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For years there have been blind items about a famous executive-star, "Pert Member." A guy who often lends his private jet to closeted gay actors so they can have sex with their boyfriends without fear of getting caught. He also has a beautiful Hollywood actress for a wife who doesn't mind that her husband's boyfriend lives with them. Just so we're clear, this dude is gay. If this were a cartoon character, he'd be covered in pink flames.Why am I telling you this about a post on John Travolta? Oh, no reason. By the way, the jet in picture belongs to him.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. That's hot!
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The Russian Chamber of Commerce probably won't be fond of this site, which shows pictures of bizarre (by American standards) sightings in Russian subways. Us? Well, you know we can't resist a good rifle cleaning in the middle of a crowded subway. Or a pimp. Or a passed out drunk dude:
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So you've seen our post on Mark Millar's super-duper prediction for the future of comics, right?
Well, today, the fit hit the shan when Millar revealed his Nostradamus-like prediction for the doom of comics!!!!
Keep in mind, this is the guy who predicted a return to 90s-like market conditions within five years in 2002. There's too much material to work with here, so we're putting the rest after the jump.
So yesterday, Millar posts about this OHMYGOD IT'SPUREGENIUS theory he has THAT'SSOOBVIOUS, right? But he can't tell anyone about it. Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise. Well, some people take Millar and his bag of hot air to task at his own site in the very thread where Millar is hyping . . . a whole bunch of nothin', actually:
I shouldn't get to worried Mark, your predictions arn't always true...I'm trying to think of one that DID turn out to be true. And I can't. This is either hype for his article so he'll get more readers or he's trying to bring about a self-fulfilling prophecy concerning the "creators will be rich" thing. Either way, look at how long the funnies have been running in newspapers. For that matter, look at newspapers themselves? Maybe it's only a matter of time before both of those things (and comic books as well) eventually die out, but there's no way that'll be in 5 or 8 years...
You're blowing smoke, Mark, as usual. Go back to flogging McNiven...
Doubters. Dare they question the visionary that is Mark Millar, COMICS FUTURIST?!?!? Millar said:
Some great, great years coming. i think the first comcis billionaire will be here just after the end of the decade.
Which, of course, is going to catch Millar some flack. I mean, come on, Millar. What'd ya expect, man?
Sorry, but with Marvel's annual revenue at just over $370M, I don't see any one creator becoming a billionaire anytime soon (if ever).[Millar responds:]Rob [Liefeld] personally made over 20 million fifteen years ago in a single YEAR.
And he'd have to do that for FIFTY YEARS STRAIGHT to make one billion dollars. Gimme a break.
[Millar again:]Nathan, you are wise to keep snides to a minimum or you'll get the banning Michael McD is heading for if he doesn't curb his rude asshole tendencies. Pick apart the argument when you read it. It'll be available online as well as in the comic. Don't be rude beforehand or after you've read it or you're out the door.
Math is hard. But I have a feeling the Scotsman is going to regret inviting people to tear his argument apart after having read it. The grand vision?
Something that just hit me a couple of days ago and that was that the very thing that helped us in recent years. The huge boost of money and interest injected into the comic-market is exactly what might prove our demise a little less than a decade from now.And that, my friends, is Hollywood.
Seriously. This is the grand insight that he's been teasing people with. Supposedly, a bunch of the most talented comics creators will get lured away from comics and go Hollywood, leaving the sweaty, smelly fanboys in their dust, sucking their thumbs in the corner while silently weeping, clutching a copy of The Ultimates 2.0 #13 in their hands. [Insert your own joke about Bryan Hitch's slow work pace here.] And, of course, no one, but NO ONE, will ever be as good as Millar as his boys, so COMICS IS DOOMED!!! DOOMED, WE SAY!!!!!!!!
And every freakin' comics creator EVAR is going to be like, George FREAKIN' Lucas!!!! AWESOME!!!! Cha-ching!!!!
Of course, this much sheer . . . ridiculosity (had to make up a word; IT WAS JUST THAT BAD) demands snark in return, and no one does snark better than YMB:
Millar just had his Tom Cruise moment.
But it's much better when it's being posted directly at the man's own forum:
That's it?Why did you say no one had guessed your argument when plenty of people had?
Plus there's an amazing whiff of egomania in the idea that once you and your chums have buggered off to Hollywood there won't be anyone with any real talent coming along to replace you.
[Millar:]But anyone really good will just get snapped up. Even QUITE good will be enough. That's the problem and why I think the market will be virtually extinct in ten years.
Man, Millar's absolutely right. I mean, only the hackiest of comic creators wouldn't be able to make MILLIONS in Hollywood, right? Like that James Robinson joker. Feh. Who's he? The Golden Age? That was a POS.
But there will always be doubters, unbelievers of myopic vision and who are just really, really mean:
If the industry is heading for a bust, the only people to blame are the people working 'inside' the industry.And that means YOU!
Yes, that's right. You and your crop of lazy, prissy, egomanical, selfish-selfcentered artists who cannot, for the life of them, get a 22 page comic book out every 30 days. This from a generation of creators, who, are taking 60 days and more to retell, redraw, stories already told by people who told them well the first time, in 30 days and less.
Yes, Mr. Millar, we've all seen the pictures in the media of you and your oh so cool crop of artists getting silly after cons, heard the drunk and stupid stories of you and the boys at the bars, parties and more -- could that be one of the reasons WHY this generation cannot get their comics out on time? The artists who created the industry, well, they didn't have the time to PAR-TAY like you and your GRAND MASTERS OF ACHIEVEMENT, maybe, because they were slaving at the drawing boards, working hard to create the library of characters you and your crop profit from.
. . . .
Yes, Hollywood is making some movies out of comics. We should be really thankful for that. And all the millions of people who go to see them...
Who just aren't coming into comics stores to buy the comics these movies are based on.
. . . .
If anything, all you are doing is holding on to a dwindling audience, an audience dwindling because they are tired of the legions of excuses as to why you people can't deliver, when generations of creators did it for decades before you, doing it by creating new stories and new characters MONTHLY. You have to deliver TIMELY to keep the momentum -- it's the basic law of physics.
So Mr. Millar, if a bust is coming, you really can't blame the 'whiney' fans. We have nothing to do with the creating or delivery. The only 'whiners' you can blame, are the ones looking right back at you creators, in the mirror.
There's much, much more at the link, above.
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But while we're on the subject, let's "Special Edition" ALF into a nine-foot purple CGI squid! Let's turn K.I.T.T. into a 2007 Mustang! How about inserting footage from the McDonald's High School All-Star Dunk Contest into THE WHITE SHADOW to make the show more "accessible" to younger viewers?
Captain Obvious then posts:
So freakin' unnecessary, it can only be a ploy to sell more DVDs.
And there are some calls to update the Klingons so they match later incarnations. Those calls were made by nerds.
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Newsarama debates whether or not Greg Land is unethical.
Some of them have some odd standards they hold their favorite artists to.
As much as unethical it is, the fact is he still produces a lot of his own art. Total swiping of other's art is a bad thing and he should aim to cut that out, but if you were to go through every cover and every pin-up and every issue he's drawn, the majority will have been produced without copying.Ofcourse, he should do all of it without swiping, but if that what it takes to produce a good monthly book like he does, it's a necessary evil (one which he should try to stamp out).
Other artists, like Tony Harris, get thrown under the bus and then defended.
As for Harris, if you're going to photo reference, he's going about it the right way. I can only gather from what I've seen in the back fo the Ex Machina paperback, but he poses people, acting out the scenes (this is similar to what Alex Ross does.) From there, I don't know how much is actual tracing and how much is reference. At HeroesCon last year, he had several stock circular artist model renderings (think those little wooden models, but preposed and drawn) to pull off of, so I'm not sure what his specific penciling is like.With that method of obtaining reference, at least the facial expressions and body languages fit the characters. Even Land supporters will cite the plasticity of the characters and the odd, zombie like body language as what they're saying is vastly different than how they are posed when he's pulled a cool looking picture that doesn't match the scene.
