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Crazy Sexy Geeks: Celebrity Wonder Woman Debate!

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  • November 5, 2009

Super hero costumes are often criticized by fans and non-fans alike. In particular, the female costumes can sometimes seem a bit too revealing or impractical. Even Wonder Woman is occasionally given guff and there are those who say that if they ever made a new movie with her, her swimsuit-like battle armor would have to go.

So we of Crazy Sexy Geeks: The Series decided to ask people: Should Wonder Woman wear pants? Are the shorts or skirt too impractical?

Join us as we discuss and debate this issue with every day comic fans, professional artist Gene Ha (Top Ten, Global Frequency), fashion consultant Tim Gunn, actress Miracle Laurie (Dollhouse), actress/writer Emma Caulfield (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Contropussy.com), digital painter Alayna Lemmer, and the American Gladiators known as Phoenix and Venom. That’s tons of pretty girls talking about the ultimate female super hero! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

Alan Kistler is an actor and freelance writer who has been recognized by Warner Bros. Pictures and major media outlets as a comic book historian. He is looking for a new day job, so if you’re hiring you should absolutely get in touch with him.

Happy 20th anniversary, Wallace and Gromit!

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  • November 5, 2009

Tweny years ago today, two clay figures went on a grand day out to get some cheese, so of course they went to the moon to get some. Since then, Aardman Animation’s Wallace and Gromit have become two of the most recognizable
faces of modern British culture. The pair have starred in a number of 30-minute films since, including The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and A Matter of Loaf and Death, and one feature-length film, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film. And today, in England at least, they made a Google doodle to mark the occasion.

As for me, I’m off to have some cheese and cracking good toast to celebrate.

Rights to ‘Terminator’ franchise up for auction, and Joss Whedon starts the bidding

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  • November 4, 2009

Nikki Finke points to a piece by Financial Times‘ Matthew Garrahan which tells us the Terminator franchise is going to be auctioned off this month. All the big studios, with Sony leading the way, as well as Summit
Entertainment and Media Rights Capital, are interested in bidding. The rights auction is for new Terminator films, TV programs, comics and any other spin-offs that build on the popularity of the franchise. The sale is being conducted by FTI Capital Advisors for Halcyon which
bought the Terminator rights two years ago for $25 million from Mario
Kassar. Halcyon recently filed for Chapter 11 after a dispute with
Pacificor, a Santa Barbara-based hedge fund that lent Halcyon the sum
to buy the Terminator rights.

And who’s the opening bidder? Why, none other than Joss Whedon:

I have heard through the ‘grapevine’ that the Terminator
franchise is for sale, and I am prepared to make a pre-emptive bid
RIGHT NOW to wrap this dealio up. This is not a joke, this is not a
scam, this is not available on TV. I will write a check TODAY for
$10,000, and viola! Terminator off your hands.

No, you didn’t miscount. That’s four — FOUR! — zeroes after that
one. That’s to show you I mean business. And I mean show business.
Nikki Finke says the Terminator concept is played. Well,
here’s what I have to say to Nikki Finke: you are a fine journalist and
please don’t ever notice me. The Terminator story is as
formative and important in our culture — and my pretend play — as any
I can think of. It’s far from over. And before you Terminator-Owners
(I have trouble remembering names) rush to cash that sweet cheque, let
me give you a taste of what I could do with that franchise…

My theory: he wants to make sure The Sarah Connor Chronicles is well and truly dead and no threat to Dollhouse:

Happy 25th Anniversary, ComicMix comics!

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  • November 2, 2009

Twenty-five months ago today, ComicMix debuted our first new comics online, the return of GrimJack in the tale of the Manx Cat, a series that is now available in print from our friends at IDW. It was followed within the first week by EZ Street, Black Ice, Munden’s Bar, The Adventures of Simone & Ajax, and Fishhead.

*Okay, we’ve been so crazy busy around here that we completely skated past our two year anniversary at the beginning of last month. But now we get to have a 25th anniversary!**

**Look, if X-Factor can have a 50th anniversary issue this month and a 200th anniversary issue next month, we can have a 25th anniversary today. So there.

What’s missing from the Newsarama sale info?

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  • October 29, 2009

I’ve been looking, and you know what I haven’t found in all the discussion about the sale of Newsarama?

What it actually sold for.

For all we know, this could be BusinessWeek writ large. Bloomberg just bought BusinessWeek from McGraw-Hill for a bargain basement price between two and five million dollars (yes, million) and the takeover of some massive liabilities.

For all we know, Newsarama could have been acquired for a dozen copies of Superman #75. With the bags opened.

Anybody have any info? Or want to take a guess?

Dave Gibbons animates ‘Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered’ for the iPhone

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  • October 29, 2009

Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered is a rerelease of the popular computer game from 1994 from British developer
Revolution Software. This month, Revolution brought it to the iPhone and iTouch, complete with new fully animated cut-scenes created by Watchmen and Martha Washington artist Dave Gibbons. Sales have already gone over 20,000, and the publisher expects to sell over 100,000 copies during the life of the game.

Which certainly gives more hope to that comics on iPhone idea…

What is it with Tim Gunn and comic books?

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  • October 29, 2009

First he appeared in Models, Inc. #1 last month, then he appeared on our own Crazy Sexy Geeks videocast, and now he’s appearing on The Late Late Show with Aquaman:

For that matter, later on in the show, host Craig Ferguson spent time talking with Sir Salman Rushdie talking about how he was approached to write a graphic novel, and then he veered into a discussion on kryptonite:

All right, so he got the details wrong. He has a Booker Prize and a knighthood, and you don’t.

Crazy Sexy Geeks: Tim Gunn and Horror Films!

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  • October 29, 2009

It’s Halloween time and that means I and co-host Graham Skipper are ready to debate the merits and drawing power of movie monsters such as Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, the Aliens and the Predators.

Last week, the CSG gang spoke with Tim Gunn about super-hero fashion and then attended the DC Comics/Bloomingdale’s fashion show in NYC where they asked Batman and Catwoman how fashion techniques have influenced their costumes.

And if that isn’t enough for you, all previous episodes of Crazy Sexy Geeks: The Series have been remastered with better audio quality! Enjoy!

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title=”Crazy Sexy Geeks Women Super Heroes!”>Women Super Heroes with guest Amber Benson (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)!

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title=”Crazy Sexy Geeks Remakes, Reboots and Sequels with Rob Zombie”>Remakes, Reboots and Sequels with guests Rob Zombie (“Halloween”), Edward James Olmos (“Battlestar Galactica”) and novelist David Mack (“The Calling“)!

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title=”Comics Without Spandex with Emma Caulfield”>Comics Without Spandex with guests David W. Mack (“Kabuki”) and Emma Caulfield (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)!

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