Happy birthday, Clark!

New Frontier needs another 30 minutes, at least.

So I got the new DC direct-to-home-video movie, Justice League: The New Frontier, and it feels like it's missing something. Like, about half an hour of additional character motivations. There's so many people in this movie, that nobody has the time to develop into believable characters, excepting maybe Hal Jordan and Martian Manhunter. All the prime plot movers - King Faraday especially - are just sort of bullet points. It's more than a little confusing, and I'm Target Audience Numero Uno. I'm going to re-read the original comics and report back to you on this.

Original flavor Sealabs back on Adult Swim.

That first year of Sealab is damn near untouchable. Murphy's radio DJ gig, the Stimutacs episode, Stormy and Quinn's time loop, and Murphy spending all of Sealab's dough on a feng shui redesign "because I FREAKIN' LOVE HARMONY!"

Not renewing EGM.

I have decided not to bother renewing EGM, even at $24 for two years (which is pretty good considering the $20 for one year of Nintendo Power). The mag just keeps getting thinner and thinner, and I'm burned out on the continuing thread of Here's What Nintendo Fucked Up This Month. Although the latest issue does have a great GTAIV article (and, finally, an interview with the asshat who hacked out the Hot Coffee mod), I'm bailing. Probably.

Quite frankly, with the way the company has shifted towards 1UP.com over the last few years, I don't know that EGM as a magazine is even going exist in two years, which means they'd shunt my leftover subscription into Field & Stream.

Funny Clark story of the week.

Rhonda bought a kid-sized robe for Clark; he's been asking for one because Rhon wears one and I occasionally wear one. Clark's robe is light blue and has snowmen on it. It also has a hood, which is a feature unique to his robe.

He puts it on and immediately declares in a deep, scary voice: "I am Doctor Doom! ...And I have my hoodie up!"