Come on everybody, ease on down the road this week with Leland and Spooky as they take a trip to the land of OZ in search of “The Wiz.” This is one crazy movie from 1978 that should be seen by every kind of film lover.
Join us in our quest to understand this wild ride of a flick.
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Hey all, here’s a new video from Mon Frere: “Jason Statham: Literacy Advocate.” Furthermore, if you like this, please head over to reddit.com and vote for us in the /r/sketchcomedy contest! You need a reddit account to vote, but why on earth would you not want a reddit account? What, do you like productivity? Feh. Anyway, lots more to come from Mon Frere. We’ve got another show tonight (Friday, January 27) in Charlotte at Roux! If you’re in the area, please come out and see the magic. Furthermore, our friend Aslan Freeman, frontman for the band Future Ghosts, just finished recording and producing the audio CD version of our Harry Potter-themed show Huffle Puffed! Hopefully, soon, we’ll be able to sell it online to all of you fans out there. In the meantime, here’s the video you all came here to see:
We said we’d be back and we meant it. Welcome to the second episode of the Trailer Park, where we take a look at some of the newest trailers to hit the industry.
Even though the Spike TV Video Game Awards are but a distant memory at this point, James and I couldn’t help but dive in for one more look. This time around, we set our eyes on Naughty Dog’s latest offering: the post-apocalyptic and atmospheric survival-horror title: The Last of Us.
There are quite a few, read herds, of people who enjoy the cartoon-ish, hat wearing, customization filled game Team Fortress 2. Quite a few of these people happen to be talented in things other than stabbing people in the back while wearing a paper mask or lighting said spy on fire while shouting incoherent phrases through a gas mask. If you do love or enjoy TF2 or simply want to dabble in making maps for video games here is your chance. The folks over at TF2Maps.net are hosting a Payload Map contest. Participants are encourage to design a single stage payload (a game type) map before April 30. If you want to do well though your map will need to feature a “dynamic element.”
There’s been talk of a Mass Effect massive-multiplayer-online-game going ’round, much as there’s talk of an MMO any time a franchise is successful. On the surface such talk is often tempting. An open-ended exploration of a favorite franchise! Revisiting beloved locations and characters! Taking part in the ongoing story of the setting!
But like many fictional bids for life eternal, these temptations mask great peril. Let’s talk continuity.
Comic book fans are intimately familiar with this intellectual bugbear. When your favorite series’ writers can change every few years, emotional climaxes reversed for the sake of retreading well-trodden ground, and your hero can fall victim to ill-conceived redesigns whenever the suits decide to tap into their caricature of the latest zeitgeist, you learn to pick and choose the version you like and throw out the rest.
Of course, continuity can be a very good thing; an overarching narrative between related works leads to more storytelling opportunities and the potential for greater character growth. Most of all, continuity lets us tell new stories with old characters without having to retread the same well-trodden ground or invalidate past classics. But no story can last forever; the ever-wandering hero is as static a figure as the hero who never grows at all. Without an ending, can anything really begin?
A creator’s greatest challenge is knowing when to stop.
With Smallville finally coming to a close, a giant Krytonite-Comet-sized block of television is left for someone to fill. What show will get greenlit?
This week on Comic Issues, our heroes face down the latest television pilots. It seems that not only the CW, but Syfy and Cartoon Network seem to be going the Super route. Green Arrow, Blue Beetle and even Booster Gold himself are all getting some Live Action treatment.
Also in this exciting episode we talk iAuthor and iBooks2, as Digital Books make things a little more independent.
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So what superhero TV show would you like to see? Drop us a line and let us know.
There are those particular actors that you can’t seem to get enough of. For me right now I seem to be on a Jason Segel kick. After his fantastic performance in the Muppets, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the next episode of “How I Met your Mother.” Well lucky for me Parmount Vantage is on the ball with Jeff Who Lives At Home being released March 16.
There is a particular art to going digital. The transition can be a bit of a trial of one’s artistic dedication. While I was introduced to Wacom’s products early on in my artistic career, it wasn’t until very recently that I became comfortable with tablets.I found it very difficult to draw on the Tablet and watch what was begin drawn on the Screen. I was always looking for the happy medium between digital and traditional drawing.
Wacom has taken that very step with the introduction of the Inkling.
The easiest way to understand the Inkling is it’s essentially a ballpoint pen that records your line art digitally. How does this fit into the day-to-day grind of an artist? Is this the happy medium between traditional and digital?
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Trauben’s Overall
The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the largest and most daunting conferences to cover, and the menagerie of high-tech gadgets and gizmos is staggering. After a day at CES the scope and scale of the electronics industry is unmistakable.
The variety, however, is sometimes a little more in question.
The electronics industry is a pack of hungry companies and developers fighting over finite market share. Much of the time a company presenting a product has their competitors right next door presenting a similar-but-not-quite-the-same product, and the two rivals each assure the consumer or reporter that theirs is the Unique Solution with Innovative Design and High-Quality Material and any number of other perks rating capitalized titles which the discerning customer will surely appreciate. The alternative is monopoly, of course, but I’d rarely realized, for example, just how many companies boast about their mobile device cases or headphones or television designs.
It’s 3043 AD, Earth has been destroyed and our only hope of saving humanity relays on a kid with a bad attitude, a girl with a ship that’s falling apart, a cranky kangaroo lady and a whole bunch of aliens that look like animal hybrids.
Join Leland and Spooky as they relive the animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film from 2000, Titan A.E., the film that single-handedly shut down an entire animation studio because it didn’t make any money.
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Happy Friday everyone!
