- Spiking the Dragon Ball punch:
I'm no fan of Dragon Ball Z. I love the concept but the actual story has just a few too many of the quirks that annoy me about shounen manga. However, the live-action Dragon Ball movie certainly has my attention now that they've cast James Marsters as Piccolo. Hm, if they put Marsters in green make-up, what do you think the chances are that he'll become the male equivalent of the Orion Green Girl?
- VVolverine, W01ver1ne and Logan Bub still stuck with Paragon City:
Marvel may have gotten a lot of press for their newly-debuted online comics but the silence on the Marvel MMORPG has industry observers wondering if the game is still coming. There's a whole lot of superhero games that were announced but quietly disappeared: Bullfrog's "My Incredible Super Team" and that other game which was going to use the X-Com engine come to mind. I wonder what is it about the genre that's so challenging.
- Springfield, yeah! Can you dig it?:
DVR alert for this week's Simpsons! This weeks episode features the guest voice of Alan Moore. That's right, the one who knows the score. Art Spiegelman and Dan Clowes also appear as themselves, along with some guy named Jack Black. But Alan Moore ... doesn't that feel like the comics equivalent of Beverlee McKinsey recording a performance? Oops, wrong geekdom ... doesn't that feel like the comics equivalent of Greta Garbo recording a performance?
- Link of the week:
This whole Alan Moore on The Simpsons thing has me flashing back to Gail Simone's old column and her parody of romance comics, where she threw Moore into a teen romance story. "Terminator, hit the north..."
Hey when else will I get to make that reference? Besides, if I'm going to have that song stuck in my head for the next week, I'm not going to suffer alone.
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on Fri, 2007-11-16 14:09.
That Alan Moore romance
That Alan Moore romance story was just... awesome. It defies description (my personal favorite? the magic of anagrams, and yes I love Zatanna). But what's this about Alan Moore on the Simpsons?
Oh yeah, and that Dragonball Z live-action movie... thing... Ugh? I'd almost rather see live-action Naruto movie (and I don't want to see that, actually). Speaking of popcorn anime, it's interesting to me that lately a lot of shounen anime (this means, basically, boys' anime, so big robots, big boobs and big kersplosions) have introduced gay characters into their storylines, like it's no big thing. I mean, admittedly the characters are frequently more charicature than well defined characters, but the act of inclusion is kind of interesting, especially in contrast with any given cartoon in this country.
Actually, there was a pretty
That definitely explains why