A Whimsical Dose of Superheroes, Comic Books, Action Figures, and other cool things
Posted in Movies & TV on Nov 29th, 2010
Film Director Irvin Kershner has left us. Kershner, of course, is best known for directing Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. The film celebrated its 30th Anniversary this year. It’s a damn good thing that he directed Empire. You see, what none of us realized thirty years ago was that George Lucas is [...]
Posted in Comics on Nov 25th, 2010
Posted in Toys on Nov 24th, 2010
Jason Geyer over at venerable website ActionFigureInsider has published a piece that digs up some very interesting facts about Mattel’s Secret Wars action figure line from the 1980′s. You may recall it was Geyer who, years ago, unearthed a wealth of material regarding Kenner’s Super Powers line. Now he’s done the same with SW. Reveals include plans [...]
Posted in Comics on Nov 23rd, 2010
This was posted at Bleeding Cool today: Top: An example of Mr. Kirby’s signature “dots” Bottom: Anti-matter hydrogen, recently captured for the first time.
Posted in Comics, Movies & TV on Nov 22nd, 2010
Last week, hacktor Russell “I’m-A-Premiere-Jack-Wagon” Crowe let us know that he thought he was too good for a “comic book movie”. But now, the fine thesbian Denzel Washington has told Showbizspy that he’d love to be in one. “I think that comic book movies now are what comics were 30 years ago,” Denzel said. “I think [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2010
We’ve been following the on-going story of the leading civil rights issue of our day: the famous superheroes of Hollywood Blvd. being banned by the city of Los Angeles. Yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge issued an injunction preventing the city of Los Angeles targeting the costumed performers for arrest. Matt Balke, a performer who dresses as [...]
Posted in Movies & TV on Nov 17th, 2010
*Well, the trailer anyway. You can watch it here. Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool News: I am personally jazzed beyond all belief…this film will simply be awesome. I think this is crazy cool. Watch as some of the images here bitchslap your geek brain, as if to say… Yeah… This Exists. ComicBookMovie.com: I’m still not [...]
Posted in Comics on Nov 17th, 2010
In case you missed it, David Wolkin posted an interesting article over at ComicsAlliance last week. …there’s another world of comics characters that’s flourishing on Twitter that people don’t seem to talk about that much, an entire subculture of people engaging in what I like to call Superhero Twitter Action Role Play, or STARPing. For [...]
Posted in Movies & TV on Nov 17th, 2010
Russel Crowe doesn’t want to play a superhero. The 46 year old Australian says: The business itself is shaping itself around event films, which are quite often cartoons or superheroes, and it’s just not my thing. You just have to be patient. Mr. Crowe, a few things: #1 “Event films” aren’t “your thing”? So, you [...]
Posted in Toys on Nov 16th, 2010
You want to tell THIS guy that action figure collectors are nerdy dorks? UFC Welterweight Matt Serra in an interview with the Montreal Gazette: I’ll play with action figures right now. I grew up on G.I. Joe, loved G.I. Joe as a kid. I had He-Man. I had Dungeons and Dragons. I loved all that [...]
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