Yes, yes, fine, Dr. Horrible is good.
I have not a single horse in this race... I'm not a Joss Whedon fan and I don't particularly enjoy super-hero parody, but this three-part mini-movie apparently put together on a shoestring during the Writers' Strike is pretty good. Hang out for the first song - it's a musical! - and you'll dig it. Even though I just saw it for free, I think it's worth $4 on iTunes.
Not this god thing again.
From Dr. Horrible to Mr. Terrific. In the latest JSA, once again some faux-character development is presented in the form of a grasping Mr. Terrific questioning his athiesm. Uh-huh. It's exceptionally cool that Mr. T's race is never really a plot foible, just who he is... it would be great if his atheism could be treated with the same respect.
Buck up Michael. We all know Gog will turn out to be a robot. (Confession: I didn't think of that until I read it on Pretty, Fizzy Paradise!)
Pokemon cards in Burger King Kids Meals.
I think the cards are all reprints, but it's still slick to get actual Pokemon TCG cards for dinner. And the toys are all centered around the cards... deck boxes, card frames and hand holders!
There are twelve cards and twelve toys... but in an unbelievably shitty move, the cards are random! In our first batch of three Meals, we got three Monferno cards! What are the odds!?!
But there's a bonus, BK's new Kids Meals can be customized for total vegetarian.
We bought the Imaginext Batcave playset.
It is so great. It's like Castle Grayskull big. Since the figures are only three inches, it's packed with rooms and action features. Every time I look at it, I find new details hidden in the sculpt, like the little TV dinner tray inside the prison.
We also completed the rest of the figure packs, so we now have Penguin, Joker, Superman (comes with Krypto!) two Batmen and Robin. I hope that there's plans for additional DC heroes and sets, so that this becomes a serious collector counterpart to the Marvel Super Squad line... but so much better since these are actual playable figures. Of course nobody anywhere has any info on this.
Another downside is that this line gets hidden with the Imaginext junk, which is always in the toddler section, while the Super Squad packs always live right by the action figures.
Dead Rising on Wii?!?
Wow. Interesting announcement. Of course, once I heard the photography stuff was shitcanned from the Wii port, I immediately lost interest. I'll hold out for a PS3 version.
Also, Eternal Sonata coming to PS3... being the JRPG based on the music of Fredric Chopin. I mean, jesus. That's a concept I can totally get into, and it's from the team who did Baten Kaitos, which I really liked.
ScreenFlow records the other screen when Screen Sharing in iChat.
I suppose I should have expected that, but I still found it a very cool surprise.
So now you can manipulate somebody else's desktop and record yourself doing it.
Things I Want to See in the Flippin' Watchmen Movie.
Big Figure
Bubastis
Hollis Mason
Moloch
Rorshach eating Dan's sugar cubes > ronch ronch <
Increasingly-naked Dr. Manhattan
Sally Jupiter's nudie comic
Young Comedian in the yellow pantsuit
The photo memory bulletin board in Doc's old workplace