Check It Out - The Return of “Demo”
Fan’s of Demo, the groundbreaking 2004 collaboration between Brian Wood (DMZ) and Becky Cloonan (American Virgin) have plenty to be excited about this month. The vignette driven series returned last week, care of Vertigo. This second volume of the series will only be a six issue run, but Wood is already dropping hints of more to come.
On Percy Jackson (spoilerific!)
Recently my brother got a job working a local movie theater, and one of the perks of that job is his ability to get free tickets to any movie after it’s been out for a week for himself and any member of his immediate family (i.e.: me). We’ve taken advantage of this to see movies that we’re actually interested in seeing, but we also occasionally just get bored and go see some movie for the sake of having something to do, which brings us to “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”. I really had nothing more than a passing interest in PJatOTLT, so I really didn’t have many expectations for it. I didn’t really expect it to be good, but I was at least hoping for it to be comprehensible. The acting wasn’t bad; the kid they got for Percy was a little dopey at times, but whatever. The individual acts in the movie could be quite enjoyable, but they just didn’t add up to a solid whole. I left the film with a LOT of questions, and I’m going to devote today’s article to asking them. This means I’ll be essentially talking about the plot to the movie, and if you haven’t seen it then this article probably won’t make a lot of sense. But then again, it might be funnier for you in that case, so here we go with:
30 Questions I had after seeing Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief :
Check It Out - New Alpha Protocol trailer
Game’s looking good, and has a definite release date now!
Official Site - http://www.alphaprotocol.com/us/main.php
Release date - June 1st!
This is the Job:
“Homicide” - Season Three
“I gotta do this, this is my job. This is the deal, this is the law, this is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions about it. Heart has nothing to do with it anymore - it’s all in the caffeine.” -Detective Frank Pembleton
Homicide: Life on the Streets faced plenty of challenges in its brief first two seasons: Creative struggles in a medium that was often seen as antithetical to creative story-telling, the thin line between fact and fiction, and ultimately the even thinner one between critical acclaim and success in the ratings game. By the start of the third season the show’s future seemed surer, but by no means certain; especially since they’d arrived at a serious watershed moment.
Throughout the first and second season, the writers and producers of the show extensively mined their source text, David Simon’s non-fiction tome Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Out of that text came the foundations for the show’s core group of characters and many of the cases they worked in the thirteen episodes of the first two seasons. By the beginning of the third season, pickings were getting slimmer where incidents from Simon’s year with the Baltimore homicide unit were concerned, and with an order for at least thirteen episodes needing to be filled, the show’s creators needed to find new angles. …CONTINUE READING =>
Check It Out - Clash of the Titans
Coming out in April, a remake of a great movie.
Well, I think it’s great.
Check out more here - http://clash-of-the-titans.warnerbros.com/
Parody, Paranoia, And Another Word That Starts With P That You May Guess In a Few Minutes
One of the great frustrations of my silly little meaningless life of working retail and buying too many action figures is that I don’t set aside quite enough time to read all the manga I want to be reading. There are, at this moment, eighteen unread volumes of Ai Yazawa’s NANA sitting in a pile in my bedroom. And five (soon to be ten) volumes of Eichiro Oda’s utterly brilliant shonen action-adventure manga ONE PIECE. And I never did get around to reading those VIZBIG editions of Nobuhiro Watsuki’s RUROUNI KENSHIN, or all those random first volumes of things I bought cheap when the bookstore at the mall was going belly-up, or all those volumes of Kentaro Miura’s fantastic dark fantasy manga BERSERK I’ve been buying for years and years — and the list goes on! And on! AND ON AND ON!
By and large, the manga I mentioned above is stuff I’ve not even started reading, or have barely begun. The past couple of years, though, I’ve neglected one of my favorites. I haven’t even been buying new volumes as they’ve been released. It saddens me, really it does. So a few weeks ago I put my foot down, whipped out my credit card, and decided enough was enough. It was time to get caught up on EXCEL SAGA. …CONTINUE READING =>
