Superheroes Tonight on Robot Chicken
September 12, 2007 | 2 Comments
Above is the entirety of the episode: “Tapping a Hero” from Season 3 of Robot Chicken. The specific segment I’m hugely entertained by occurs at 7:35. Stan Lee and Pamela Anderson dish on many of the superheroes in “Superheroes Tonight”. Best of all is the section beginning: “After a long career as the Justice League’s most impotent failure, Aquaman finally has a new career…”
OK, if you hang around past the credits, you may find Stan’s explanation of the Watcher, the Punisher and the Shocker even better…
(and yes, Stan Lee did truly voice this himself)
Tags: aquaman, comics, dc, impotent failure, justice league, lame, marvel, pamela anderson, robot chicken, stan lee
Heroes Graphic Nover Hardcover
September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Curious about some of the details that occur between scenes or episodes in NBCs hit series Heroes? This additional content was made available for free in a series of short digital comics available for free on the Heroes site (unfortunately not in CBR or CBZ).
Now, those digital comics are being delivered by DC and their Wildstorm label in a 240 page hardcover starting October 24th! Even better, it’s only $29.99. If you are on top of things, you can also order from Discount Comic Book Service, preorders go for $14.99 there! It’s on my pull list and I can’t wait.
This stunning hardcover collects the amazing online comics based on the smash-hit, Emmy Award-nominated NBC show HEROES! This volume — featuring two stunning covers by comics legends Jim Lee and Alex Ross — also includes an introduction by Masi Oka (Hiro), all 34 chapters of Season One, and Tim Sale’s artwork as seen on the show.
Tags: comics, dc, graphic novel, hardcover, heroes, nbc, show, television, tv, wildstorm
Never Liked Wonder Woman Anyway…
February 4, 2007 | 5 Comments
Joss Whedon is officially no longer writing the script for the upcoming Wonder Woman movie.
Joss’ statement about parting ways:
We just saw different movies, and at the price range this kind of movie hangs in, that’s never gonna work. Non-sympatico. It happens all the time. I don’t think any of us expected it to this time, but it did. Everybody knows how long I was taking, what a struggle that script was, and though I felt good about what I was coming up with, it was never gonna be a simple slam-dunk.
I have to say, I love Joss, but I’m not a DC comics fan and especially uninterested in Wonder Woman. Don’t get me wrong, I love the female protagonist hero, I just think Wonder Woman is nearly as lame as Aquaman. Again though… if it’s DC, I only really care about Batman, Green Lantern, The Question, and Superman in the right doses. Admittedly… I usually enjoy the Justice League in general, but the individuals are less interesting. Back on topic though, I don’t think it matters who writes this movie, it has a high likelihood of being terrible.
Thanks to Jenny for the heads up on this.
Tags: batman, comics, dc, dc comics, green lantern, joss whedon, justice league, movie, script, superman, the question, Wonder Woman
Aquaman is Lame, TV Pilot is Not
August 8, 2006 | 1 Comment
I was as surprised as you may be, but the Aquaman pilot for the show that is unlikely to ever be made was pretty good. It turns out I’m not alone in my opinion here as the Aquaman Pilot has hung around the top sales charts on iTunes for weeks. I think The CW is missing out on a potential hit. I’m left wondering how this show would be cancelled over 7th Heaven…
OK, now on to the Aquaman bashing that is almost too easy to take part in… When I found out my good friend Keith was a life long Aquaman fan, I decided I might as well dig up all the hilarity that is Aquaman bashing.
First of all is Seanbaby.com’s profile on Aquaman as a member of The Super Friends. Here are a few tidbits from this must read page:
Aqua Man does things like send a school of little fish against a submarine. There are rare times when he remembers he can call something tough like a whale or a shark — usually when they’re in some freshwater lake or a swimming pool. And you don’t have to be a marine biologist to know that’s fucked up.
Plus, Aquaman forgets he has powers all the time. He’ll be going for a swim, and for no reason, a disgruntled octopus will try to kill him. I guess they hate him as much as we do.