Here's a link to the original web page that started the discussion.
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Or, more importantly, whose side are the new Marvel Forums on?
Civil War is one of the greatest stories ever told, becaused there is no definitive answer. The main reasons I'm ani-reg are because I don't trust the government to not take advantage of their newly aquired powers and because the mutants are losing all of their civil liberties.
Other sites don't quite talk about the characters like they're this real, do they?
No idea who will win! I'm Hoping Cap's side because I don't want our heroes to work for S.H.I.E.L.D.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do they?
Im standing w/ Cap America on this. Stark represents corporate America. Captain America represents the American ideal. Spidey will become disillusioned w/ Stark and realize he is on the wrong side. i hope.
Cap currently has 78% of the vote to Iron Man's 21%. Which I guess means 1% are undecided swing voters. From Florida.
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Bendisboarders debate the most "hardcore" scenes ever in a comic book.
Preacher makes the cut.
Punisher, of course.
And Miracleman.
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Mark Millar predicts DOOOOOOOM for comics! Dooooooom!
He's still predicting that big boom that I think he's been calling for and pushing back the dates of for a decade now, but after that boom:
then it all crashes and will be as defunct as the British comics scene. For exactly the same reasons...They'll still exist in some format, but... Well, you'll see what I mean. But this just struck me a couple of days back and I almost, as they say, shat a brick. It's good for creators, but very bad for fans.
So, are we talking digital downloads? Fans speculate:
I assume you mean comics in their current format?I shouldn't get to worried Mark, your predictions arn't always true, you did after all think Superman Returns was gonna be the biggest film since Titanic
Ouch.
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Marvel Comics launches their own message boards.
If the DC boards are any indication, we should be seeing threads on She-Hulk's cup size and whether the Black Cat's carpet match her drapes, oh, in about half an hour.
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For you political comic geeks, Matthew Yglesias at the TPMCafe has penned a piece on "The Green Lantern Theory of Geopolitics".
The ring is a bit goofy. Basically, it lets its bearer generate streams of green energy that can take on all kinds of shapes. The important point is that, when fully charged what the ring can do is limited only by the stipulation that it create green stuff and by the user's combination of will and imagination. Consequently, the main criterion for becoming a Green Lantern is that you need to be a person capable of "overcoming fear" which allows you to unleash the ring's full capacities. It used to be the case that the rings wouldn't function against yellow objects, but this is now understood to be a consequence of the "Parallax fear anomaly" which, along with all the ring's other limits, can be overcome with sufficient willpower.Suffice it to say that I think all this makes an okay premise for a comic book. But a lot of people seem to think that American military might is like one of these power rings. They seem to think that, roughly speaking, we can accomplish absolutely anything in the world through the application of sufficient military force. The only thing limiting us is a lack of willpower.
What's more, this theory can't be empirically demonstrated to be wrong. Things that you or I might take as demonstrating the limited utility of military power to accomplish certain kinds of things are, instead, taken as evidence of lack of will.
And the comments section discusses both Wolverine's political beliefs and the movie "Red Dawn".
Truly, the Internet Gods have smiled upon us today.
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Because not only will he be sure to shill your stuff in the magazine, but he'll also provide little previews of things to your forum members. Case in point, Ben Morse, Wizard staff writer and Comicsbloc forum mod, provided an early look at some Tony Daniels sketches of the members of the new Teen Titans East, the team formed by Deathstroke (thank you! Puh-LEEZE keep Judd Winnick away from this character!) as the "Injustice Gang" to the Teen Titans. Note that we flipped through 17 pages of thread discussion, many of which included discussion on the true effect of cloning and making bizarros (we're not kidding), just so you could see these images. Who loves ya, baby?
Left to right: Match (A Superboy clone/bizarro/whatever); Sun Girl; Kid Crusader (apparently Kid Devil's arch enemy; The Joker's Daughter (referred to by Morse as "Duela," so we're assuming she's Duela Dent); Batgirl (yes, in case you haven't heard, that's Cassandra Cain)
Where the new Terra fits in with all this is anyone's guess.
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The Fourth Rail website is shutting down.
Is nothing meant to last forever?
Check out Randy and Don's favorite reviews while they're still up.
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I've always wondered... "Is there a God?" and "Are we alone in the universe?" And sadly... the answers are "No, there is not" and "Yes, we are... so very alone."
How else can you explain the existence of... this?
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We don't make this stuff up. We only link you to it. D-Listed reports:
Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown and Eddie Murphy have been dating since this past June. Eddie is so enamored with the fallen pop star that he has proposed to her. A friend of the couple claims they are currently shopping around and looking for the perfect ring. The pair also each got a tattoo with the other's name last month.
Dude. Just . . . ewwwww. Did any of the Spice Girls end up good looking? We regularly cruise the celebrity gossip blogs and they're obsessed enough with Posh Spice that we know the answer is a resounding "no" in at least her case.
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So this clip of Stephen Colbert:
has inspired LOTS of mash-ups on YouTube. Over 59,000 or so clips on YouTube were pulled up with the key words "Colbert Report Lightsaber Star Wars" as of this writing.
And there's one we just couldn't resist sharing. Not the best mash-up. Just the most inevitable:
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Just imagine Stan Lee creating . . . the Watchmen?!?
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Over at Comixfan.com, some guy forgot to take his meds and posted several threads listing -- in GREAT detail -- the 40 greatest Avengers stories and the 40 greatest X-Men stories.
The top Avengers story? Avengers Forever by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco. It figures someone this obsessive about his comics would love a self-referential, thick-on-continuity comic, right?
But here's the kicker. The dude closes out his column by quoting Tom Brevoort on the subject of Forever:
Tom Brevoort: "I don't know that it's the best Avengers story of all time {Editor's note: Tom edited Avengers Forever and had a lot to do with its creation, so he's probably just being modest}, but it's probably the densest, building on the foundation laid down by Thomas, Englehart, and all the others who'd come before. I'm also quick to point out that it took us 15 months to get all 12 issues to the stands--but despite whatever outcry there was at the time, nobody really remembers it now, and the story is far better in its final form for having had the delays."
Where have we heard this before? Has this always been the attitude over there?
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The first in what may be an irregular series of passive-aggressive postings.
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So Grant Morrison and Frank Miller walk into a bar, right? And the bartender says "GET YOUR GODDAMN LOSER FANBOYS OUTTA MY BAR!!!"
Morrison on Miller's proposed "Batman v. Al Qaeda/Bin Laden" story from Newsarama:
NRAMA: But still, looking at the larger cultural subtext you're writing this in, what makes a grim Batman not appropriate for the world we live in now? Miller's working on a Batman vs. Al Qaeda story, and it's hard to think of a time when we've seen such grimness on the news…shouldn't Batman reflect that in a way, as he did in the late '80s when he first took that turn?Morrison: First off, the idea that superhero comics should reflect the news headlines is not one I tend to subscribe to. I've always preferred using my comics to talk about the world around me in the language of symbolism and metaphor and I'm more interested in telling stories about how people behave in bizarre situations than I am in commenting on current events.
Having said that, Batman will always reflect his times: the idea here is not to soften or emotionally reset Batman as an exercise in nostalgia but to make him more real and relatable, while at the same time offering some rationale for his complex multi-faceted personality I want to see a Batman that combines the cynic, the scholar, the daredevil, the businessman, the superhero, the wit, the lateral thinker , the aristocrat. He terrifies the guilty but he has great compassion for the weak and the downtrodden and will lay his life on the line for anybody who's in trouble. He's a master of yoga and meditation who has as much control over his body and his feelings as any human. He has a wider range of experiences than most people will dream of in ten lifetimes. This is not a one-note character! So, while I won't pretend we all live on Sunnybrook Farm, I don't think its appropriate - particularly in trying times - to present our fictional heroes as unsmiling vengeance machines. I'd rather Batman embodied the best that secular humanism has to offer - a sour-faced, sexually-repressed, humorless, uptight, angry, and all-round grim 'n' gritty Batman would be more likely to join the Taliban surely?
