PSP Cracked!

BRAIN: It looks like they have cracked Sony's code and you can now play homebrew games on any Firmware upgrades to 2.6! Now we can have Mike juice us up with tons of emulators. I had upgraded my PSP to play GTA and X-Men and I thought I was screwed. I'm not sure why it's so exciting to play games with worse graphics than your machine is capable of, but it is...

Just The Facts Please

BRAIN: This is one of the funnies things I have ever read...

Chuck Norris Facts.

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

ZED: Heh.

City of Heroes

ZED: A buddy gave me a quick tour of City of Heroes and City of Villains this weekend. Man I wish they would come out with this for my Mac. The graphics look better and the character generator was deep, the capabilities allowing you to go from completely assinine to totally awesome heroes/villain. I know we have been watching this game for a bit, but it's time to think about getting a pc for gaming only.

I think if they come up with a Mac version of this, Brain & Zed will go bye bye.


BRAIN: I want this!

Avengers Assemble

BRAIN: There is a new trailer for Ultimate Avengers. I will get this but it still reminds me of the GI Joe cartoon.

Best Picture Ever

Set Phasers to... Excitement!

BRAIN: Turn your family room into the bridge of the Enterprise. I wish I knew this guy. I'd ask him how he talked his wife into this.

Clayface

BRAIN: A new DC HeroClix set comes out next month. Clayface looks great. Not many others in the set I want though. Haven't played in two years but I still buy these?!?

Where's Marvel?

BRAIN: Top 10 comics of 2005 according to
Diamond Comics Distributors:

1 :: All Star Batman & Robin #1 :: DC
2 :: House of M #1 :: Marvel
3 :: infinite Crisis #1 :: DC
4 :: DC Countdown to infinite Crisis #1 :: DC
5 :: infinite Crisis #2 :: DC
6 :: Justice #1 :: DC
7 :: infinite Crisis #3 :: DC
8 :: All Star Batman & Robin #2 :: DC
9 :: Green Lantern #1 :: DC
10 :: House of M #2 :: Marvel

Yikes! House of M is all Marvel can muster?

Glenn Barr: Artist Profile

ZED: Glenn Barr would have to be the first of my artist profiles. I met him at Wizardcon a few years ago and bought a Spidey sketch. He seemed really chill and almost unsure, he was trying to break into comics at the time, he went another way. He's now doing mostly fine art and gallery stuff, gone the way of shag and coop and others in the independent urban art scene. His shit is awesome, and getting more expensive. I paid 5 bucks for the spidey sketch, wish I would of bought them all now.

BRAIN: Cool stuff. He did the cover to Saturday Morning Cartoons Greatest Hits, but I really didn't know what else he did until you bought a coulple of those books.

I like this idea of Artist Profiles. Let's keep this going.

Ms. Marvel

ZED: Speaking of bait and switch covers, which I also find annoying. Cho is going to be doing the Ms. Marvel Covers.

More Monster Comics

BRAIN: Did you pick these up yet? Marvel resurrected four of their monster comics for one shots. All have awesome Eric Powell covers, and he drew the entire comic of Devil Dinosaur. I wish he would have drawn all four. I get a little pissed at the bait-and-switch cover artist to inside artist move. It's a really fun read, not too deep, you know me... 3 of the 4 I got in the Cedar-Cliff dollar bin.

Underworld: Evolution

ZED: Brain and I went to see Underworld: Evolution this week. Just like last time, Vampires vs. Werewolves, cool. Hot, hot, hot, Kate Beckinsdale shoved into something tight and black, cool. Good Basic CG, makeup effects, gloomy environments and techie weapons, cool, cool, cool and cool. Story.....eh, OK. The basic plot is fine, but a bit convoluted again, there are so many dudes that could be from bands like Stained running around that you never really give a shit about the plot or characters. Once again the critical thing we go to movies for is lost in the shuffle of effects and settings and all the other bull. Start with the story for Christ's Sake. I give it a solid C, it's fun but could have been so much cooler if the story had been more than a bunch of cool scenes strung together. Kate Beckinsdale is definitely hot though, they did throw in a decent, quick sex scene.


