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Admiral Akbar caption contest

Just a meaningless giggle, here. Star Wars.com had a caption contest for a picture of Admiral Akbar. Some of the submissions are funny, but the best one is “It’s a… shoot… LINE!”

January 15, 2004
Coming soon to a theater NEAR YOU…

We’ve spotlighted the travails of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” and the problems it’s had finding a distributor. Icon Productions (Mel’s Company) planned to act as distributor, and finally teamed up with Newmarket films. Newmarket distributes independent productions…usually to a few theaters and then getting them out to more theaters if they have…

January 15, 2004
Space elevators?

The Corner is abuzz with talk of Space Elevators, one of those science fiction-y things that sounds relatively feasible. Relatively in the sense that it sounds more doable than, say, light-speed travel or teleportation. Space elevators. It’s been bugging me all day. Where have I heard of that before? Oh! Of course…in DC Comics’ Hammerlocke!…

January 14, 2004
Vincent Price a hunk?

I guess I never really considered it, but the picture on Hollywood Pinup has me convinced. Maybe he just takes a better picture, but he looks better than any of the other guys on the page, even Cary Grant! And no, I’m not gay. I’ve just been surfing for pictures of young Vincent Price. *sigh*…

January 14, 2004
Our first contest!

Monitor Duty announces its first contest: Register to win the Big Geek Wad! The Big Geek Wad includes a DVD of “Comic Book: The Movie”, the upcoming film by Mark Hammill from Creative Light Entertainment, and four comic books from Shooting Star Comics (including “Job Wanted“, a little ol’ book by yours truly and the…

January 14, 2004
New Monitor Duty review site!

Big news of the day #1: We’ve opened up a new wing of the Monitor Duty web site offering in-depth comic book reviews and movie reviews. We kick it off with Eric Spratling’s review of “Avengers: Red Zone.”

January 14, 2004
Top 300 comics for December

The Top 300 Comics for December 2003 have been released. December is when “Job Wanted” was published. Back when I first assembled the team for JW, the numbers on monthly comics were so low that if an independent book could sell 1100 copies it would place amongst the top 300. Even though that’s only 22…

January 13, 2004
Aw, thanks guys!

If you go to Amazon.com and type in “Old Fart” in the product search, you will find the company’s birthday wish for founder Jeff Bezos!

January 13, 2004
All right Brad!

Brad is my favorite character in Luann, so it’s nice to see something going right for him. At least, in the few seconds before her ex-boyfriend beats him.

January 13, 2004
Ruined a good story, they did!

Once, for a fan fiction story, I created an Easy Company soldier named Gap who had a wound in his mouth created by his dogtag when he was left for dead. Now it turns out that the whole thing about dogtags being placed between the incisors of a corpse before slamming the jaw shut is…

January 12, 2004

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