NRAMA: Er…GM: And while we're on that subject...Batman vs. Al Qaeda! It might as well be Bin Laden vs. King Kong! Or how about the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind up against a hungry Hannibal Lecter! For all the good it's likely to do. Cheering on a fictional character as he beats up fictionalized terrorists seems like a decadent indulgence when real terrorists are killing real people in the real world. I'd be so much more impressed if Frank Miller gave up all this graphic novel nonsense, joined the Army and, with a howl of undying hate, rushed headlong onto the front lines with the young soldiers who are actually risking life and limb 'vs' Al Qaeda.
Ohhhhh, you know the fanboys are going to give a "OHNOHEDIDN'T!!" And they drag Alan Moore into it! What did he ever do to you chumps?!? After the jump.
The discussion turns ugly over at CBR. After all, you don't go around talking smack about Frank f'n Miller, boy. Nuh-uh. What, you write a couple of "I CAN SEE YOU!!" stories and alluvasudden you're some hot s#!*? I don't think so.
1) Frank Miller is hardly up for criticism by Grant Morrison. Even in the mind-blowing category, I find the fast food wars in Martha Washington and Elektra Assasain a little more inventive than giving Man-Bat swords and being lauded a genius for it.2) Grant Morrison's captions in the latest Batman were just as bad as anything Miller has written in the latest BATMAN. Sorry, Grant. The issue was OK though.
3) "Batdick" really didn't seem to be that overwhelming a problem to me until the antisocial Batman in Morrison's JLA showed up.
Uh. You're comparing Martha to the current Batman? That's a bit bendy, no? How about trying to compare her to oh, I dunno, THE INVISIBLES? or WE3? or Morrison's JLA? Or his Doom Patrol?Morrison's writing makes Miller's look like it was done by a subliterate chimp using the pulp from various rotten fruits. No contest whatsoever.
Honestly, while I prefer Morrison over Miller any day of the week, Morrison doesnt bring anything new or different to the table... he just takes already existing ideas as reaps credit for them.
Not to slam the guy, but Grant will always be nothing more than a bargain bin Alan Moore wannabe who doesn't hold onto his principles like Moore does.I'll take the "wannabe" who writes great stories and isn't a cocksucker than the guy who hold onto his principles and acts like a douchebag when someone soils his precious work.
I think he's referring to when Moore decided that he didn't want to have his name or royalties associated at all with the V For Vendetta film and then severed ties with DC after the Wachowski brothers falsely claimed that he was behind the film and DC had failed to secure an apology. After he which he asked that all his royalties go to his artist David Lloyd and his names be taken off his books. (The royalties thing happened, but not the name thing.)Oh, that constant sniping at the Wachowskis for "stealing his ideas," plus some snarky comments about Moore, Claremont and the sweeping generalizations about mainstream comics writers as a whole, as if only he and a select few others that he likes are truly innovators (when some of his works are pretty derivative of other writer's concepts).
About the only one I remember his comment about the Wachowskis, and a joking jibe in Byrne's direction. However, I don't recall him making any other snarky swipes at the creators you mentioned. So I remain unconvinced.And I fail to see how him being disappointed at the overall quality of writing in mainstream comics is in itself supposed to be a sign Morrison being full of himself. (Then again I find mainstream comics as a whole to be very dull and forgettable work, so maybe I just have a lot sympathy with his opinions.)
Keep in mind though that he's basically said he's no longer angry with the Wachowskis over using the Invisibles as inspiration though he was at one point. In fact he said he enjoyed the first film, but was really disappointed with how they handled the second and third ones. Heck look at his statement on the original back in 2001.
He's talked in a derisive manner about Alan Moore for years about everything from Promethea to Watchmen, and has said Moore is trying to be him.
Haven't seen any such statements like this myself. Got any examples?Adam, I've noticed throughout this whole thread you need decisive proof right before your eyes...
I'm going to guess you wouldn't believe in aliens unless one abducted you aboard the mothership, correct?
Maybe, and honestly, you should make google your friend for a while and find these answers for yourself?
I shouldn't even have looked for this, Adam, but here you go... it is an interview with Morrison regarding Alan Moore:>> I must admit I have no time for the '80s style "serious superheroes" books riding the retro wave; never resisting any chance to gratuitously stick the boot in, I thought Watchmen was self-conscious, derivative, and heavy-handed when it first appeared and time hasn't mellowed my opinion of this vastly overrated series - so the comics I dislike most of all at the moment are filled with unsexy '80s retro "superheroes-in-the-real-world" type stories. All these soldiers-in-tights comics seem miserly and lacking in wonder, surrealism or novelty. Even Alan Moore himself ran screaming from this kind of story and began an ungainly, 15-year long attempt to reinvent himself as me. So why anyone would look to the awkward pomposity of mid-'80s comics for inspiration is baffling. <<
I must admit I have no time for the '80s style "serious superheroes" books riding the retro wave; never resisting any chance to gratuitously stick the boot in, I thought Watchmen was self-conscious, derivative, and heavy-handed when it first appeared and time hasn't mellowed my opinion of this vastly overrated series - so the comics I dislike most of all at the moment are filled with unsexy '80s retro "superheroes-in-the-real-world" type stories. All these soldiers-in-tights comics seem miserly and lacking in wonder, surrealism or novelty. Even Alan Moore himself ran screaming from this kind of story and began an ungainly, 15-year long attempt to reinvent himself as me.
http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultim...&f=36&t=001597One Example. I know when asked about Promethea, he sarcastically mentioned that it is "drawn well" as well as other comments over the years.
Oh man. It's as if Morrison is the Rock to Moore's Hulk Hogan and Miller's Ric Flair and Morrison just steel chaired those poor bastards right in the back. Ouch.
(Last image lifted from the sig of "ElvisH" from the JQ forums.)
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For an amateur, mock cosplay comedy skit, it's not half bad.
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First, Cookie Monster starts eating fruit.
Then, they take the fishnets off of Zatanna.
Now, Cindy Crawford cops to having had botox and collagen injections since she was 29???
I . . . I . . . I . . . .
Somebody . . . hold me.
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This is a Catwoman fan-flick that is about 11 minutes long. At around the 1:45 mark, the female narrator just whines over and over (in a very flat voice devoid of any inflection whatsoever), "I'm bored. I'm bored. I'm bored."
Well, we were bored too, but now we wanna kick your annoying ass.
We only got halfway through this thing. NOTHING HAPPENED. If you can make it all the way through, you have more free time than us.
And we're the ones posting on a blog that no one reads.
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Dude plays the Guitar Hero video game. Gets really into it. Blows out his knee. Here's his story:
It was the late evening of July 3rd. I had just arrived home from a Thor concert here in Omaha and needless to say after that bone crushing rock I was ready to roll. I strapped on that plastic guitar and ripped through No One Knows, Heart Full of Black and More Than A Feeling and then it was time. I was face to face with my Arch Nemesis/Very Good Friend/Roommate Craig. It was time to see who could out rock each other while playing Texas Flood.We were neck in neck in points... I had to do something special. I needed STYLE points. I breathed deep, my rock meter was maxed out and I was going to make this audience feel it. I twisted to the right and threw my guitar in the air! Instead of a roaring audience I heard a loud snap! My knee slid to the outside of my leg and my leg bent sideways as I fell to the ground.
. . .
I had knocked an inch and a half piece of bone off of my femur under my knee. I needed knee surgery the next day.
. . . .
The day after surgery a "Legasus" machine was brought to my house, which I would sit in for six hours a day as it bent my knee back and forth. I am still in this machine over four weeks later for six hours a day. Thats 42 hours in the Legasus a week. That is more than a full time job.
I am grateful that I have not yet developed bedsores from the amount of lying around I have done.