BRAIN: Other than being lost the whole time, I kind of liked it too. The visuals and environments were great with a cool blue pallet. The main vampire chick was SUPER hot with a nice tight outfit. Acting was fine. The main lycan brother looked a little iffy though and you could see the fate of the vampire brother coming a mile away. I went in to this movie with pretty low expectations because I'm not a fan of this kind of vampire flick. I like my vampires to rely more on hypnotism and fangs than on guns and GPS tracking equipment. I've also had enough of the megga cool vampire characters with leather outfits, techno music and Creed-style hair cuts. I'm giving it a C+. It was fun but I'll probably never rewatch it (accept for the nude scene Zed talked about).
CHOW: Coke (smuggled in), Popcorn, Willy Wonka Bottlecaps

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

BRAIN: Have you seen this lately? I sort of forgot about this show and then I came across it on SpikeTV a couple of weeks ago when I was surfing around. This show can make me laugh out loud every time I turn it on. The slow motion wipeouts are the best. They have a promotion right now with Snickers where you can win a chance for your name to be one of the contestants...

Conan: Red Nails and More

ZED: Conan: Red Nails is a new animated series coming out, Ron Perlman from Hellboy will be doing Conan's voice and Marg Helgenberger from CSI will be Tascela. Red Nails is the last Conan story Robert Howard wrote and is also in the third collection of Conan Stories published by Del Rey recently, The Conquering Sword of Conan.

These collections are great, they are the cheaper versions of the awesome 2 editions of Conan Stories Published by Wandering Star which are incredible, but expensive.

Useless eBay Purchace, But Cool

BRAIN: Before this gets put in a box somewhere never to be
seen again...

WHAT IS IT: The Riddler by Frank Gorshin, 45 rpm record
DAMMAGE: $1, $4 shipping
COMMENTS: A pretty wacky song by the dude who played The Riddler perfectly on the Batman TV show in the 60's. Give it a listen.

FRANK GORSHIN :: THE RIDDLER

The Journey of Drizzt

ZED: Todd Lockwood's art initially attracted me to this novel and I picked it up on a whim, only to get home and realize that there were 15 books previous to The Thousand Orcs telling the story of Drizzt Do'Urden, renegade Drow (Dark Elf) Ranger. I buckled down and scoured the used bookstores picking up the whole series and 15 books later I'm now reading Thousand Orcs, having enjoyed all the books immensely. R.A. Salvatore has crafted quite a world within the Forgotten Realms (a dungeons and dragons setting) I recommend them highly. I am looking forward to two more books in this series and a spinoff starring some of Drizzt's enemies called Promise of the Witch King and then I'll have to wait for new books like the other Drizzt Fans.

Turner at Marvel

BRAIN: The first images from Michael Turner for Marvel are starting to show up. Pretty sure he is only doing covers. Still excited though.

Hubba Hubba!

BRAIN: Whoa! Check out the size of the cans on the new power girl figure. I think I found FT's next Christmas present.

Brains!

BRAIN: Damn! I knew I was going to enjoy Marvel Zombies, but I didn't know how much. Have you been reading these? I've only read the first issue so far. Captain America getting the top of his head lopped off by his shield was great!I really don't know where this could be going, and I don't care. Kirkman is the man.

SOCOM on PSP

BRAIN: SOCOM: US Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo for the PSP. I love SOCOM multiplayer on the PS2. When this game came out, we both just went out and bought it not really caring about the reviews. I was not disappointed. The graphics and controls are excellent. The story is pretty good. The sound is great. I played about a third of the way through the game before I even tried it online. WOW! Most of what I loved about SOCOM 2 and 3 is here. Playing multiplayer on my PSP from the comfort of my bed, couch or even toilet is just too much. I don't have a headset yet, but I want to get one. Where the hell do they sell these? I haven't seen them... I hear the sound through that isn't the best though. If you are a fan of SOCOM on the PS2, I just really don't think you could be disappointed... I give it a B+

What do you think of yours ZED?

