Archive for the 'Geek Culture' Category
11
Nov
09
Attention All Geeks and/or Nerds
Felicia Day will be co-hosting Attack of the Show on G4 tomorrow.
That is all.
J.
14
Oct
09
Captain Lou Albano 1933-2009
From PWMania:
WWF Hall of Famer Captain Lou Albano has passed away aged 76. Albano suffered a severe heart attack in 2005 and has had failing health ever since. We reported the news yesterday that Albano had been put in a hospice.
Captain Lou will forever be remembered as being, first and foremost, one of the best managers in the history of professional wrestling. Growing up in the eighties I also remember him as Cyndi Lauper’s “father” in a handful of her music videos and the live-action personification of Mario on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. Rest in peace Captain.
J.
08
Oct
09
Things I Have Learned This Week
Actually, I should say “Things that I have learned this week by reading comments left by our some of our wonderful viewers of CCW TV.”
1. Elliott is ignorant if he thinks that Batwoman’s lesbianism is NOT a marketing scheme by DC in order to sell more comics.
2. Elliott needs to cut longer segments into 2 separate, shorter videos because one viewer just finds them too long and then he offered Elliott some “editing tips” because obviously E hasn’t been doing this long enough.
3. Elliott is not aloud to bring up Michael Turner’s name in conversation even if it is in a positive light. You know, because he’s dead.
4. Elliott really puts up with a lot of stupid shit from a few of our viewers.
I really don’t know how he does it. It probably has something to do with the fact that the man is a true professional and a class act. I could be wrong though.
J.
07
Oct
09
Did Anyone Go to This?
02
Oct
09
Marvel’s Shit List Cash Grab
Marvel just can’t enough of your money can they? The dull Dark Reign storyline has been ruining running through almost every one of their monthly books but then they had to go and create a series of mini series on top of that. Was that enough? Ummm…no. That’s why we now have a series of one-shots currently being released known as Dark Reign: The List. I guess the gist of The List is that Norman Osborn is sick of the situations some of Marvel heroes have put him in so now it’s time for a little payback, you know, kinda like a ‘Shit List’. There have been three of these one-shots released so far: New Avengers, Daredevil and X-Men. I have read all of these and they made me think of a couple of things:
1. How completely useless have these books been?
Each of these one shots have either been ridiculously awful (New Avengers) or completely unnecessary (Daredevil and X-Men). Though it was nice to see Alan Davis drawing a comic again that X-Men book was just not needed. On top of that it was a Namor story with the X-Men playing secondary and tertiary characters at best. I guess it’s not the first time Marvel has slapped the X-Men logo on something in an attempt to bait and switch you.
2.If these stories were so important to the Dark Reign Saga why not just tell them in the regular titles?
The easy answer to that question is so they can get more money out of those fans who need the “whole” story. Why waste an issue of the New Avengers monthly when you can have that monthly title AND a one-shot ship in the same month? I feel a bit different about the Daredevil one-shot though. This comic should have been Daredevil #501. There was absolutely no need to have this story not be told in the Daredevil series proper. But fanboys fall for it, don’t question it and and continue to be the nice little unthinking Marvel Zombies that the company thrives on.
Dark Reign: The List in not the only cash grab that Marvel is currently employing. The other would be the Captain America: Reborn miniseries. As most of our CCW viewers know, I believe (like the Daredevil: The List comic) that the story told within this miniseries should have just been told in the Captain America monthly. But, again, why do that when Marvel can charge you an extra dollar for every issue if they make a fancy shmancy mini out of it? But does Marvel stop there? Ummm…no. Which leads me to this from the new issue of the Previews catalog:
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WHO WILL WIELD THE SHIELD?
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Pencils & Cover by BUTCH GUICE
Steve Rogers has returned, but Bucky Barnes is the current Captain America, and has come into his own in the role. Will there be two Captain Americas? Will Bucky go back to being the Winter Soldier? What will happen? Decisions, decisions, decisions….
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Looks like a 5 issue miniseries was not enough. Seems that the regular Captain America series just can’t contain this story. The best thing of course is that it is a standard 32 page comic for $3.99.
Lap it up fanboys. Lap…it…up.
J.
01
Oct
09
About the 300 Rule…
Hey folks, Elliott here. So many of you may be asking yourself why I haven’t posted a new video even though the previous video has passed 300 views as I had previously stipulated it should. I’m sure this is becoming a source of frustration for some viewers who are expecting their fresh CCW*TV fix on a regular basis. I ain’t got no excuses except to say that life keeps getting in the way. A recent funeral, my day job, classes, the Redeye blog and a host of little things that I’ve allowed to pile up just keep eating into the time I have to work on the videos.
But rest assured, dear viewers, that more segments are on the way! Until then, please enjoy this…the GREATEST. SONG. EVER!