. . . .
I was later informed by one of the doctors that the piece of bone broken in my leg was the largest he'd ever seen.
From an open letter the guy wrote to the gamemaker:
while playing your game on July 3rd and shredding a massive lick I pivoted into a great thrashing stance and my knee gave way. After several doctor visits and x-rays it later turned out my rocking had knocked an inch and a half piece of bone off of my knee and it was now floating about the inside of my leg.I ended up going under the knife to reattach the smaller piece of bone back to my leg and now, more than a month later, I am still unable to walk.
I don't know whether this is hardcore or just damned pathetic. I do know, however, that this injury kicks the crap out of Lionel Simmons's old "Nintendo Thumb" injury that kept him sidelined for a few games back when he was with the Sacramento Kings.
Yes, I know very few people know who I'm talking about. I know my audience. It still needed to be said, though.
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We're led to believe that this is Zatanna's new look, post-OYL (from a Catwoman page):
Now, I have now idea if this is her permanent new look or just casual Friday attire for Zee, but I'm a little surprised that there's no massive uproar from the fanboys for the loss of the fishnets. Maybe everyone's preoccupied bitching about the Civil War delays?
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It must have been a slow news day. On the Today show this morning, Cookie Monster eschews cookies for . . . fruit.
Matt Lauer: Cookie Monster, the world wants to know-why have you stopped eating cookies? Isn't it true that only moments ago you decided to eat a fruit salad instead of a cookie? So will you have to change your name now? Should we be calling you "Fruit Monster"?Cookie Monster: Well, dat got nice ring to it, but...
Matt Lauer: Cookie Monster, the question on everyone's lips is...
Cookie Monster: That a lot of lips!
Matt Lauer: Why?
Cookie Monster: Me like fruit.
Matt Lauer: And there you have it. Cookie Monster likes fruit, and not cookies.
Cookie Monster: No! You members of the media blow story way out of proportion! Me still like cookies!
Matt Lauer: Then why fruit?
Cookie Monster: Why not fruit? It delicious! And healthy. Me still eat cookies, like me world-famous for doing, but now me eat other things too.
Matt Lauer: So what you're saying is, if I were to offer you this cookie, you would eat it right now?
Cookie Monster: No. Me eat fruit salad...and then me eat cookie for dessert!
I'd make a joke here about how nice it is to know that the quality of the Today show isn't slipping a bit since Katie Couric's departure, but I ain't screwing with Matt Lauer. Dude's buff.
*Eats Cheetos*
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Suh-WEET!!!!
Anyone remember that old Plastic Man cartoon from the 70s with the big ol' airplane that Plas had that was painted just like his costume?
Yeah, neither do we.
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Apparently people care about the artistic integrity of the big-boobed insectoid-themed comic "Ant."
Apparently the artist/writer of the book didnt' realize until after the fact that he had created a not all-ages comic.
Or something.
So, the comic shipped with curse words and strippers.
And the creator now is letting it be returned.
And we can't fathom why people actually care about this... but they do.
Well ____ me with a chainsaw.I don't buy Gully's half-assed explanation for a second. He's chickened out, and sold-out his personal vision to appeal to the prudish mainstream.
Wimp.
Of course...
T & A, Foul language, and a public apology cannot make a bad book better.
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Wizard magazine has a brief write-up on the sad demise of Seth Fisher.
For those who followed the story of his tragic death, there's nothing new in there. But it's nice to see a great artist on the cusp of a burgeoning career get some overdue recognition, and it's nice to know Wizard can do more than just shill for Marvel.
R.I.P., Mr. Fisher.
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Prosecutors say a 29-year-old man traveling with his mother desperately did not want her to know he had packed a sexual aid for their trip to Turkey.So he told security it was a bomb, officials said.
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When Transformer fans argue... no one wins.
Here an argument begins about where the Decepticon faction symbol comes from.
Is it an abstraction of the deadly flying seekers (Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker)?
I am also a believer that the insignia might have been based off the Seeker form. Wings, intakes, canopy...
Or, is it simply Soundwave's head?
Obviously you can beleive what you want. You can beleive the sky is red if you want. But you'd be as wrong about that as you are about the D'Con symbol.The Decepticon Symbol IS Soundwaves head.
Will a girly slap-fight ensue?
You cannot force the issue with me, so don't bother trying.And to be honest, so what if I am wrong. I don't really care in this respect.
If you're happy deluding yourself, that's fine. In a case like this it doesn't really matter.
It does however matter if you're going to spread a theory which is 100% incorrect to the rest of the fandom. Save it for fanfiction.
The Decepticon faction symbol is, without a single trace of doubt, based on Soundwave's head.
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Newsarama wonders Is Michael Turner the next Rob Liefeld?
It's either Turner, Bachalo, or Ramos. All 3 artists sell big just like Liefeld does, but because of their unique non-standard styles, they catch all kinds of flack from their haters.Yeah but Turner and Ramos get flack because they suck.
Discussion of "haters" ensues:
I like his art. I hate that it seems that the haters all get behind one another and then congregate to bash whenever his artwork is shown.But then I remember they're behind a keyboard and that's what makes them feel oh so powerful.
And people are honest about their feelings:
I dislike Turner, Liefeld, Lee and Campbell. Immensly.I speak only for me.
^Roger Cruz?
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It was a three year old thread. Lost to the ether of the Internet...
Started in anger:
My point is that it doesnt matter if it was in the comic or not or whatever...its HOW ITS DONE.Its the writing! Its the directing! and then its the acting!
If the writing is solid then it doesnt matter if her name is patience price or Shenequa
Plot
Story
Dialogue
character developmentThese make a good movie. Not some blind committment to a characters name.
Bathed in frustration:
You can´t change a characters name!
A name is part of a person.
By changing that, you change the character.
It would be the same as to make movie about Jack the Ripper and call him Ralph the Butcher
A name is part of the identity of a person.YOU CAN´T ERASE A PERSONS IDENTITY
Painted in bad make-up:
IN batman returns michelles character had NOTHING to do with the selina kyle in the comic book. She was a freaking secretary!!! She got turned into catwoman by a bunch of freaky cats!!!
Gone. Forgotten.
And then, mere days ago... REBORN:
Yes things have changed in the Comics but that's not an excuse for Movie Maker to just make thier own crap a good Comic Booka daptation to me is one that's tries to take element form all the verisu version togather, why I Love Smallville so much.And I hate the postcrisis Catwoman she's just an Electra Rip Off, and to the person that said Pre-Crisis Scuked let it Die, screw you Some Crisis changes would good mainly Lex Luthor but more where bad then good, and DC's had more then 2 phases In PreCrisi they had the Golden Age Silver Age the Bronze Age and some smaller unamed ages inbetween.
But the decision to bring the thread back to life was not without controversy.
Why the **** did you make an account just to bump a three year old thread?
I thought "dead meant dead"?
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Bendisboarders debate John Byrne's shortcomings.
Re: You Know What's Wrong With John Byrne? His Writingand the fact that he has internet access.
And:
You know what I noticed about Byrne? He's a good comic writer, but not a good comic writer and storyteller. Let me explain. I'm getting back issues of his Namor, Fantastic Four, and some of his other work. While Byrne is actually a very nice and funny guy, I have to say, there's something about his dialogue that's just, well, off. It seems kind of unnatural and false.Somewhere on the internet, John Byrne is registering you on his message board for the specific purpose of banning you.
And does a Bendisboarder finally come up with a Unified Byrne Theory that explains everything?
I am convinced that the failure of Danger Unlimited in what drove him to suck. It was the last good thing he did. Maybe the best thing he did. And it was his 1st comic to fail. Everything before it is classic. Everything after stinks. It's failure stunted his growth.
