The story could have covered more ground, Xeni.
Apr 07But then, she’s not promoting comics as a whole, just certain comics. Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has a thing for promoting the work of her comic friends (cool) – in this case, her pal Matt Fraction has a comic, Five Fists of Science coming out, which is a more adventurous take on Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison (who is the bad guy, if I understand correctly.)
If she’d been a true comic nerd, should would have also recommended Tales From the Bully Pulpit, in which Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison travel through time and space fighting Nazis, Martians, and Nazi Martians.
Then there’s JLA: Age of Wonder, in which the iconic league characters are transposed over top the birth of the industrial age, with appearances by Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. The two-parter covers a lot of deep waters, looking at progress and its relationship to war, social unrest, and why Lex Luthor has no hair.
Me – picking up where Jardin left off, since… well, now.
Call Jerry Bruckheimer!
Apr 07I don’t wanna miss a thing!
Study finds two supermassive black holes spiraling toward collision
A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiraling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
It's-a him, Mario!
Apr 07Anybody else dripping with excitement over New Super Mario Bros.?
Release date was 5/15, then 5/22, and now seems to be back to 5/15.
Whatever gaming nonsense I occasionally get myself wrapped up into, I always seem to return to the Mario side-scrollers. They’re just my style. So a brand new one, with 3D graphics, on the DS? I’m SO there.
Welcome to Eltingville – better late than never
Apr 06Canadian fans of Evan Dorkin (or Americans who missed out the first time around), rejoice – some kind soul has posted the Welcome to Eltingville cartoon pilot to YouTube. The pilot was intended to become part of the Cartoon Network Adult Swim line-up, but sadly didn’t make it, which is a shame as I think it would have found an audience after a few more episodes.
As it happens, YouTube is nerd paradise, as you can also watch Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn’s Super Nerd pilot for Comedy Central, Joss Whedon’s Buffy pilot (dusting vampires using a four frame transition!), and Pryde of the X-men (so… many… bad Marvel cartoons). And those are whole episodes of geek shows. The sheer volume of clips, opening credits, and commercials for shows from around the world, not to mention whole episodes of non-geek shows (unless your a geek FOR those shows) is stunning.
Please. Stop with the photorealistic fur.
Apr 06Was watching American Idol last night (yeah, I watch it–what’s it TO ya?!) and caught a commercial for a film that I believe is titled Over the Hedge.
What is it? Guess.
Right! It’s another computer animated film featuring talking animals voiced by smartass celebrities!
I get that Ice Age was a big success. I get that Ice Age 2 opened HUGE. I get that talking animals have been a staple of animation since Bambi screamed about his dead…sorry, no spoilers.
But these movies look pretty shitty, so let’s see something NEW. Like animated cars.
What? Pixar’s doing an animated car movie? This very summer? Righteous.
