| What The Hell Are You Doing?! |
[07 Nov 2010|12:47pm] |
Why are you not listening to Podcast X?!?1
It's a great podcast where Trenchcoat Mafia, Vixen, Starhawk, Trekkie and myself review some of the worst comics ever published. Yet somehow they give new life and meaning to these comics.
I listen to it whenever I draw.
Be warned though, it is very crude, so it's not for pussies who are easily offended and NSFW.
http://podcastx.blogspot.com/
Courtney- Podcast X's official head minion.
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| Note To Self |
[12 Jul 2009|12:07pm] |
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When a little boy comes up to you and says "I am Spider-Man" whilst wearing a Spider-Man costume, do not reply with "We are Venom". He is hardcore for Spider-Man and will follow you around the store until his mother decides to leave.
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| Perth Supanova 2009 |
[05 Jul 2009|10:57pm] |
Saturday morning. It's about 4:00. I haven't slept much that night. Like a child on Christmas day, I was too excited about what lay ahead.
To some it may just be a meet up for the freaks and geeks, but I don't think there's anywhere else in the world I would rather be. Last year was my first convention and ever since I've been looking forward to the next one.
6:30am, my mobile alarm informs me. I get up and start to put on my costume.
I am Asajj Ventress in the 501st, this is my second troop since Nexus Toy Fair and it turned out to be a big one. We raised over $1000 for charity. And that's what makes four months of work and $200 spent on the costume and two hours of make-up all worth it.
When I arrived I met up with the other troopers and we made our badass entrance into the building. The best part, other than being played in by the Imperial March, was that some of my old school friends saw me. They actually recognised me under the make-up and were impressed.
The rest of the day was spent trooping until my legs went numb, although I paced myself better than last year. And I brought food.
My brother was Rorschach, he got his badge signed by Dave Gibbons who's a very sweet guy. I told him that the 'Squid' chapter of Watchmen was some of the most haunting artwork I have ever seen and he also told me that Alan Moore is not as reclusive as is popularly believed. They live just a few blocks from each other.
I saw Greg Cipes, who voices Kevin Levin of Ben 10:Alien Force. Of course I didn't realise it at first because I just heard his voice and said to a friend quite loudly "that guy sounds familiar". I look up and he just says "...hi". I forgot to bring my Ben 10 poster for him to sign.
I didn't go to bed until midnight, I went over to John's house for his birthday and then spent awhile getting all the make-up off of my costume and washing the gel and glue out of my hair. Definitley going to improve that somehow. Maybe a white latex hood instead of a bald cap.
Sunday morning, legs still a little tired, but I felt alot better after seven unbroken hours of sleep.
That day I was the Helena Bertinelli Elseworld Batwoman, a costume I had worked on long before Asajj. Based off of an action figure of mine.
I was determined to show it off somewhere.
I got a lift to the convention centre with Alora. First we went to the airport to say goodbye to one of our friends, Samantha, who was moving to Melbourne. No I wasn't wearing the mask and I had a trenchcoat over the costume. Don't think airport security would have been too pleased otherwise.
We arrived at about 1:00, I was too late to register for the cosplay contest and my picture:
Hadn't won the drawing competition from the day before.
But I didn't mind, the picture that won was a nicely painted portait of Heath's Joker.
And at least some of the winners of the costume contest weren't anime characters like last year.
Not really into Japanese culture. White people can be entertaining too!
My costume was quite popular. Alot more recognisable than the day before, one little boy asked me if I was from Twilight. Grrr!
I had more people asking for photos as I walked around on Sunday. I got alot of attention from little girls, they were so cute! Two of them were Supergirl and Wonder Woman.
Karl Urban waved at me and I turned into a complete fangirl. I wanted to talk to him, but I didn't know what I would say and I was afraid I would make a fool of myself. Michael had to push me into the queque to talk to him.
He's so hot! But once I started talking to him I wasn't a complete wreck. The conversation went as follows:
Me- "Do you like Batman"
"Definitley and you"
"Nah, I just woke up this morning in this costume and thought I should best go to a convention."
He laughs "man, must be wild at your place"
It was good to know that he was already a fan of the franchises that he contributed to. He could talk the talk when it came to Star Trek and Lord of the Rings.
That pretty much sums up an awesome weekend. I was getting bored from a week of staying at home, needed some inspiration. And there's no better place to feel loved, people wanting to take my picture, everyone shares your interests and hugs all 'round, according to the "free hugs" signs people were wearing.
