Hey Gang, I'll apologize again for my lack of posting, but also encourage you to head on over to UnitedMonkee a new site that will be a great hub for checking out my various online adventures (including links back here, of course). It's a work in progress, but hopefully it'll grow into something cool.
Thanks and enjoy!
So, as I'm sure you're aware, this past weekend was the enormous New York Comic Con. I've actually gone every year and the show gets better and better, though, that's pretty easy considering how poorly laid out it was the first year.
I mostly walked around and talked to my various ToyFare contacts, but I also got a chance to flip through some boxes of cheap trades ($5, 50% off and best of all, buy 1 get 2 free!!!). So, keep an eye out for a bunch of trade reviews in the coming days and weeks (including a four trade Black Panther retrospective).
Aside from that, I was too much of a wuss to talk to any artists and get sketches in my Green Lantern themed sketchbook (as of now, it's got one sketch, though it is a pretty cool Koi Pham Guy Gardner). So, if any artists are reading this and want to contribute, let me know :)
Last but not least Justin Aclin, the big man at ToyFare, lead a slew of us in a Twisted ToyFare Theatre panel that turned out to be a lot of fun. So, thanks to anyone who came out for that and anyone who wished me a happy birthday on Friday (my 26th).
And, seriously, if you're an artist and want to draw some rad Green Lanterns, drop me a line!
So, in an unexpected move, my folks got me an XBox 360 for Christmas. I was pretty shocked and I know I'm super out of date with this kind of stuff, but there's a whole lot of cool stuff on XBox live. First and foremost, I'm a huge fan of the ability to watch your online Netflix movies on the TV, especially because neither of our computers can stream the movies for whatever reason. So, yeah, we've been watching all kinds of stuff like National Treasure 2 (love that series, Nic Cage at his best crazy), Hello Dolly (Em wanted to watch it after watching Wall-E again, not bad, but I fell asleep), 30 Rock Season 1 (the show makes a lot more sense when you see episodes from the beginning), Westworld (hopefully I'll get to a review on this soon), a really cool Pixar documentary about their history (highly recommended), a female version of Animal House called H.O.T.S. (completely ridiculous, but still pretty funny. I turned it off about half way through) and 20-30 minutes of Point of No Return which I hope to finish tonight.
A lot of these bad boys expire on December 31/January 1, so I've got a lot of watching to do. Hopefully that will translate into some good posts.
Okay, so one of the reasons that I haven't been posting as much the past five days or so is because my parents came in for a visit on Friday and left Sunday. I had asked my dad to root through the boxes in their basement and bring some of my oldest action figures and he responded in spaces with boxes full of He-Man, Batman, Silverhawks, Star Wars, Ghostbusters and plenty of other random toys from my childhood. So, first of all, a huge thanks for that, Dad's awesome.
But that's not all, for not real reason, Mom and Dad also took Em and I to Best Buy where they treated us to a brand new flat screen TV as well as a new DVD/VCR player (which is great, because, as regular readers know, I've been watching DVDs on my PS2 and our old TV SUCKED). So, again, they're awesome and not just because they bring and buy me/us stuff. This isn't really the forum to get into all the great things they've done, but, according to Rickey, they've got to be in the top 3 sets of parents of all time. I've got to agree.
The TV is freaking mind blowingly awesome. After setting it up we watched Kung Fu Panda and it looked AMAZING. I kept giggling throughout the movie because it looked so good. I was astonished both by the quality and my parents' generosity. Aside from all that, though, the movie is awesome. The voice acting is spot on (Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen, David Cross even Angelina Jolie and more) and the action scenes are SICK. It's great to see filmmakers who realize you can do all kinds of things with CGI and not be shackled down by the physical world that real movies are. It's also just a lot of fun, Jack Black's funny without being TOO Blackian. I recommend everyone check it out.
I ended up staying up late after everyone else went to bed just to watch Friday the 13th 5 (I wanted to see how it looked on the new TV), there will be a Halloween Scene review soon. I wasn't quite tired after that, still, so I popped Star Wars Battlefront II into the PS2 and had some fun with that for a while, but I wasn't quite done so I watched some TV just to see how it looked. I eventually tapped out around 3.
