Amazon has revealed their rumored, then confirmed behind the scenes, tablet. The Kindle Fire. Another non e-ink tablet I won’t be buying. Details? Get some.

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Programming Notes: Sup OLverse. Apologies for lack of transmissions, especially the comic book weekly. Currently underneath an avalanche of school work, teaching assistantship bullshit, and sickness. My lungs! They’re not working. My sinuses cavities, they throb.

How are you anyways? Roll call!

Oh my. After Walt’s psychotic laughter fades away at the end of “Crawl Space,” it’s good to take a breather, wash your meth mouth, and assess where everyone on the show stands. Hank is a marked man again but Saul’s anonymous tip to the DEA at least gives him a head start. Marie’s phone call to the generous Skyler filled her in on just how lethal the situation is. Jesse’s promotion and falling out with Walt doesn’t mean he wants him offed. Mike is recovering in that pop-up ER set up by Gus in case the Mexico trip turned sour.

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UC Berkeley scientists have reconstructed thoughts into digital video. While (obviously) not a 100% match, the fact that they’re reconstructing thoughts into reasonable facsimiles is exciting and terrifying. Thought police! Want to see a video of it?

Of course you do.

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Sebastian Bergne is a true pimp of science and structure. He has built a functional  greenhouse out of transparent legos. Welcome to the future!

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Ignore the Good evening, denizens of the Omegaverse! How is it going? Updates have been sporadic. If you’re being kind. Non-existent if you’re being too literal. The gauntlet known as campus life has up and swallowed yours truly. In my stead has been interjected a healthy amount of echoes, and perhaps the relieved sigh that finally my dumb ass is no longer vomiting volleys of painfully pandering asshole assonance. I’m just typing now. Fried. Another ten hour day, and I shouldn’t bother since I know that Rendar has had an even longer one. Thankfully I know his love for alcohol, beer, musty musks and autumn pontificating will have been pounding a brew for you tomorrow.

SO!

Simply put.

How you been?

Everyone’s still pissed off about Netflix and its pricing changes, to the tune of a million people leaving the service. Today there’s some more glorious over-complication. Netflix is splitting their DVD service and their streaming service into two distinct companies. And if you want to know which one Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings thinks is going to last, you only need to see which service kept the Netflix name.

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[DEFEAT. is a   coming-of-death novella. Brian Galiano lends his artistic talents to each episode. this is the post-coital cigarette.]

Rimina Jacoby sat in Bandini’s Café, leisurely smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee. Black. Bandini himself had tried to persuade her to try the espresso but she said she’d seen what it was capable of. And frankly, she laughed, she didn’t think it would be quite strong enough for her taste.

With her gray sleeves rolled up to her elbows, Rimina handled a newspaper. Her eye searched the front page, settling on the date. “Yes, yes, yes…that is when today happened.

The little bell above the door jingled. The Woman in Gray Robes didn’t look up to see who was entering. She already knew. She had planned on meeting him here, at this moment. In fact, years later she would tell him to make sure he was there so that they could palaver. As equals.

Or as close to equals as they would ever be.

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[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]

Since his debut in 1964, comics fans (especially those that love to exclaim Make mine Marvel, muthafuckah!!!) have been wowie-zowied by the antics of Daredevi, the man without fear! Despite hitting the scene in a costume ridiculous even by comics standards, Daredevil won over fans by   beating all sorts of criminal ass at night while maintaining a successful law practice during the day as Matt Murdock.

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Also, the guy’s blind. Which makes his feats even more spectacular. I mean, Ray Charles was cool as hell, but I don’t think he’d handle a trampoline half as well as Murdock.

Also tack on the fact that bad-ass writers seem to gravitate towards Daredevil (historically – Frank Miller/recently – Ed Brubaker), and it’s clear why the character is afforded such genuine respect. The mouthbreathin’, anti-social panel-worshippers that I count myself amongst fucking love Daredevil.

Fortunately, the admiration for this Marvel Knight has been truly honored by the two men fearless enough to portray him in live-action.

If for no other reason, 1989 was a wonderful year because it saw the release of The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, a made-for-TV movie continuing the adventure that began in The Incredible Hulk series. Of course, any time that a Marvel character goes on trial, there’s only one man to turn to for help: Attorney Matt Murdock! The hero of Hell’s Kitchen was portrayed by Rex Smith, the only man brave enough to ride the Street Hawk! Although relegated to a supporting role, Smith’s interpretation of Daredevil as a ninjutsu-lookin’ legally-blind lawyer that helps a green gargantuan is simply chilling.

Whereas Rex Smith’s Daredevil is a one-round knockout, Ben Affleck’s portrayal is a twelve-round slugfest. After blowing away audiences with Reindeer Games, Affleck was given his second once-in-a-lifetime role in 2003’s Daredevil. In this dark vision of the Daredevil mythos, Matt Murdock not only has to fight Bullseye, but the entire Green Mile as well! Proving himself to be a world-class thespian, Affleck navigated his way through playground battles with Elektra, Irish guys with facial scars, and a soundtrack that includes both Nickelback and Hoobastank.

A miracle performance. Nothing less.

So who do you think is the superior Daredevil? The dude from the TV-movie that no one remembers or the dude from the movie no one likes?

Rex Smith or Ben Affleck?

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The fourth season of True Blood has concluded, and it with its conclusion it drove home the season’s main thesis: the human (alive or undead) condition and its predilection for addiction and the rather impressive amount of destruction that addiction causes. Throughout the season the addiction manifested itself in a variety of forms: addictions to people, locations, power, and in the case of Jovial Crackhead Andy, vampire blood.

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