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It's relatively well known that comics writers Grant Morrison and Mark Millar used to be the best of friends, but they had a falling out some years ago as Morrison alludes to in this old interview:
Certain West Coast creators claim you entertained them with the story that you were responsible for many of Mark Millar's credited writing works. Aside from Authority 28, which Mark freely cops to, is there any truth in this report and the allegations herein? Mark Millar has also reported a division between the two of you, related to these events. Can you elaborate?Authority 28 caused some problems for me personally because I wrote the story as a favour and then, surprisingly, wasn't paid or acknowledged for it until I called Wildstorm and the situation was quickly resolved. I wanted the issue to go out under some whimsical credit like 'The Mock Millar Experience' but otherwise I had no intention of putting my name on it. It was a gag. This is the story of watch gears turning and bureaucratic springs unwinding - hardly the fuel for so much rumour among so few. The best bit no-one saw was the first page - another victim of the censor's scythe. My original had a splash page with Jesus Christ, Allah, and Buddha all standing in front of a bullet-pocked wall. Each wears a blindfold and sweats nervously, fag in the lips. A big balloon from off panel reads...'FIRE!'. Turn the page and it goes into the Surgeon's speech before they meet Religimon.
As well as being best mates off duty, it's no secret that I occupied an informal position as Mark's mentor, advisor and champion for most of the last decade; in response to those highfalutin' 'allegations herein', all I can say is... distance and a keen critical eye make it pretty easy to spot my contributions to the canon of the bulging Monty Millar. Otherwise...there's no story here.
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To be honest, the only thing likely to cause any real divisions between us are daft attempts to talk my artist out of upcoming creator projects, which fall under the heading of deliberately interfering with another writer's 'earning capacity', a disgraceful habit the saintly Mister M. seemed so staunchly opposed to in his own recent interview with you. Maybe it was guilt.
The posters at our own forums debate the topic: Was Grant Morrison responsible for some of Mark Millar's best stories?
I do have my suspicions about Swamp Thing and Ultimates being solely Millar's work. (The latter was mentioned on someone's myspace page, where he'd spoken with GM who'd complained about having to do 'all the work' when the two teamed up.)I've heard those rumors aswell and I'm pretty sure is total bullshit
Some of the Swamp Thing and Ultimates stuff is unquestionably his; the priest who spends a day each year on an earth-sabbatical from hell, pretty much all the Ultimates dialogue... I mean, if you spent a lot of time in the pub with your fave comic writer, you might remember some stuff you were discussing too. You mightn't even remember whose idea it initially was; although, iirc, Morrison has claimed credit for the conception of Ultimate Thor, also.
It's not really about me taking a pinch of salt with your words, Carlos, because - frankly - the evidence I have is very sparse, and basically amounts to 'Mark Millar wrote better comics when he was friends with Grant Morrison'. On the flipside, these are all comics with Mark Millar in the script credit, and thereby - one would imagine, normally - responsible for plot. Only one of these comics has since been revealed to have not been scripted by him. I'm also inclined to think of Millar, on the internet in any case, as a serial dissembler, so I'd not necessarily trust his word to you in any case. So these are basically largely unfounded suspicions, but I can't help but have them anyway.
Unlike other star writers, like Ellis or even Morrison Millar doesn´t seem like someone who is stuck in comics because he can´t make the jump to hollywood or novels, but like someone who truly enjoy comics as an end itself. he's also one of the most aproachable and friendly people that i've seen, in any medium (and I´ve seen a lot) dealing with fans. he always tries to remember names, faces and stuff about the people he meets and is always tries to spare time for everyone who meets.
Millar is so desperate to get into hollywood it's fucking pathetic. The Eminem thing? The Superman Returns casting shit? And I'm especially fond of how amazing he thought SR was until it didn't do so well, then his opinion changed. He goes on about how comics are so great all the time because he wants to project the image that they're hip and cool and edgy so people will think that of him.
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Kevin Federline performs live for the first time EVAR. I know you were all waiting for this. He's introduced by his very pregnant wife.
I'll be honest. I haven't viewed this yet. I just can't do it. But if you feel compelled, please go ahead. But only if you really want to. No heroes.
Pictures of Britney Spears, Jessica Alba and Rachel Bilson from the recent "Teen Choice Award" on Nicklelodeon:
Describing Bilson, IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com says:
Rachel Bilson's stat line: 5'2", 34C, and she'll be 25 in four days. That's penis Powerball numbers.
That quote is worthy of immortality.
And for the bold and adventurous among you, I'll take you from penis Powerball to Hulk Hogan in a banana hammock.
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Over at ComicBoards.com, Dr. Dom is wondering why old people don't like New Avengers.
After chatting with readers young and old, It seems that most of the older readers oppose the New Avengers...why? Is it because the "classic" lineups were so great? Is it fear of the unknown?I do not want to offend anyone young or old and I am not stereotyping....just looking for some feedback...
Listen here, you young whippersnapper!
First of all, let me say I'm 43. I started reading Avengers with #128 of vol. 1. What attracted me then to comics was that they were FUN. They were an escape from the real world into a world of fantasy. To me, reading New Avengers (or almost any other comic) today is like watching the news on TV, and God knows how we are drowned in information (and disinformation). The fun part is not there anymore. Heroes are not heroes anymore. My comic costs 5, 6, or 7 times more, but it takes 5 minutes to "read"...That said, yes I think Wolverine is overused, was included only to boost sales, and is not Avengers material, even if I do not dislike the character. I can see him and Spider-Man doing guest appearances, but as members? Sentry is boring and reminds me of the times of Gilgamesh, Doctor Druid, Darkhawk, Machine Man, and a few others I still wonder about... They were accidents, to me, as are the New Avengers.
Maybe we're old, maybe we cling to the past, but that's because we know the past.
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If she thinks stuff like this is funny, I got a shot.
'Cause I'm freakin' hilarious.
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We're not sure what this online comic is supposed to be. Intentionally bad? Post-modern ironic? Maybe you can help us out.
Because if my small town was being invaded by aliens the first sign I would certainly look for is them trying to steal booze from hobos...
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As AICNers shout past each other, we're there to chronicle the nerd-pocalypse:
Holy shit it's Bionicle the live action movie
I can hardly contain the excitement! *Falls asleep*
Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger...
They're robots that turn into cars...
And vice versa. This makes "Snakes On A Plane" look like a Charlie Kaufman project. Okay, I'm done hating...
Yessssss, AICN, your hate has made you powerful...
WILL YOU ALL PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
Jesus H. Christ on crutches, you people bitch endlessly! Every single day it's more and more of the same shit from all of you; "This movie's gonna blow", "who cares?", "Michael Bay is a Hack." For fuck's sake, how many ways can you say it? WE GET IT! Now...why don't you all just face the facts and admit that, unless this movie is a shot for shot, word for word reproduction of the cartoon series, you'll NEVER be satisfied? I'm a HUGE TF fan, and even I understood that there would have to be some drastic changes in order for this to work in a real-world scenario. It's not 1984, anymore, you dumbasses. Tape decks are gone. So, kiss Soundwave goodbye. It's NOT viable! And Please, don't EVEN try to tell me that a 50 foot robot turning into a tiny handgun is a realistic concept in a live-action film. Hell, even as a child I thought that was a lame idea. After all the bullshit and bitching I read from you so-called "fans", I'm truly, TRULY ashamed to call MYSELF a fan, anymore. You're worse that the Harry Potter dorks. You're all so very hellbent on judging a film you haven't seen half a second's worth of footage for. So, for Christ's sake, people; if you truly "don't care anymore" then stop posting! You're truly ruining it for the rest of us that actually want to see a Transformer's movie. If it's gonna suck, it'll suck...but I, for one, will wait until after I see the film to come to any conclusions. Flame away, net-nerd TF-zealots!
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Lindsay Lohan? Paris Hilton? The Superfriends? Stephen Colbert? We should have thought of this ourselves.
(By the way, it gets kinda sorta not work safe towards the end there.)
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Over at his blog, Marvel fallguy editor Tom Brevoort launches an editorial simulation of sorts, in which he assigns three titles each to two fans who will be acting as editors of the titles.
