A Styrofoam container showed up at my desk the other day. It looked like an ice chest, and it was filled with all kinds of goodies. Both normal and grotesque. And it was enough to get me more than a little giddy about the upcoming movie Repo Men:
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Let me walk you through my …
PunisherMax #5
I think I’ve been predictable enough to put all five issues of this series on my pull list posts. I can’t apologize for it. This character study of the Kingpin has been on point. The pace is perfect and it’s punctuated by scenes of intense violence that only Big Pun could deliver. This issue marks the end of the arc and …
Dibs on Olivia Wilde and the girl in white.
So no, Up in the Air didn’t win best picture Sunday night. And I sort of thought that was a shame (in my year-end top ten list, it was the only movie to beat out Avatar for my top slot).
But the movie is out on DVD and Blu-Ray today, so you can now see what all the critical clamoring was about around the holidays, when the George …
Besides his career as an actor and comedian, Patton Oswalt has written a handful of comic books. His latest, coming out later this year, will be a Serenity one-shot, drawn by Patric Reynolds, focusing on Alan Tudyk’s character Wash from Joss Whedon’s space western. (The image you’re seeing below is the public debut of Frank Stockton’s …
Monday, Mar. 8, 2010
Today in Techland: Were you one of about a bajillion folks to see Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland this weekend? Even if you weren’t, check out this week’s Freeze Frame which focuses in on Johnny Depp’s amazing Mad Hatter performance.
We also mapped out this week’s must-haves in comics, nursed our Oscar …
You know there’s nothing I like more than a little monster-infused anything. That said, it’s no surprise that I love these paintings that have been snatched up from thrift stores and flea markets and altered to include dinosaurs, killer robots and giant squids. I think it’s an improvement, really.
(Via The Daily What)
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In Greek mythology, mortals usually ascend to godhood for acts of great valor or sacrifice, like Hercules enduring the torment of his 12 labors. Kratos, hero of Sony’s God of War franchise, snatched his divinity from Ares in the series’ first game. In the second game, Zeus kicked the angry warrior off Olympus for showing favor to his …
This morning, DC announced that J. Michael Straczynski would be writing Superman and Wonder Woman beginning in July, with issues #701 and #601, respectively (apparently preceded by previews in June’s anniversary issues). That’s now been followed by a kind of statement of purpose by Straczynski, which amounts to “here’s why I love …