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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Did He-Man Touch You?

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  • August 28, 2010

In the past, we’ve celebrated those excellent YouTubers who’ve gone above and beyond to take some of our favorite childhood cartoons and twist them up real good. Other times, we’ve dusted off some cartoon classics from our own childhood (not too long ago, but classics still!) just to put a smile on your faces. Today, we found an actual PSA that in this day and age, bears repeating. It seems sometimes when you’re a young prince, prancing about in purple pantaloons, you may in fact be a victim of naughtiness. No matter how many times Man-At-Arms tells you he’s a professional… well, you get the picture. Now let He-Man and She-Ra tell you how-it-is:

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The Point Radio: Robert Rodriquez Blood & Headlines

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  • August 27, 2010

Robert Rodriquez’ MACHETE was born out of a fake trailer, but is based in current events. Robert, along with star DANNY TREJO, talk about old school exploitation film with the most unique cast on the screen in decades.  Plus IMAGE gets their own iPhone app – and it’s incredible!

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The Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman Interview

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  • August 27, 2010

Kirkmania is abound! From his adaptation of his graphic novel series The Walking Dead set to debut on AMC on Halloween… to his work on Invincible, as well as his launching of Image’s newest imprint Skybound, to say that writer Robert Kirkman is a busy man is an understatement! Fresh Ink Online (from those fine folks at G4TV) presents this interview with one of comicdom’s most outspoken, well-bearded, and popular faces. Watch the clip below, and enjoy all the info!

It’s Official: Batman Married Wonder Woman

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  • August 27, 2010

While it took a few weeks to cross the pond, we here at ComicMix are proud to announce the wedding of Batman and Wonder Woman, in a small ceremony a few weeks ago in Devon, England. Thanks to the folks at Geek-O-System for snagging some choice details. The guest list was a veritable who’s-who in comicdom. Wedding goers included several Supermen, Superwomen, the Incredibles, Iron Man and his son, Danger Mouse, Kick-Ass, The Pink Ranger, Wolverine, Rorschach, The Incredible Hulk and Captain America. Also in attendance, in a show of solidarity amongst the caped do-gooders were joined by villains like Poison Ivy, and the Master of Ceremonies… Batman’s nemesis The Joker. Geek-O-System also reported that fittingly, Robin was the best man, and the Power Puff Girls served as bridesmaids.

While no there was few reports on the reception, we can safely assume that anything the new power-couple didn’t get on their gift table can be afforded by Batman’s alter-ego, billionaire Bruce Wayne. Sources close to the wedding said the reception was a fairly casual affair, as many in attendance feared riling the Hulk into a fury. While the Joker stayed oddly well behaved throughout, he did try once to serve the wedding party joker-fish in a beurre blanc sauce… knowing full well of Wonder Woman’s lactose intolerance. Luckily, it was caught by her new husband, who quickly traded entrees with her, gladly giving up the peppery-poisoned arugula and radicchio salad prepared by Pamela Isely.

The newlyweds were said to have left on their new invisible Bat-Jet, on their way to the Magic Kingdom for their honeymoon; Where Wonder Woman was quoted as saying “I’m gonna show my husband just how ferocious we greeks are on our wedding night!”. Batman had nothing to say to this, but as the Joker noted… “Ole Bat’s has never smiled so wide in his life, and I’ve joker-gassed him about 20 times!”.

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Review: ‘Color Bleach+: The Bleach Official Bootleg’

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  • August 27, 2010

color-bleach-3250220Color Bleach+: The Bleach Official Bootleg

Viz Media; $14.99

Tite Kubo’s [[[Bleach]]]
franchise is vast and never-ending, at once very
playful and utterly serious. The latest addition to it to be translated into
English by Viz Media is [[[Color Bleach:
Bleach Official Bootleg]]] (U.S., July ’10, Japan ’07). The conceit of this
jam-packed volume, presented in a sort of oversized Japanese-style trade format
with colorful dustcover and the like, is that the fans put out a tell-all book
about the world, the characters, the writer, behind-the-scenes and secret info,
and the like. The colors pop, the artwork is wonderfully exaggerated and
in-your-face like the best doujinshi
(fan-produced manga that Japanese publishers tolerate as part of the landscape
even in such a tight-rights state), and it makes fun of the thing we love, we
Bleach Bums, as only insiders can—so there are a lot of inside jokes. But if
you’re new to the franchise, you’ll still laugh out loud in spots and learn a
lot from this. It fills in a lot of gaps and previews things that haven’t yet
come out in the translated volumes (about 10 volumes behind what’s out in
Japan) or dubbed anime (about 120 episodes behind with backstory and filler
arcs resuming on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, starting last weekend after a nine-month
wait).

Some of the tidbits in the book, like details on all the
squad captains and their lieutenants and other seated subordinate officers,
come directly from extras on the American-release DVDs (up to Season 5, which
is Season 6 in Japan, the end of the endless filler arc of the Bounts’ attack
on the Sereitei, ending at ep. 109). Others
were bonus features in the Japanese Weekly
Shonen Jump issues where it’s serialized over there, or from our monthly
American version [[[Shonen Jump]]]. And
still others are manga-ized versions of the Shinigami
Encyclopedia anime extras that you don’t get on the Cartoon Network
versions, only on the versions aired in Japan. There are ads, faux and real,
for things such as the video games, other schwag like jewelry and accessories,
CDs and radio shows, and idol-like photobooks of your fav captains, like
fashion plates Histugaya Toushiro (Squad 10) and Kuchiki Byakuya (Squad 6)—very
popular with the otaku in Japan for
all their rock stars, and the captains certainly are treated that way by the
fans! Very amusing are the entrance exam for the Shinigami academy and personal messages from some of the stars in
full character, but with little hints of their personalities that you don’t
often see—such as running jokes about 9th Company’s acting-taichou Hisagi’s bad electric guitar playing. There are few
outright spoilers (e.g., you know that certain captains and lieutenants are
“missing,” but you don’t know why or what the outcome is…so if you haven’t seen
past ep. 60 or so in the third season, you won’t lose any of the impact of that
stunning reveal).