I didn't buy as much as last year, wasn't much variety (or maybe I just bought everything I wanted last year) and things were pretty damn expensive. I spent $60 on two hardcover graphic novels and then I got five Marvel 1602 comics for free because the guys from one of the stalls liked my costume so much and I let them take photos.( Read more... )
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| Transformers 2: The Revenge of a Better Writer |
[29 Jun 2009|05:03pm] |
Just saw Transformers 2 this weekend and boy was the cinema floor much more fascinating!
I actually had to look away a few times because there was just way too much happening on screen, not to mention those dizzying camera angles.
I feel bad that I made Michael Bay just a little richer.
But this is not a review, the Internet has way to many of those already.
Instead I'm going to re-write Transformers 2.
I wouldn't say I'm much of a writer, I'm more of a columnist.
But I can come up with concepts pretty easily.
So here are my ideas for a better Transformers movie:
Role call-
Autobots:
Optimus Prime (of course)
Bumblebee
Ironhide
Ratchet
New characters-
Wheeljack: One of my favourites as a kid, he will be the Corvette Stingray. He's kind of like Reed Richards, which makes for a more interesting character than Sideswipe.
Arcee: She will be one motorbike instead of three. That was just confusing.
It would be interesting to explore why there are now female Transformers.
Maybe it is a kind of mutation caused by the dwindling numbers of their race. Transformers as so advanced that they are capable of evolving much like an organic being.
Now that the Allspark is destroyed they must now find an alternative way of making more of themselves. No there won't be any Transformer babies! The females seen in this film are very early mutations.
Decepticons:
Starscream- His where-abouts are unknown at the beginning of the film. He's formed an alliance with Soundwave.
New characters:
Soundwave- Now in command of the Decepticons. I like the idea of him being a satellite.
Ravage- I'd redesign him to be a little more reminiscent of the original
Scorponok
Laserbeak- Would look like an alien helicopter with a subtle bird-like design.
Shockwave- Soundwave's second in command.
And played by any one other than that Isabelle Lucas is Alice, a Pretender who stalks Sam by pretending to be a co-ed of his. She adopts her Earth mode by duplicating the appearance of a theme park animatronic figure of Alice in Wonderland.
That's from some comic. I like her in concept but not in execution.
Devastator will be their ultimate weapon for the end of the movie, but I think he should be one of these:
http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher.htm
Plot:
Two years have passed since the last film. The Autobots have been working to rebuild Cybertron on Neptune's moon of Triton as it's core is made mostly of metal.
The few hundred remaining Transformers in the galaxy are currently living on this moon.
Our Autobot team spend their time between Earth and Triton.
On Earth they are search of Starscream and work with the military to eliminate the remaining Decepticon threats. Which is everything the Allspark brought to life in the first film. It is explained that the Allspark had been altered by Megatron to create only mindless violent robots.
The world is now aware of the Transformers, I mean there is no way the fight from that last film could be covered up!
It's causing alot of controversy, naturally.
Meanwhile Sam (played by anyone other than Shia) is going off to college, this plays out pretty much the same as the film with less marijuana and dog-humping.
When Sam touches the Strokes t-shirt he wore in the last film a remaining splinter of the Allspark becomes embedded in his hand.
This causes the information in the Allspark to "download" into his brain.
He learns of ancient Cybertronian knowledge that even the Transformers are not aware of.
Including their origin. The Allspark was once part of a much larger machine (Vector Sigma) designed to manufacture the Transformers. They were created by an ancient race 12 million years ago called the Quintesson.
Soundwave, who has been monitoring Earth is immediately aware of this small trace to alien energy.
He sends Alice to find out the source.
Once she finds out that it is coming from Sam she will disguise herself as Mikaela.
The Allspark has put alot of information very suddenly into Sam's mind. So naturally he can't cope with it all. He has episodes like in the film, but he only has about a week before it kills him.
He turns to Bumblebee for help, who calls in the rest of the Autobots.
They debate on what to do. Removing the splinter could damage it, losing all the valuable information which could be vital for the survival of their race. But on the other hand, if they don't remove it, Sam will die.
So for the time being they get to work on recording and translating everything Sam writes down.
Alice as Mikaela having seen all of this, reports to Soundwave who sends in the Decepticons after Sam.
Then the real Mikaela calls and Alice is discovered as a Pretender.
And it's only now after about forty minutes of establishing characters and what's up for stake that we get some good fight scenes.
It's more like a chase across the country as the Autobots fight the Decepticons to keep Sam safe. Along the way they meet up with the real Mikaela.
Having almost all been defeated, the Decepticons (Soundwave, Starscream and Shockwave) call in Devastator who kills Optimus Prime and captures Sam.
He is taken to Shockwave, who probes his mind and uploads all the information of the Allspark into himself. Meanwhile the Autobots are taking down Devastator. Afterwards they find and kill Shockwave but not before Wheeljack uploads the information into himself.