On Saturday Dad and I watched college football, bouncing between the Notre Dame game (my team) and his team, Ohio State. But we weren't just sitting there as Dad and I (but mostly him) built these frames with shrink wrap on them to place in our windows to help keep the cold out this winter. Meanwhile Mom and Em made Christmas cookies all day. And mind you, they got in around 5 on Friday and took of Sunday morning. I think Rickey's right (though I've known this for a while), they're the best. Thanks a lot Mom and Dad!
My name is TJ and I am, in fact, a Real World-aholic. It feels good to admit it in public, but, to be honest, I have no problem talking about my problem. I've been a fan of the Real World for a long time now, which doesn't necessarily vindicate me, but it might explain some things. 1996's season in Miami really sticks out in my memory. I would have been 13 or 14 at the time. The funny thing is that, in the early 90s, my parents sat me down and told me they didn't want me watching MTV because of shows like Beavis and Butthead and rap videos objectifying women.
I followed that rule for a while, but eventually started watching MTV after school and whenever I'd stay up late. The funny thing is that I never liked B&B and I really didn't like rap at the time (and I'm still playing catch up today). But the show that really caught my attention was The Real World. I have a basic knowledge of the seasons before Miami (I've probably seen most of them in reruns by now), but Miami was the first one that really grabbed my attention, partly because of theaforementioned inclusion of Wilstorm Editor Sarah Becker. But the whole cast really intrigued me. These were the kinds of people I didn't experience in my everyday life and it was really cool to see them all together and trying to start a business (which, if memory serves, never took off).
Real Worlds Boston and Seattle were also pretty big deals at the time and probably the last seasons where they didn't stunt cast as much as they do today. I remember talking to my friend Shannon on the phone in high school for hours and one of the big topics of conversation was always the Real World. She was the first person I talked on the phone with for more then two minutes. I don't know why that's important, but it's fun.
After that things started getting crazy with all the drama of Hawaii, then New Orleans and heading back to New York for the tenth anniversary. That was one of the first things in pop culture that actually made me feel old because I actually remembered ten years of something on TV. Of course now I know it to be just the first of many events to make me feel old.
I don't remember much about Chicago by name except for the fact that two guys I would go on to know in college, Jeff and Pat got their way onto the show, though I didn't know them when the episode aired and haven't seen it since. As I've heard the story, they found out where the show was while they were filming and actually set up a lemonade stand outside the house. Eventually they got noticed by the housemates and made their way onto the show! My friends tell me that you can actually see them in the background of an episode that I would love to see.
After Chicago was the game changing Las Vegas which I remember watching every week in Jacob's room in college. It's weird how such a debaucherous show could bring people together (he was in my wedding party). By this time I wasn't talking to Shannon about every episode anymore, but Jacob filled that space pretty well. You know a season's gonna be crazy when there's practically a threesome on the first episode. Jacob (who was a year older) and I would watch the next few seasons together until he graduated.
After that things definitely get fuzzy and I have to refer to the Wikipedia page just to remember who was in what cast, but I was also equally enamored with the Real World/Road Rules Challenges which would pit casts from the two shows against each other in games of a physical nature. I was also a Road Rules fan until they decided to take a Survivor approach and kick people off. "Why become more like the show that's trying to steal your original concept?" I thought. Anyway, I appreciated how they'd schedule Real World seasons to follow Road Rules and vice versa and then once Road Rules tanked for whatever reason they'd fill in with the various challenges.
After college I spent a few months at home where I worked most mornings at Barry's Bagel Place at Westgate and most nights at the Chad/Chad/Toth house (I really miss that place) watching whatever was on MTV (I regret to say that that included The Hills along with the less embarassing Real World and Challenges.
Luckily, when I moved out here to New York I found a kindred Real World spirit in Rickey, who shared my love of how ridiculous the show had become. You see, back when I was a kid I actually wanted to be on the show and now I've reached the peak age at which I could make it onto the show (a realization that struck me a lot harder than it should have). In three months I'll be too old. Depressing. But after a while, that desire to be one of them transformed into an amazement at how self obsessed some people can be as well as a kind of character study. Sure the inclusion of camera will change how people act, but Real World definitely offers the budding writer (which I still consider myself, until I hit the top of that age limit as well) a great look at some truly interesting characters. But, let's be clear, I don't want to sound all literary and whatnot, I do like watching people get drunk and make bad decisions. It's the same part of me that liked watching Jerry Springer when I was younger.
Anyway, Rickey and I stayed pretty well caught up, though I did fall of the wagon for a season until he told me how awesome it was and I caught up with episodes online (I wish every season was available online, I'd watch the crap out of that). Since then I've been watching every season and challenge as they come out.
