The Week in Links Friday / 04.18.08 / 11:31PM / Joe / comments: 0
shitbuster (YouTube) He busts people taking shits.
You Have To Burn The Rope (Mazapan) Maybe you haven't been very successful in your gaming lately. Maybe you could use a confidence boost. You need to play You Have To Burn The Rope.
Apples and Much Much Bigger Apples (The Roar of Comics) About the differences between success in TV ratings and success in comic sales... there's several orders of magnitude between the two. It's a No Duh, but it needs to be said:
Comics, ALL comics, not just the superhero stuff, are high cost mediums. Each issue costs money, they must be acquired at book stores if not specialty shops, and they must be read with a skill for navigating image and word that must be learned. That requires a lot more investment from the reader, and thus a lot less people feel like its worth it.
This is why people line up by the millions for watered-down superhero/fantasy/sci-fi movies and TV shows, even though comics have been doing it better for decades.
Disney's Gettin' Lazy (For the Birds Blog) More examples of Disney re-using animation from previous films. Some are more homage than thievery (like seeing one of the Night on Bald Mountain spirits pop up in Black Cauldron), but seeing the monkey fight scene from Jungle Book play out exactly the same as the weasel fight scene from Mr. Toad... that's just depressing. I did enjoy seeing Bambi's mother appear in a handful of other films; it's good to know she's okay.
Next Mortal Kombat Is...MK v DC? (Kotaku) Oh come on. Can't the crossover titles at least make a little sense? I'll buy this for the DC Comics characters (assuming awesomeness) and never, ever select a Mortal Kombat character.
Sinestro Will Sleep With Men, Women In Times Square For Victory (io9) A twenty-year old clue to Sinestro's sexuality. Although this is totally just pageview-bait, at least they went to the trouble of asking Millennium's writer about it. Funny headline, though.
Kid Robot Takes On Adult Swim in New Figure Line (Action-Figure) Hey, you know what I want? Little PVC figures of the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend. You know want I don't want? Them to be put in an 18-figure blind-box assortment alongside the fucking scientist from the opening credits to Robot Chicken, because I'll buy ten boxes and end up with ten of the fucking scientist from the opening credits to Robot Chicken.
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