Sam is fine, a little shaken from the events of the day and the death of Optimus. But he no longer has any memory from the Allspark.
Wheeljack learns of a way to bring back Optimus Prime. By putting the remaining sliver of the Allspark into Optimus' Matrix (yeah we're working with the cartoon version of it) it should have enough energy to bring him back to life.
They go back to his body and do so, Optimus is more powerful than ever.
The Autobots then take on Starscream and Soundwave.
In conclusion, the universe is saved from the Decepticon threat for good. The Autobots will now go in search of the Quintesson, if they still exist.
I like to think I have achieved in an hour what Michael Bay and his writer's were incapable of doing over the course of months. With pay!
If you see any plot-holes or have any suggestions on what else I can change, just leave a comment.
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| Quit Being So Selfish America! |
[12 Jun 2009|09:16pm] |
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It's called the WORLD WIDE web, so let me watch videos on Hulu and StarWars.com bitches!...Please?
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| Batman Says: You Can't Read In A Dream |
[07 Jun 2009|03:11pm] |
There is an old episode of Batman the Animated Series called "Perchance to Dream" that alot of people seem to still be talking about to this day. Why? Because Batman was put into a dream world of the Mad Hatter's creation. But the way he figures this out is by realising that he can't read anything in his dream. According to him that's impossible to do.
I was reminded of it today while reading this article:
http://io9.com/5279494/6-characters-who-escaped-virtual-prisons-or-did-they
It got me wondering if this had ever been definitivley proven. From what I've found around the Internet, some people say they can read and write as easily as they do when awake. Then again, some people claim those magic eye tricks work too.
In our dreams and imagination we can do absolutley anything, there are no laws nor logic nor limitations. So there's nothing to stop us imagining that we are reading. But dreams usually aren't vivid enough to remember so small a detail as to what what actually on a page. Just the information that we got from it.
I have yet to have a dream that had any text at all. I'm just not boring enough I guess.
I've had dreams with ancient symbols on the walls but that's the closest I've gotten.
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| The Twisted Visions Collection: Issue 19 |
[06 Jun 2009|03:21pm] |
Apparently I haven't done one of these in over a year!
I have had dreams but nothing that I could really recall or were worth mentioning.
As the weather becomes colder I seem to dream more, so here are a couple I have had recently.
Some mentioned here:
http://pyro-the-maniac.deviantart.com/art/Maniacal-Anatomical-124306875
Then there's this: I wake up in a cave, with Voldemort. Neither one of us know why we are there. We walk for what seems like ages and then I start to feel a breeze through one of the tunnels, we follow that until we start to see some light.
Just as we are about to leave the cave Shelob shows up and Voldemort kills her.
We climb out to the surface and it appears that we are in Scotland. We get to the city and I realise that I am not in my own universe but the Harry Potter one. I'm pretty upset with this because the only place that could be worse would be some anime universe.
Then I turn around and I see a blue police box. I go up and knock on the door all the while thinking "there's no way it could possibley be-". But sure enough The Doctor opens the door and asks me what I want.
And so he takes me home.
I don't know if this one was related or not but I come back to this universe and find Anakin and Padme wandering around trying to figure out how they got here or where here is. They were actually acting like real humans!
Then last night dreamt that I was in a medieval tavern and all the patrons were anthropomorphic animals.
This dream was then followed by this: Leather-face had kidnapped one of my friends. She rings me for help and I say I'm on my way. I get another one of my friends to drive up to the house to distract him while I sneak inside.
As I make my way across this field to the run down old building I see the decapitated corpses of two horses and I start to feel a little scared.
I am about to open the door when I hear the sound of a blast, that makes three headless horses. And then my symbiote is all like "we're fine, nothing can hurt us". Oh yeah apparently I'm Venom this whole time or something.
Then I hear someone behind me. Leather-face didn't go after the car. Or if he did, the driver is dead.
He brings a blade up to my neck and then I wake up.
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| Enough With The Remakes Already! |
[05 Jun 2009|05:51pm] |
While going through a couple of movie news sites I had a hard time finding any upcoming movies that weren't sequels, adaptations or remakes. What bugs me most is the remakes of films that aren't even that old. Like Scream for instance, what was wrong with the original?
I can understand remaking an old movie so that you can gain the interest of a whole new generation.
Or a complete re-imagining like what Tin Man or Wicked did with Wizard of Oz. It's fun watching familiar characters being cleverly re-invented.
Actually that's pretty much all Disney has ever done.
So I'm not against entirely remakes/adaptations.
But I think the world could have gone without the films based on Alan Moore's work.
Watchmen was entertaining, but not brilliant.
