Archive for December, 2007
Final Post of 2007 - Happy Holidays!
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting and don’t forget to tip your waitress!!Another semi-geek thing that I’m into are podcasts, especially podcast novels. I may sit down and write a post one day spotlighting my favorites, but there are two specific podcast novelists [...]
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X-Men Messiah Complex Still Going Strong
In contrast to Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul, Messiah Complex not only lives up to expectations, it exceeds them. The storyline is full of fan service and interesting plot developments; although some of the more understated points, like Rahne and Warpath - both former members of Cable’s X-Force team - being on the team [...]
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For The Love of Quickies
Okay, Folks, I just took some time to sift through some news reading backlog (I swear, a day will come when I don’t have any reading backlogs - comics, news, or otherwise) and found some interesting stuff, so I’m just going to rock you with one post full of quick hits.
First up, via the Blog [...]
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Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul Is The Biggest Disappointment Of 2007
Warning: Here thar be spoilers!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I owe you an apology. Based solely on my love of Batman and respect for Paul Dini and Co, I hyped the Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul storyline like nobody’s business. I talked about how I don’t know much about al Ghul, but everything I had [...]
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This is Why I Love The Boys (and Why Some May Hate It)
Ladies and gentlemen, the following full-page panel from The Boys issue 13 may be simultaneously the most glorious and most horrendous thing I have ever seen in a comic, and that is saying a lot.
Parents, you may want to shield your children’s eyes or send them to another room, this image could give them nightmares:
I [...]
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Damien The Red-Nosed Reindeer
This really has nothing to do with comics, but I thought it was an excellent piece of video editing.
tag: Christmas, Damien, Rudolph, Mashup, Omen, video, youtube
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More Administrivia
Hi again, Folks.
Visitors to the site might notice that things look a bit different. It would appear that I didn’t do enough research into moving a wordpress blog onto a self-hosted platform and I’m learning that themes are a bit more complicated now.
Try to be patient with me and I’ll get everything prettified again [...]
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A Small Request
If you’re subscribed to the RSS feed through wordpress (in other words, if you subscribed more than an hour before this post), please visit the site and subscribe through feedburner via the link at the top of the right column or by just clicking on this link right here. I’m going to be changing some [...]
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Necessary Evil Promotional Webcomic
Remember when I did a review on Necessary Evil Issue 1? I still haven’t found a copy of the second issue, but the guys behind the Necessary Evil comic have released a webcomic written by Joshua Williamson and drawn by Jason Ho to promote the book.
Desperado Publishing will release Issue 3 on January 3rd, [...]
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A Taste for the Theatrical FINALLY Live with The Dark Knight Trailer
Ok, folks, if you go to A Taste For The Theatrical and click the “download now” link, you will be redirected to the trailer for The Dark Knight, the new Batman sequel.
Enjoy it, I’m off to do the same.
tag: A Taste For The Theatrical, The Dark Knight, Trailer, Batman, Joker
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