‘Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1’ Sets Digital Sales Record. Well Done.
I’ve been rather vociferous in my support for Miles Morales. I had an idea that just the hype (whether you liked the concept or saw it as shoe-horning) would push sales of Ultimate Spider-Man #1. I didn’t anticipate this sort of deluge.
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Friday Brew Review – Harvest Pumpkin Ale
There’re moments in life in which appreciation simply cannot be thwarted, try as Life might.
Today has been the Greater Boston area’s first real taste of fall, a forty-degree recess that seems to cool not just the sweltering landscape, but burning souls as well. That stack of work piling ever higher? Crack open the office window and laugh as the breeze pushes papers across your desk. Stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, a nameless worker-bee in the mass exodus from the hive? Take a look beyond the overpass at the trees, all showing off their summer’s-end sunburns of red and yellow and orange. Finally home and having trouble sloughing off the day’s worth of stress?
Just crack open a Harvest Pumpkin Ale.
Autumnal awesomeness will follow.
Bethesda Almost Made ‘Game of Thrones’ Game, Stopped Because Of Skyrim. Swear Words.
Game of Thrones is a perfect source material for some fucking fantasy RPGing. Right? It practically screams adapt me, be it as a classic RPG or some sort of Bethesda beast of modernity. And it almost happened, but then came fucking Skyrim.
‘Source Code’ Becoming a TV Show On CBS. Can We Jump Back And Prevent This? LOL.
I dug Source Code. I love Duncan Jones. I’m totally not interested in a Source Code television show.
Stallone Confirms Van Damme For ‘Expendables 2’, Wants Cage and Travolta.
The Expendables sucked. I didn’t object to the premise: a bunch of washed-up pieces of cultural refuse team up to kick ass and harken back to the old days. The problem was that there was too much pontificating and posturing and Mickey Rourke’s drooly lip. Maybe the second one will get it right. Explosions and death: yes. Blathering about the price of war: no.
They have gotten one thing right: adding fucking Van Damme to the mix.
Marvel Reveals ‘The Mighty’ For Fear Itself #7. How Is This Not A Rip-Off?
Marvel has revealed ‘The Mighty’ in advance of Fear Itself #7. I’m struggling to figure out how this isn’t a complete rip-off of Blackest Night.
Hit the jump to see for yourself.
‘Project Draco’ Hitting XBLA In 2012. Panzer Dragoon Kinect Get!
I should have bought a Kinect for Child of Eden, a clear successor to an all-time favorite Rez. I didn’t. Perhaps I will now for Project Draco, an obvious homage to Panzer Dragoon. A fucking classic.
Loeb and McGuiness Reveal ‘Avengers: X-Sanction’. Cable, Guns, Dumb.
I don’t want Jeph Loeb writing anything anymore. I know it sounds disrespectful, but I dread his work. A decade ago I would have swooned at the idea that he’s writing a Cable/Avengers crossover, now I’m just interested in a car crash sort of manner. Cable! He died. Somehow. Cable! He’s back. And he is looking as ludicrous on this side of Liefeld as you could imagine. Just look at the promo. Look at that gun. It’s enormous, and more importantly even disregarding its size it looks dumb. Man I’m cranky and hating.
So what’s the event about?
NASA Unveils New Rocket, And It’s Mars Bound?
Maybe the space exploration situation isn’t as dire and dismal and depressing as I figured when the last shuttle rocketed in the sky this summer. Nasa has unveiled their next iteration of Things Blasting Out of the Atmosphere: the Space Launch System. It’s a big fucking rocket, and it’s taking us to Mars. Someday. Right?
Samuel L. Jackson Is Going To Be In Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’. Word.
Generally I’m fucking tired of Samuel L. Jackson. Respect his past performances when, you know, he used to act. These days? Meh. Also, fuck him as Nick Fury. Still, I can’t help but be excited that he’s going to reteam with Tarantino for ‘Django Unchained’.
