Marvel’s Biggest Marketing Push Ever Is For ‘AvX’…Think About That.
Marvel’s throwing their biggest marketing push ever behind the upcoming Avengers fight X-Men: Then They Totally Won’t Team-Up At The End To Fight The Phoenix Or Some Shit. Biggest ever!
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‘Blade Runner’ Goes LEGO. The Whole (Cyberpunk) World Wins
The LEGO wizard known fittingly as Legohaulic has gone ahead and created a most righteous of mash-ups. The Blade Runner LEGO collection. It takes my childhood love and mixes its shiny soul with the dark, dank adult love for cyberpunk hopelessness. Outstanding.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Monday Morning Commute: Hail Lord Korgo!
For those of us in the United States, today is Presidents Day. If I’m not mistaken, the holiday came about by merging the observances of Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday, and then including every other dude to ever serve as commander-in-chief. Personally, I think that this inclusivity is a bunch of malarkey. I mean, Washington was pretty dope for setting the presidential precedents, so I get wanting to celebrate his life. And Lincoln? Hell, the dude freed the slaves and preserved the Union! Who doesn’t want to give Honest Abe a high-five?
So while there’ve definitely been a few president-studs, they’ve most certainly been outnumbered by the duds. As I sit around today, watching television and reading books and not doing an ounce of work, I’m going to pick and choose the presidents to whom I give thanks. It only seems right.
I’d like to start by giving mad props to Benjamin Harrison, known for serving a single term between President Grover Cleveland’s two terms! Truth!
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Without further adieu, welcome to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! This is the spot where I ramble about some rubbish, and then show you the various ways I’ll be entertaining myself over the course of the week. Your task is to hit up the comments section and show off your own strategies for surviving the workweek.
Okay, let’s go for it.
Robert Downey Jr. As Lex Luthor? In McG’s ‘Superman’ It Would Have Happened.
I completely forgot that McG was in the running for a Superman movie. He was among a cast of thousands all vying for the throne before Frat Boy Rock himself, Zack Snyder, snagged the opportunity. God only knows how Snyder’s “Superman: A Slow Motion Pop Video” is going to turn out, but McG has recently spread some deets on how his version of the mythos would have went down.
Trailer: ‘Mass Effect 3’ Wants You To Take Back Earth. I Need Clean Pants.
Holy balls, and here I thought I couldn’t be any more excited for Mass Effect 3. I believe this originally aired last night during Walking Dog Shit which I have given up on. None the less. This trailer has me losing it! So epic! So serious! I mean, the Inception horns should let you know that!
Hit the jump to check it out.
‘Darksiders II’ Gets Release Date; The Apocalypse Digs The Beach
The Mayan Year of Oblivion is already stacked to the guts with quality releases, and Darksiders II is another pig you can add to the list of worthy snags. THQ has dropped an official release date for the title, as well as info on the multitudes of pre-order bonuses accompanying it.
Hit the jump for the details.
Video: First Clip From ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Is More Like ‘Blasé Peter Parker’
Rendar alerted me to the existence of this clip and told me it was good. I watched it, and asked him why it was good. He then said “well, it wasn’t bad”, to which I agreed. This raised the question, why would The Powers That Be use this clip from The Amazing Spider-Man? Eh!?
Who knows. Hit the jump to check it out.
Face of a Franchise: The Brothers Metal
[face of a franchise presents individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the options at hand and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]
Speaking from personal experience, I can say without hesitation that there is no relationship on the planet comparable to brotherhood. Friendships, business partnerships, and marriages are all pretty cool, but the connections between their members don’t carry the same weight as those between brothers. After all, we’re talkin’ about dudes bonded by BLOOD! And hell, I know that there’re some cool sisterhoods out there, but sorority members don’t have anything that fraternity members don’t have as well.
And yes, that includes slumber-party conversations about periods and boys’ dinkies.
In fact, the only relationship more inherently powerful than brotherhood is that of the METAL BROTHERHOOD! When you take two dudes that share genetic material, give them musical instruments, and encourage their bad ideas, then you’re bound to get something diabolically beautiful. Brothers – dudes that’ve spent their formative years hanging out, watching movies together, beating the shit out of each other, stealing nudie mags for one another – are more adept at collaborating on solos and breakdowns and subversive lyrics than anyone else.
With that in mind, we must now ask – who are most deserving of being known as The Brothers Metal?
Spaceship Omega: IT IS FRIDAY; Everyone Drink Beru’s Blue Milk.
Yo!, Caff Pow here. Just dropping a quick programming note. Today’s updates are/will be sparse. I stayed up all night so I could march the Better Half to the Aluminum Flying Tube Port so she could scale the skyways to Cali, then promptly slept until something like 1:30. This evening I’ll be busy spending it with an Uncle of the Brothers Omega, and thus I don’t know when phalanges shall touch keyboard again.
Hopefully the day has gone fortuitously for ya’ll.
Got any plans for the weekend?
