Matthew Vaughn To Adapt Mark Millar’s ‘Superior’. Insert My Disdain.
Matthew Vaughn ripped it up this summer with X-Men: First Class, and his hankering for comic book adaptations hasn’t subsided. He’ll be adapted Mark Millar’s pretty uninspired and schlocky Superior next. (Yeah, fuck you Millar.)
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Starburst Galaxy Looks Delicious. Get It?
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Check out the Starburst galaxy. Known to the fancy pants people around the world as M82. Others call it the Cigar Galaxy. What we can all agree on is that it has itself a superwind. Wait, what’s a superwind? (OMFG nice segue.)
Fear Fest: Chupacabra!
OCTOBER 6th, Chupacabra
“So you see, by applying the basic principles of the scientific method to the matter, we learn very quickly that the myth of the chupacabra is just that – utter crap. Now, if you apply the same principles to Catholicism, an interesting thing occurs…”
-Dr. Venture (Venture Brothers)
Welcome back Omegaites for another dose of fear. Real can be a subjective term. Acclaimed author Philip K. Dick spent most of his career dealing with the difference of reality versus perceived reality. In one great interview, he states that “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” So today we’ll take a closer look at something that rides the line between fact and fantasy.
Cryptozoology is an interesting field. I don’t know what one has to do to become an expert in cryptozoology, but I think it involves peyote and Joe Rogan. But let’s move past that and get down to brass tax. When it comes to cryptozoology, the chupacabra is the new kid on the block.
Marvel Teases “It’s Coming” At New York Comic-Con. TMI, Right?
Oh juvenile puns a-hoy! Man overboard the good taste ship! Uh. Anyways, Marvel is teasing that “It’s coming” at NYCC. What does this mean? In a Post-New 52 world can anything really measure up in terms of revelations? Eh?
Joel Schumacher Wanted Nic Cage To Play The Scarecrow. MISSED OPPORTUNITY.
Yo, fuck Cillian Murphy. The greatest actor of all time almost played the Scarecrow in Schumacher’s third Batman flick. Can you only image the utter insanity that would have been a Cage-powered Scarecrow? An insane man with hallucinations playing an insane man who induces hallucinations.
OCTOBERFEAST – Paul Bearer
[OCTOBERFEAST is the greatest celebration of the year, a revelry dedicated to pop-culture’s most nutritious Halloween detritus. Plastic screams and artificial sweeteners have never been more bountiful. In the old country, villagers refer to the extended party as Satan’s Snacktime]
Paul Bearer is the most evil man in professional wrestling.
Microsoft Reveals Official Xbox 360 TV Partners. HBO Go, and More.
Cyeah, boi. Microsoft has revealed their partners for their TV service. HBO Go on my Xbox? Sounds fucking tight, since they don’t let you output from an iPad through your TV. Fascists.
Hit the jump for a video of pretty people enjoying it, and their official partners.
Fear Fest: Calculus. F**king Math.
OCTOBER 5th, Calculus
“Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.”
– Bertrand Russell
Ahhh, another fine October day to be alive. There are Plenty of things in the world that will kill our body. As we discovered yesterday, it could be an asteroid. But what about what kills our spirit. Ask any high school teen what subject they hate most. I’m sure the most common answer given is math. Now imagine that Math itself was a person. Math wakes up, Math eats breakfast, Math gets ready for school. What subject does Math itself dread going to? Calculus.
Variant Covers: Cyclops and Wolverine’s Unresolved Sexual Tension. Just Kiss, Dudes.
My friends, it is far past the witching hour. Having been awake for 21 hours, my brain frizzled and pops. It shudders under heavy thought – and if you know me, you know heavy for me is nothing much special. Yeah here is a column I vomit up out of my shivering skull pipes and into the Pressing of Word. This is Variant Covers, the column where I tell you what intrigues me in comics this week. It’s generally poor and verbose, this week it’s going to be exceptionally poor and succinct.
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