Rich
Aug 262010
The trailer for Danny Boyle’s next movie, 127 Hours, has been released, and it’s not shy about touting the Oscar-winner’s previous successes.
For the sake of movie spoilers, I’m putting the rest of this post behind a jump…
Put aside four or five minutes, watch this, then count the days till the October premiere.
I had no idea that Lennie James was in the pilot – that guy just brings class to everything.
AMC also have a bunch of character images online (and there’s a gallery below).
Aside from an oddly-airbrushed Sarah Wayne Callies, they look good!
Yep, another Tuesday, another Lost from the Start update.
This week it’s 1×14 – Special, where we find out that Walt is…well, special. Even if he does drop out of the show aside from the odd cameo after the first season.
Click on over for the episode summary with comments and references to things to come, Q&A, quotes and some talk about ‘changing the arc‘ as far as Walt’s concerned…
Aug 232010
Here we go…
Action Comics #892 – I’m still not entirely sold on Cornell’s Lex, nor the Lois fembot that he seems set on pairing him with. It’s just not quite clicking. That said, it’s entertaining enough – and the Jimmy Olsen back-ups start soon!
Teen Titans #86 – Good lord. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion, if a car crash had painful dialogue, poor plotting and poor characterization. Why am I buying this again?
Deadpool Team-Up #890 – Kind of surproised that this book has lasted as long as it has. Some hit, some miss -but Machine Man? Yes, please.
Fantastic Four #582 – Grumble grumble mutter mutter.
Namor The First Mutant #1 – If I was picking up new titles, I’d pick up this. But I’m not, so I’m not.
Spider-Girl The End #1 – Sniffle. So long, Mayday!
And on the trades front, things that will be with me shortly…
Siege Thunderbolts – this will be picking up on where I dropped the Tbolts, just when Parker came on board. Looking forward to this.
X-Men Inferno Crossovers – Don’t you judge me. This is a whole blog post waiting to happen!
From The Kevin Bishop Show, apparently.
Bet that post title gets some hits..
Aug 202010
I’m not sure, but I think I may have an extremely mild form of OCD. I base this purely on my need to catalog and alphabetize, which has led me to sort comics ever since I first started buying them, and not on any need to clean, obviously.
When I was using a PC at home I started using Comic Collecterz (or something like that) but since I moved over to Mac I’ve moved over to the awesome web based www.stashmycomics.com.
Yes, I’m that nerdy.
Anyway as I get the list up to date (and it takes a while) I figured I’d post what I have from time to time because clearly I’m not quite blatant enough about how nerdy I am.
So: Acclaim Comics. For a while in the 1990s, Acclaim produced a line of comics based on the Valiant characters. Whilst the comics were generally good, and many had some great creators (Waid, Priest, Ellis, Ennis, Busiek, Nicieza, Bright, Eaton, Wood, Kayanan to name a few), they never really clicked with fans. Readers of the old Valiant line were annoyed that all the past had been jettisoned, and perhaps other readers were simply buying too many other books.
Sadly, all the series died out before they hit two years, but I did stick with a lot of them for a while – 17 issues in the case of Quantum & Woody and Troublemakers, and slightly less in for a few others. I imagine the majority of these comics can be found lurking in dollar bins or cheaper at most conventions and many are definitely worth a look – especially the two I mention above, X-O Manowar, and the Eternal Warriors and Turok one-shots.
There’s also a couple of licensed Sliders comics in there because come on, who doesn’t like Sliders?
Anyway, if you’re interested in such things:
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