Extra! Extra! Alert Nerdian for February '08!
Feb 08
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Well, we’re continuing our experimentation with a Warren Ellis brainchild – or attempting to start a footrace with our favs at Ectoplasmosis (we’s gots two now slowpokes!) Though to be fair, Ectomo had a cool contest, and that takes time.
Here is the second issue of the Alert Nerdian broadside. As always, we encourage you to print a copy or two (or ten) out and share with the world. Leave them in the office lunch room or on a bus seat. It’s up to you!
The plan will be to formally publish a year’s bushel of broadsides along with our upcoming Alert Nerd quarterly ‘zine – which is looking for clever people, it should be said.
Until next month… LOOK OUT! NERDS!
Star Trek: The Tour…Worth Your Latinum?
Feb 06Star Trek has taken so much of my money over the years. Granted, this is mostly my fault — I didn’t really need that shoddy plastic Kira replica with the oddly-sloped shoulders and buggy eyes (she looked nothing like Nana Visitor and almost exactly like a vaguely pissed-off duck with a drinking problem), nor should I have spent my hard-earned pennies on the masses of out-of-focus 8×10 glossies littering the tables at Creation cons. And yet, I still nurse a certain nerdly bitterness regarding the franchise’s fan-bilking ways. After all, if I’m going to dump latinum into Paramount’s overflowing coffers, the least they can do is give me a better show than Enterprise.
Anyway, when I first heard about Star Trek: The Tour, I was skeptical. Admission is $35 (and much more if you want the full VIP Experience!) and for what? What are they going to show me that I haven’t seen before, huh? I envisioned a room full of crappy props connected to an even larger Star Trek shop, the whole thing narrated by a virtual Walter Koenig.
But then my friend John Charles happened to catch a 3 a.m. promo hosted by everyone’s favorite lusty carnival barker, The Shatner, and he got all excited about it. And I decided maybe I was excited about it, too, because another thing Star Trek does really well is, you know, hype. So, with spouses in tow, off we went.
Blah blah blah comics blah (2/6)
Feb 06In this edition: Most of the same titles I write about all the damn time, because I have no interest in picking up random crap just to complain about it online. I can complain just fine about the carefully selected crap I purchase on a regular basis, thank you very much.
ALERT NERD EXCLUSIVE: ULTIMATES 3 #1 GETS SHITTY XEROX VARIANT
Feb 06Press Release
It’s the ultimate comic book event of the year and now Ultimates 3 is back like you’ve never seen it before! In Ultimates 3 #1 Shitty Xerox Variant, the sold-out smash hit from Eisner award-winning scribe Jeph Loeb and superstar artist Joe Madureira returns as a poorly-copied version of the original! Generated on a twenty-year-old copier from the local public library that leaks toner, this special variant edition also features the same dialogue and jaw-dropping plot that forever changed the Ultimate Universe! This issue also features Madureira’s now classic wraparound covers replaced by xeroxes of my ass, depicting the Ultimate Universe heroes heading towards a climactic battle with their enemies, the Brotherhood!
“What a wonderful gift for the fans of the book,” says Loeb. “Joe’s artwork looks great in color, but to see a poorly copied naked ass wrapped around a shitty xerox copy of this already piss-poor comic is a mindblowing!
“No, that’s not a typo,” continues Loeb. “A mindblowing is when your mind gets some choice blowjobbery, preferably from a spicy prostitute picked up just over the Mexican border. I have a few phone numbers if you’re interested.”
As the March On Ultimatum continues, don’t miss your chance to experience one of the year’s most controversial comics of the year!
That’s not a typo either! This comic is one of the year’s most controversial comics of the year, this year, not next year, and in 2008 as well!
Just why has one of the Ultimates’ most powerful members been targeted for death? And who—or what—is the object of Venom’s quest? AND WHO GIVES A SHIT???
It all begins in Ultimates 3 #1…and you’ve never seen it brought to life like this before!
ULTIMATES 3 #1 (of 5) SHITTY XEROX VARIANT GATEFOLD PHOTOCOPIED ASS COVERS (DEC078168)
Written by JEPH LOEB
Pencils by JOE MADUREIRA
Gatefold Ass would make a great band name
Parental Advisory …$2.99
FOC—2/21/08, On-Sale—3/12/08
Related: ULTIMATES 3 #1 GETS BLACK AND WHITE VARIANT – NEWSARAMA
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Feb 04I think George Khoury gushes a wee bit too effusively over The Killing Joke, but there’s some interesting quotes and insights from Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, and Denny O’Neill in his latest column for Comic Book Resources.
