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Ah, shame I missed it. Next week... next week!

It's absurd, isn't it? The number of reboots going on right now is unprecedented. They actually did a whole show just the current spate of rebooting: http://www.hollywoodsaloon.com/podcastEP38.html (Not their greatest show, if memory serves, but I'm glad someone is pointing it out to people!)

I have a friend who loves a lot of the "Ultimate" stuff, but I felt that Millar's writing in The Ultimates itself was so heavy-handed that I stopped being interested in them. I'm sure there's some good stuff there.

I'll also be as there as Toblix was last time. Have fun!

Lol. The attention to detail is awesome... You can see the bits that Batman erased and rethought. Edit: Apparently it's yet another internet meme that I missed. The original started here, for anyone who is interested, in quite an amusing comic strip.

Good grief, I barely made it through the first TPB.

Well at least there's some justice... (Apparently a real pic -- not photoshopped -- of when one of those street performers in Hollywood got arrested.)

Didn't work (no hotlinking), but it made me laugh so I fixed it.

That's pretty cool then.

Oh really? That's a bit sucky... was it a Lost Girls themed insert? I guess, come to think of it, that that's the only way they could do it, though.

Ah, and the story continues brilliantly. This series is definitely the best thing that TellTale have done so far. Thanks a lot, Jake and co!

Not sure what that means... I got them to sign inside the book when I saw them talk with Stuart Lee in London. (Where you there?)

Aye, but you only tend to see scores that high when they've only got a few votes (like that one). I'll keep an eye out for it, though.

Sure Batman molests Robin, but Superman has his dark side, too...

Lost Girls was excellent. It was precisely what it was set out to be: Artistic, beautiful pornography that caters for both men and women. The people I've spoken to who didn't like it always seem to complain about the "lack of story"... as if it was supposed to be a dense tome or something. Very bizarre. Yes, you're supposed to read it when you're feeling horny, not when you want to be intellectually challenged. It boggles my mind that people need that explaining to them. Moore and Gebbie's success comes from creating characters that are actually three-dimensional people who can also, plausibly, engage in sexual acts at the drop of a hat without being stripped of their personalities. Most porn does precisely the opposite: Badly devised characters, in absurd situations, who are immediately stripped of any and all personality the second their clothes come off. Aka, soulless, horrible affairs. As Moore put it: My copy is signed by them both

Hasn't anybody noticed the video of Tim Schafer on the Late Show I posted? ?

Yeah, it was a nice surprise... It's probably not so "amazing" if you're expecting it.

Oh man... cF0YETfrp-M

Whereas the Hollywood Saloon has 38 "standard" episodes (of at least an hour each, often much longer), 12 "special editions" (which tend to be in-depth movie reviews, at least an hour) and 12 "shots" (which are 30 minute mini-episodes/rants on a given subject - and what they tend to be releasing at the moment - three new episodes just this week). Feed: http://www.hollywoodsaloon.com/podcast/hollywoodsaloon.xml (Ok, ok. I guess you've all got the message now I promise I'll shut up.)

I'm just a crazy kinda guy! (Actually it was only a paragraph on each of the characters summarizing their "Extended Universe" novels... I didn't read them all, but just learning of the existence of these stories (the idea that someone had given them all names and backstories and reasons to be in the Cantina that day) was enough to destroy all the mystique.)

Someone tell that to George Lucas -- oh wait, too late.

Ooh, got to disagree with you there. I thought the first two LoEGs were equally fantastic (the second one perhaps having a slight edge) and The Black Dossier (which isn't intended to be "the third story", but just Moore's take on those "source books" that were once a comic staple) was amazing -- but it's intended to be a "source book", not a story. The "fourth one" (actually the third story), Century, is interesting... It's three separate stories that come together to form one larger story. The first volume has been released (1910) and volume two (1968) is due next year. I'm not completely convinced by it, however. It certainly left an impression on me, and the artwork is fantastic, but I found the plot to be non-existent and the characters somewhat ill-defined (the latter being extremely unusual for Moore). I still don't quite know what to make of it. Jess Nevins's Annotations are somewhat useful for increasing enjoyment of the LoEG series, too.

It was announced the same day Microsoft announced Bing -- and completely stole its thunder, depending on what blog you were reading. The hype surrounding it is... large. v_UyVmITiYQ

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