And G.I Joe? Bleh, I could do better. The cartoon, Resolute however is kick ass. Keep G.I Joe a cartoon I guess.
As for sequels. If the franchise has run it's course, it's sad seeing studios beating a dead horse. A once great horse.
Terminator 4, who asked for that?
Wolverine, weren't all of the X-Men movies about him?
Spider-Man 4, let it go, they weren't ever that good to begin with. Oh science, what did they do to my Venom?!
But there are some I look forward to. Transformers and Iron Man 2, the first were alot of fun, enjoyable and had great visual effects.
Deadpool, from what I've heard at this early stage sounds promising. Ryan Reynolds is a comic fan and knows the character well, I've heard interviews. He speaks geek!
And it sounds like he really wants to keep this faithful to the comics. So he's writing it now too?
Looking back at cinema ten years ago, you would never see a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off. Or see so many sequels at once. And remakes were generally of things that were originally made 20+ years ago.
If cinema really is so fan influenced, why are there so many mistakes made?
In a perfect world, I would love Hollywood to be run by artists, not business men. And more original concepts rather than the same old story again and again.
Art for the sake of art, complete abandon of the traditional formulas.
Some of the greatest movies ever made were the ones that dared to do something completely unique.
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| Avatar Season 3 |
[20 May 2009|07:03pm] |
Have been watching that lately. Everyone has longer hair in this season. Have come to conclusion that guys look better with short hair.
Especially hate the emo hair cut.
Although some can pull it off. Aragorn. Dave Grohl. Riddler from The Batman...Does Hellboy count? He always has it tied back though.
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| Star Trek XI- The One That Wasn't Embarrassingly Nerdy |
[16 May 2009|06:30pm] |
Just came back from seeing Star Trek today. It was better than what Star Trek usually is.
I'm a casual fan of the series. I've watched a few of the movies and some episodes of the original and Next Generation series.
This one fits nicely with the rest of the franchise while being something new and different.
Star Trek is usually bad dialogue, stiff acting all round cheesiness.
While this movie is as a Hollywood film should be. Awesome special effects, interesting plot plot, attractive actors (Spock was hot!), but it was paced alot better than most films now days.
Other films try hard to fit too much into one film. Where as this one moved at a more Western-like pace.
I think the only thing I didn't like was Neero, he seemed like he was taken from the old series. A villain that's more cheesy than threatening. He didn't seem like a fully realised character either. He kept changing accent and mannerism.
That said, it was thoroughly enjoyable, even if this is your first introduction to the franchise.
Greater Union, the cinema I go to, has recently introduced this stupid idea of allocated seating.
I never bother, I will just go sit where ever. Who can be bothered to go searching around in the dark when there are always plenty of free seats?
And most people are the same.
But today, I happened to sit where this woman and her boyfriend REALLY wanted to sit. She had a total bitch-fit about it.
When they first approached us the woman asked why we were there. I politley explained that no one follows those rules and that there were plenty of other seats available.
"But, but we booked those seats" she complained like the pathetic waste of oxygen that she was.
I again indicated to the whole row behind me that was free and remained so through-out the entire film.
So the woman goes off to get managment to kick us out of out seats. While her boyfriend just sits right behind us. Well at least he had the right idea.
The manager comes in and shines a torch in our eyes like we were bein interogated. At this point I couldn't be bothered to argue anymore, the film had started.
So I say "fuck you" to the the woman and give her the finger. I then sit right behind her and proceed to kick the crap out of her seat during the entire film. And she just took it, stubborn bitch.
It's no wonder I'm a misogynist. That's right, I'm a girl and I can't stand my own kind.
Also there was this old retarded guy with his care-taker sitting a few rows behind us that kept talking and laughing loudly at nothing. And he went to the bathroom about six times. Each journey took about five minutes just handling the stairs.
And then he would tell his care taker off for getting up and assisting him. Also he had a tiny t-rex arm. Just thought I mention that.
This journal entry got really unsophistated fast.
Which is ironic considering I have been told of for talking like Spock.
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| What Is It With Marvel Films And Big Scary Needles?! |
[02 May 2009|07:54pm] |
Just got back from seeing Huge Jackman and Some Mutants AKA Wolverine. And had there not been so much eye candy I would say that this is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen. Then I remembered Spider-Man 3.
It was okay up until The Blob showed up then things got real weird. Like Japanese kind of cheesy. I could even excuse the presence of the Black Eyed Pea's Will.I.Am up until that point.
Oh and they deformed Deadpool. I love him and what did they do? They sealed his mouth closed like in the Matrix, removed his eyelids and made fucking katanas come out of his hands. Plus he was being controlled like a robot by Stryker.
Marvel produced this without Fox. Like Iron Man.
Now how do they go from something so fun to something so weird?