Original Trilogy In 5 Minutes

BRAIN: These are great! The Original Trilogy crammed into 3 little gif files.

Oh No! It's DEVO Figures...

BRAIN: I've slowed way down on my toy purchases (sort of) mostly because I just don't have enough room for them all. But some come along that I just can't pass up. A new DEVO figure with five interchangable heads, bullwhip and energy dome is coming out. I'm getting it. I went to see DEVO frontman Mark Mothersbaugh's art showing a month ago to get his autograph, but he didn't show up...

The Fruit of Our Loins

BRAIN: ZED! What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and little dudes at your feet!

Fett's Dead Baby... Fett's Dead!

BRAIN: This pic of Bobba Fett by Adam Hughes was just too cool to not post. The Star War prequels were so average that they almost made me give up my Star Wars obsession, but then super cool things like this come along and reel me back just a little.

Batgirls Galore

ZED: Live Journal has a weird internet mob coming out of the woodwork to draw batgirl, check it out, it's kind of addictive once you start looking at all of them, some bad, some funny, some awesome.

BRAIN: You should post one Zed...

Roth the DJ

ZED: Did you know David Lee Roth was doing a DJ thing? I'm Looking into trying to find a podcast of it somewhere. I can't believe you haven't mentioned this yet.



BRAIN: I new he was taking over for Howard but I didn't know when. You can here some of his show here. To tell you the truth, Dave lost a little of his cult status with me after we saw him last year. It was a little sad...

Invincible

Just picked up the hardcover, Invincible Ultimate Collection Vol. 1. This is my favorite comic lately. This collects the first three trades or issues 1 - 15 of the comic. I know you bought the first trade, but I want you to keep reading. It takes a little while for the story to kick in. The writing is awesome and the art fits it perfect. For anyone reading that is unfamilar with this, it starts out a story about a squeaky clean superhero family; dad (Omni Man, basically Superman), mom and their son Mark (Invincible). There is a great turn in the story line that takes this from a fun happy story to a shocking "what the hell just happened!" Tons of super cool subtle things happen in the background. Written by Robert Kirkman who can do no wrong lately.

Oh. And it's being made into a movie...

KAAAAAHN!

BRAIN: Shatner just sold a kidney stone for $25,000. The stone was so big, Shatner said, "you'd want to wear it on your finger." He went on to say, "If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond." This guy is the best. He has no shame what-so-ever.

Hellboy Animated

ZED: A new Hellboy Animated film is in the works, some of the concept art is done by this cheeks guy, never heard of him but his stuff is awesome, this looks like it could be very cool.

BRAIN: Awesome! With these guys and DC making such great looking animation, why does Marvel hold on to that crappy 90's cartoon look...?

New Spidey Costume

BRAIN: Looks like Spidey will get a new costume. After the story of the "Other" is finished, he gets some new duds from Iron Man. Apparently this will give him some added muscle and a few other surprises. My first impulse was that this really sucks! But you know it isn't going to be permanent. I'm guessing it will only be for a story or two and they can sell some new toys... I'm cool with that. It's cooler than that Ben Riley shit from the Clone Saga!

ZED: Bring back the Secret Wars Black costume! Eliminate Venom and Carnage and all other iterations and just make it a symbiotic thinking suit again, that was cool.

BRAIN: I love that costume too. I don't mind Venom though, but I agree about Carnage. Lame. It was nice to see The Sentry tear him apart in outer space...

BRAIN: They have realeased the cover for Amazing Spider-man 529. Here is what he is actually going to look like. Are those robo-spider legs? 2 out of his back and one out of his ass?