Kick-Ass Wednesday!

One of the best damn writers in Comics, Mark Millar, is trying to promote his newest book, Kick-Ass!, out Wednesday February 26, 2008 via Marvel Comics.

The book features a “realistic take” on superheroes with storylines a little more mature than the standard shoot kid-friendly storylines featured in the books. How they can get more mature than shooting Captain America on the steps of a courthouse, or having seven villains raping Tigra, I dont know. I’ll read pretty much anything Mark Millar puts out though.

Also, I am kissing ass for the hopes of having my name included in a future issue of the book. Millar is asking anyone with a website/blog/forum to post the image above to promote the book, and the first 100 people get personally thanked by name from him in the next issue!

So dammit, go buy this book already!

Update: Apparently I got excited and can’t read. I wasn’t supposed to post this until midnight EST, but oh well, I guess a little early promotion never hurt anyone. Just for those who care, after I posted this article it was picked up by Google within 20 minutes, and currently (as of this minute) if you Google search “Kick Ass Wednesday” i’m the #2 spot. Yes, I OWN the internet.

Maybe I can get a little exception for posting early with my leet SEO skillz? XD

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Posted by Haggis on February 26th, 2008 @ 4:38 pm.

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Robin’s Big Date

This is a short film from 2005 that finally proves the theory everyone always knew to be true: Batman is a cockblocker. And kinda pervy too.

The video is a short film starring Sam Rockwell (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) as Bat-Man and Justin Long (Live Free or Die Hard, Accepted) as the Boy Wonder. It centers around Robin meeting a female friend who he is interested in dating, but as he is waiting for her to show up at the restaurant Bat-man shows up and starts harassing poor Robin and hitting on his date.

Sam Rockwell absolutely steals the show as the lecherous, creepy, and kind of pathetic take on the Dark Knight character, but Justin Long has his moments as well like drinking milk while everyone else has alcohol, or the awkward tug of his uniform trying to cover up his green man-panties.

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Posted by Haggis on June 30th, 2007 @ 11:27 am.

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Yesterday I received an odd update from the Marvel RSS Feeds, saying a “Superhero has been fatally shot and is in critical condition” and that “details would be revealed later.”

It was revealed within an hour of the post that the superhero in question was none other than Marvel Comics staple Captain America. The report ran on Marvel’s own site, and also appeared on a few of the official news wires this morning.

Marvel’s “Civil War” recently ended (poorly, I might add), and Captain America had surrendered himself over to the Registration Nazi’s (Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D.). In the most recent issue of Captain America that hit the newstands and comic shops on Wednesday, he was brutally shot while exiting a courthouse.

Superhero deaths are something to take lightly, however. There’s no way that Marvel permanently killed off one of their top tier of superheroes. I imagine it was just a stunt pulled by the remaining anti-registration resistance to get Cap off the map.

Should Marvel keep Cap dead? Have today’s more maturely written comics simply outgrown the boy scout Steve Rogers? What do you think, readers?

Source: AOL Entertainment News

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Posted by Haggis on March 8th, 2007 @ 9:48 am.

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This Week In Links

This Week In Links, for February 23, 2007:

What comes after The Dark Knight Returns and Superman: The Man of Steel? Why, Justice League of course. WB has hired Mr. and Mrs. Smith writers Kiernan and Michele Mulroney to pen the script, with a proposed release date after 2010. [Sci Fi Wire]

Naked vaseline man returns, and someone’s dreaming about him. [AntiChrist Pizza]

Pajiba gives us link love! Here’s some link love right back! [Pajiba]

CNN apologizes for lack of Anna Nicole Smith coverage (satire) [The Borowitz Report]

Celebrity Hack - Enter your own captions and win crap [Celebrity Hack]

It’s not news, it’s not Fark, it’s FarkTV! [SuperDeluxe]

Someone is D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y a grammar cop. Sheesh. [D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y]

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Posted by Haggis on February 23rd, 2007 @ 10:46 am.

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Marvel’s Civil War & The New Face of Comic Books

I’m a big fan of comics, almost to a fan-boy state of mind. I’ve followed Marvel and DC Comics since the early 90’s, although I tend to lean more to the Marvel set of characters since the names and backgrounds aren’t nearly as hokey as DC’s second tier of heroes tend to get. I’m not talking about Superman or Batman, but people like “Elongated Man” or “Captain Atom.” Never heard of em? Me neither, at least until Paul Dini’s Justice League Unlimited cartoon. I’m more of a Spider-Man and X-Men fan.

Anyway, I take a break every few years due to terrible story lines or poor artwork. This happened big time in the late 90’s, when all of Marvel and DC’s good artists and writers jumped ship and started their own comics company (Image Comics). The stories and artwork dipped horribly, and I lost interest.

Jump forward to around 2001, and suddenly the face of Marvel Comics was changing. The good artists all returned for freelance projects, they hired even better artists, and commissioned Hollywood writers such as Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), J. Michael Strazenzski (Babylon 5), and Damon Lindloff (Lost) to work on projects. The biggest change? They dropped a severely archaic and ridiculous rating system established in the 1950’s (and only slightly updated since) called the Comics Code Authority.

Comics came under heavy fire in the early 1950s, thanks to a public’s rising fear of juvenile delinquency and one prominent psychiatrist’s willingness to pin the blame on the vastly popular comic books of the era. Under intense public pressure, the comics industry agreed to adopt a code of ethics and to establish a “voluntary” authority that would approve every book prior to its distribution. In truth, there was nothing voluntary about it; in the days before independent comic shops — when most comics were sold in supermarkets, department stores, and mom-and-pop corner stores — comic publishers had no choice but to comply with the CCA if they wanted to survive.*

Almost every comic from the 1950’s to 2001 had the CCA stamp on it’s cover except for a few key issues in the past, such as Amazing Spider-Man #96 which featured a story about Harry Osborn turning to drug use to deal with his problems, or D.C. Comics’ Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85 that featured Green Arrow’s sidekick Speedy on the cover as a prominent drug user–complete with paraphernalia and all. DC & Marvel pushed the envelope at the time when they released these comics. The CCA threatened to block distribution on these issues, however when they released each of the titles made history making sales.

Today’s comics are not what they were in the 1960’s, 1980’s, or even the 1990’s. Because of switching to a more ratings-type system like movies and television have, they are free to publish all sorts of stories from tame children-safe comics, to much more mature (read: violence and profanity) titles like The Punisher.

A good example of the huge and entirely impressive change in storylines can be seen in the recent multi-title crossover event in Marvel Comics’ Civil War series which pits hero-vs-hero and will change the face of the Marvel Universe forever.

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Posted by Haggis on July 6th, 2006 @ 3:09 pm.

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