It felt like watching an Ultimate comic.
The director played Anubis in Stargate and he directed Rendition. That's his most notable work, infact that most of his work.
So it's an alright popcorn flick and probably more enjoyable if you don't follow the comics.
Although my friend that went with me doesn't and didn't like it any more than I did.
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| 6.5 Billion People In The World And Not One Of Them Has Anything To Say |
[01 May 2009|10:23am] |
It's seems I give people the impression that I have no life.
I assure you that this is not so.
Although I am always working on costumes, dolls, paintings or drawings. I still find time to watch TV, kill time on the Internet, make podcasts, play Playstation, read books, take my dogs for walks, get my chores and homework done and go out socially a few times a week.
AND I still find time to get bored.
So what's everyone else doing?
Maybe I just have alot of inspiration, imagination and energy.
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| Rorschach and Batgirl |
[27 Mar 2009|02:33pm] |
Supanova convention is coming in a few months, I'm going as Batgirl and my brother is to be Rorschach. They have a costume contest which means you can perform a skit and I have absolutley no ideas.
The two characters don't have alot in common. I was thinking maybe Rorschach has some depressing monologue and I come along and try to cheer him up but he just ends up breaking my fingers.
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| I Am Not The Stig |
[13 Feb 2009|01:55pm] |
Just got my L's and drove around the neighbourhood for the first time.
My mum was freaking out and was all like "COURTNEY THERE'S A FUCKING CURB. STAY ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD. DON'T SPEED UP AT THE CHICANE. DON'T RUN OVER OLD PEOPLE AND WOMEN WITH PRAMS!"
So unfair, it's my first time and she expects me to get it right away.
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| Of Hamster Hair and Stig Buttocks |
[13 Feb 2009|11:51am] |
On Friday the 6th I went back to Sydney again after two years.
I love that city, so much better than crappy little Perth. Which doesn't seem to be able to accept that it's growing into a larger city.
Sydney is much more efficient and interesting.
Also, there aren't alot of white people around, it was very strange but I think there were more Asians there than I saw in Hong Kong!
Most of them were probably there for the Chinese New Year celebrations, which is second only to the ones in China.
It was a 3 1/2 hour flight, which went by quickly compared to the 7 hour flight to Hong Kong.
I spent most of that time drawing Wolverine and playing Lego Batman on my PSP.
Oh and this little ginger girl who was sitting behind me kept staring at me.
Why did her mother put her in a yellow dress? Ugh, that's child abuse.
I stayed in Star City hotel which was pretty good. Except on the first night no one told us we had to be over eighteen to go into the restauraunt, which is on the same level as the casino.
We were forced to eat Subway, the indignity!
DAY 2
The next day we could get into the place for breakfast but the pancakes tasted 3 days old.
Anyway, I'll stop complaining. Really I had a good time.
I went to Paddy's market, my mum loves all that kind of crap. I don't think she realises that it's the same four stales repeated over and over.
I did buy a white wig though, looks just like Black Cat's, which weirded my brother out.
Then we went to the Powerhouse Museum, which was awesome. The exhibits were Star Wars, fashion, 19th century and the history of cinema. All my favourite kinds of things.
( Here are some photos )
This has made me realise that Earth flight and space technology as well as robotics are depressingly primitive.
Did I mention that I saw a dude in a wheel chair that looked just like Dan Didio?
Actually there were alot of people in wheel chairs over there. Weird.
Also, if I've learned one thing from travelling it's that it makes families fight. If it wasn't my dad getting all tense about being in an unfamilair place or having to actually walk more than five metres. It was my little brother asking for things and never being grateful for them and the moment he got them he would ask for another thing. He fought with AIDSMASTER5000 (other brother) alot too.
DAY 3
Stayed in the hotel until 2:00 when we made our way to the Acer Arena, an impressive building, much like the Telstra Dome.
Everything ran smoothly, it was so easy riding on the trains. If anything interesting happens in Perth (say when Coldplay comes here next month) there's always traffic and crowds.
There was hardly anyone around on the roads or in the train.
Efficiency!
The show was brilliant, it only lasted an hour and a half but thoroughly entertaining and worth the trip.
The show was indoors, which was a good and bad thing. Good because it was a hot and the sun would have ruined the special effects...And my skin.
Bad because the smell of fumes got a bit strong. Not as bad as that monster truck show my dad dragged me to.
First there were a few commercials performed live advertising petrol, a sat nav and a car.
Better than ads on the TV anyway.
"Alright, we're coming on now. You can stop watching bloody commercials." Said Jeremy Clarkson as he walked into the arena with Hamster. James was absent, although they made alot of gay jokes about him. I wonder what he's up to?
