For those of you who care the May issue of Instinct Magazine not only has a small feature piece that I wrote (yay!) but it also has a freakin’ pic of my mug accompanying the article!! Now if only I looked more like an Abercrombie Model the picture would be totally perfs!
Read my hyperbolic-heavy piece after the jump.
These smile-inducing renderings by the talented Donald Soffritti - who has created a whole series of art pieces depicting classic superheroes as old timers - are pure pop culture fun! Aw, the ravages of time, no one - not even Aguaman - can escape!
Enjoy more here: http://donaldsoffritti.blogspot.com/search?q=decadence
This ad for the Playstation 3 is quite possibly the most disturbing and very, very, very horrific ad I have ever seen. Penis envy is one thing but video-game-thumb envy? Barf-o-rama! I am not sure who this ad is targeted to, but count me out!
Enjoy this so very NSFW ad yourself
Blah, Wizard Mag just celebrated their 200th issue and you’d think after such an achievement some semblance of maturity and, I dunno, maybe respect would come along with such a milestone? Naw, such high-level concepts don’t apply to the frat-boy “dudes” running Wizard.
Not only did Wonder Woman come in at a lowly #15 in Wizard’s list of the 200 greatest characters for all time (15? Really? Behind mother fraking Jesse Custer? C’mon), but the good old boys compiling the list just couldn’t help but make a sexual comment about the beloved grand dame of comics before they even try to venture writing anything resembling respect for the character’s greatness.
Talented designer Takashi Murakami, who is possibly best know as the current fabo creative-head for Louis Vuitton’s ultra popular handbags, is quite the Pop Art/Anime artist. Perhaps one of his most eye-popping pieces might have to be entitled, “My Lonesome Cowboy,” which features a very manga-ish looking character squirting, well, having quite an…uh…explosion of joy.
Despite its pretty erotic nature, or maybe because of it, this Lonesome Cowboy is for sale at famed Sotheby’s Auction House, with a current asking price being a mere 4 million dollars. So run out and pick it up today!
Check out an image of the happy fella (beware, so not NSFW) here:
http://www.artificialgallery.co.uk/artwork.php?form_load_id=3466759468
And bid on the piece (and see some other goodies by Murakami) here:
http://browse.sothebys.com/?q=%20Takashi%20Murakami
Oh man, I just know I’m gonna burn in hell over my absolute love of the “pee-my-pants-hilariousness” that is The Other Family; a very off-color, very wrong, very, very sick, and therefore insanely hysterical, take on the dear, sugary-sweet Family Circus newspaper strips.
Seriously, this bastardization is laugh-out-loud funny and seriously un-PC in every way, shape and form. So enjoy at your own risk!
http://www.theotherfamily.com/
I know these adorable Marvel Super Hero Squad toys are meant for the little kiddies - the toy line is marketed towards the 3 and up set - but I just can’t help but love them too! In fact, I have a fabulous array of these toys sitting on my desk at work smiling up at me with their sunny cheeriness! Everyday is a fun day with these mini-heroes!
So can I be anymore stoked that these way awesome little versions of my fave heroes are going to be made into a cartoon? Aw yeah they are! Sure the ‘toon might be really, really, really juvenile, but I am holding out hope that Marvel takes a page from the Sponge Bob book and gears the new cartoon to 3 year olds and their parents. A show that both the whippersnappers and the old farts can equally enjoy is entertainment at it’s finest! This has the potential to be a gi-normous hit!
Check out the full toy line and just try to resist their charms: http://www.hasbro.com/marvel/superherosquad
Holy Smokes, ya’ll! Cartoon Network just announced a brand-spanking new Batman cartoon series coming 2008! It’s called Batman: The Brave and the Bold and it’s a take on the classic Batman comic book series, by the same name (but without the Batman part), where our caped crusader teams up with a different DCU hero each week! Yay! This is pretty darn awesome!
With the recent end The Batman cartoon on Kid’s WB it sure is nice to see that DC still has some terrifically fun and exciting ideas up their sleeves to keep their characters alive and well in the cartoon world! Plus, is that modern day Blue Beetle in the pic with Bats and classic Green Arrow? Why, yes it sure is! With Wolverine and the X-Man, Iron
Whoa! Even though no one demanded it, The New Kids on the Block are returning for a reunion tour (much older, and kinda still hot)! Is anyone excited about this? Me being a lover all things pop culture, teen bubble-gum pop is a personal fave, I find myself very disinterested. Does this mean I am losing my inner teen girl to a more mature, age appropriate adult (I hope not), or is this attempt just too little too late from the boys from Boston? Couldn’t they have come back, I dunno, 15 years ago? Will this tour be a success? I have my doubts since these boys are no Spice Girls (hardy-har-har)!
