Biggest Geek News of the Week
Apr 21So J.J. Abrams is doing a new Star Trek film, based on the early adventures of Kirk and Spock. My brain, she goes like this: “Oh, yes…oh, no.” Because combining an awesome geek creator like J.J. with Star Trek is something akin to nerd nirvana, but doing a film with younger versions of Kirk and Spock? Iconic characters played by actors who are not Shatner and Nimoy? That just seems…not right. And like a recipe for disaster. I don’t know. I’m all in a tizzy.
The new Dr. Who has amazing, scary teeth…
Apr 21… and reminds me of Ed Grimley at times (mostly when he grins.)
iToo much fun
Apr 20So, I’m perusing JList (I need me some of that Final Fantasy potion drink, but the damn stuff is ‘spensive) and I notice that they’re selling iTunes pre-paid cards. iTunes is now operating in Japan and since you can’t buy music from other countries (unless you have a credit card issued from there – LAME!), you can use these cards instead. Awesome idea. But what was even better was that it basically reminded me that I can log-out of my Canadian account, switch to the Japanese store, and listen to all their stuff!
So far, the collection of iJockey albums is hilarious – I can’t understand a word they’re saying, but they appear to be collections of people saying things to you, things meant to cheer you up. My favorite is Manly Poems, with Cheer up with Verbal Wine a close second. I wish I knew what they were saying.
Anybody finds anything good on any iTunes store from any other country, share. In fact, let’s make it a thread.
Snap Judgment: Smallville
Apr 20Why is Lionel Luthor trapped in Saw III? Only with Doctor Doom? This show has always had a slight element of dorkiness and generally, that dorkiness is endearing. Now I feel it has gone in the direction of FULL-ON DORKINESS. Honestly. Are we really to believe that sexy Lex is in lurve with a glassy-eyed, hushy-tone talking blank slate like Lana? And that awesomely devious Lionel is being forced to play with plastic letters by some jerkwad with a voice modulator?
I guess they had to go in this direction at some point, but I miss the simpler times, with all the extreme gayness between Lex and Clark. Where have all those smoldering, longing looks gone? Sigh.
Oh, wait…longing looks are HAPPENING. “It’s a shame isn’t it…it takes a crisis like this to get us in the same room together.” Uh huh.
IC, You C, We All C
Apr 20Pencil versions of the covers for Infinite Crisis #7 have hit ye olde intrarwebs.
I’m kinda trying to wait to judge the whole of this nonsense until it’s all out and done. I’m also untangling any true critical reaction from the adolescent fanboy glee of it all. Four miniseries! Every hero and villain ever! THE DC UNIVERSE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!
But sometimes I think I like the IDEA of Infinite Crisis more than the execution. It’s certainly ambitious, and there have without a doubt been some drop-dead cool moments throughout.
At the same time, whole chunks of it–the Rann-Thanagar War miniseries, parts of Infinite Crisis itself–have felt unessential and/or crappy. I guess that’s how life works; everything can’t be guns and roses.
You’d think, though, that with years to plan and execute this MAJOR EVENT, their shit would be so tight that each issue would bounce when dropped on the floor. Instead, we get rotating pencilers, scenes that have occasionally felt shoehorned into an otherwise coherent story, minor plot threads that will probably dangle forever (how DID Superboy-Prime build a goddamned set of Anti-Monitor armor on an ABANDONED PLANET?!), and thus, the occasional sense that we’ve been had, as we always are, by shiny covers and that cold, sweaty completist vibe that has defined the industry for decades.
WikiWikiWhack: Fanboy, Anti-Monitor