Jeremy also refered to this show as "a tour of the countries we (Britain) used to own."
First there were some motorbike stunts, whatever, seen it in the aforementioned monster truck show. Although the motorbike/man loving was...Educational.
You see one of the hosts of the Australian Top Gear (bleh) was also in the show. Steve Pizzah. Or Pizza-oven as Jeremy called him.
Althought he was actually kinda funny.
Anyway, long story short, the dude drove his bike up his ass.
Whoever co-ordinates the music for Top Gear must has stolen my PSP. Because they had everything from Prodigy to Juno Reactor to a couple of film scores.
There were lots of hot cars, the Audi R8, the Aston Martin DB5, Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 and the Mustang Saleen. All of which have appeared in Hollywood movies recently, see if you can figure out which ones.
The audience got to choose where they went on the Cool Wall with these cards that were green on one side and red on the other. Using colour detecting technology they were able to gauge our votes.
Later we used the same cards to drive a simulated car around the famous test track.
It was fascinating to see how well such a large group worked as one.
To make the car go faster you had to make alot of noise. Apparently we Aussies were quieter than the Brits. That's not right.
There was a drum kit made entirely out of spare car parts, which sounded pretty good.
My favourite, car soccer in which Australia won with 8 and Britain with 7.
Much more interesting than real sport.
Finally the tame racing driver The Stig (pictured in my avatar) showed up right at the end, as he walked into the arena I couldn't help but notice his butt looked mighty fine in that white jumpsuit. He drove a Lotus around the arena trying to avoid being shot by a 3D Apache helicopter.
We had to wear 3D glasses that weren't blue and red, I felt like Doctor Who.
The show ended with a bang, literally. Jeremy shot down the chopper with a rocket launcher.
Oh, to have been in the front row to talk to them.
Then I went outside and bought a Stig keychain, a programme and I got a free little red toy car. A Ferrari 250 GTO, it makes 'vroom vroom' noises!
( Pan of showroom )
DAY 4
Lunar Park sucks
Clowns are scary
Boys are hotter in Sydney
And Sydney is bat country
DAY 5
My final night, we went to Taronga Zoo.
( Photos under cut )
DAY 6
Visited a nice old comic store called Comic Kingdom.
It had back issues so old some of them were printed on stone tablets.
It was a real treasure trove, I could have easily spent hours in there. They also had original G.I Joe toys and magazines with articles featuring Empire Strikes Back spoilers!
I ended up buying lots of old Doctor Doom comics, ahem I mean Fantastic Four.
Venom vs Carnage and another Venom comic from the 90's in which the symbiote dies *sad face*.
Also Tiny Titans and lots of the Spirit which I finished on the plane.
The journey back home took 4 hours and the in-flight movie was Australia which only just finished when we landed.
Long and boring, the only good parts were shirtless Hugh Jackman and a kangaroo being shot in the head after Nicole Kidman was marvelling at their beauty.
Yeah, it was no Moulin Rouge.
Extra:
A little video of Stig in press conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjy6r-FSEMA
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| Mighty Avengers Vol.2: Venom Bomb |
[04 Feb 2009|05:59pm] |
Got this book out from the library, Bendis is pretty hit and miss so it was mostly for my brothers.
But I did like this "chapter", in which Iron Man and Dr.Doom travel back to the '80's. When Bagley's art was good. I don't get what's changed over the years, but he still draws one of the best Venoms.
Anyway, I'm geeking on there, basically I think Doom and Iron Man should hang out more often, they get on so well!
( 21 kinda crappy quality pages below the cut )
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| 2008 |
[28 Dec 2008|11:21pm] |
Well, it’s been an eventful year. Not just for me, but for the world.
I was supposed to be going to America in September but that financial crisis came out of nowhere and changed things overnight.
Speaking of change, unless you’ve been living under a rock, Barack Obama is now the president of the USA.
I left highschool in 2007 and have been studying at two different Tafe’s over the course of this year. One class was multimedia and then I went on to do art.
I’ve made quite a few friends and I’m a lot happier than when I was at school, surrounded by zombies.
Plus I feel like I’m actually learning something!
My birthday was on the second of January, it was a warm night and it was a superhero costume party, a night I’ll remember forever.
I was dressed as Zatanna, so my legs were fine but I was sweating up top.
I had fun making these little party bags for everyone with Justice League figurines in them. People still talk about that party.
Heath Ledger along with a dozen other celebrities died this year. The numbers are quite spooky actually.
On April 14th my first podcast aired on Podcast X. It’s hard to believe I’ve known my co-host, Trenchcoat Mafia for almost a year.
Since then I have reviewed Tank Girl, Hellboy, Venom and Batman and have only improved along the way.