There are no crossovers in effect- there is no CIVIL WAR, no PLANET HULK, no ANNIHILATION. And we're going to assume that all of these titles are at clean story break-points, rather than in the middle of long-running arcs.Your goal over the course of the next two weeks is to increase your sales, put out crowd-pleasing, well-produced comic books, meet your financial obligations to the company, and get the books out on time.
As the editor, you can try anything you can think of more-or-less, provided that such actions get aproved by the Editor in Chief and the Marvel braintrust (in this case, played by me.) So your first move is to determine what you want to do with your three books. Do you want to make creative changes? try to put a new cover artist on? Have an idea for a specific storyline? Want to build a crossover?
Literally anything you can come up with is potentially fair game. The more creative you are, the more fun this will potentially be.
You also can do nothing, and leave any or all of these books alone in its current state.
He assigns Daredevil, Hulk and Ghost Rider to one reader who boldly decides to . . . keep intact all of the current creative teams with the exception of replacing Aaron Lopresti with Cary Nord on Hulk. Oooooohhhh. Don't go crazy there, buddy.
So pretty boring really, just one change. I do have tons of ideas for alternate creative teams; I just don’t think that new editors need to go changing everything just to make an impression, especially when their titles are reasonably successful as these titles are. Hopefully Tom will give me good reason to change the creative teams on each book over the next two weeks so I can mix things up a little.While 50,000 sales is a good base, I think the sky is the limit as far as the potential of these books are concerned, so my next post will explore a few ideas for how we might start to bring that about.
I wonder how often this guy has complained in the past about Marvel/DC not taking any chances and being too complacent. It's a simulation, dude. Use your imagination!
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I was in academia for 10 years. Deep readings and profound thoughts. I used to love decontructionism. All the other "isms". They were great.
But something about this "meta" reading of Grant Morisson's first Batman issue over at Newsarama just, well, annoys me.
Maybe it's the trite observations. Or the forced "deep" readings. Dunno. But annoy me it does.
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HYPERBOYLE. The newest addition to the fanboy lexicon, courtesy of a rabid John Byrne apologist striking back for his overlord favoritest comic writer/artist of all time over at Joey Q's boards. We're going to re-format this entire exchange for you. How's that for service, buster? Main text is by "Mike OBrien," and we're just going to take him at his word that he's a JBF regular. The "official JBF historian," in fact. We couldn't resist putting our comments in, though. We weren't going to, but really, REALLY couldn't resist.
Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) It's not a lie, Mike. You are nuts. We have all seen your psychotic behavior too many times for you to play it off like we're making up lies about you.You're a doctor? I say that your constant stalking and obsessing and bullying make you nuts. *Waaahhhhh!!!* So, the difference in my mind is that I'm right - and I'm sure you feel the same.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Why do you get so emotional when someone criticizes Byrne?Do I? Why do you get so emotional when someone says something nice about him?Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Or get into one of your suicidal moods when a book of his gets cancelled?No, that's you talking. I thought it a bad thing, and posted hyperbolically, but... you're adding your own stuff.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Remember when your life turned to crap but as long as Doom Patrol was being published, all was right with the world? What takes it's place now?Nothing does - I posted a silly bit of hyperboyle (that's the little known second cousin, twice removed of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was actually the man who invented "hypertime." True story.), and you, like the bully you are *Waaahhhhh!!!*, refuse to let it go. The irony is that you take the high moral ground on this issue.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Threaten to kick anyone's teeth up easy street lately?That was another silly bit, and I apologized for it. Besides, you've got it wrong - it was a Twin Peaks quote - "you'll be looking for your teeth two blocks up sorry street" - in response to someone else threatening me.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Did it feel good to threaten Dave Farabee because he disagreed with Byrne?No, I never threatened Dave Farabee. That's a lie.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) What about Glenn Watson?What about him? Why am I fair game and he's not?Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) My favorite was the guy you threatened who didn't back down to you, so you did!Well, obviously because I'm not interested in threatening people. That whole thread was one of laughs and hyperbolye, and you focus on one part and use it as some sort of evidence? Again, who's nuts here? Clearly, not the guy who parses out TWENTY-FIVE SEPARATE STATEMENTS to nit-pick on each one.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Hilarious. We need more lectures from you Mike about comic retailing and the bad guys who don't order enough Byrne books, you know, the only comics you read.Well, of COURSE I'd be interested in seeing product that I want to read in stores? Is this bizarro land or something?Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Brian Hibbs sure schooled you and Byrne. Did you read that he was mocking you in his weekly column?Then he's a back-stabbing ***. Did you read the thread? I offered an opinion - he came on and tried to "school" me, and, since I know him personally, I backed down, appologized, and told him he was the superior authority on the issue, and he continued his crudsade. How is he not the *** on that one? Does that mean you're the "bottom" in a Hibbs-n-OBrien coupling? LOVE IT.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Please Mike, tell us how Star Wars saved your life.It didn't. Another lie.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Tell us why Bruce Cambell is the greatest living actor.He's not, but like many people, I love watching him in movies.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) So many questions, Keiron Dwyer is your friend? Did you threaten to beat him up when he told you the horror stories about living with Byrne?Nope. I've never threatened anyone in real life. I was interested in hearing his stories about Bynre.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) How did it feel when Byrne said he loved the flyer mocking you and Joe Zhang?The RACIST flyer whereby me, Matt Reed and Byrne were given our faces, but Joe was some random Asian? And they call BYRNE a racist? We at the JBF agreed that the best thing to do with that flyer was to take it back and make it our own, and claim it was funny. Joke's on you. That's freakin' BRILLIANT!!! Youse guys turned the whole thing right on its head!!! You're like GRANT F'N MORRISON!!!!!1!!1!!!!LO!L!!Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) The highs and the lows, Mike. We have witnessed them all.Or, as I say... you can't take your eyes off me... kind of like a stalker. If you existed in "reality", I'd have a restraining order.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Just because you go back and delete the posts you made threatening people or posts that make you look crazy, doesn't mean it never happened.That's EXACTLY what it means. You've been hanging out with Byrne WAAAAAYYYYY too long, buddy. It was a win-win situation for you stalkers - since there's no evidence, you can say I said whatever you want, and there's no one to say it's true or not. In fact, that charge that I "threated" Dave came from him saying that he felt, and I quote, "vaguely threatened". He himself never said I threatened him. But man, did you stalkers run with it.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Only you and your idol Byrne believes that. And how many times have you threatened to leave the internet forever?In fact, never. Ever. At one point, embarrased at my emotional outburst in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I tried to resign my position as "official historian of the John Byrne Forum", but I was convinced otherwise. Another lie.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) At least you wised up about not doing that anymore.Something I never did in the first place.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) So, your doing ok emotionally this week and you've gone back to your normal task of policing the internet looking for anyone who dares say anything negative about your bestest pal Byrne?No, again. I was steered towards this site and Comicon because a picture of ME was being mocked. Is it so unusual to defend one's self? It is if you look like a snaggle-toothed hose beast.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) I see you got your ass kicked over at Wikepedia, maybe you should just stay on the Byrne board where everything is happy, happy joy, joy because Byrne says it is.I have no idea what you're talking about, nor do I care.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) He even sends you gifts to be his friend. Nothing to complain about there.No, he and I exchange things because we're freindly and have things in common - like I do with all my friends... again... what is this... back-wards land or something? And again, this was brought up because it was somehow suggested that I'm worse off hanging out with Byrne than you lot. Byrne, a guy who is friendly to me, as opposed to you lot, who mock me? Am I the only one who sees that the Emperor is naked? Ummmm . . . the words "Byrne" and "naked" in such close proximity have me feeling a mite queasy.Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Have any more dreams about you and Byrne, where you are his butler?I have no ideas what you're talking about. I've never dreamt about Byrne. Had a doozy last night that involved fishermen, trees and ex's, but... no Byrne. Another lie?Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Why no more new Uatu and I stories?Because they're kind of stupid. You want some more?Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) I do want to thank you and Byrne, Mike. You make the internet a fun place for people like us to read and have something to discuss. You two are never boring.You're a sad bully and stalker. *Waaahhhhh!!!*Quote (ericroth @ Aug. 17 2006,07:13) Look Mike I'm using emoticons. Please don't tell Byrne I'm contributing to the downfall of the English language.Unlike you and your hive-like mentallity, I am free to have my own thoughts solongasthey'reincompleteagreementwithmylordandmasterJohnByrne, and don't care one way or the other about emoticons...or whatever else I'm supposed to believe because Byrne or anyone else does...?I seriously ask you... what do you get out of spreading such lies, about making these absurd non-arguements? About such rampant bullying? *WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!* How are you any better than I, when I, as you note, did the same thing? At least I learned my lesson and don't do it anymore.
