in horrible horrible hands (remember a couple years ago when it was going to be a movie with Ben Affleck?!!!)
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MSJ: You can't do it in a movie because it would take so many movies combined to tell the whole story and you can't do it on any network television, just for all the obvious reasons. So it was really HBO or nothing. When I went in to pitch it to them I said "I hope you love this as much as I do because if you don't want to do it it's done." There's nowhere else to go.

[The pitch was] The book. I came in with the comics saying "Here it is." I said "I'm going to try to make it about an issue or so for each show. Some things will move around, some will be bigger than they are and some will have to come down." But basically that was my template. As I've said this is a five, six year show.

Rest of the interview here

KID ARRESTED FOR . . .

I saw this bit of news as I walked into work this morning.... a mother had her son arrested for getting into his Xmas presents early. Way to waste the police force time and resources lady.
More here.

*pic is not the kid.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

TURNER'S RED SONJA STATUE

Any RED SONJA fans out there (Angela!)? Dynamite Entertainment is making a statue based off of Michael Turner's cover to Red Sonja #1. The statue will stand over 13" tall on a 13” x 11.5” giant snake and swamp base. Sculpted and painted by Tom and Joy Snyder of Joy & Tom Studios, the statue will run a whopping $295! Wait, what? 300bucks? Are you fucking kidding me?!! Nevermind.

* Click on images to enlarge *

RANDOM FIND: HAN SOLO TRANSPORTER

Sorry, Kirk... you had a good run....

MY NEW FAVORITE T-SHIRT

SCARED OF SANTA

XMas Season is upon us so here is the classic series of photos of kids being terrified of the Mall Santa! Enjoy!!

GREG LAND RIPS HIMSELF OFF

Greg Land is a comic penciller who uses photographs for his images. Well, I guess copying photos of others isn't enough, he's now reusing his own work.

Here's an animated gif (courtesy of scans_daily ) that shows his JEAN GREY and his BLACK CANARY. Jeez.

SPIDEY 3 FAKE POSTER

Here's a FAKE Spiderman 3 poster by some fanboy online. Pretty neat. Again, I'd like to bitch and moan that they "black costume" isn't the symbiote design from the comics.

Imagination, where art thou?

JIMSMASH FANTASTIC FOUR 2

So that Fantasticar I posted yesterday.... well, it seems Dodge paid millions of dollars to put their emblem and name on the front of it. Cause, you know, that makes sense since Reed is the one that designs and builds the vehicle. Why not just whore out the entire film to advertising and make them the "Fantastic Wal-Mart Warriors"!! Go Nascar with them and cover them head-to-toe with advertising. I'd really prefer if Hollywood stopped making Comic Book movies. I can count on one hand the number of comic movies I like. Did I mention the hand I'm counting on was involved in a wood shredder accident?

RAGIN CAJUN CAST ?

Looks like John Holloway (Sawyer on Lost) may play the role of GAMBIT in the next X-Men movie. Supposedly he was going to be Gambit in X3 but had to decline due to his Lost schedule. I guess they liked him so much, they removed Gambit from the film to hold off for X4. From what little of Lost I've seen, I think he totally works. But then again, I'm not a huge Gambit fan.... those Gambit fans are quite insane.

Monday, December 04, 2006

QUICK MOVIE REVIEW: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

We saw FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION last night. It's the latest flick by CHRISTOPHER GUEST and his hilarious, brilliant troupe of performers you know and love from his previous movies; Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, Mighty Wind. As always, the entire cast is brilliant. Catherine O'Hara is fantastic! And how can you not love Parker Posey?! Do I smell possible Oscar nominations? This flick abandons the mockumentary format but still keeps a similar feel/tone of being right there witnessing these people's lives. A fun stab at the obsurdity aspects of Hollywood from within!
Go check it out!

RANDOM FIND: ALIEN CARTOON

Translation:
Valentin: Ah, here we are Linda, it has a big cavity in a molar... it isn't all that strange that it has been a bit grumpy
Linda: Hurry! I'm beginning to get tired

HIGHLANDER FIGURES RULE

"Is the one called 'Connor' among them?

Remember our pact. The boy is mine!"
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I saw the HIGHLANDER figures 2-pack the other day and they RULE!!!! Gaze upon KURGEN and you, too, will see the absolute cool factor of these figures that will soon be gracing my shelf! "There can be only one? No, there can be 2!!!!" *sigh* I know, I'm sad and pathetic.

HARRY POTTER 5 SNEAK-PEEK

A sneak-preview of HARRY POTTER & the ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, as aired on ABC Family this weekend:

LIL BUSH

Coming soon to Comedy Central is a new cartoon called "Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States," which satires and re-imagines Dubya and key executives in his administration as elementary school misfits.

Lil Bush is surrounded by close pals like Lil' Cheney, who grumbles unintelligibly, and Lil' Condi, who pines for Lil' Bush and does his homework for him.

Six episodes from writer-producer Donick Cary ("The Simpsons") have been ordered to air on Comedy Central next year.

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