I think that’s because I was so miserable at school, I was shy and rarely talked and didn’t really know who I was as a person. Now I’m confident and know my own style. I can actually make eye contact and talk to people I don’t know!
Still don’t like having to ask for help, that’s like admitting I was wrong.
In July I got the chicken pox, me at age sixteen, got some horrible disfiguring child’s disease!
And it’s all my ten- year-old brother’s fault.
I’ve still got the scars.
In other health related news, I don’t get low iron anymore and have hardly been sick at all this year.
But I had to get a blood test, months back…AARRGGHH!
I don’t ever want to see another needle as long as I live.
Also in July, I went to the Supanova comic convention, Perth’s first one.
It was a lot of fun. Not big, but that just meant I got to know a lot of the people better.
I spend a helluva a lot of money on comics and action figures!
And I entered the costume contest, I didn’t win anything, but I just enjoyed getting back on the stage again since highschool drama.
I’ve made and worn heaps of costumes, Zatanna, Doom, Joker (for Supanova), Harley Quinn, Venom, Boba Fett, Altair, Predator and Batwoman.
I’ve gotten better at sewing and I’m quite good with cardboard too.
Speaking of improvement I think my drawing has changed too. I’ve learned a lot from other people and I’ve also just been exploring styles as techniques:
http://pyro-the-maniac.deviantart.com/art/She-Venom-75532622
http://pyro-the-maniac.deviantart.com/art/Holy-Crap-99744785
I started to learn guitar earlier this year, but then realised I don’t have a musical bone in my body. Oh well, can’t be good at everything. At least the guitar looks good in my room.
I’ve seen some awesome movies, Dark Knight may be the greatest two hours I will ever experience. There was also Hulk, Iron Man, AVP2 and Hellboy 2.
I finally got to watch all of Batman the Animated Series when I bought the box set off Amazon a few months ago.
Oh and I’ve been watching one episode of Stargate SG1 almost everyday for this entire year and I’m still not done yet!
Cthulhumas was nice, had the family over and got everything I wanted. My mum knows me so well! Lets' see there's a model of the TARDIS, a Silver Surfer action figure. Lego Batman, Force Unleashed and Ben 10 Alien Force on PSP. Little Big Planet on PS3.
Gauntlets and utility belt for my Batwoman costume.
A silver top, some jewellery and Dark Knight and Iron Man on DVD.
Oh and my little brother got me some Batman badges, I painted one of them to look like the Comedian's badge.
I got a new mobile and laptop too, but those are supposed to be birthday presents.
Looking towards to horizon I continue my search for a job, getting my license, starting modelling, getting into my next course at Tafe, learning martial arts, going to Sydney again and seeing Top Gear:Live and hopefully go to America this time.
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| The Universe! -According to Podcast X |
[16 Dec 2008|09:52pm] |
"In this episode we shall review some comics, but only the ones we liked. Some were bad, but we aren't going to talk about them."
This was the world of podcasting and comic reviews before Podcast X came along and changed things...Forever.
It all started on March 21st 2006 when long time friends, Trenchcoat Mafia (a bored psychopath) and MC Trekkie (a bored nerd) reviewed the Outsiders.
Barely ten minutes into the podcast and Trenchcoat was praising nazis, or was it Satan?..Probably both.
Instantly one could tell that this was something different, people who know what they're talking about and tell it like it is.
There was no topic too bold for them, be it abortion (a beautiful thing), child rape (they deserve it, like Lisa-ep 93), gay adoption (not harming anyone). Why are they always talking about kids?..Oh yeah, did I mention Trenchcoat is a pedophile?
We have a lot of other beliefs, such as red-heads being the children of Satan. But Satan is an awesome guy, Tribute to Satan month is in October.
We also worship Cthulhu in December. This is especially important to me as I live right next to the Indian ocean, where he sleeps. If one worships Cthulhu you will be eaten last. Perhaps even spared to become his slave.
They also try to inform their audience about important topics, like women shouldn't have too much sex or their pussies will fall out.
They endorse comic piracy, because $3.00 for a single issue is ridiculous.
Also, if a building blows up Trenchcoat believes everyone should get the fuck over it and move on.
While reading any comic they keep a boob counter, basically counting and rating all the boobs in every page.
We also plan to get to the bottom of the mystery that is Brenda Starr Reporter. Is that her full name or is she Brenda Starr, Reporter?
Soon they lured other freaks into their cult...I mean, other people joined the show.
A brief description of the co-hosts:
Vixen- she's the only sensible one here
Timmy Thoom- From the brother podcast Thoomcast, which is naturally not as good as PCX.