What I like about the challenges is that you get to see these characters that you got pretty close to in previous seasons. To me they're real people but also just characters on a TV show and seeing them all together on another show is like seeing a cool comic book team-up where you get to see a group of characters you never thought you'd get to see again.
Like I said above, I do have a problem and I accept that. I've known for a while that my love for the Real World and it's bastard offspring is somewhat unnatural, but it really hit home yesterday when I realized that there wouldn't be any new shows this weekend as The Island (the latest challenged) aired it's last episode two weeks ago and it's reunion show last week. I guess I've just got to wait until the new season hits which features a cast in Brooklyn. How crazy is it that I've been living this close to a Real World house and not set up a lemonade stand yet? Hmm, maybe there's still time. What do you say Rickey? Interested?
As far as comic book universes go, I think the Wildstorm one might be my non-DC and Marvel favorite. Gen 13 was my gateway into Wildstorm back in the day. #14 was my first issue (with Roxy going to school on the cover) and I was hooked immediately. I didn't really branch out into other Wildstorm books for a long time, but I was really impressed with how historic this new comic book universe felt even back then. Gen 13 were the kids of guys in a group called Team 7, whose members were on all kinds of other teams or hanging out in their own solo books (Grifter, Backlash, Lynch, Deathblow, etc.). I didn't really know what all was going on, but I was super intrigued. So intrigued that I bought a few other books like a Team 7 mini that came out and whatnot, but not a ton of books.
I completely dodged the initial Image onslaught of comics when the boom hit, which I'm still thankful for, but I did wind up with some random issues here and there thanks to various grab bags I picked up over the years. I also watched the Wildcats cartoon when it was on, because, at the time, I'd watch ANYTHING comic book related. So, with all that I had a basic idea of what was going on in their universe and it all seemed really cool. A big part of that has to do with the artists working on these books. Man, they looked slick and definitely appealed to me as a kid, but I was also into the "super powered kids on the run from adults" story that came along with Gen 13 as it was my first exposure to such a concept. Oh yeah, I also remember Sarah from the Real World Miami being a Wildstorm editor. On the very first episode they showed her getting kicked out of her place after a big party. If memory serves (which it probably doesn't) her roommates were J. Scott Campbell and another notable who I can't remember. Her desk in the RW house was also surrounded by comic book pictures, which totally geeked me out back when no one on TV ever talked about comic books.
Skip ahead a bunch of years, I've dropped Gen 13 from my list because of Claremont's relaunch (yeesh) and not really interested in Wildstorm anymore, but I'm hearing a lot about this book called The Authority. I eventually score an internship at Wizard where Rickey recommends I read Warren Ellis' Stormwatch which leads directly into The Authority. I did and dug it and then read Authority and got less and less impressed as it went on. So recently, I re-read all five Stormwatch trades and they're really good. Ellis does a surprisingly good job playing in a super hero universe that doesn't have as many rules as DC or Marvel. I'm looking forward to reading his Authority again soon in the next few weeks too. Ellis' Planetary is also a lot of fun, but I want the last trade dag nabbit!
Once I started working for Wizard full time I jumped back into the Wildstorm pool and was surprised to see some names that I wouldn't necessarily associate with the company like James Robinson and Alan Moore who both did stints on Wildcats. I can't remember how far I got, but I started with Wildcats #1 and read through Moore's stuff (which includes Robinson's run). Both Robinson and Moore's arcs are pretty fantastic (especially Moore's, no big surprise there). Like with Ellis, it was great to see Moore coming in and picking up elements from previous Wildcats stories and running with them. Moore did a bunch of other stories here and there that have been collected in one big trade that's definitely out there, but still a lot of fun.
I also read Ed Brubaker's Point Blank which lead into his Sleeper series with Sean Phillips. Man, this story blew me away. It could have very easily been it's own stand alone story of espionage and intrigue, but Brubaker set it squarely in the WU, with references to Alan Moore's Wildcats and plenty of other goings on. It's a great series and one I recommend to anyone who loves dark and dirty comics.
