Yearly Archives: 2013
Doctor Lollipop
From the same network behind Bee and Puppycat, I give you Doctor Lollipop, the unicorn doctor.
I’m liking Cartoon Hangover more and more. They seem to be the perfect blend of silliness and professionalism. And the voice-acting is just delightful. I hope you guys and gals enjoy this stuff as much as me.
Mad X-Men
I don’t watch Mad Men. Maybe like Breaking Bad, it’s one of those shows I should just start watching, and no doubt I’ll start loving it. But sometimes, there are just shows you don’t watch. Thankfully, the kind souls at Union Pool made an X-Men/Mad Men parody. So I think that’s all I need…for now.
Chipotle Combines Food with Dystopian Beauty
I have never eaten at Chipotle before, but now I want to give them all the monies! Behold, The Scarecrow!
Was that amazing or what? The haunting rendition of the Willy Wonka song. The sad look on those cows’ eyes. The scarecrow filled with determination. The good people at MOONBOT Studios really delivered a world of commercial goodness. Apparently there’s a mobile game to go along with the commercial, but why ruin something so breathtakingly amazing with some silly app game? This rendition of ‘Pure Imagination’ is sung by Fiona Apple, who I think is going to release the single, for those of us who have fallen in love.
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 9/14/13
Villains Month continues this week at DC Comics, and I’m enjoying it well enough so far. It’s a marketing stunt, and I’m OK with DC going all out for their marketing stunts. It appears to me like they’re using a few up and coming writers to actually pen the dialogue, so that’s pretty cool. I’m disappointed that Geoff Johns didn’t write out Black Manta #1, but he plotted it, and writer Tony Bedard did well enough.
Speaking of Villains Month, this week was the debut of the new Lobo. Does he live up to the controversy? Read ahead and see.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Mighty Avengers #1. There were some good Villains Month issues, but Mighty Avengers exceeded expectations in ways I did not predict. It might actually turn out to be a pretty good comic. With some pretty fun characters, like this guy…
Comic Reviews: Avengers #19, Black Manta #1, Lobo #1, Mighty Avengers #1, Riddler #1, and X-Men #5.
Everything Wrong With Daredevil Misses the Most Obvious Wrongness
The Cinema Sins people have aimed their mighty guns at Daredevil, but they missed the biggest mistake in the film!
Do you know what it is?
Early in the film, when that rapist is on the stand, Matt sure seems to think it’s a criminal trial and that this scumbag rapist will face justice, but everything about the scene is totally wrong. Matt is not a prosecutor or a District Attorney, yet he is clearly questioning the accused rapist on the stand as if this is a criminal trial. Also, if this were a criminal trial, the victim would not be sitting at Matt’s table. District Attorneys represent ‘the people’, as in ‘the state’, not the actual victims. The only way this trial could make sense would be if it were a civil trial and the victim was suing the rapist. In which case, even if the court found in favor of the plaintiff, the guy wasn’t going to go to jail or anything.
So Matt Murdock’s view of ‘justice’ is suing acquitted criminals after the fact? I realize they probably got off on the actual criminal charges, so why not become a prosecutor and make sure they don’t get off? Or why not be the kind of defense attorney who defends wrongfully charged people? Which, frankly, can’t be all that often. And there are times when defense attorneys are assigned to a case by a judge, so there’s no way he could only get by without defending some guilty people. That’s what lawyers do.
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