You probably will, too, someday.
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A preview of the upcoming Justice League Heroes game.
The good news:
- You can play as big-time DC Comic characters (Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman, and unlockables like the Green Arrow).
- The environment is destructible (though there are limits) and the play is simple and controlled.
- The graphics are solid and playing as The Flash is actually the coolest part.
- You can switch between two characters, upgrade them as they level up, and place socketable traits in your super powers.
- Everyone's unique powers look and feel good.
The bad news:
- Only two controllable characters can be on the screen at any given time. Unlike the aforementioned Legends, I was told by the developer that they thought the Legends style was "confusing," so they wanted to simplify the model.
- It's very plain: And what I mean is that because there are only two characters on the screen at once, the game felt a little dry, even boring at times.
- No online co-op for Xbox users: This could possibly be the biggest no-no of them all.
- No GameCube version which in turn means no playable version on our Wii.
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Well, the guy who popularized the name returns, anyway. And he apparently still has a little left on his 15-minute meter:
I wrote a special new song called 'Firecrotch,' and it's for Lindsay Lohan!" He proceeded to ramble on, reminding folks about his infamous online video rant against the actress, which led to him checking into rehab in the first place. An insider tells us the "Firecrotch" song is real and was produced by Scott Storch, who twiddled knobs on Hilton's album. Sounds like rehab didn't do much for Davis - who was also seen blotto on Sean Combs' yacht in St. Tropez recently.
It's such an unimaginative nickname. But the sheer, unbridled, shameless gusto with which this douchebag kept on screaming it over and over on that online papparazzi video was just priceless.
Man, we really are starved for entertainment in the Information Age, aren't we?
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What? That wasn't enough Firecrotch for you? Fine. Firecrotch's sideboob. Don't say we never did nothing for you.
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Kelly Clarkson. At a "Metal Skool" concert. Chugging Chivas Regal from the bottle. Licking her fingertips and pantomiming nipple rubs.
And the lead hair metal guy wants to skullf- her.
We're not kidding. We could watch this over and over. Sweet Child o' Mine.
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Remember Ron Artest? He's the guy in the dark blue uniform in the center of this melee in Detroit in November 2004:
Well, apparently, he just told a bunch of school kids that he doesn't regret what he did. The worst brawl probably in the history of professional American sports, instigated by his going into the stands, and he doesn't regret a thing about it.
"Someone started trouble and I ended it," Artest told about 50 children Wednesday at a panel on black empowerment at the Judge Mathis Community Center. "I would always encourage you to protect yourself but in certain situations, if you can avoid them, avoid them."
That's right. Ron Artest is a baaaaaaaaaaad man, boys and girls.
Oh, another thing: These comments were made to school children in . . . you guessed it . . . DETROIT. As part of the community service Artest was required to perform following his riot-inciting behavior. Oh, bitter irony. I think I love you.
Ron Artest, talking to children as part of his community service sentence, defended his actions in one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history.. . . .
Artest, Jackson and several teammates were sentenced to one-year probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor assault charges. All were ordered to perform community service, which Artest is scheduled to do in the Detroit area through Sunday.
Apparently, rehabilitation isn't really a big goal of the American criminal system. But then, you probably already knew that.
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They look pretty darn good, acutally.
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With fans already quibbling over the fact that Prime will be a long nose and not a flat nose semi, things get heated quickly.
When the scanner goes out to get the autobot's their alt forms, its gonna have to search for quite a while to find a flat nose, unless you want prime to be one of those tiny trucks used to haul little shipments (like chip company's, bestbuy, or rental moving trucks). You know the kind of truck Megatron could devastate with one simply negligent kick.
You can't argue with logic like this:
The scanner will find a long nose in a matter of minutes.The scanner would also be searching for the BEST vehicle for Prime to turn into. It would be a pretty crappy search if it didn't. If it found a Truck to be a suitable idea, but needed some alternations, it would search for a Truck that was a more suitable shape, and find an old flat nose. That seems reasonable enough to me. At least, if it was intelligent, which I presume it would have to be to reconfigure giant robots.
Or can you?
Until you can learn how to leave a quote in its original thread, I refuse to answer your pathetically flimsy "argument".Actually, I will. You'd come off sounding just a little more respectable if you just came out and said "me want! me waaaaannnnttttt!!!!!!!!!!"
A COE semi will only have appeal to the fan base. The rest of the world will go "What the f*ck, why is this useless relic here?"
The fan base can not support a movie. Not even the Star Wars fan base (arguable the largest sci-fi fan base in the world) can support a movie on their own.
This movie is being made for the average joe, with consideration towards the fans, not free blowjobs. Get the hell over it.
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Millar responds to the news about the Civil War delay. Of course, the response must contain a dig at the distinguished competition.
All I can say is that this is really good of Marvel. Why? Let me explain. Civil War is seven issues long and both the first and last issues were extra-sized. Steve is a pretty fast artist, maybe a nine or ten books a year guy, but he only had a six or seven week head start on this series. Absolutely nothing at all. And it was always going to catch up with him, especially given that 100 characters appear in every issue and it's the most labour-intensive thing he's ever drawn. It also happens to be the BEST work of his career and Marvel could easily-- EASILY-- just done what DC did and stick fill-in guys on the series. In fact, we EXPECTED it for issue five because we knew a lot of titles like FF and so on were tying in.
So, someone asks the obvious question:
If you knew you guys'd run late on the series, why not solicit the first issue a month or two later?
Millar replies:
They just expected a fill-in by issue five or thereabouts. But the thing ended up selling more than twice what they expected and people seem to love it so they wanted to keep Steve on all the issues. Another possibility was starting with a different artist, but I'm glad they went with Steve. He really had NO lead-time with this series worth speaking about and has turned in one of the best looking Marvel books ever.
Which... doesn't really make a lot of sense. Why would Marvel schedule a series knowing there'd be a fill in artist? Why wouldn't they just start soliciting it a month later?
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Marvel announced yesterday that its top selling Civil War title will be significantly delayed. Delayed to the point that crossover tie-ins will also be delayed.
Fans were either pissed:
BS explanation. Great way to kill the series or at least make people stopped to care. What is wrong with the comic book industry now a day. Get artists that can draw fast and stay on schedule. How hard can that be?
Super pissed:
Gee, when Dan Slott is late on a book, Tom Brevoort goes public and humiliates the guy calling him unprofessional http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=80375 but when 'superstars Millar & McNiven are late they get "In an attempt to accommodate the creative team of Millar and McNiven and maintain the artistic integrity..."I call schenanigans!!!!
Or accepting:
Good takes time... I'd rather have a delay to maintain quality that regularly scheduled schlock.
Fans defend:
Yes, damn Millar for getting ill! How inconsiderate of him!
And fans attack:
I'm sorry, but thems the breaks. Laptops can be typed on while on the toilet.
And then fans attack each other:
I'll take your lack of valid points and/or coherant thought not only as an admission of error in this arguement, but also that you've accepted the fact that you are a complete and utter douche.
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I watched it. Now you have to, too. Because I hate you.
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(So okay. We're a day or two late in posting this. So sue us. We've got, y'know, JOBS and shit.)