Hey, kids; our own Brian Andersen shared this exciting news . . .
Vote for So Super Duper for Best Queer Indie Comic Book!
Haha!
Somehow I managed to snag a nomination for the 2008 Queeries! Put on by the wonderfully droll Comic Book Queers, www.comicbookqueers.com, podcast, I am one among many other terrific professional and indie comic book creators. Yay!
If you feel so inclinded, please vote for me here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qi1MY7LEnvd_2fEqMHRKHGzg_3d_3d
Yay! This is so fun! I can’t believe I am on the list! Hah!
Brian
So hey, let’s get out and vote for our boy, shall we?
One of my fave comic writers Brian Michael Bendis is featured in a nice interview on Entertainment Weekly’s website, which just so happens to also be my most fave magazine ever. Along with the interveiw there is also a 10 page preview of the upcoming mega-event, Secret Invasion, on the EW site.
So, I have to wonder, will this mini-series gain more mainstream press as it streams along? Is it “death of Captain
Will Secrect Invasion be able to defeat DC’s upcoming Final Crisisi the battle for non-comic supported PR? That remains to be seen. Either way, the coming months are going to be very exciting, so let the games begin! Check out the interview here:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20186361,00.html
Check out the preview pages here:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20185202,00.html
The year was 1987 and “The Lost Boys” was one of my most favorite movies ever! The flick had high-flying action, scares galore, giggles-a-plenty, sexiness to spare, and not one, but two Corey’s! As a young impressionable teen it was nearly impossible not to love this horror film (remember how cool the main girl was? Her name was Star people! Now that is the very essence of awesome!).
Flash forward to today (21 years later - I am so old!) and a sequel to “The Lost Boys” is just now hitting the streets? And not only a new vamp-filled movie but a comic book too? What took so damn long? It’s not like this movie has aged to become a cultural milestone like Indiana Jones - who arguably is an American Icon and whose new movie is also finally coming out 20 years later. Many of ”The Lost Boys” past radicalness (hair via glam rock band anyone?) is now the very definition of cheesiness. I fear - more so after seeing the new film’s trailer (see it below) - this blood-thirsty boat has sailed!
The sequel’s biggest offensive (from what I can gather from the trailer); Vampire skateboarders. Yes, please let that sink 
in a bit…ok, really, Vampire freakin’ Skateboarders? Oh man, gag me with a spoon! How in the world can this even be considered cool today? Sure skateboards are still uber pops and all, but terrifying creatures of the night on a wooden board with four wheels soaring through the air? Not so much. (Plus, isn’t it an occupational hazard for these bad boys to be riding on wooden boards seeing as how the wood of their boards can be used as weapons against them? Not too smart these 2008 vamps.) Quite possibly, in 1987, these X-Game outsiders could have been the ultimate in cool, but today; dorky and goofy is more like it.
Oh, hell, why am I even raging against this toothy machine? I know I’m just gonna see it opening night, vampy Tony Hawk and all. Hopefully with my expectations set as low as possible I might just find a smidge of enjoyment. Hopefully.
Click here to scope out the happs on the new flick:
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1583178&vid=215372
Looks pretty badass if you ask me! Color me excited!
ABC’s new quirk-fest sitcom Miss Guided (get it, “Miss” because it’s about a female ex-nerd and “guide” because she’s a guidance counselor at her old High School, wow, what a zinger of a title!) is a show with loads and loads of potential, it practically screams “this show is funny, so laugh,” but the execution of all that potential left me feeling a mixture of “haha, this is kinda cute” and “eh, not that impressed”.
I certainly can’t blame the charming and enjoyable Judy Greer, who is always fantastic in any second-banana role she’s ever played in all her numerous 
second-banana roles (best-friend to hot-girl-movie-star mostly). Greer is very likable, adorable and strives to add every ounce of goofy facial expressions in her acting arsenal to enliven her performance.
For me the problem with the show was in the humor; it was all too much, too fast, too soon. It was as though the creator and writer tossed everything she could into every second of the show to prove that this sitcom was going to be really, really funny - so stick around and watch, don’t leave, it’s still hilarious!
How excited am I to see Gail Simone on the cover credits to Birds of Prey #116!?
Super Duper of course! She’s back, yay, how awsome, that book sure needs her!
Oh, wait, oh, crud, nevermind, it’s still Sean McKeever.
Bummer! Thanks a lot DC!
Rip! Off!
WhatEVER!
Great art though.
