The $17.99 price tag is kinda hefty for a slim hardcover like this, but the new coloring — by artist Brian Bolland himself — on DC’s just-released Killing Joke Anniversary Edition is really impressive! Check the scans below and you’ll notice that the new coloring is often a subtractive process, making everything look less gaudy and more refined. Interestingly, the yellow oval on the Bat logo has been removed everywhere.
I might just have to buy this (especially since I gave my copy away years ago…)!
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly unveils pictures from the Project Runway collections shown at Fashion Week. Here are some bad scans for your perusal — click to enlarge.
Strangely, we’re down to the finale and I don’t have anyone I’m rooting for. Well naturally it would be awesome to see Chris win, but I think we all know it’s a longshot (even without reading Entertainment Weekly’s comments) for him to even get into the final 3.
Week after week I kept waiting for someone likable to emerge, but it never happened. Christian is way too full of himself and his stuff, while edgy, is too “avant garde” to be worn in every day life. I can picture Rami, being the Uli of this season, having a really nice collection — the difference being I genuinely liked Uli. So I guess that leaves Jillian, who makes fierce coats but that’s about it. So yeah, I’ll watch the finale but sadly I could really care less who wins at this point.
Hey, Complex’s cover girl this month is my favorite G4 host paying tribute to Phoebe Cates’ classic coming-out-of-the-pool scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High — how can I resist? As is oh-so-correctly noted on Phoebe’s Wikipedia page: “this image of her became inextricably imprinted on a generation of teenage boys”, and God knows I was one of those little bastards …
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I’ve always looked at Olivia Munn like, “There’s something about that girl, I don’t know what it is” but I wasn’t ever really sure what my attraction was. As it turns out though, Wikipedia informs me that Ms. Munn is in fact, half Chinese — so I guess that explains that. I also found out today — yes, via Wikipedia again — that Phoebe Cates is in fact 1/8 Asian (grandfather was of Chinese Filipino descent), which I never knew but should probably have suspected somehow.
It occurs to me that some kids are so young they never saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High and have no clue who the hell Phoebe Cates is. I kind of wonder what the next gen equivalent is… That girl from American Pie? Who knows…
Hey, is it just me or has superstar artist Michael Turner actually taken his artistic game to the next level and managed to draw a woman whose face is NOT exactly the same as every other woman’s? Or perhaps mine eyes deceive me…
Heroes hottie(?) Kristen Bell is the cover story for the latest issue of Complex, which is probably one of my favorite magazines (well, certainly my favorite magazine which Midtown carries). Here’s a snippet from interview (conducted by Complex’s Deputy Art Director and ComicFoundry founder Tim Leong), where Bell talks about suddenly being seen as a sex symbol:
You didn’t think people were thinking of you in that way before?
Hell, no! My character on Heroes is very Lolita-ish in a much more adult way… wait, that didn’t make any sense. She’s very flirtatious. Sometimes I laugh when I’m trying to delivery a line, because I’m trying to be sexy and I’ll catch myself in the mirror and I’m just like, What are you doing? Because that’s not how I view myself.
Leong offers that legions of viewers would disagree, which is probably true, although I personally am not one of them. I think Bell’s response there is pretty telling, because when you watch Heroes, she really isn’t coming across as this dark seductress (which is fitting since Bell herself admits that’s not how she sees herself) but more of a messed up kid who really doesn’t know how to interact with people, let alone harness her sexuality. All of which makes me a little more appreciative of her acting, or at least her honesty here, and really makes me question this push for her to sex up her image.
Anyway, it’s a good interview so check it out. But the best part is probably the sidebar where Tim tests her geek IQ with some Star Wars questions — Bell only scores 2 out of 9 but she has fun & rolls with it. I certainly don’t hate her for it; maybe a little of the opposite, if anything.
The inaugural New York Anime Fest is this weekend, and you know what that means — cosplay.
To wet your whistle (or perhaps make you throw up in your mouth a little, depending), here’s some bad scans from the recently released Fandomania: Characters And Cosplay photobook by Elena Dorfman.
Row 1: Devin as Thorn Atropa, Barry as Schoolgirl Kitty (Lord of Nekopia), Matthew as schoolgirl
Row 2: Michael as Amarant Coral (Final Fantasy), Erik as Beauty Man Garden Waiter (Okashina Okashi), Brandon as Yuki (Death Bouquet)
Never fear guys, I’ll scan some of the girls from Fandomania in an upcoming post lol.
Lest anyone find themselves forgetting the less-than-a-month-old sight of Tigra being viciously pistol-whipped, in her own apartment (in her underwear of course) by a couple of super-villain thugs who coldly recorded the act for rebroadcast in New Avengers #35 (click for full page) …
…Here she is getting beat down, again, by a gang of guys in next week’s House of M: Avengers #1 (click for full page)
Guess she’s just asking for it, dressed like that, huh, Marvel?
No longer making even the pretense of caring about its female readers (if there were any?), the latest issue of Wizard (out Wednesday) reveals it’s now calling itself “The #1 Men’s Pop-Culture Magazine!” Although none of the three different covers for this issue features any babes, upon opening you will find the following pin-up of the newest “Hero Hottie”, Kristen Bell.
While most people I know stopped reading (let alone buying) Wizard long ago, I have to admit I do still skim it regularly, and I usally find an article or two worth reading. But this month I think the only thing that really interested me at all was an interview with Grant Morrison and Neal Adams about Ra’s Al Ghul, and even that was shorter than these things usually are.
Part of this issue’s extra fluffiness is due to their “Annual Game Buyer’s Guide”, which predictably takes way too many pages to say pretty much nothing — unless of course you count the inevitable “Match the Rack” feature:
Last time I posted about Project Runway I said it was my second favorite show, after Heroes, but since it’s return Heroes has largely been disappointing if not downright annoying (it seems I’m not the only one who wants to slap Maya), I’m looking at Project Runway as the show to live up to its rep.
