Hey gang, things have been a bit slow around here today because I'm working on some freelance and a longer Halloween Scene based on Simon Oliver's Exterminators, so look for that before midnight. In the meantime, I found some fun links today.
My buddy Jim McCann has a new comic coming out called The Return Of The Dapper Men with artist Janet Lee from Archaia. If you're friends with Jim on Facebook this is old news as he's been posting the crap out of it lately :) (via CBR)
In other comics news, James Robinson will be returning to Starman with Starman #81, part of a skip week event that ties into Blackest Night and resurrects canceled books. According to this story on CBR, Robinson says Jack Knight won't be in it, but look for the supporting characters both dead and alive to make appearances. Here's hoping they can get Tony Harris or Peter Snejbjerg to work on the art.
And finally, in science news that may become apocryphal, there's a theory that the Large Hadron Collider is having so many problems because the future is trying to stop scientists from looking at one of the fundamental particles of existence because we're not supposed to see it. Crazy right? And you thought mini black holes were the only potential problems with this thing. (via io9)
First off, I just wanted to thank everyone for coming to the site, as of today I've gotten 5,007 hits since the site launched in April. I hope you guys are enjoying this as much as I am. I was planning on updating the site away from the basic Blogger template, but since I'm no longer employed, that will have to wait. Do keep an eye out for a brand new logo coming your way soon and a few other original art do-dads.
A lot's been going on and I'm still playing catch up, but I wanted to link to a few things I've seen on the net lately.
First off, check out Rickey's awesome Patrick Swayze tribute. He's planning on doing a different Swayze drawing every day for the rest of this month and I can't think of a better tribute to a dude we both loved.
In lighter news, the Brickehousebunny21/Topless Robot/WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS shenanigans got kicked up a notch today as Brickehousebunny21 threatened Rob with "Everyone here is in trouble now..." Do yourself a favor and read the full post and if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can get all the info you need from this post I did yesterday.
In Wires Science news, a couple of college students built a camera that took pictures of the edge of space for under $150. Kinda makes me wish I had a knack for science. Also, here's a picture of a girl in zero gravity sporting a Supergirl costume. I didn't really readthe article, but that's a rad pic.
Over on Enemy of Peanuts, Jim posted some pictures from All Points West, looks like it would have been a lot of fun and I'm super jealous of him for getting to see Jay-Z live even if he was replacing the Beastie Boys. I gotta see Hova one of these days.
Meanwhile, over at The Cool Kids Table, Ben's been posting like crazy, whether it's about the original Suicide Squad run (a great book he turned me on to), the X-Men arcade game (in the top 3 up there with TMNT and The Simpsons) or going away presents that former and formerly former ToyFare staffers got (awesome custom toys), it's all goodness.
And finally, a note to the ladies, if you're going to kiss Captain Kirk, watch out for that last step, it's a doozey:
According to Toy News International, I'll have a second chance to score a Masters of the Universe Classics Skeletor figure! Here's my second chance to get a Skeletor!
Wired says I'm screwed for multitasking. Maybe that's why my brain completely shuts down and I just sit staring at my desk for minutes at a time without being able to remember what I was furiously doing a second ago. Not good...
Kiel's Linko XIX post brought this amazing blog to my attention. It's a whole blog dedicated to people drawing in Jack Kriby's style called Kirby-Vision.
My buddy Alex of DC's The Source, runs down a bunch of comics sites "you should bookmark immediately" in a guest blog over at PopCandy. UnitedMonkee must have JUST missed the cut :)
And finally, a group of friends and I have been kicking around Weezer memories lately, which got me thinking about back in 2002 when Maladroit came out and I drove two hours home from Delaware, Ohio to Toledo to buy the record at midnight the day it came out at my beloved and now long gone Boogie Records. New-at-the-time Weezer bass player Scott Shriner was also from Toledo and it happened that his dad was at Boogie picking up his own copy of the record. Someone snapped a pic and sent it to Weezer.com and it just so happened that I was in it! Em's there too, though she does not care and I'm talking to my friend who got me into Weezer, but he didn't make the shot. I couldn't find the picture anywhere, so I sent an email to Karl at Weezer.com and before the day was through he sent it to me. Thanks Karl. Here's the pic (this is as big as it gets):
I gathered most of these links last Friday, but got a bit lazy and haven't posted them till today. They're still worth a look, I think.
This one's from today and it's about Tarantino's movie universes. Apparently there's some linkage between Inglorious Basterds and the Tarantino-written True Romance. Very cool. And as I've said before (when I've incorrectly guessed the release date of the movie at least twice) I can't wait for this movie. (via /Film)
A week or two back, BC at Horror Movie A Day reviewed Sea Beast, which I watched and had nearly identical thoughts on. Instead of posting a similar review, I figured I'd just link to his.
Ben Morse has posted all of his ridiculously awesome Nova sketchbook here, here and here. Everyone's talking about how cool the Jim Lee one, which is totally true, but I think Ethan Van Sciver's (below) is my favorite.
