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September 6, 2010
August 10, 2010
McDonalds Criticized for Giving Away Marvel Characters
I’m really beginning to think that whackjob leftists who hate McDonalds and their Happy Meals are just bitter sterile women and cranky gay men who hate their own childhood and want to take childhood away from other kids. Now the Thing and the Human Torch are being criticized as childrens toys in the Happy Meals because they represent violence. Sheesh.
From Commercialfreechildhood here:
It’s hard to believe, but McDonald’s Happy Meal toys have hit a new low.
The fast food giant’s latest giveaway for preschool boys features eight Marvel comic action figures. One, The Human Torch, is a man engulfed in flames. Another, The Thing, menacingly roars “IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME!” at the press of a button.
It’s bad enough that McDonald’s relentlessly uses junk toys to sell children on junk food. It’s awful that this giveaway continues the troubling trend of fast food restaurants promoting toys linked to violent PG-13 movies. And it’s terrible that McDonald’s, the leading distributor of toys in the United States, relentlessly perpetuates the worst gendered stereotypes with its Happy Meal giveaways. During the current promotion, boys get violent action figures with their burgers and fries, while girls are offered cutesy animals that, bizarrely, come with hand bags.
But now, for preschool boys, a so-called happy meal at McDonald’s features the horrifying spectacle of a man on fire and a menacing figure that explicitly spurs them to violence.
I think these vegan pussies don’t like superheros because they can lift more than 100 pounds. As far as gender stereotypes, only gender-confused people fail to understand that there is actually a difference between boys and girls. I suppose this group would rather have McDonalds give away anatomically correct dolls having gay sex?
July 3, 2010
Mel Gibson to Play the Next Batman
The aging actor is set to make a comback by donning the black cowl of the Dark Knight! He might not be in shape to do many of his own fight sequences, but the dialog should be spectacular.
For every threat he makes against the Joker and Riddler, he will end it with “But you will blow me first!”
July 1, 2010
Hulk vs IronMan
Flights are a lot less boring now that I can download comic books onto my iPhone with the Marvel comic reader app. I’m currently loving the World War Hulk series in which the Hulk returns from space and he takes on earth’s greatest heroes. In this panel Ironman dons a specially crafted suit so he can stand up to the Hulk’s wrath. So awesome!
June 19, 2010
IronMan and Doom
IronMan and Doom, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.
I consider myself to be pretty up to date with lots of iPhone apps. And I love Marvel Comics. But it wasn’t until I read a twitter post by @SimonPegg that I heard that you could download comics to your iPhone. And it is AWESOME.
The guided view shows you panel by panel with automated zooms to details on a page that mimics what would draw your eye while reading a comic.
I am getting caught up on a few series I’ve missed since I stopped collecting years ago. I’ve got my eye set on getting the Planet Hulk series next, where the Hulk planet hops and conquers various worlds. The 2 dollar price per comic is a bit steep, but with no ads and the easy portability, this is going to make my next cross country flight much more enjoyable!
June 9, 2010
Obama Thinks He’s Kickass
I can see the similarities between Obama and the fictional superhero Kickass. Both are scrawny, effeminate, and get in over their heads.
Meanwhile, a company in Maine has been churning thousands of feet of oil spill booms and no one is buying them. Not the Federal Government. Not BP. Its almost as if no one is really trying ot contain the spill. So go ahead, Kickass. Buy the booms.
And hey, if Obama thinks he’s Kickass- who would be HitGirl? Hillary?
May 27, 2010
Iron Baby Versus Bunnies
This is pretty awesome. But I’m guessing a key ingredient in his repulsor rays is the load he carries in his iron diaper.
Thanks to GAS
May 25, 2010
May 7, 2010
Disney Marvel Epic Mashup Poster
This is only a snippet of a larger poster that shows many of the Disney and Marvel characters juxtaposed against each other after the merger of the two companies.
See the whole awesome thing here. Thanks to Jess for the image!
April 23, 2010
My Favorite Part of Titanic
You know back in the 19-teens, there were no digital cameras, no internet and no way to get “Girls to go Wild” on pleasure cruises. So sketching dirty pictures of sluts was the way to go.
I’m really digging on this new Ironman meme that’s goin’ ’round.
April 12, 2010
Lite Airline Reading
Sitting on the Tarmac waiting to take of to sunny San Diego, California. Since I’m sure my iPhone wouldn’t hold a charge for the 5 and half hour flight I stopped in a bookstore to find something to read. I didn’t know I needed this until I saw it but I quickly took possession of the last one on the shelf.
So blogging is light yadda yadda see my archives yadda yadda.
UPDATE! For a town on the border with Mexico, this town is cold. In the fifties cold. Not wise of me to pack only short sleeve shirts.
Also, that KickAss hardback of the first eight KickAss comics was one of the best comic book stories of all time. Dark, gritty, bloody, funny- it has it all. And if they do a scene for scene interpretation for the movies, they can’t go wrong. Wow, this is a modern myth.
April 7, 2010
Hello Natasha!
As in Natasha Romanova, the Black Widow. SHIELD agent, martial arts master and hottie, played here by Real Life Hottie Scalett Johansson for the upcoming IronMan 2 Movie.
