Costume Contumely

From the L.A. comedy troupe Frog Island, comes “A Toast To Green Lantern”. Enjoy.

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I saw this photo when it was released, just like everybody else. It is, of course, a photo of Andrew Garfield’s Peter. I did not notice, at the time that it is also a photo of Garfield’s peter. Amanda Dobbins over at Vulture (that’s New York Magazine’s geek blog–every media giant’s gotta have one!) noticed [...]

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Some people have a lot of time on their hands. But I’m not complaining. SoundCloud user ‘TheKraken’ has taken the theme music from the 1990′s X-Men cartoon and given it a brand spanking new orchestral arrangement. You can hear it here. I always thought this was one of the best superhero cartoon themes ever. Right [...]

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Last month, in an interview at Comic Book Resources, Marvel’s Tom Brevoort appeared to say so. A phalanx of bloggers and Twitterers (most notably @SonofBaldwin) called him to task, and then Kurt Busiek, Phil Lamaar, Gail Simone, and a herd of fans roamed the internet debating the issue. You may have encountered pieces of this [...]

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This Deep Space Fighter Bed and Galaxy Mural is available from Posh Tots, a place to spend ridiculous amounts of money on spoiled children. I get the feeling that this piece, however, may hold more appeal for certain adult Star Wars fans than most 8 year old boys. It’s custom made to your specifications, so [...]

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Oh we’re still here. I know, I know…we haven’t posted anything since our Rot Lop Fan review last week. But has there really been anything to post about? Sure NBC passed on the Wonder Woman pilot; did that really surprise anyone? Shocker Toys threatened to sue somebody; but doesn’t that happen every Tuesday? Thor opened [...]

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“I bet that we would be best friends, if I was a Green Lantern. ‘Cause we’d go to karaoke all the time.” -Hagop’s Girlfriend My girlfriend has a singular perspective on my action figure collection, and so I recently asked her to review the new Gigantic Battles Goliath and Clor set. Due to popular demand, [...]

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Lego is a company that has made awesome toys for many decades. But they’re a little gun shy about doing military themed toys (see what I did there?). They’re ok with pirates, space rangers, police, and Batman. But army…not so much. I certainly don’t hold it against them. On the other hand, kids love to [...]

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Brian McCarthy is a Los Angeles-based writer. The lion’s share of his work up to this point has been for TV and film. Now, however, he’s taken a leap into the graphic novel genre in a big way, with several comic projects coming out over the next few months. The first is Brimstone, a 7- [...]

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