Starhawk- A crazy and deeply disturbing man who believes he is the son of Podon and by calling upon Podon's pedophilic powers he has the combined strength of Michael Jackson and Woody Allen. Which is to say that the average man looses half of his strength. He also possesses the tri-cock.
Khan- Trekkie's friend from Lao (a country protected by a giant sea monkey). He comes from a long line of entertainers. Used to work in a gay bath house before coming to PCX.
Is married with two children, Mini-Khan and a daughter who "goes to work".
Currently Khan is in Australia, only time will tell how that story unfolds.
Dr.Misogyny- Trenchcoat's friend, an expert on how to deal with women. Think the Dog Whisperer for bitches...But not those kind of bitches.
-The Listeners-cum-co-hosts-
Xantesfire- Commented on the blog since July 2007, has appeared in a few shows himself. He also has a blog in which he Photoshops pictures of various characters spanking me.
http://www.xantes-fire.blogspot.com/
And of course there's me, PCX's head minion. Although I have since been promoted to co-host.
I first met Trenchcoat at the tender age of fifteen, yes, last year in March. He was on scans_daily promoting episode 46 because someone had posted scans of that comic there.
My mind was blown and my world was changed forever.
My first appearance was a hyper-reading of the origin of Podon in episode 80.
Followed by my Tank Girl two-parter and then a Hellboy four-parter. Even though I vowed to not have a podcast run longer than Starhawk's Supergirl review. Which actually killed someone (more on that later) and has since gotten him banished from both Trekkie's Hall of Shame and Trenchcoat's Murder Shack.
Anyway, as I am also PCX's Australian corespondent, it is my job to inform the listeners of my country.
So far we know of:
Ranga bears- Orange koala bears, Tank Girl has one as a pet.
Drop bears- Long thought to be a myth, these large carnivorous koala-cousins are stealthy buggers who hide in trees, then drop on unsuspecting tourists and eat their brains. They are thought to be responsible for the zombie plague or 1965...That or possibly drugs.
Space germs- Thanks to you people in other parts of the world with your pollution, a rather large hole has appeared in the o-zone layer just above Australia. Letting in deadly space-germs. As you may have noticed in some of the podcasts I was sick with some virus or another. And guess what, it's all your fault! Unless of course, reader, you are Australian. In which case, we're in the same situation.
Among other things, the greatest advantage to being Australian is that we are a whole day in the future, thanks to our leader Lex Luthor. We know everything that's going to happen tomorrow before you do! Unless of course you too are Australian, etc, etc.
But it's not all comics here on Podcast X. No, we hope to entertain our audience by embarking on adventures that instantly screamed dangerous the moment we thought of them.
Take the time Trekkie and Trenchcoat went in space and were flung ten thousand years into the future. Actually they we duplicated by the worm hole and those alternate versions of themselves ended up in the future. A future dominated by apes! (Episodes 7 and 8)
They were then killed and cloned, those clones then ate their originals. Oh and also Trekkie found a mute half-naked girlfriend named Nova.
Somehow our Trekkie and Trenchcoat have these memories.
Next Trenchcoat, Starhawk and Vixen finds themselves in a musical, Rocky Horror style! Singing about Dazzler as the herald of Galactus. (Episode 50- Ed)
Thanks Ed, get the fuck off my article.
Then it was all reviews until I came along and brought back the theatricality!
I went for a job interview with the BPRD, which turned out to be a trap, they wanted to study me.
I escaped after a few weeks, but during the time I was there I was attacked by a face-hugger.
I was fine until my next podcast, episode 100.
Trenchcoat and I stole the Mystery Machine from Scooby and the gang.
We got a few hundred km's away before the car broke down, leaving us stranded in the woods. So we spent the night in a haunted mansion and reviewed Scarecrow, which is a very recent comic. Suspicious considering the house looked like it had been abandoned for years...
Anyway, that night the xenomorph baby burst out of my chest, instantly mastered the English language then proceeded to sing Hello My Baby.
Being immortal I came back to life after a few moments and now keep that alien as a pet.
Soon afterwards the ghost of AIDSMASTER5000 came out of nowhere and scared the shit out of us. He spoke faster than even I do, so fast in fact that if you listen to the recording of this episode it sounds like it's in slow-motion.
Turns our AIDSMASTER5000 was killed by listening to the Supergirl four-parter. It was so bad he pooped out his own organs.
We were able to set his soul free by doing a better review in his home.
Much later, mein fuhrer (Trenchcoat) took me to Mc Trekkie's Hall of Shame to plant an explosive.
Whilst there I discovered his secret lab. It was very stereotypical.
Although it was there that I bonded with My Other, my Symbiote.
Recently that bomb was detonated. What happens next?
Stay tuned to Podcast X to hear more of our adventures!
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