Groonkly Bits

And I don’t mean scared in the way of, “My beastial nature is too much so I have to forever walk a lonely path”. Wolverine is “piss in your pants there’s a monster hiding under the bed waiting to eat me and I’m totally helpless” scared.

Whedon gets points from me for making Wolverine this kind of scared. You rarely get to see him that way. Normally he’s too busy being a badass or striking the angry pose to bother showing fear.

The following is taken from John Cassaday‘s awesome cover artwork for an upcoming Astonishing X-Men cover. He gets all the creative points. I merely rearranged it and added perspective with well placed blurring so as to have a neat looking desktop for a few weeks. This is usually the time it takes for me to get bored with the image and move along.

see the scared Logan(1680×1050)

“Torn”, the current arc on Astonishing X-Men is slow in coming, we’re talking Planetary slow(this began around 1999 and is currently on issue 25) or mountains crumbling into the sea slow, but it is not lacking in amusement. The latest Big Bad’s being what I think is the new Hellfire Club featuring Xavier’s evil twin sister Cassandra Nova, Danger, the classic Sebastian Shaw, the treacherous Emma Frost and several others who have chosen not named themselves yet.

It’s times like these when I appreciate the graphic novel form. One complete story in your hands with only your own laziness in the way of finishing it.

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clowns will eat you raw

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Long time in coming. This has been ready for 2 months, at least. Do you know how hard it is finding a sizable image of an old western town on this great thing called the internet? I thought not. A device that’s bigger than science…bigger than thought…bigger than Christmas and I can’t find one big usable vintage photo.

Meh.

Welcome to…

Welcome to the town of Groonkwood. You see that lone tree on the edge of town? Don’t touch that one. For it is mine. Everything else is yours. The mines are yours. The bars are yours. The whores are yours. Touch the tree and what was yours unquestionably, unblinkingly, becomes mine.

Hope you survive the experience.

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Actual quotes from one of the better shows on televison:

I don’t recall which character related the the middle quote. And I could be wrong about Joanie saying the first. It feels like something she would say.

There’s a taste of caged anger in the air. Is it Hearst‘s mad desires for “the color” that’s destroying all the decent people in an admittedly undecent town? I can not say. I only know it’s gonna be a Deadwood day.

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Stick a fork in Nerd Prom 06. It is finshed. Done. Fini.

In the meanwhile, look at some pretty pictures.

alone on nick davis

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That time of year when freaks/geeks/nerds converge on the western city of San Diego is almost upon us. If they wrote it, drew it filmed it; they will come. From pros to amateurs, they will come. Then there are the simple observers. They, too, will come to amuse and destroy.

I’ve never been to San Diego Comic Con(AKA Nerd Prom by professional comics maven Kelly Sue, I think). But I wouldn’t mind going one year. A few years ago it would have been for the sheer spectacle of the thing. Now I want to sell wares of my own and get drunk on some sandy beachside bar.

All of those things take money. Money that I currently do not have lying around. Pity us. Pity The Groonk.

Better yet, buy us beer.

the legless reptiles, they have booked passage on an airbus

Kelly Sue has started a Nerd Prom 2006 Flickr group for all to enjoy vicariously. (At current posting Flickr is suffering from some kind of hiccup).

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I was always aware of Mignola in the comics world but I never dared read his work. That’s mostly because I was lazy. Then Hellboy was made flesh in th efilm world and I saw something I wasn’t quite sure I enjoyed. A few viewings later, Hellboy reached a cult status with me.

Now the SciFi channel wants to release an animated version of Mignola’s other work, “The Amazing Screw on Head“. Sci Fi Pulse released the pilot online yesterday. I have decided it is a silly thing that I enjoy immensely.

The premise being, there are two histories: One that the world knows about and another that are only documented in one tome. In that secret book, President Lincoln’s top secret agent, a robot with an amazing screw-on head and several dozen bodies with which to screw into, fights supernatural evil and threats to the newly formed USA. Yes, it’s similar to Hellboy but differs extremely in tone. Whereas Hellboy was a reluctant blue-collar type hero who hid behind sarcasm to hide his insecurities, all the characters in Screw-On Head are gung ho about their positions in life and fight evil or commit evil acts with gusto.

The best thing about Screw On Head are the villains. Emperor Zombie, voiced by David Hyde Pierce to perfection, has to be the funniest, undead evil genius in all the supernatural cartoon world. His sense of humor, is my kind of humor. Which gives me hope that one day I will be evil and undead to match my stifled genius.

The Hero, Screw On head, is your typical knight in shining armor type. He fights the evil of the world unrelentingly but not stoic like. He may be limited by the trappings of his shining knight persona but he’s far from unfunny. His character seems to play straight man to the others off-the-wall antics.

The show is action packed(blood included), filled with comedy, insanely silly, and worth a go.

WATCH: The Amazing Screw On Head

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Rocketboom mach II is a go. The new Amanda Congdon is in. Are my peepers decieving me or does this new chick(Joanne Colan) have more than a passing resemblence to Ms Congdon?

limey on left

I’m liking the britishness of New Chick. But the fact that she looks so much like Congdon kinda creeps me out. It’s got that serial killer vibe to it. You know, the perp murders the same girl over and over again and never getting true satisfacation cause his twisted mind can’t resolve the fact that the prom queen dumped goat’s blood on him at the school ball while the entire student body watched and pointed and laughed.

Will Andrew end up replacing the British Chick when/if she becomes crazy popular? Or will there be more goat’s blood on the scene.

Will British Chick become popular after all this hooha over Congdon’s dismissal?

Maybe I’m channeling Garth Algar, fearing the inevitability of change.

Fuck, I don’t know. I do know the magic’s gone.

RB gets points for the self mocking intro and for not ignoring all the bad press. Clever boy, Mr Andrew. Those points don’t even come close to getting you out of the negative zone.

I’m not sure what happened to cause this schism. I wish the involved would kiss, make up, and get back to the old show in a new direction. Unless, of course, kissing and such is what led to this damage.

My mind lives in the gutter.

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Two of my friends bought venus flytraps. You know, the plant that eats like an animal. Not at the same time, mind you, and certainly not together, but there they are. One bought it for the asthetics, the other for practical reasons. That one even caught a fly the other night.

Venus flytraps and Pitcher plants always fascinated me. I was in elementary school when I learned about them. A plant that eats “meat”. How neat is that. Then I saw “Little Shop of Horrors“.

I’m keeping an eye out for missing dentists, strange runs of incredibly good luck, and certain meat-eating plants of unsual size.

does it have to be human?

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I’m seriously at a loss for words. I figured that they had a tight enterprise and that all the people involved were a close knit group.

I guess I was wrong.

Her video goodbye was posted yesterday on Umboomed.

And the fallout from this disheartening knowledge is also up.

I know it was a free “show” and I didn’t know any of the people involved. It’s just weird to see Ms Congdon leave. When I thought of Rocketboom her unique quirkiness, sarcastic wit, and her input were a part of my RB mental image. I knew there were others working hard behind the scenes to keep that grand experiment up and running. I just never thought it would end this soon.

Man, nothing good lasts anymore.

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