Not sure if white dudes can really rock this…but hey, here’s a brilliantly brutal tshirt celebrating the greatest TV show of all time. Don’t think your little emo mall punk brother will be carrying this out of Hot Topic anytime soon.
Saints be praised - there’s a new Milk and Cheese strip, and it’s online FREE!
Ah, is there anything more satisfying than intelligent, ferocious rage?
We’re gonna try to draw the Iron Man coverage to (more or less) a close today with this little link. Michael Cho, of the Toronto Chos, has been quietly stockpiling Iron Man illustrations from an impressive array of illustrative talents, displaying them on his blog for all to see. There’s enough good stuff in there to help you waste at least 15-30 minutes of your Friday away once the boss heads “home” early for that “dentist appointment” on the back nine.
Man I love Sesame Street, and even though it first aired before I was born, I still remember some of these from the constant reruns. Some of them are a little foreign though - I do NOT remember ever seeing an orange Oscar the Grouch at all.
Bert and Ernie - Note the hand sticking out of Bert’s mid-section!
Oscar the Grouch - Orange just doesn’t suit the dude.
Marvel has released a new trailer for the upcoming Wolverine & The X-Men cartoon, this one without the unapproved alt-rock Foo Fighter soundtrack (which got the show’s producers a lawsuit — why not just use the classic theme from ’90s toon?), plus some extra scenes featuring tons of cameos from both mutant and non-mutant Marvel characters. Really looking forward to this — love the costumes, the tone, and the blend of the movies and comics — though between this and X-Men 3, I’m a little tired of seeing Cyclops portrayed as soft serve!
My Criterion Collection newsletter told me this:
Dear Criterion Collection Newsletter subscriber (THAT’S ME! - ed.),
We’ve got some exciting news for this fall, and we wanted you to hear it first.
Our first Blu-ray discs are coming! We’ve picked a little over a dozen titles from the collection for Blu-ray treatment, and we’ll begin rolling them out in October. These new editions will feature glorious high-definition picture and sound, all the supplemental content of the DVD releases, and they will be priced to match our standard-def editions.
Holy shit, people. This is going to be amazing. Here’s the list of their first 13 Blu-ray titles:
The Third Man
Bottle Rocket
Chungking Express
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Last Emperor
El Norte
The 400 Blows
Gimme Shelter
The Complete Monterey Pop
Contempt
Walkabout
For All Mankind
The Wages of Fear
This is all good stuff, but I’m really looking forward to Chungking Express and Walkabout, which apparently will have a new transfer.
A funny thing happened when I received this DVD in the mail. I immediately called my brother and, chuckling with sadly predictable Gen X smartass irony, told him what 80s TV show box set I had in my hand. His revealing response: “What the hell is that?”
My bro was the target audience for Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors when it debuted in 1985, and he had no memory of it. I was a couple years older at the time and remember specifically avoiding the show because it looked so epically lame.
This was in the mid 80s — the heyday of TV cartoons for licensed properties — and poor little programs like Jayce had to fight with unstoppable juggernauts like Transformers, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, Voltron, He-Man, Robotech, and dozens of others vying for the attention of little dudes all over the country. To say Jayce had an uphill battle to capture eyeballs and wallets is a vast understatement.
So, I’m putting together my monthly comic book order, and I’m reading item descriptions in order to make sure I’m ordering collections of the proper stuff. I get to the description for the “Annihilation Conquest” Vol. 2 hardcover and I notice something odd.
Collects Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith #1-4, Nova #4-7. and Annihilation: Conquest #1-6
According to the description on Amazon, this book only collects “Nova” 4-7. I don’t remember reading 1-3, so I do a quick double check of Vol. 1, and sure enough - there’s no Nova in it. I search for the Nova TPB to see if 1-3 are just filler or what, and here’s the description:
Exploding from the pages of Annihilation, Nova rockets into his own ongoing series! In the wake of the chaotic Annihilation Wave, a desperate galaxy cries out for law and order. In the past, an army of peacekeeping Centurions delivered stability. But the Nova Corps are dead and gone - now there is only Richard Rider, the man called Nova. But can a lone human police an entire universe? He has near limitless power - now he must do all he can to bring punishment to the wicked, help to the oppressed and justice for all! Strap in as the acclaimed writing team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (Annihilation: Nova), superstar Sean Chen (Sensational Spider-Man) and cover artist Adi Granov (Iron Man) slam your mind into hyperdrive! Collects Nova #1-7.
Sure looks like it’s all important to the story. Hell, the entire trade’s wrapped under a cover with “Annihilation” in the title! Did anyone out there read it? Am I going to be missing any vital information Marvel’s dumping in order to conserve space? I’ve been getting the Annihilation hardcovers from the beginning because I like having the story presented in a minimum amount of separate books and in the proper order, but this is leaving knd of a bad taste in my mouth…