When they first formed the Super Friends, they had a good time making office pools on how long it would take until they had to rescue Aquaman again. Now it’s just part of the day’s scheduled events. Their day goes breakfast, arts and crafts, Earth Science, Batman’s Bat-Tips, Lunch, free time, rescue Aquaman, lecture Aquaman, crisis prevention, song practice, rescue Aquaman, punch Aquaman, dinner.
OK, if you enjoyed any of those quips, go read the whole thing, it rules.
Even Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim got in on using Aquaman as the butt of their jokes, check out these two quick clips on YouTube [1] & [2].
Finally, I remembered this fantastic clip from the under appreciated Dr Katz series. In this one a guy is talking with Dr. Katz about how lame it would be to have Aquaman’s limited powers. Classic.
OK, that’s enough, if Keith stumbled upon this he may be tearing by this point so I should let up, cause we all know if his brothers find this he’ll never live it down. Maybe I’ll look up Hawkman parodies next…
Tags: adult swim, aquaman, aquaman pilot, cartoon network, comics, cw, dc, dr katz, hawkman, itunes, lame, parody, pilot, seanbaby, the cw, videos
Superman Returns Poster
May 16, 2006 | 4 Comments
So, I like it.
As a whole I’m having a hard time getting overly excited about Superman Returns. The trailers seemed unimpressive and I’m fairly confused about where in the Superman movie history it takes place. I know it’s not standalone, but I can’t remember is it between 2 and 3, or 3 and 4? Does the fact that it does occur in the old timeline mean we will not spend half the movie reviewing the origin of Superman? If that’s true I’m glad, because we’ve all heard it a ton of times, yet the trailer seems to show aspects of it, so I’m confused.
An additional concern for me is that I’m a big Marvel guy. Primarily I read and enjoy Marvel heroes and don’t associate well with DC heroes. Though, Batman Begins was a seriously rocking movie. I guess when it comes to movies, my lack of familiarity with the characters actually allows me to enjoy them more. For instance, I think Sin City and V For Vendetta are the two greatest comic book movies ever made. I didn’t read either of those comics until after seeing the movies… I also think Hellboy was awesome and I’ve yet to get to reading that series.
Getting back to the point, I think the poster is very cool. Out of the blue I find myself excited about this movie. I’m surprised about this, but glad. Marketing has won me over.
Tags: comic book, comics, dc, hellboy, marvel, movies movie, sin city, superman, superman returns, v for vendetta
Random Used Comics, Coming and Going
February 20, 2006 | 5 Comments
Sara and I drove up to Haverhill, NH Saturday to pick up a box approximately 50 comics someone was giving away. Jenny tipped us off about this. Clearly we had no idea what to expect, but overall I was quite happy.
There were 20 or so sports comics which I didn’t even know existed. There were a pile of early 90’s Image Comics, some mid-80’s Marvel, some beat-up 60’s-80’s DC stuff, and some other random whatnot. The only thing I wanted for myself was a pair of Spectacular Spider-Man books. As far as I’m concerned those alone were worth the trip.
At this point I decided to look at what I could do to unload the ones I didn’t want. Ebay seems to have so many people dealing comics that they are hugely undervalued, especially for anything post-1980. (Of course this led me to spending way too much buying up some Spider-Man back issues, but that’s another post for another day.)
Then I found the “We Buy and Trade” section of myComicShop.com. These guys make it easy to lookup the stuff you have against a list of comics they are interested in buying. I found some surprising prices on some beat-up back issues. In short, after pulling out some stuff of my own I’ve been looking to move for years, I sent them out 30 or so comics for a pretty substantial store credit.
They didn’t want everything I had, but it was still a great experience, highly recommended. Certainly look into this if you have a lot of stuff that you have little to no personal attachment to, or that you have no preconceived notion of value.
Tags: "comics book", "image comics", "used comics", auction, comic books, comics, dc, ebay, marvel