Videos!
Jul 23Too hot? It’s too hot here, otherwise I’d sleep. If you’re up like I am, how about some good stuff to watch? (these also function very well as a way to avoid work, come Monday.)
First up, Mike Mignola’s Amazing Screw-on Head has been turned into an animated show on SciFi. Paul Giamatti does the voice of Screw-on Head and David Hyde Pierce is awesome as Emperor Zombie. It’s very, very funny and very, very Mignola – all at once. Zombies. And best of all, SciFi is letting you watch the pilot episode online for free.
And in the human catagory, I’d like to direct you to a couple of friends of mine, who wrote, directed, and produced this fantastic comedy short called Hooped. It’s been a best kept secret in Vancouver for a few years, but thanks to iFilm and now, even better, YouTube, the world can see it for themselves – just don’t watch it at work with the speakers on. You WILL want to listen using headphones. Language prudes need not apply either.
Hooboy.
Jul 20Marvel has been publishing these great Marvel Universe codex-style books, but each one focuses on a particular decade – I picked up the 1970s issue to check it out. So much great stuff. Bios for favorites like The Punisher and Power Man, as well as bizarre rarieties, like Hellcow and Hypno-Hustler. Sooo cheesy good.
The book also takes a look at groups that existed in the 70s and covers their 70s exploits in broad terms – Power Man replaced The Thing in the Fantastic Four, so that’s covered. The exploding roster size of The Avengers was covered, for example. And The Lady Liberators were covered;
The short version can be found online, though I’d recommend the book account as it has more pictures. Here’s my super-short version. Amora the Enchantress appears as Valkyrie and convinces the women members of The Avengers to overthrow their male oppressors – they head off to where the male avengers are fighting the Masters of Evil. They stomp the Masters and then proceed to stomp the Avengers. The whole plot comes out when the Enchantress turns on the Liberators.
Once he wakes up from his thumping, Giant-man chides the women for dabbling in Women’s Lib. The Scarlett Witch retorts, “That’s what you think– male chauvinist pig! One of these days, the Liberators will stage a comeback– right, Jan?”
And they lived happily ever after, until Hank Pym beat Jan, and Wanda (the Scarlett Witch) marries a robot, has two imaginary kids, and goes insane. Sheesh. Nice try, Marvel – whatever it was you were trying. The background of the Valkyrie bears some repeating, but I’ll leave that for another day.
"I have a peculiar taste in these matters."
Jul 20As Sarah pointed out earlier, the Holmes Trooper actually posted a comment to our site. Then Sarah’s post went away. Then his comment went away. Then I went away, drank heavily, returned, beat my computer with a baseball bat, and then everything was working – better yet, I found copies of everyone’s stuff in some cache files. Hooray!
The Trooper’s post is particularly notable, as you can buy Holmes Trooper schwag from Cafe Press – Heeeeee! And better yet, I’ve discovered they have MySpace pages. Fuck Tom, I want THEM on my friend list (sorry Tom.)
SPINS A WEB, ANY SIZE!
Jul 19I fixed it, I fixed it! Holy shit!
I wrestled with the php and the mysql and the satan, and I won!
Time for a victory dance! Take it away Spidey!
Fixing the style bugs that are bugging Matt is next – but they’re easy.
Wanted: Someone to come and kill me
Jul 14Initially intrigued by Stan The Man’s upcoming Who Wants to be a Superhero on Sci Fi, I realized right away that there was a very narrow margin in which this should could succeed – I didn’t know what that margin would be, but it would be narrow. The concept was goofy, just so goofy it might work, so I was rooting for it. But…
Now that I’ve seen the website, and read through the hero profiles, I need someone to come and kill me. I’m a coward – or maybe I’m not programmed to self-terminate. It doesn’t matter, the consequences are the same. I don’t want to see this show and can’t take matters into my own hands. Please help.
“The only living thing that can withstand is Death Punch is The Hulk.” Fuckin’ A for Banner. Verily, it sucks to be Thor.
