Tuesday Bounty! Glorious Bounty Gets Stomped!

It's Tuesday again and that can only mean a brand new page of ongoing sci-fi/humour webcomic Glorious Bounty, drawn by the steady, reliable paws of Edward J. Grug III and written and coloured by me!

When we last saw the Bounty crew, Deevis and Bruce (in temporary robot bodies) were about to get grappled by a giant, armoured alien target who was way out of their league. Luckily pudgy lizard friend Funf threw himself in front of his doodz. Will this end badly? You know it will!

Click to embiggen or check it out at the official site.

And if you're a surly hold-out, then you need to wisen up and realise that it's never too late to start reading Glorious Bounty! In fact you can go all the way back to chapter one RIGHT HERE. And I am going to goddamn badger you until you do!

Stryder's Favourite Comics - 3/07/2012

Hey folks!  Me again...Only a few comics this week BUT one of them represents a second chance for everyone's favourite spoiled rich kid with a bow and arrow!  Love it or hate it (and most people seem to be choosing the latter) we also see the NEW DC Comics logo used on books for the first time this month.  So without further ado, let's get right to it!

Green Arrow #7 - The new creative team of Ann Nocenti and Harvey Tolibao (and the rest!) are here to try to save Green Arrow from being boring and routine!  What do they bring to the mix?  For starters, a much different look, one that somehow manages to be both cleaner and more gritty than before.  The art in this book really shines and I'm impressed.
 
Then there's the story.  It's interesting.  A set of hot blonde triplet girls attacks Green Arrow and then immediately surrenders.  They're his biggest fans and they invent arrow weapons.  Won't he PLEASE come see their lab in Canada?  They want to work for him...and maybe more. 

Well, Arrow, being a man and all, definitely wants to "work with" the hot blonde triplets.  Careful, Ollie...it MAY be a trap...

The interesting thing about this book is how it ends and the potential the ending creates for an about-face in the overall book direction.  Teased is the possibility that Green Arrow wants to quit.  Not quit being Green Arrow, but quit being Oliver Queen!?!  He may just get his opportunity...only time will tell.

I do have to say, after just one issue, I'm already more interested than I was in the initial 6.  Hopefully this continues!  Green Arrow may just be saved!

But that's not all!  Check out Action Comics and Detective Comics after the jump!

Sunday Morning Tumblr Timewater of the Day

Given that we're in Marchmania mode here, this image, posted on Thusday at one of my favorite Tumblrs, Special Bored, seemed appropriate to share. The Tumblr is by Sean Berthiume of Vinny's Pizza in Brooklyn, NY - a new board is posted daily with the specials of the day revolving around the subject of the artwork. So whether you want a Sausage Link to the Pasta or The Chipnotoad, you'll know you've come to the right place.

Oh Goddamit, I'm Just Going to Spoil Who the Secret Villain is in the Avengers

There is so much crazy speculating on who the secret villain is in Joss Whedon's upcoming Avengers movie, which surprises me, because I'm sure it was leaked early last year, and everything that keeps coming out just seems to support that. Yet nobody remembers! We're hearing Skrulls, Kree, Red Skull, Namor... all sorts of craziness, but people, that's not it!

Then, recently, Super Hero Hype showed some Lego images which gave us a little bit of a glimpse at the villain's foot soldiers, and people still aren't getting it.

Sigh... So join me after the jump and I will spoil who it is.

Clone Wars Recap S4 E21: Brothers! The Return of Darth Maul!

Clone Wars fans have been anticipating this for over a year now, and this week, finally, the short-lived severed "star" of The Phantom Menace - Darth Maul - emerges from ten years of seclusion to scare the everliving shit out of your kids. And I'm not exaggerating. We all figured it would badass, but we didn't realise it would be a creepy fever dream into the mouth of madness. 

If you've seen shiny-crotched robot leg Maul and think you know how this is all going to pan out, then guess again. The Clone Wars miraculously team managed to keep a major secret about Darth Maul's mysterious bottom half. Join me after the jump and I'll tell you what it is...

Domesticated Badness: Varmint Town

I'm not sure what I find most scary.

What looks like clunky and disappointing game-play mechanics, the fact that I think that the Nemesis that is hulking and skulking about in this demo of the Multiplayer 'Nemesis Mode' in the upcoming Resident Evil: Raccoon City game looks more lost and confused than terrifying, the fact that as hard as I try to care about ANYTHING related to Resident Evil from Capcom, one of those ALWAYS-ON dealies that used to be THE most beloved things in the universe to me (but ever since they took the franchise to extremely weird places in ZERO they have kinda lost me)...

...OR...

...the fact that it is taking longer and longer to scroll down when I have to enter my FUGGIN' BIRTH YEAR when I go to these damn videos on any of the game sites.



It's getting to be downright embarrassing...

OUT.

Thank GIF It's Friday

Not usually my place, but it's appropriate for the theme this month. I think.

MarchMania: The Art Of Wrestling

Wrestling has always been about the iconic characters for me. I grew up in the 1980's with such colorful, over-the-top WWF personalities as Brutus The Barber Beefcake, Jake The Snake Roberts and Captain Lou Albano. The weirder the character, the more I liked them.

In celebration of MarchMania, I've gathered some of my favorite classic wrestling inspired artwork. 

Much more after the jump (including a semi-NSFW one all the way at the bottom).

The Readthrough of Time: The Eye of the World

So the first book of the Grand Readthrough is done and gone. I can't really make this a traditional review, because, hey, what's the point? The book is 20+ years old, it has a lasting impact on the fantasy landscape, and anything of great importance about this book has really already been said. I can't add anything to that. What I envision with this is more a random hit of thoughts from someone who's read dozens, perhaps hundreds, of books influenced by it without having read this previously. It puts me at a weird advantage and disadvantage as a result - I can see some clear parallels to more current fiction, and even places where those who have come after Robert Jordan and The Wheel of Time are, frankly, doing it better.

So anyway, Book One: The Eye of the World. Our initial players are established, some problems detailed, and a lot of interesting stuff goes on. Some random scattershot thoughts beyond the jump, much of it spoilery if you're not caught up, as well as a surprise Fruitless Pursuits exclusive:

Clone YMCA: Why Star Wars Kinect is Creatively Bankrupt.

I love Star Wars. I'm the biggest Star Wars apologist. But I cannot possibly apologise for this. New gameplay footage of next month's Star Wars Kinect is gut-wrenchingly awful. In fact, I'm sorry to say that it's probably the first Star Wars endeavour in many, many years that I've felt actively opposed to (well... this and Hyperspace Hoopla). From pretending to podrace with your arms to awkwardly mimicking clone troopers dancing and singing to YMCA, this collection of mini-games (is that what this thing is?) looks like a massive disappointment. And that sucks as fan, because there are already a million people out there lining up to take cheap shots at Star Wars and this game is bound to give them plenty of ammunition.

Watch the clip for yourself if you dare:

Video via Topless Robot.

So whose fault is it? Well Lucasarts needs to take some flak for allowing it to happen, but I can't help feeling that the real villain here is the Kinect itself.

Join me after the jump to find out how many kittens Microsoft's Kinect makes me want to shit.