The 6 Best Pop Culture Brothers
It was my brother’s birthday on Monday, and you may remember him from various comments he’s posted on my articles, or that one blog post he wrote about robots. I’ve tried to get him to write more posts, seeing as how he’s both funny and a good writer, but I guess he’s just got something better to do than help out his brother’s blog. It’s not like I’m providing a completely free and easy way to get his voice out to the masses or anything. But I digress. Today’s List of Six is his Happy Birthday present, because I’m a cheap schmuck.
Soon there will be war
So siblings are a thing. And like most things, they’ve worked their way into pop culture. Fancy that. But no, seriously, they’re everywhere! Pop culture and fiction especially like twins. But we’re not twins. We just look like twins. Other than his massive beard, of course. Several of the characters on this list have beards. So it all kind of comes full circle. Here are the 6 best brother pairs in pop culture!
The Ultimate Hobbit Trailer
Some genius has created a 7-minute trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. They’ve spliced together all the footage from the other trailers and TV spots! And it’s neat!
It’s a little long, and not as epic as the real trailers and TV spots. But it’s still fun to see something like this. A lot of people out there on the Internet have a lot of talent. And I love me some Internet talent.
Age of Ultron Will Make Us All Believe Again
Believe that Brian Michael Bendis can write a good Event Comic, that is. Marvel and Bendis finally got around to revealing the worst kept secret in comics: that his time on the Avengers will end next year with a 10-part Age of Ultron!
Looks like Ultron also gets a fancy new suit
In good news, Bryan Hitch will be drawing the first half. And Bryan Hitch is amazing.
So basically, based on this interview, Age of Ultron is a story where the evil robot Ultron finally achieves world domination. Pretty fun, right? And from what I can tell, a few heroes like Spider-Man, Hawkeye and Moon Knight (of all people) are left to figure out how to save the day. Because Bendis absolutely loves Moon Knight, even though he couldn’t get his Moon Knight comic series to sell. The series is going to ship between March and June next year, so another quick event, similar to Avengers vs. X-Men. This is a smart way to do it. We don’t want Event Fatigue.
Bendis is definitely excited about it.
“I couldn’t be more excited for this book to hit the stands,” Bendis says. “Literally not a day has gone by that people haven’t asked me about this online. I know that people are looking forward to this, and have voiced so to me, so to finally debut it, and for it to be, I imagine, much more than people thought it was going to be, is very exciting for us. It takes one of Marvel’s classic villains to a level we’ve never seen before, and it pushes our Marvel heroes into a place that they’ve never been before, and gets us to a place in the Marvel Universe that you won’t be able to guess.”
Personally, I’m luke warm about this idea. I’ve never been a particularly big fan of Ultron, and he was already the major villain in Annihilation: Conquest a few years ago. He was defeated then too. However, considering how lame the Serpent turned out to be in Fear Itself, perhaps going with a known villain as the big bad is a smart way to go. Plus it’ll be a relief to have the heroes fighting a super-villain for once, instead of each other.
I’m also not a big fan of Bendis’ events. House of M, Seige and especially Secret Invasion were bollocks. They all basically amount to a lot of pointless build up, all leading to just a giant fight at the end where somebody shouts ‘Avengers Assemble!’ That’s how it always goes. So I don’t have much faith in him to pull this off.
But I can hope…
Evil-ution by Moffat – But They Forgot Cable Service Providers
Stephen Moffat is a Doctor Who genius.
Lovely Doctor Who art by Travis the Geek.
So jeez, you guys, this was a crummy weekend. So I’m on vacation, right, but on the very first night of my vacation, my Internet craps out. Just up and dies on me. Twice I get on the phone with my cable provider’s technical support, and twice they ‘fix’ it, only for it to go out again! They said there were no outages in my area. But that meant I lost my Friday night of hanging out and being my usual Internet-friendly self.
Saturday comes along, and it’s working fine in the morning. I got my Hench-sized reviews up, and all is hunky dory – though mostly I think it’s this way because I went out and bought a fancy new router, thinking that was the problem. But no sooner does my girlfriend sign online Saturday afternoon then the Internet craps out again! And stays out all Saturday night, with spurts of connectivity. My girlfriend, being the trooper she is, stays online on her end, only to get a few minutes of windows to chat with me. Anyway, I know it’s not the router, so I think it’s the modem…but it was late on a Saturday night, and the local cable office isn’t going to open until Monday morning to give me a new modem.
So I rush out the door, intent on buying a new modem at the store for $100. I’m marching to my car when I just happen to pass my downstairs neighbor coming home. I quickly mention my problem, and he says he has the exact same problem!
Two smart blokes like us quickly realize that the problem is on the end of the cable provider. Even though all of my modem’s green lights are working fine, it’s clearly their fault – and this thankfully saves me $100. But that didn’t fix my Internet.
Seriously, no sooner does my vacation start than my Internet crumbles. Fortunately, it came back Sunday morning and has been back ever since. But come on! How is that timing not a little suspect?
All the Guys Are Hunks at Gotham High
Apparently this was made by Oliver Nolan, son of actual Batman director Christopher Nolan. And if that’s the case, then hats off to everybody involved. This was good, real good. Why don’t we have a real show or move like this?
