Ha! Good one, Wikipedia

Maybe Wikipedia is in on the joke, but maybe not. I mean, come on now, it's Beak asking you for money.

This....I'm OK with.

OK. I am cool with Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. I mean, if I wanted to be super cranky, I would say that she needs to have a kitty cat cowl and a short haircut, but I'm OK with this. I mean, come on, Hathaway has the chops to do this. She was the druggie model in that Rachel Getting Married movie AND she dated that scumbag who pretended to be down with the Vatican. You know she's got some pent up anger that she needs to release into being a badass cat burglar with a sexy sexy background. Plus, those goggles look pretty badass. I bet they have night vision so she can rob things.

This is what Bane looks like

Yup, that's what Bane looks like. Well, at least in the new Batman movie. OK, it's not so bad, but personally, I like the luchador mask and I'm sad to see it go. And, well, I don't know why Bane needs a jacket; maybe the costume designer never saw a sketch of Bane and totally thought the guy could fit his arms into a jacket (Spoiler: he totally can't).

In fact, I kind of wonder how they picked this outfit at at all. Hmmm....

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Daredevil #1 - Holy Moly, it's fun!

I'm not a Daredevil reader. Mostly because I don't wan to read about some blind dude moping around. If I wanted to hear about a bunch of complaining from a handicapped person, I'd hangout with my paralyzed from polio uncle when the beer runs out at parties. Seriously, we were having a family reunion once, and I hit a soft ball so perfectly that it broke his beer mug, I thought that dude was going to de-atrophy his muscles just to kick my 8-year-old ass.

But let's get back to the comic: Daredevil is fun. I know! I can't believe it either. First off, the cover is amazing, just amazing. I love the simple black and white color of the background with the crazy intense amount of words making up the city below him. It's a really good idea and it is executed really really well! Come on people! We rarely get both of those at the same time in comics.

Beyond the cover, the story is great. I don't know much of Daredevil's background besides moping, lawyering, and not seeing, but the story was easy to get into, with action and a wry smile to keep me amused (for the 15 minutes it takes to read a comic). I haven't read a lot of Mark Waid, I think he's mostly an editor now, but this was clearly some solid writing.

As much as I want to step back from buying so many books every week, I keep finding reasons to add more to my list. And if they are going to be this good, I honestly don't mind.

So...DC Reboot, eh?

Well, well, well. DC is going to have a reboot, eh?

OK, fine, I'm game; comics which rely on the same characters through out the years need a revision. You can't keep telling a chronological story of Batman if he should be about 90-years-old by now. Seriously, you guys, that's how old Batman should be. This is why reboots happen; old man Batman would break a hip when giving a hoodlum a roundhouse kick to the face.

However, as much as I agree there should be a reboot, I hate seeing beloved characters get pushed to the shadows, especially when that means my two favorite DC series get canned: Gail Simone's Secret Six AND Birds of Prey. Sure, sure, there will be some fashion of Birds of Prey coming back, but really, do we want to see this:

I SEE NO FUCKING LADY BLACKHAWK.

Why do I want to read a comic without Lady Blackhawk? I want to see a ballsy chick with a mouth and guns, but all I'm seeing is some Brooklyn hipster with a bad tattoo sleeve. And Black Canary, where are your shoes? Did you leave them somewhere? Are your shoes part of those fishnet stockings? Really? Because Wonder Woman already did that whole, "shoes as pants," thing with her costume change...

Sigh.

At least we have JH Williams III will be back on Batwoman. His artwork alone will make me buy that book. The colors, the contrasts, the splash pages.....I'm not lying when I say I get a girly nerd boner over his artwork. When I first picked up Batwoman, I grabbed my boyfriend (NOW HUSBAND!) and gushed over the artwork in a way that would have made a harlot blush. Do harlots blush over gushing? Who knows.

Anyway, you guys, there's going to be a reboot and my two favorite series are getting canned. I think that calls for another cocktail recipe to dull the pain. Shall we talk about the joy that is the Dark and Stormy? Let's save that for the next post.

BRB: Getting hitched.

BBC will be off for the month, getting married then living it up on the honeymoon.

I'll be back in the beginning of July, ready for action.

What...what is this?

Pink things work for me; if electronics are available in pink, I'm always going to pick that color. That being said...holy crap, this commerical! The second the doll's head spun around I shrank back into my chair in wide-eyed fear. Do they think that this is hip? Or artistic? Or....what are they thinking here? Was it all just a bad trip of Pop Rocks and Mountain Dew?

Nokia N8 Pink - Freedom from David Wilson Creative on Vimeo.

It's like the Saw movies, Lady GaGa, and those dollar store Barbie knockoffs got drunk and made a freakish baby together. And that baby will live forever in my darkest nightmares.

Via The Mary Sue

Zombies are people (but mostly just rotten flesh), too.

Since it's Zombie Awareness Month, I thought I'd crack open some zombie reading for a change. First up is Breathers: A Zombie's Lament. As noted by the author, this novel relies on Mary Roach's amazing and hilarious book Stiff. Several passages about human decay feel like they were lifted straight from her book. While in some books the addition of facts aid in the storyline, and become part of the story (See basically any Chuck Palahniuk's books), these grisly facts, while enjoyable for those of us who like to hear what de-gloving is, seem out of place. The main character gives no reasoning behind why he knows them, and the facts themselves contradict the actions in the story (erections cannot happen unless blood is pumping. Without a working heart, there is no blood being pumped). It was a kind of lackluster story, and I feel that without the zombie craze behind it, this wouldn't have gotten the praise it has.

Next up is comics new comer (or old comer turned new comer), Xombi. The comic gives us David Kim, a man infected with a virus that allows him to regenerate using nanites. These nanites aren't above using whatever warm body is next to Kim to aid in that process, so he has to watch out when he's been hurt around friends. He's teamed up with a group of metahuman nuns so they can stop a serial killer. The writer John Rozum is on fire with the puns; always a plus in my book, and the artwork by Fraser Irving is unstoppable. It feels as if he has painted each panel, barely touching pen to page.

What I like about this comic is chock full of action, clever jokes, and creepy stuff (demon-children of Halloween, evil snow angels, etc). It's all science and supernatural without it going into straight schlock. I don't want to give too much away, since the best part of this book turning the page to find out what's the next joke or horror. Just go to your local comic book shop and pick it up now.

3 2 1 takeoff to Squidville!

I'm going into space (and then dying, but let's not talk about that part)!!!

Maybe it's just because I'm reading Kraken right now, but this story is really interesting. Baby squids that look like Super Mario Bloopers are joining the Endeavour team up in space to test how microbes react to microgravity (the Bobtail squid isn't a microbe, but it has BFF bacteria that it has a symbiotic relationship with).

I wish you would see more news coverage from the big media sources about this stuff. Without informing the public and getting them interested, we have less and less kids interested in science. Science is cool, kids! Pick up a test tube today!

My Finest Photoshopping EVER

By now, you've seen Princess Beatrice's crazy ass hat (which probably cost more than my rent). But have you seen the REAL reason she's wearing it?!

Girl just wanted to keep her Companion Cube with her! You know how important it is to have your Companion Cube with you all the time. The Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.