Gears of Ghostbusters War 2
May 09Anybody that gets Spike TV, but isn’t interested in Ultimate Fighting, may finally have a use for it – tonight on Game Trailers TV, they’re showing exclusive first look footage of Gears of War 2 and more importantly, the Ghostbusters video game. Hell, I may even live blog it. Just so I can say I live-blogged once.
MARK PLUG!
May 08This week’s episode of The Sound of Young America podcast has Mark Evanier in the studio to talk about his new book Kirby: King of Comics. This is a double threat, as you should already be listening to TSoYA anyhow, and any chance to learn a bit more about Jack Kirby is always a good investment. Check it out.
In a world without Harry Potter…
May 07
Thank you blog Don LaFontaine, for that subject line…
It turns out I’m really, really late to this party – after just discovering the first book by Jim Butcher, Storm Front, I find that there are 10 books in the series. There was a TV series on Sci-Fi. And a comic book is supposed to come out any time now, if it hasn’t already. But it’s not my fault – you see, I only found out about it the other day, when Buffy alum (and creator of The Guild) Felicia Day interviewed author Patrick Rothfuss, who in turn gave a shout out to Jim Butcher. So, really, when you think about it, it’s Felicia’s fault that I didn’t find out about this sooner.
The concept is stupidly simple. I could say “Harry Potter meets Moonlighting” or something like that, or “What if Angel were a wizard instead of a vampire?”, but it would do Butcher a bit of a disservice – mixing noir with magic has been done before, but not always well, and not always with legs.
Free Comic Book Day gave a small taste of IDW’s upcoming comic series and I’m scrambling to find the TV series, but in the meantime, I’m going through the books as best I can. My initial reaction – so far, not bad. My interest remains, though I’m not completely hooked yet. But then, things haven’t gotten too harry yet… I mean, hairy.
The Marvel Initiative
May 03If you haven’t seen Iron Man yet, do yourself a big favour – sit through the credits. Your thanks can be sent to me in the form of small cash remunerations via PayPal. If you have seen it and you didn’t sit through the credits (and if my showing was any indication, about 95% of you didn’t) I’m sorry. You missed out. You will, in time, through sheer internet osmosis, find out what you missed, and you will be sad. Very sad. You might want to check out YouTube, quick. It may help.
For those of you, my brothers and sisters, who stayed… HOW FRAKING AWESOME WAS THAT?
I will expound shortly – as this is the harbinger of some big things in comic movies – but for the moment, everyone should have a chance to go see the movie