From there I jumped into more modern Wildstorm as they shook up their universe with the Wold Storm event. Even now I'm not really sure what the deal was. Things were predicated by the Will Pfeifer-written Captain Atom: Armageddon mini which placed Cap in the Wildstorm U. He blew up and so did the WU, but it reformed in similar and different ways after that. I got to talk to most of the creators for the big relaunch (this is when Grant Morrison was announced to be writing both Wildcats and Authority) which was a lot of fun, but as a fan of the existing Wildstorm U, I was left mostly confused. Unlike Crisis on Infinite Earths there wasn't a "we're completely starting over" vibe as some teams seemed to be unchanged (Stormwatch PHD which was a great book seemed to be exactly in line with previous Stormwatch stuff) while others were way different (my beloved Gen 13). There were a few stumbling blocks as Wildcats and Authority have only put out one and two issues respectively, but overall Stormwatch PHD, Deathblow and Midnighter were all pretty solid books and Gail Simone added a whole new element with her Welcome to Tranquility series.
But the changes weren't over as Wildstorm geared up for another big shake up with their trilogy of stories: Wildstorm: Armageddon, Wildstorm: Revelations and Number of the Beast which I liked for the most part though I wish Number of the Beast would have picked up more elements from Revelations. Anyway, now you've got the Wildstorm U in a kind of post-apocalyptic Mad Max-like world where everything's turned on it's ear and all these familiar heroes are fighting just to keep humanity going.
It's not an easy universe to break into with over a decade's worth of stories, but I've had a great time exploring the good and the bad of the Wildstorm U, which is a lot more intricate and detailed than you might think at first. If you're looking to get in, I'd recommend Sleeper, Moore's Wildcats, the upcoming James Robinson Wildcats trade, Warren Ellis' Stormwatch and Authority and Stormwatch PHD. I'm really curious to see where they go with this new path and I can't wait to see what they do and what new creators and characters will pop up in the future.
As I'm sure you could tell from my near daily Halloween Scene posts throughout the month of October, I'm a big fan of Halloween. Unfortunately I've had some weird Halloweens over the past few years. My senior year of college I got pretty sick with bronchitis and pneumonia, so that sucked. Then my first year at Wizard (I started on October 17th), I was too new to get invited to one of the guys' Halloween party (I also was too much of a wuss to ask if I could come, so no big deal, I just watched horror movies in my hovel of a room). The year after that, my first Halloween married we went out to the bar. Em went as the killer rabbit from Monty Python while I went as Charlie from Lost. Neither of us were very creative with our costumes. Then last year I got sick again, just a cold this time, but it was still annoying.
So, this year, I was psyched for Halloween and refused to get sick. It helped that I was sick about two weeks before (yeah!). And boy was it a fun one! I was even able to make it last for a full week as we had a party to go to on the 25th. Thanks to Em's smartness I went to the first party as a black and white zombie from Night of the Living Dead.
I wasn't able to find a black suit based on the first zombie we see in the beginning of the movie, but I was able to get a gray one and then Em did my makeup. Ah, it reminded me of my days doing musicals in high school.
It also reminded me of a horror movie because, while we were getting ready the freaking power went out and Em had to do both of our makeup(s?) by candle and flashlight. I was pretty sure a slasher was going to break in at any moment OR a real zombie outbreak would happen. Oh, it was also a dark and somewhat stormy night. Crazy! We then went to a party where we drank, which as you all know is just asking for trouble (especially for Miley Cyrus cut outs).
Oh and at the party we also played a super fun board game called Pimps and Ho's. I'd throw in a link for you to check out their site, but it might seem a bit lewd, just put the name in the browser without punctuation or spaces and check out the fun.
So, that party was great great fun, but it wasn't the end of the Halloween festivities. In addition to the plenty of horror movies I watched, we also dressed up at Wizard and there was a costume contest. I took second place and won $10. Woo hoo, thanks Summer for setting it up! (I'm the one in the monkey suit by the way).
We also carved pumpkins and I took the old school Nintendo approach and did Boo from the Mario games. It didn't involve much actual carving, but I did have to shave all the orange off. I think it turned out pretty good and the trick or treaters seemed to like it, even the punk kid who said "More" twice after I had already given him two pieces of candy. Little jerk.
But even THAT wasn't it. Halloween night we went to a party of one of Em's coworkers' house. We didn't want to do the makeup thing again and I didn't want to wear the monkey suit (it's freaking HOT inside that thing), so we stole Rickey and James' idea from a few years ago (the rabbit/Charlie year) and wore big boys footy pajamas. Man that was fun.
