Time’s Cartoons of the Year 2003 are pretty good. But I have to wonder about the choice of including one of these. The “Looting of the Baghdad Museum’s Art Treasures” is one of the big non-stories of the year. During the second week of the Iraq War (i.e. after it was over), it was first…
Hey Wilhelm!
A few weeks back, I told y’all about The Wilhelm Scream, and now I’ve found a web page with more information about it. I recently found the scream compilation video online and I will pass that link along when I find it again. (Weird! I remember writing the post giving out the file’s URL but…
LOTR trivia
This Lord of the Rings Trivia Challenge is hard! I only scored 15 out of 23.
Big news for coming days
I’m still redesigning the Monitor Duty site. (I mean, more than just changing the stylesheet and logo for Christmas.) Along with the site’s new design and look, we’ll be unveiling a contest! Look for that in the coming days, as it won’t be running for too long. Winner gets a copy of a not-yet-released DVD…
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I don’t care if you have 56K dialup! Watch this trailer NOW! It’s like someone poured “The Rocketeer”, the trailer for Pixar’s “The Incredibles”, “The Phantom”, “The Mask of the Phantasm” and “Superman and the Mechanical Monsters” into a cuisinart, hit frappe and then poured it into a film directed by Tim Burton. I don’t…
Matrix doesn’t get SFX nod
MediasharX reports that two movies have been eliminated from the list of seven that can compete for a best SFX Oscar. The two movies are “Matrix: Reloaded” and “Matrix: Revolutions!” That is baffling. The only saving grace of these two misbegotten Matrix films was that they continued the technical brilliance of the first movie, with…
Marvel’s all-ages comics
It used to be that if you wanted to get a kid a Marvel comic that was acceptable for him to read, here was how you did it: You went and bought any Marvel comic that was on the rack. Now, you have to look for the Marvel Age title. Oh well, it’s a start….
CrossGen releases for March 2004
CGE soldiers on! Another full month of comics from CrossGen have been announced. Oddly enough, El Cazador will not be published in March. There is an El Cazador one-shot in its place, but it’s strange to allow a one-shot to replace the ongoing book. The Ruse series of “Archerd’s Agents” one-shots continues with a story…
Quizmas
What kind of Jedi are you? – Be Warned, there is a vulgarity in the quiz. (WHY do people do that?) Sadly, I am not a Jedi. I am Han Solo. Actually, I had to fiddle with the results to get that one; I’d originally chosen all the horny answers that related to Padme but…
Sales for November
Comic Numbers Slip in November DC Comics has only four books in the top 25 if you include JLA/Avengers, which led the month. Let’s leave that one aside for the moment. Marvel dominates the Top 25, with only Batman as a real exception. Teen Titans and JLA also make the list. Everything else is Marvel,…