Month: April 2011

  • Life with a Chance of Exploding

    Life with a Chance of Exploding

    New SLG Graphic Novel Loserville Explores Meaning of Life and Explosions Press Release: Jenna’s life is stagnating. Her husband is a slacker, her job isn’t worth the stress, and hypochondria is her only diversion. That is, until she starts getting symptoms of what doctors are calling “the worst disease in the world,” and it’s not…

  • DC Universe Online Receives Belated Update 2

    DC Universe Online Receives Belated Update 2

    SOE may have announced a severe staff culling, but that hasn’t stopped the release of the second major update pack for DCUO – imaginatively title Update 2, and formally known as the March update. So, what does the belated March update bring those of us lucky enough to have made it through to early April?…

  • Marvel vs Capcom 3 DLC List is Fake. For Now…

    Marvel vs Capcom 3 DLC List is Fake. For Now…

    Since releasing Shuma Gorath and Jill Valentine for MvC3, Capcom have kept rather schtum on exactly who will be filling in those two additional DLC slots – though the current crisis in Japan is probably of more concern to the game’s developers. But this hasn’t  stopped one beaver from spreading a 14-strong roster of new…

  • Rubber DVD Review

    Rubber DVD Review

    2010 Director: Quentin Dupieux Writer: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Stephen Spinella, Roxanne Mesquida, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Ethan Cohn, Charley Koontz, Tara O’Brien A bespectacled man stands by a dozen or so wooden chairs on a desolate highway. A police car approaches, knocking down the chairs as though they formed a driving course, and halts. A…

  • Is New Green Lantern Movie Trailer Cause for Concern?

    Is New Green Lantern Movie Trailer Cause for Concern?

    This is a few days late, but I thought I’d share the new Green Lantern Wondercon trailer that’s given us a considerable idea of how Martin Campbell’s slightly worrying blockbuster is shaping up. I’ve had my doubts about this one (as have many), but there’s some really impressive visuals on display here, Mark Strong’s Sinestro…

  • Michael Jai White at Black Dynamite Comic Panel

    Michael Jai White at Black Dynamite Comic Panel

    Where: Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 90046 When: Monday, April 4th 6:30 PM Screening 8:00 PM LIVE Podcast 9:00 PM Comic Book Signing and Live Music Chris Hardwick will lead a panel that includes Michael Jai White (“Black Dynamite”, co-writer), Byron Minns (“Bullhorn”, co-writer), Scott Sanders (director, co-writer), Brian Ash (comic author,…