I also played beer pong for the second time and for two games, my partner and I were champions of the world (which I told everyone at the party, most of whom were strangers to me up until that point). There's nothing funnier than thinking about myself, drunk and dressed like a little kid playing beer pong. There was also a baby at the party which was weird. I tried not to swear too much around her, but I did. Sorry Abby.
So yeah, that was this year's Halloween. I'm gonna try and get my streak of not being sick on Halloween back up again and keep enjoying the creepiest night of the year.
Hey faithful readers. I'm sure you were worried sick about not getting updates over the last few days, but Em and I went back to our alma mater Ohio Wesleyan University for homecoming. It was really strange being back in a place that used to be home and now belongs to a completely different group of people than I remember. We've been out for three years which means that the kids who were freshman when we were seniors graduated last year. Which is a trip for sure. I don't think I've used the word "weird" so many times in my life to describe how I felt.
Anyway, a group of my fraternity brothers (Alpha Sigma Phi) came back for the annual Sig Bust alumni event which was a lot of fun. It was great seeing any of you who might be reading this and if you weren't able to make it, you were missed.
Well, literally kicking it old school this weekend was a lot of fun, but the total of 18 hours driving between Friday and today have taken their toll. But keep an eye out for a few new reviews soon, including the first Powers TPB and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
The rad folks over at Asgard Press dropped me an E-mail last week and asked if I wanted to check out their Vintage DC and MAD Magazine 2009, so OF COURSE I said yes (thanks again by the way). So here's the deets. These 11x30 calendars go from September of this year through December of 2009. Each picture can be removed (the edges are perforated) so you could hang them up in your room or frame them if you're classy and feature either classic DC or MAD covers from the old school. They cost $18.95 and get a super added bonus in my book for being printed on 100% recycled paper with soy based inks. I don't know exactly what that means, but it's good for the Earth right?
I'm definitely not as familiar with MAD as I am with golden and silver age DC comics, but I can definitely see why this calendar would be a treat for any fans of MAD. My personal favorite in the bunch is actually from this month originally printed as the cover to MAD #105 from September 1966. It features a painting by Norman Mingo of an Adam West Batman and Alfred E. Newman as Robin. Good stuff.
Each month, in addition to the huge piece of art you also get thumbnail sized reprints of various pages from the feature issue as well as the back covers and the name of each artist.
Okay, so on to the big whammy, the Vintage DC Super Heroes 2009 Calendar which feature 16 rad reproductions of the first appearances of Barry Allen as the Flash, the Justice League, Batgirl, Supergirl, Wonder Woman and the JLA/JSA crossover. There's also some surprise picks like Captain Marvel #6, a cover I'm not sure if I've ever seen before and some great, campy holiday-related covers, my favorite being Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #1 with Lois Flying around on a broom and Superman wondering "Great guns! Lois has supernatural powers--and they may prove mightier than mine!" Great stuff. Each month also gives a brief description of the contents of the issue along with general info. This calendar is perfect for any fan of DC comics who wants to keep all his dates in order, maybe even as an early holiday gift .
Like every other comic fan (and apparently a lot of normal people, considering how many copies have sold on Amazon) I started re-reading Watchmen after watching the trailer. I wasn't a huge fan of Watchmen when I first read it back in grade school or high school (can't remember which). I do remember buying it at a Barnes and Noble after continuously reading about how awesome it was in Wizard. I think I basically didn't get it back then. I've read it a few more times and enjoy it more and more with each read, especially after reading some more of Moore's work. I'm only four issues in, but damn, this is an enjoyable read.
Back in college, I made a deal with Em where I'd read the first Harry Potter book if she read a trade. I made the mistake of giving her Watchmen. The problem with giving someone with limited comic book experience Watchmen is that it's just so damn dense that it's hard to get through. I've also discovered by giving non comic book fans different books, that there is a mechanic to reading comics that fans take for granted that new readers don't necessarily know. The most difficult thing tends to be which order to read the word balloons in (something I still have trouble with). It seems like it should be something uniform like top left, then below that and over or everything in the top row and then the bottom (like a typewriter). I'm definitely off on a tangent here, but I'm curious to see what people who bought the new edition based on the coolness of the trailer think and whether they'll move on to other Alan Moore comics or other trades in general.