According to DC's The Source blog, John Carpenter wrote the intro to Steve Niles and Kelley Jones' Gotham After Midnight trade. I talked about this crazy awesome horror comics here, but lost track of the rest of the issues and can't wait to read it in trade.
I never knew what it was called, but I've always loved the "cut/slide" moment in a movie (usually horror). It's the part where after someone gets sliced in some manner, their diced body part slowly slides down the line of the cut. Thanks to /Film for explaining and drawing my attention to this highly violent video.
Wired posted this awesome picture of an early concept model of the Apollo lander. I love this kind of stuff. I wonder if these dudes were heavily into sci-fi.
Here's another one from Wired.com's science pages, a group of Canadian mathematicians developed an equation for dealing with a zombie outbreak. As someone who has figured out the best place to hole up given several locations in my daily life (the Palisades Mall is number 1 if you can get it fortified, it even has an ice rink!), I can definitely appreciate these guys trying and succeeding to get credit for such geekery.
Finally, check out the "10 Horrible Paintings from Atari 2600 Game Box Art" list over at Topless Robot, as always, it's a hoot.
Oh, DO go on.
I haven't done one of these big link posts before, but I finally got caught up on all my Google Reader posts from the past week and heard some pretty rad news and saw some cool videos today and just wanted to share them with you, so enjoy! I've been holding off on buying the Kill Bill DVDs for YEARS now. I freaking love those movies and they're the only Tarantino movies I love and haven't bought yet, because I've been hearing rumors of the Whole Bloody Affair version. Well, according to /Film, it's finally happening. Quentin just wanted to finish some additional animated sequences that he wrote to the O-Ren anime stuff. Can't say I really care about that, but I'm just looking forward to having this bad boy on my shelf finally, so I don't have to wait until TNT plays the two movies back-to-back. Also, Inglourious Basterds opens this weekend and I'm super psyched, regardless of my thoughts on Death Proof.
As you know, I love Kevin Smith and have been jonesing for a Smodcast (his podcast with Scott Mosier, usually) and finally got a new one this week. Listening to it told me three very interesting things. 1. Mosier and Jim Mahfood pitched a cartoon that got picked up for a pilot (or something). 2. Smith's latest film A Couple of Dicks (which will probably get renamed) will be finished filming soon. 3. Mosier's writing an action movie! Crazy. They also talk about the latest Harry Potter movie. I'd much rather hear them talk about it than actually watch it.
There's this group of artists in Philly called The Autumnal Society who are doing a show that opens soon (maybe today) focusing entirely on art based on video games. Check it out!
Last night I watched a portion of Discovery Channel's Raging Planet - Lightning in HD and it was freaking amazing. Em watched the one about tornados and also dug it, but I was busy updating my Sequential Swap page.
I haven't talked about Tony Jaa's Ong Bak or The Protector on UM, but I freaking love those movies, but Rob over at Topless Robot may just be right when he says that the girl in this movie called Raging Phoenix may top Jaa. It looks sick. Those Thai folks really know how to kick ass.
And finally, this one's from last week. Again from Topless Robot, this is a video of Star Wars characters from the Disney Star Wars Weekend dancing (originally from College Humor). Rob didn't like it so much, but I laughed my ass off. There really is nothing like a Stormtrooper getting down.
Thanks to the good folks at /Film I heard that Lost co-creator and producer/director extraordinaire J.J. Abrams (a fellow initialate) is the acting guest editor of this month's issue of Wired. So, being a huge geek, of course I picked it up. I was slightly familiar with Wired thanks to my time living with Rickey Purdin. He's one of the biggest purchasers of magazines I know. As a producer of magazines, I'm thankful for his ilk, even though I give him copies of ToyFare for free. Anyway, he always had a good stock of Wireds in the bathroom and I would...partake when the opportunity presented itself.
Anyway, I'm only through the initial news bits in the beginning of the mag and haven't gotten to the features yet (that's magazine lingo for articles), but this is a great magazine. It's a great mix of science and entertainment. Plus, a friend and colleague from the good old days at Ohio Wesleyan Jen Trolio has a bit in there called "Life's Secret Codes" on page 20. I completely freaked out when I saw her name in the byline and then got really jealous, but mostly it's cool to see someone else from my incredibly boring Journalism 110 (and also a fellow first semester freshman in a class full of upperclassmen) doing something in the magazine world.
Employment of friends aside, I'm also really impressed with the clean design sense of the magazine. It never feels cluttered even when there are a ton of elements on the page. I was also impressed with how easy to understand even the more complicated articles and sidebars. Plus, I haven't come across any spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors, which does the tiny editor part of my heart good.
But hey, if you're even remotely interested in science or like Star Trek and Lost, you should probably grab this issue and dive in. I think I'm going to get a subscription. It's about time I start doing my part for the industry that I make my living off of.
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