For those not well versed in the Black Widow’s background, you can check out her definitive story here at Marvel.
It looks like the movie producers managed to get her to drop about 20 pounds for this role. I think she looked awesome in Just Not That Into You.
December 27, 2009
This is NOT Why He’s The Punisher
This looks like its a toy that is part Transformer and part Marvel superhero. Being able to shoot torpedo’s from your junk is one of those rare superpowers that they just don’t talk about.
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December 22, 2009
Man Eating Tiger- That’s One Tasty Tiger!
What’s yummier than eating a tiger? Maybe eating the last of its species, because they are better that way. Some dude named Kang had a hankerin’ for a slice of tiger so he hunted and killed the last Indochinese Tiger in the wild.
This story of eeny meenie myney moe is here courtesy of Reuters:
A man who killed and ate what may have been the last wild Indochinese tiger in China was sentenced to 12 years in jail, local media reported on Tuesday.
Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, met the tiger in February while gathering freshwater clams in a nature reserve near China’s border with Laos. He claimed to have killed it in self-defense.
The only known wild Indochinese tiger in China, photographed in 2007 at the same reserve, has not been seen since Kang’s meal.
Of course Kang killed the tiger. He conquered most of the known universe!
September 21, 2009
Cool Spider-Lizard
Newest pet craze in the UK is to get the lizard that shares vivid red and blue markings of the Marvel Comics Superhero Spider-Man. It does look pretty cool:
From the Telegraph here:
The vivid red-and-blue colouring is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up.
Native to Kenya, the rock agama (Agama mwanzae) is unable to throw webs, but can change colour – the brightly coloured males will change brown at night or if frightened. They can also run on their hind legs, and – like Spidey – can scale vertical walls.
The Rock Agama from Kenya changes colors. The B-rock Agama from Hawaii, (transplanted from Kenya) promises its potential mates hope and change, but fails to deliver.
September 3, 2009
Michael Jackson Tried to Buy Marvel Comics so He Could Be Spider-Man
This past week there was an announcement that Disney has purchased Marvel Comics. I happen to think it is a good deal for both companies. But I shudder to imagine what would have happened to this company if Michael Jackson got his wish to be Spider-Man. From the lips of Stan Lee himself:
August 31, 2009
Spider-Mouse
Marvel Comics to be sold to Disney for 4 BILLION Bucks.
From Breitbart here:
The Walt Disney Co. is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse and WALL-E.
Under the deal, which was announced Monday and is expected to close by the end of the year, Disney will acquire the rights to 5,000 Marvel characters. Many of them, including the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, were co-created by the comic book legend Stan Lee.
Disney CEO Robert Iger said Marvel’s comic books, TV shows, movies and video games amounted to “a treasure trove of content.” Iger said the deal would bring benefits like the ones Disney got from buying “Toy Story” creator Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion in stock in 2006.
I wonder if this means that Universal will have to shut down the Marvel attractions in their Orlando amusement park?
August 21, 2009
British TV to Make Muslim Hero Series
Remember those Muslim comic books called the 99? British TV wants to create a TV series about it so it can spread Islamic values. Like no carbombing on Fridays, and beating women for showing their faces.
From the Telegraph here:
The world’s first Muslim cartoon superheroes have taken the Arab world by storm, and now they are headed for British television screens. Named the 99, as each possesses one of Allah’s 99 attributes, the characters include a burka-clad woman named Batina the Hidden and a Saudi Arabian Hulk-type man named Jabbar the Powerful.
They have proved a hit from Morocco to Indonesia and were recently named as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the world by Forbes magazine.
Now they are being brought to British television by Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, with a mission to instill Islamic values in children across all faiths.
However, despite being called the 99, there will never be a full cast of 99 superheroes since it is forbidden to depict all Allah’s attributes.
Wow, yet another incredibly stupid rule of Islam. I have a handpainted canvas of all of Allah’s attributes together, and shockingly, there is a 100th attribute that shows Allah eating a ham and bacon sandwich with one hand and stroking Buddha’s engorged 3-inch penis with the other.
Thanks to Mary for the article. Want to see the strengths and weaknesses of these Islamic terrorists superheroes? Click here.
August 9, 2009
Amazing Stan Lee Tribute Art
I was searching for another image for a different blog post and happily stumbled onto Jason Sho Green’s outstanding pen and ink artwork tribute to Marvel Comic’s Master, Stan Lee. Check it out-
Jason has many of his other works online as well and they are fantastic. Check them out here.
July 27, 2009
Disney Cranking Out Awesome 3D Movies
First up is Tron Legacy. Up until I saw this posted over at Geeks Are Sexy, I thought Tron was just another Hollywood Remake. It seems like there are no original ideas in Hollywood, so they just pull any story that is 30 years old and they put a fresh coat of paint on it. Not so with this movie. Its a true sequel in which Sean Flynn, son of noted video game designer goes in search of his father Kevin Flynn, missing for 25 years. In Disney Digital 3D, this is going to be epic.
Next up is the remake of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring his usual actors. Johnny Depp will play the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts will be Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway will play the White Queen. This movie will be fantastic in Digital 3D as well.