Speaking of Alan Moore movies and trades, Em and I watched League of Extraordinary Gentlemen tonight (a.k.a. LXG, hehe). I actually like this flick. It's very obviously a huge departure from the first LOEG volume (one of my all time favorite comics, I even wrote a 17 page paper on it in college) but it does have some fun elements. Also fun was trying to explain how much I liked the comic book and how different the movie is and also how much I like the movie. She just started laughing at me and said I sounded like her trying to convince me to watch a chick flick.
In the end she enjoyed (didn't love) the movie, which is pretty much how I feel. Now I've just got to try and get her to read the trade. She's also looking to re-read Watchmen along with me, maybe I'll get her thoughts on the book after we're done.
Once again the fine folks at Lionsgate saw fit to send more The Spirit teaser posters my way and this time they sent two! So check out these two lovely ladies:
Jaime King as Lorelei
Sarah Paulson as Ellen Dolan
Like I said before, I'm not all that familiar with The Spirit, but even I know who Ellen Dolan is and can't wait to see Sarah Paulson again. I was a big fan of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (if you haven't seen it, you should check out the DVDs, I'll get to a review soon enough). So, we'll see once Christmas comes how she does with The Spirit.
Hey gang, so, I went on vacation last week to head back to T-Town for my buddy Randy's bachelor party and wedding. Congrats to him. Now, I failed to mention this to you guys before I took off and didn't have computer access for the week, so sorry about that. But, while I was gone a few things went down on the interwebs. As of now, I don't know how to make these clickable links, but you can check these things out while I get my next few posts together:
First up I was involved with WizardUniverse.com's Thursday Morning Quarterback a few weeks back. We covered Angel, Justice League of America (my personal favorite book of the week) and more.
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/061908tmqb.html
Also, my good buddy, former Wizard staffer, current ToyFare funny-bringer and renowned blogger Sean Collins dropped the folks at BoingBoing.com a link to my OMAC review which was pretty crazy. You can check out what they had to say about this here blog (though really, they just talk about how crazy OMAC is and, let's be honest, it is). Hopefully some of you found your way here because of it, so welcome!
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/review-of-jack-kirby.html
And finally, Poe Ghostal did a quick 5 questions with me regarding ToyFare and all things toys, so head on over to his site and check it and the rest of his rad site out.
http://www.poeghostal.com/2008/06/5-questions-with-tj-dietsch.html
The nice folks at Lionsgate passed another The Spirit teaser poster my way. This time it's the lovely Scarlett Johansson as Silken Floss.
Wowsers, does this poster make anyone else feel kinda funny? Like when we used to climb the rope in gym class?
Hey gang, so, I guess the nice folks at Lionsgate liked what I had to say about Rambo because they added me to some kind of press E-mail list. At least, that's what I think happened. Anyway, one of their nice press people sent me the following teaser image of The Spirit's Eva Mendes as Sand Saref. I have to claim ignorance when it comes to The Spirit, but I'm curious to see how this movie plays out (Sin City was awesome and Frank Miller's a pretty big deal).
So, thanks again to Lionsgate, feel free to send any more images or screeners/DVDs (crosses fingers) my way.
Hey Gang, welcome to my little corner of the internet. First, an introduction. My name's TJ Dietsch. I'm the Associate Editor for ToyFare magazine. I started my Wizard career a few years ago as an intern while I was going to school at Ohio Wesleyan University. After graduating I stewed in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio for a few months before scoring a job in the busiest place at Wizard, the Research Department. A few years ago, I got married and now live with my wife Emily and our cat Milo in New York's Orange County.
Okay, enough about me. The purpose of this here blog is to throw the spotlight on some of the older movies, comics, TV shows, cartoons, toys, video games, music, books and just about anything else that made life interesting. And not just things from my childhood, but going back as far as I can. Sometimes you'll see reviews of my first viewing of Bullit (I'm watching it as I type), whatever comics I grab from the quarter bin (Blood Pack review coming soon) and just about anything else that grabs my attention (or grabbed my attention in the past) long enough to write a post about. Now, I don't want you thinking that this is one of those blogs where I complain about how great things used to be. I'm also a fan of modern pop culture and will probably throw in a review or commentary about those things every now and then, but this whole site is basically dedicated to the up-to-the-minute news, so I figured you could use a place to come in, relax and read about whatever I happen to be thinking about that day.
So, be on the look out for frequent updates, I'll do my best to write-up anything I come across, but also be sure to let me know how you like the blog so far by dropping me an E-mail with KIOS in the subject.
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