#November2011
Variant Covers: Hulk Smash Puny Pencilers.
In the dismal dusk that accompanies every earlier falling light comes the opportunity to snuggle up with a comic book. Pull the blankets over yourself, dust the Chez-It crumbs off your chest and get your funnies on. As the Earth tilts slightly, ever so slightly, the temperature here on the Eastern seaboard dips. Not even climate change can prevent that. With the dip and the tilt comes the desire to over-analyze panels of Iron Man’s remarkably phallic repulsor rays rocketing off Thor’s chiseled chest. By myself. With you. Don’t matter.
Variant Covers. My pull-list for the week.
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Kristen Stewart Offered Role In ‘Akira’, We Can All Move On Now.
Twilight is a cultural blackhole of vapidity and pseudo female agency, but even with that considered I don’t mind Kristen Stewart. She was cute enough in Adventureland and uh…well, that’s all I’ve seen her in. Good chance I’ll be catching her in Akira.
Chris Claremont Donates His Archives To Columbia. X-Cellent Move. (LOL PUN.)
Chris Claremont more than likely penned your favorite issue of Uncanny X-Men. Unless your favorite issue is one from the Grant Morrison mind-boggling wunder-run. The good sir crafted most of the tales we’ve come to acknowledge as essential X-reading, and now he’s donating his archives to Columbia.
Microsoft Proclaims Cloud Gaming ‘The Distant Future’, Cloud Services Coming To Xbox.
Microsoft’s Brian Prince has spoken, and the words tumbling out of his mouth proclaim Cloud Gaming the distant future. Oh! Intangibility! How I long to pay good money for nothing more than bits and bytes. Bits and bytes that aren’t even loaded onto something I own.
The Sun Is A Writhing Ball of Solar Activity. Ain’t No Slouching Right Hurr.
PETA Is Pissed About Mario’s Tanooki Suit. Dios Mio.
PETA must be bored. Or worried that their ridiculous posturing is getting boring. So they’ve come out swinging at the gaming industry. Last week they were like tots worried about being able to kill a rat in Battlefield 3. Now they’re sweating Mario’s Tanooki suit.
‘Harry Potter’ Director David Yates Tapped To Make ‘Doctor Who’ Movie.
There’s a Doctor Who movie coming, and it is being helmed by David Yates. You may know him as the director who helmed the last four Harry Potter movies, expertly guiding them into a world of mediocrity.
Breast Milk Stem Cells To Save The Day. No, Srsly.
How do we get around all those nasty ethical hang-ups (for some) surrounding stem cells? How about breast milk. That’s right, breast milk.
Monday Morning Commute: MAMMOTH DISEASE.
Take a breath. You’re safe. I promise.
I know that you were probably scared out of your wits today. It’s okay. I was too. Hell, who wouldn’t be terrified at the prospect of having to spend every single Monday from now until retirement/death/tiger-mutilation lamentin’ existence. Oh, you didn’t think that I heard you? I did. In a way, actually found your exasperated sighs lyrical.
“Motherfucking rat race life! How’m I supposed to keep doin’ this without going postal? Arggh!”
Take another breath. I’ve got the solution. You’ve come to the right place.
This here’s the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE, OL’s workweek refugee camp. What we do is showcase the various bits of entertainment and pop-culture detritus that we’ll snack on throughout the week, consuming just enough Nerd Calories to get us to the weekend. I’ll go first, then you’ll hit up the comments section and show off your recipe for ennui-repellent.
LucasFilm Registers The Domain ‘Star Wars: Identities’. What Could It Be?!
LucasFilm has registered the domain “Star Wars: Identities”, prompting geeks like me to breath a sigh of relief. You see, creating new aberrations and slights on God is less painful to me than seeing him meddle with the OT. Still though, what could it be?
