Oh, that’s horrible.

At least now we know what the band, Hoobastank has been doing for the past five years since they have gone missing: they’ve been busy destroying the theme song from one of my favorite movies of all time.

But I got to admit, those costume are pretty sweet. Going for the animated version was a nice touch. Still, their cover is pain to my ears.

Weird?

I wonder how long it’s going to take for the people of DC Universe (or at least his friends in the Justice League, or the Batman-family) to notice Bruce Wayne’s charred corpse from Final Crisis isn’t being reanimated to a Black Lantern like every other dead person in the Blackest Night event.

If all your dead former colleagues, family members and deceased enemies in battle are coming back to life, but yet the one person who is thought to be dead from being shot pointed blank by Darkseid’s Omega Sanction isn’t, that’s got to raise a couple of eyebrows. Don’t you think?

Back to Square One.

I still pains me to my little geek heart that there are still people out there in the world of ours that still tries to claim that Bryan Singer’s Superman Return was a good movie. Please.

The worst justification for it is people saying “Sure, the movie overall wasn’t exactly what we wanted in a comic book movie, but there were still some parts that were good”.  I’m sorry, but that doesn’t cut it. It doesn’t work that way. It would be like me saying “Sure, the ice cream sundae was complete shit, but at least the cherry on top was good, right?”. No. Shit is still shit, regardless of the way anyone cuts it.

“Celestial Navigation” very good.

Two thing are bound to guarantee I will shed a tear:

1) Watching any good episode of the television show, The West Wing. (Every season except five and the some parts of six).

2) Or during the time I’m watching this awesome episode, it hits me hard that some moron in the higher ups in NBC thought it would be in their best interest to cancel this show.

Tell me right now – besides ER – where in the current NBC prime time line up is there a serial drama that has the same caliber, heart, interesting plot line, and the excellent cast than the West Wing.

And please don’t say Heroes because everyone knows that show has gone complete off it’s rail since the end of the first season. And they have never gotten it back.

Psycho Killer..Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Why does Norman Osborn look like the younger James Caan from the Godfather? I understand it’s all rage for every single comic book writer and artist to use actual celebrity faces as references or as models for their characters, but this is getting ridiculous.

First it was Sam Jackson as Nick Fury, then it was also again with Norman Osborn being modeled by then almost freaky looking, Tommy Lee Jones. What’s next, huh? Wait, you know what? I don’t want to know.

Marvel Fest ‘09: What was good, What was not.

Good:

1. Awesome free sketches from a couple of artists I was somewhat familiar with, but now, 100 percent on board.
2. Despite the horrible rainy weather six hours before, cool and brisky is a huge improvement.
3. Pretty ladies in the sexed up version of Black Cat and Ms. Marvel. Very nice.

Bad:

1. Sure, there was one person in charge of  giving out free swag, but the only way anyone would have gotten some was, if you fit the description of being a five year old kid, or extremely hot Victoria Secret Model. Considering the event is comic book related, I doubt he’ll  see any more than two within a two block radius.
2. In Union Square, only one big speaker to project the sound for the Astonishing X-Men movie motion comic? Eh, not a good idea.
3. The motion comic made Kitty Pryde a shifty eye stalker. And that’s not cool.

Bonus! Jackie Tam’s Geeky Moment of MarvelFest’09:

While Paolo Rivera was sketching me a drawing of the character, Hawkeye, one of the nearby people said “Hey, yeah, that’s Hawkeye from the X-Men. Pretty cool right?” And me in my typical comic book guy voice responded, “No sir, Hawkeye was from the Avengers, okay?”

I didn’t realize how much I was a dork I really was until I thought about it during dinner a few hours later. I bet the dude probably thought the same way, since he just nodded with a a huge “What the fuck is wrong with this kid” smile across his face. Yeah, good times.

We are easily swayed and can be bought.

With the news of Big Apple Comic Con ‘10 being pushed to the same weekend as New York Comic Con, I think it’s safe to say there is no contest for where my friends and I will be attending next year. And it also helps that all the major comic book publishers (ie. Marvel and DC) has pretty much swore their allegiance to NYCC over BACC. Not to mention the fact that all of us left last year’s NYCC mightily happy, and with four full huge bags of free swag.

Yes, it’s true. If a Comic Con wants to win themselves in our favor, nothing else will do that other than never-ending free swag: t-shirts, posters, useless items that will probably end up not rotting in our closets (ie. a Wonder Woman tiara, the Flash ring, and flashy Dragonballs).