Ultimate Wasp. So smug. So self-righteous. So Asian. Inscrutable wench.
Oh yeah, you can bet some fanboys understand the urge to pummel her right in her arrogant face!
"never hit a woman in my life but if I were in hanks place I'd probably act the same way since im extremely jealous and low self esteem. atleast im honest""Ah an honest man. dont worry, we all engage in sexual-control fantasies with those who have more power than us.... "
"speak for yourself. not everyone has your demons."
"Please, spare me your hipocracy.
Never voted republican?
Never laughed at a paul verhoeven movie?
Dont you fear terrorists? want to protect yourself from their threat?
Never been angry at someone for slighting you? Never wanted bring in a knife to scare that school bully who pushed you arround?
Its safer in than out, mate. We all have deamons, and those who deny them scare me the most."
Well, I'm happy to report that my fantasies about mutilating Jean Grey only to have to come back to life like some kind of obscene, cosmic stress squeeze toy don't make me abnormal. You guys all do that too, right? Guys?? Guys???
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Isn't there a rule that says if you're going to do a mash-up video and post it on YouTube, it has to (1) be a skilled mash-up and (2) actually be funny.
This is neither of the above. In fact, it's about as far from "skilled" and "funny" as I am from Terrell Owens' abs. Which I don't obsess over. Because I'm pure hetero.
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Yes, we read advice columns. We're giant girls.
Today's "Ask Amy" had a couple of bits that almost got our motor running:
Dear Amy: I need you to help me understand the way I feel.I am an attractive 44-year-old woman.
Four years ago, my 22-year-old daughter married, against my wishes. I felt the young man would not make a good husband, as he has low skills and is working class. They now have 2-year-old twin boys.
And then you NAILED him, right? RIGHT??? Argh. No. Just something about how this woman is ashamed to tell her co-workers that she's a grandmother. Jeez. The whole thing about how she didn't approve of her daughter's marriage and was ashamed of herself was just a giant set-up.
Maybe the next letter will be more promising?
Dear Amy: My husband and I have a close male friend, "James," who is divorced. He is an incredibly kind and giving person.He is 65 with a daughter who lives with her mother and has barely given her father the time of day for years.
And then you SAT ON HIS FACE, right? RIGHT??? Arrrrrrgh. No.
Dammit. Where are the dirty letters of old where people confessed to all sorts of naughtiness?
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Crazy bastards. X-Games wipeouts.
Ouch.
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The pure, unabashed "I'm too sexy" egoism demonstrated in the following posts demand public ridicule. Over at the Bendis Boards, "Ray" posts the following story of having encountered a drunken bachelorette party on a train in New Jersey (in a thread that he sub-titled "SKANKS ON A TRAIN!"):
So, today when I was coming back from Redbank on the NJ Coast train, about eight women, all obviously drunk out of their minds, stumbled on the train. One was wearing a low-cut fake wedding dress and veil, and holding a giant stuffed penis. They took turns signing the stuffed penis. Then they all took pictures of them putting the giant stuffed penis next to their mouths. Then when the conductor came over, they had him pose for a picture with the giant stuffed penis. Then they started loudly talking about how on the day before the wedding, they were going to get the bride laid as many times as humanly possible.This was at 4 PM, on a Saturday train filled with children coming back from the shore. I think they gave an old woman a heart attack. I excused myself before I was deemed to be man-meat, and got off at the next stop.
Why does this wierd shit always happen to me? Fairer sex my ass. My mental picture of bachelorette parties has been forever changed.
Another poster politely asks what-the-f%^$ got stuck up Ray's butt:
I usually see a few dozen of these gaggles of phallic symbol clutching packs of ladies roving hither and non every Spring/Summer.
To which Ray responds:
This is scary. Have you ever been captured by one? I barely escaped.
So it wasn't the drunken vulgarity Ray objected to. It's the looming threat the drunken bachelorettes presented to his own bad self. After all, they were drunk and he was hunky.
Ray says:
I'm sure this will not be my last encounter.
No, of course it won't. You giant, irresistable mound of man-meat, you. I'm getting a little moist just typing this. Going to need a moment or two alone, please.
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One picture, every day since November 1, 2001.
Edit (8/12/06 10:30 a.m.): Apparently, the video has been removed from YouTube. You can find it here on the Atom Films site. Just click on "Watch Film" on the left-hand menu. (You'll have to wait through an ad.)
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Anyone remember the story about Britney Spears's poolboy? The guy who was fired for being too friendly with K-Fed and spending too much time hanging out with him? The guy who's the son of fitness icon Jack Lalanne?
Of course you don't. We're the only ones around here that care about Britney-Paris-Firecrotch gossip. Or are we? What are you doing reading this, anyway?
Well, admit it. When you read the word "poolboy," heard that he was "too friendly" with that douchebag who clearly married for the money, and discovered he was the son of a fitness guru, your mind immediately started thinking naughty and dirty thoughts, didn't it? You had visions of a shirtless, hairless boytoy in ripped jeans, skimming the pool while flexing his biceps and six-pack, didn't you? It's okay. You can admit it. We won't tell.
Well, PinkIsTheNewBlog.com has tracked down a photo of the young stud, and it's after the jump.
Stay classy.
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Over at the Bendis Boards, even loyal Bendis Boys don't buy that the New Avengers' Ronin was always intended to be Echo in disguise. The respond to this post, which is purportedly by Bendis:
Leneil's first issue…the biggest question people have had about Ronin is how she's been shown as a guy, but is a hot girl - all of that will be answered. All of that was planned from the beginning. This story unfolds from her point of view, and then breaks into Elektra and the Hand fighting the new New Avengers. Yes I know - it's the 'new New.'
And that opens the floodgates. The second response in that thread says:
I love Bendis, but I'll never ever buy that this was planned from the beginning.
They're onto you, bald man!
there was no reason at all for a woman (echo) to have to dress up, and to have to dress up as a man on top of that- she is virtually unkown in the marvel universe except to the kingpin (who was in jail at the time) and has no reason to hide her identity as a ninja named ronin, let alone a ninja who looks like a man.
Not to mention the fact that absolutely no information we were given about this character prior to this arc would suggest ANY connection to the Hand or the Japanese mafia, that she would be enough of an expert in them to take on this mission, let alone stay and monitior the situation for the Avengers.
Hey, this guy's saying you don't know your kung-fu from your ben-wa and your wang! You suck, Bendis!!!
What I'll be interested in seeing is why she would still continue to be "Ronin" after her little Japanese adventure. She already has an alter ego in Echo, and I think she's much more interesting visually as that character. I don't know why she would even call herself Ronin, unless she's been training or pretending to be a former samurai (who uses nunchucks for some reason). I'm pretty sure Maya learned her martial arts by watching and copying Jackie Chan movies.
And, as always, let's finish strong:
I'll be honest, I was fairly upset to see such a cool character like Ronin turn out to be a chick
Us too, man. F'n bitches, am I right? HIGH-FIVE!!!
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In other news, Chip Zdarsky has hijacked Warren Ellis's "The Engine" forum.
He posts a declaration of his manifest destiny:
Here's the skinny, the straight dope.My name is Chip Zdarsky. I woke up today with my face stuck to the pillow, a byproduct of my strangely mucousy tears and/or my mischieviously sexual roommate. I flossed my face and combed my hair over the four bald spots and stepped out into the world.
A.J. (Arson Junkie), the homeless lady who lives just outside my apartment, greeted my arrival into the bustling world with fire, as she always does. The refuse container across from us had smoke billowing out of its orifices and I just turned to her and smiled. "It's going to be a good day, A.J," I said. She responded with her charcoal grin and told me to go fuck myself, as she always does.
What does this have to do with The Engine? Not much I suppose. Just that life is good and my home is always seconds away from burning down and while I have places I visit online, nothing feels quite like MY home. One where I can do whatever I want while my real home goes up in flames.
So, I decided to m