This is a happy bonus well worth acquiring for any fan of
the series. It amuses and informs and you’ll pick it up again and again and it
seems that the binding will hold up to repeated thumbings-through.

Red Dead Redemption’s “Liars & Cheats” pack dated, now with more content

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  • August 27, 2010

Rockstar Games’ western epic, Red Dead Redemption, is getting new downloadable content on September 21st.  The ‘Liars & Cheats’ pack includes new multiplayer mini games such as Liar’s Dice and Poker.  As a bonus, the Free Roam content (originally planned as a free download) will be included with this pack, expanding the game’s free roam multiplayer options.

According to Rockstar, the pack is no longer free “due to the platform
networks’ restrictions on numbers of free packs we [Rockstar Games] can give away”, but adding it to the previously announced ‘Liars & Cheats’ pack without any additional charge is awesome.  The entire pack will be $9.99 on Playstation Network or 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live.

For a list of the features available in this pack, hit the jump and get ready to expand your game on September 21st. (more…)

Zombies Avoid Federal Trial, Get Paid $165,000

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  • August 27, 2010

As we reported back in March, a group of Minneapolis zombies sued after having been arrested during a peaceful protest in 2006.  Though they had never been charged with a crime, they were detained for two days, and police claimed that their sound equipment was thought to be “weapons of mass destruction.” The Zombies’ (actually a group of seven people protesting mindless consumerism) original lawsuit was dismissed, but their request to appeal was granted in February.

On Friday, August 20th, the Minneapolis City Council agreed to settle out of court by paying $165,000 to the zombies. If the case had gone to trial, the group could have stood to receive $350,000 plus legal fees.

Apparently, Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal feels that juries would be sympathetic to the walking dead (or might use gavels to defeat them…). She did not apologize for the actions of the Minneapolis police who arrested the group of zombies at the 2006 Aquatennial, but stated “We believe the police acted reasonably, but you never know what a jury is going to do with a case.”

Zombies continue to be a pop-culture phenomenon, and their popularity continues to grow. In addition to the upcoming AMC show Walking Dead (based on the comic of the same name) and the next installment in the Resident Evil movie series, Resident Evil: Afterlife set to hit theaters in 3-D September 10th, there are countless podcasts, blogs, and fan sites devoted to our culture’s obsession with the shambling hordes of undead.

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Ed Asner Reprises Voice of Granny Goodness

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  • August 26, 2010

Seven-time Emmy Award winner Ed Asner reprises his Superman: The Animated Series/Justice League role as Granny Goodness in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, the ninth entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies coming September 28, 2010 from Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video.

Granny Goodness is the primary henchwoman for the evil lord Darkseid, ruler of the distant planet Apokolips and a cruel, ominous being even more powerful than Superman. Asner first voiced the role for four episodes of Superman: The Animated Series, and returned to those evil female roots for two episodes of Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

Asner’s storied career boasts seven Emmy Awards – three supporting actor honors for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, two more as the title character in Lou Grant, and a pair of awards recognizing individual supporting performances in the landmark miniseries Roots and Rich Man, Poor Man. He has won more acting Emmys than any other performer, and is the only actor to ever win Emmy Awards for playing the same character in both a comedy and a drama.

The five-time Golden Globe winner also served as President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981-1985.

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Wizard World Chicago, the Photos (Day 3)

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  • August 26, 2010

Whilst walking the show floor today, the last day, at the 2010 Chicago Comic Con, we Unshaven
lads did our duty (one final time) to bring you the shots you know you love
to see. So, enjoy the final cavalcade of comic enthusiasts who went
that extra mile… and brought delight to all those on the floor who finally gave up looking around for DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, IDW, Boom! or
Dynamite. Kudos to these cosplayers for being the bright spot
in a convention of tremendous letdowns.

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Review: ‘Lost the Complete Sixth Season’

lostseasonsixbluray1-3130578Every so often there is a television show that redefines what can be done with the form and ABC’s [[[Lost]]] was just one of a string of series that have successfully gotten out attention. It also spawned numerous imitators, none of which have managed to actually build enough suspense to overcome weak writing and lackluster characterization.

Lost today is a sprawling series that can be maddeningly frustrating as it failed to resolve every dangling plot thread nor did it make every character feel significant. But, when it debuted, we were fascinated by the concept of these survivors on an island that with every passing week proved to have as many secrets as its inhabitants. We were fascinated, and the flashbacks that enriched the core cast was a brilliant touch as were the subtle bits showing that they were connected in heretofore unknown ways before anyone boarded Oceanic Flight #815.

Wisely, the producers and ABC recognized that the show was rapidly losing its way without an end date and the minute one was selected, and it was decided to stockpile episodes and run them without interruption each spring, the show was strengthened. Still, there were tremendous expectations for the sixth and final season, wondering if even 18 hours of programming would sufficiently tie up the loose ends and give us a satisfactory conclusion. The season is being released on DVD this week from ABC Studios and it holds up to revisiting.

Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof threw us for a loop by introducing two entirely new concepts in a season that was billed as the one that would bring things to a close. First, there was the discovery of the Temple along with its harsh leader, Dogen. And there was the introduction of the Flash Sideways which gave us the Earth-2 version of the characters. The later was actually a brilliant touch, allowing us to see what might have been and allowing departed cast members to return for farewell appearances without spoiling their mostly satisfying exits. Every passing week allowed us to see things slowly come together, leading to the inevitable melding of universes in the finale. (more…)

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