‘THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN LIVES’ Trailer: Documenting Burton’s Barf?
How the fuck did I miss (or forget?) that there was a documentary being made about Tim Burton’s failed Superman project? Too much to contain within the rotting mush between my ears. Anyhoo — the trailer for the documentary has arrived (from Krypton? LOLIHATEMYSELF), and it looks pretty fucking awesome.
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Dope ass ALIEN INVASION YA NOVEL ‘5TH WAVE’ getting MOVIE ADAPTATION
Why, I was just spitting about this novel yesterday. 5th Wave is yet another (though I would argue exceptionally well-written) girl-tackles-the-Dystopia novel rocking the book shelves at the moment. But with aliens! And with the current craze for this particular genre, it makes a good amount of sense that it shall be receiving a film adaptation.
I like this.
BETHESDA VP OF PR: NINTENDO’S time to convince publishers about WII U is LIKE WAY PASSED
Sorry Nintendo Friends. (And listen, I’ll end up buying a Wii U at some point because of Mario Nebula or whatever, so it isn’t like I hate the company.) That huge third-party push that you’ve been waiting for the Wii U to receive is probably never going to happen. According to the VP Czar of Bethesda’s Propaganda Branch, the window during which Nintendo could have convinced publishers to come to their last-next-somewhere generation system has closed.
KHAL DROGO x ‘STAR WARS’ = ONE GNARLY SITH
This is one Sith you don’t want to mess with. Oh Darth Maul had like, a zillion horns? That’s cute. I’d much rather take on that ballerina dumb ass than this fearsome warrior.
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Amazon’s ‘KINDLE MATCHBOOK’ bundles PHYSICAL and DIGITAL COPIES. Frak yes.
Rad ass. Sort of. Amazon is going to begin offering a digital copy of physical books that you snag. For a teeny fee. Frankly, I’m there. Maybe it’s bullshit or whatever that they’re going to charge the extra dough, but I’m a sucker. For far too long I’ve groused that I couldn’t lend a friend a hard copy of a book that I snagged for my Kindle. Or add it to my physical library, as a monument to my literary materialism.
‘SAGA’ takes home 2013 HUGO AWARD. This is dope.
Hell to the Robot Fucking Yes. This past weekend Saga Vol. 1 won the Hugo award for Best Graphic Story. Vaughan and Staples have continually delivered my favorite title of the month every time it drops, and it is delicious to see them getting rewarded for their excellence. I’m not saying it is the ideal way for them to get rewarded, though. In my mind, they come over to my house. I’m wearing nothing but a bikini made out of Jell-O. I serve them dinner (pasta and meat balls, obviously) while complimenting them on their wonderful title. After dinner we play Jenga, pausing briefly for neck messages that I dole out with extreme aplomb. They leave, really knowing that they’re appreciated.
But this is nice too.
Monday Morning Commute: Even Martians Like Long Weekends
It’s Labor Day here in the Empire. The holiday that has been co-opted and become a celebration of the successful completion of a Summer. It also signals what is for many the Long March towards Winter. Via Autumn. Me? I fucking love the Fall. Favorite season. It’s not too cold, but it’s cool enough to snuggle up with a blanket. It heralds my favorite Opiate of the Masses: football (and my 1a: hockey). In addition, a secondary market of cool balms to draw me out of my peretual existential crisis arrives in the form of Fall Television Programming. Finally let us not forget how it drums up my favorite gauntlet of Fabricated Reasons to Celebrate, which is the stretch from Halloween through Christmas.
So yeah, I’m down with Labor Day. Cool enough. But I’m really down with what it signals.
(Oh yeah wait this is Monday Morning Commute the column where we share the various aforementioned balms and non-literal and perhaps literal sedatives that get us through the week with minimal scarring so I’ll start by giving you a rundown of what I’m enjoying this week and then you do me the solid of letting me know what you’re totally into this week and that way we will all be a happy commune full of run-on sentences and dementia and cool arts and farts to try out okay how does that sound?)
Cosplay: MORRIGAN from ‘DARKSTALKERS’ is always welcome for more again!
Morrigan! More again! How much do I hate myself, and these shitty headlines? So, so much! So much that the only solace I take in the midst of the eternal suffering of my thick-skulled stupidity is gazing at cosplayers and making horrible puns.
Rumor: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH cast in ‘EPISODE VII.’ Wee for homogenous culture!
I really like Benedict Cumberbatch. I would have really liked him in Episode VII. I still may. However if these reports are true, I really hate the idea that Star Trek and Star Wars are going to share both a director and a huge-name lead. Imma go ahead and try and keep my PMA, but there is something uncomfortable about the whole thing. (Yeah I know I’ll forget all those concerns the first time I see a fucking lightsaber ignite, okay?)
HAYAO MIYAZAKI is RETIRING. The world darkens a smidge.
Bad news, world. Hayao Miyazaki is throwing up the deuces after his next film is released. Miyazaki is responsible for a legion of flicks that have inspired like at least thirty-three thousand people. Myself included. The good sir is also responsible for making at least three people I knew who “didn’t like that gay anime shit” begrudgingly admit they did. His retirement is a loss.
