Costume Contumely

Costume Contumely will  now begin hiatus until the New Year. So I’ll be “seeing” you in the next decade. No my friends, the new decade did NOT begin with 2010. Need I really explain this again? Our calendar system begins with the year 1 CE. The first ten years constitute a decade. That’s 1-10 for [...]

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Via Rich Johnston over at BleedingCool, here is “Michelle Kenobi” performing “Jor-El, Jor-El”

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If you scoot your toot over to ActionFigurePics.com  this morning, you can read my latest editorial. It’s a commentary on the leaked information regarding character selection for Mattel’s DC Universe Classics action figure line. In a nutshell, it’s not super friendly. …probably the single worst thing to come out of the Super Friends cartoon were [...]

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A lousy craftsman blames his tools. It seems that a lousy filmmaker blames his audience. When Michel Gondry was tapped to direct the new Green Hornet film, he decided it would be a ‘gas’ or a ‘kick’ to make fun of the character and the genre by making a campy, ‘fun’ comic book movie. Naturally, [...]

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You may have noticed that Costume Contumely hasn’t posted a new entry for a couple of weeks. I’d like to say we took off for Channukah, but I’m not Jewish. The truth is we have a skeleton crew here and sometimes things just get too busy. But never fret- we aren’t going away anytime soon! [...]

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Curt Franklin and Chris Haley provided ComicsAlliance with a comic nutshell of the history of Dr. Henry Pym (aka Ant-Man, Giant Man, Goliath, Yellow Jacket, Wasp). Apparently this was posted over a month ago. I’m not sure how I missed it but if you did as well, why don’t you enjoy it now? Check out [...]

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