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Big Geek Wad!

Just one week left to go before the drawing of the BIG GEEK WAD! Meanwhile, look for Monitor Duty’s review of “Comic Book: The Movie” later today.

January 23, 2004
Perez’s “Ultimate Nightwing

Vu’s George Perez Fansite has artwork by George Perez showing how he would draw Nightwing if allowed to redesign the costume. Call it “Ultimate Nightwing“. He also has a redesigned Donna Troy.

January 22, 2004
POPEQUOTE, the new game by Milton Bradley

As we gave coverage to the original story by Peggy Noonan that the Pope had commented on Mel Gibson’s new movie, I feel obligated to pass on this follow-up piece. After Peggy passed on the Pope’s short comment “It is as it was” as his reaction after a screening of “The Passion of the Christ,”…

January 22, 2004
No more comments

I am removing the comments field. Apparently there are now spam tools for auto-generating comments and posting links to porn. Great. As it was, I was removing the comments and pushing comment links over to the forum, anyway. This just causes me to do it a few days earlier.

January 22, 2004
Rambo not so far-fetched

Back in the 1980s, I thought of the Vietnam war as something that had happened long before I was born, so all those Rambo movies seemed a bit out of place. Obviously, only 10 years had passed since its conclusion, but I was born in 1970 and it was over before I was ever aware…

January 21, 2004
Babylon 5 DVD out in April

Babylon 5 Season 5 on DVD So soon? Season 4 JUST went on sale. Not that I’m not anxious to own them all, but it’s a lot of expense in such a short time. What’s more, it’ll be “over” once all five seasons are out on DVD…sort of like the geek depression after finally seeing…

January 21, 2004
Ebert’s Top 10 1967-2003

Roger Ebert’s Top Ten Lists 1967-2003 is a good overview of Ebert’s favorite movies. Worth comparing to “what won the Oscars”…as well as a good overview of the guy’s tastes. (Thanks to ThePopa for the link.)

January 21, 2004
Peter Schickele

I don’t think that this really qualifies for the off-topic category because few things are enjoyed by the well-educated geek more than the music of P.D.Q. Bach…recovered for the modern age by musicolologist Professor Pete Schickele. I’ve had the distinct pleasure of taking a class with Schickele, and I even managed to catch a performance…

January 19, 2004
ICv2 likes Adult Swim too!

January 19, 2004
YES! Batman DVD Box Sets!

So far, all of the Superman/Batman/Justice League animated shows have been released as single DVDs containing a couple episodes each. Finally, they will be releasing Batman box sets. Let’s hope they start doing this for Justice League as well.

January 19, 2004

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