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Written Monday, June 14, 2010 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
Platinum Games' Vanquish is looking mighty chaotic, packed with so many bullets and missiles all over the place that it's difficult to see what exactly is going on. Luckily, the game's hero looks pretty darn athletic, despite being dressed from head to toe in battle armour, he's still able to jump and knee slide like a gun-toting gymnast if these shots are any indication.
Bayonetta meets Gears of War might not be too far off the mark then, as these screens and the first gameplay trailer show. Blending frenetic third-person gunplay, bullet hell and acrobatics looks and sounds pretty good to us. Now we just need to find out how the thing plays.
Being from the mind of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami surely won't hurt the game's chances in achieving good, solid gameplay though and from this early showing, we'd say that initial signs look rather promising.
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HOUMA No matter how the runoff elections for seats in the state Legislature turn out, new interest group Blueprint Louisiana will have a majority of supporters in both houses.
Blueprint Louisiana is a self-proclaimed nonpartisan group of business representatives whove laid out five key issues -- ethics, education, workforce training, health care and transportation -- and have asked candidates to sign on to their plan to pass laws in the 2008 legislative session.
After the Oct. 20 elections, candidates who had endorsed the plan included winners of 23 seats in the state Senate and 45 seats in the House.
Among lawmakers representing Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, these signed on to the Blueprint agenda: state Sens. Reggie Dupre, D-Bourg; Joel Chaisson II, D-Destrehan; and Butch Gautreaux, D-Morgan City; and state Reps. Gordon Dove, R-Houma, and Damon Baldone, D-Houma.
An additional 71 legislative candidates who have agreed to support Blueprint advanced to the Nov. 17 runoffs.
In eight of the 10 Senate runoff races, both candidates have pledged support to Blueprint, giving the group at least 31 of 39 seats in the Senate, or 79 percent.
In 19 of the 40 runoff elections for the House, both candidates have signed on to the Blueprint agenda. That gives Blueprint at least 64 seats of support, or 61 percent. The House has 105 seats.
Both runoff candidates for House District 51, Democratic incumbent Carla Dartez of Morgan City and Joe Harrison, a Napoleonville Republican, have supported the group. House District 55 also has Blueprint supporters in its runoff: Democrat Mike Matherne of Thibodaux and Jerome Dee Richard, who has no party affiliation, also of Thibodaux.
Its truly a historic result that so many elected leaders and citizens agree on key priorities for the state, said Blueprint Chairman Matt Suller in a news release last week. We have a realistic opportunity next year to work with new lawmakers, the new administration and citizens to begin to create the state we deserve.
To make change and draft laws during next years legislative session may prove more difficult than rallying support for the five Blueprint issues, however.
I think they want to do whats good for Louisiana. Having said that, its difficult to move from an agreed-upon principle to legislation. As they say, the devil is in the details, said John Baker, a criminal and constitution law professor at Louisiana State Universitys law school.
State Rep. Loulan Pitre, R-Cut Off, who did not run for re-election this fall, agreed that promising something and actually passing legislation are two things.
Baldone agreed, adding that change also takes money.
How are you going to fund it? A lot of these citizen organizations have great ideas but dont come down to the funding part, Baldone said. Thats another concern I voiced. I think theyre working on it.
As a private group, Blueprint has several areas of influence over legislators. They can be a constant presence, reminding legislators what they signed on to. And the group will put out scorecards on how legislators vote, another form of influence that people pay attention to, Baldone said.
But at the same time, if a Blueprint-backed law comes up for a vote and he disagrees with it, Baldone said hell vote on his own.
Im going to do whats best for Houma. It may be in opposition to Blueprint Louisiana, Baldone said.
Dupre said he also has concerns about Blueprints steps toward health-care reform. The group advocates redirecting state money from facilities to people, so that the money follows the patients as they chose which hospitals to use.
Health-care reform is a general term, Dupre said. I do not support shutting down or losing the LSU hospitals. One of those includes Chabert Medical Center in Houma.
Though many local legislators had concerns about some of Blueprints key issues, especially the lack of having coastal restoration and hurricane protection as one of the five top agenda items, many signed on anyway.
I dont see this Blueprint group as a single interest group trying to get their own little agenda. I see it as a nobler cause, pushing to improve the image of the state, said Dupre.
As for coastal issues, Blueprint has publicly made concessions that coastal restoration and hurricane protection are important in the next legislative session.
We think weve done a great job of getting coastal back to the focus of Blueprint Louisiana, Baldone said. My point is that if youre not at the table youre not going to have a voice.
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Updated: November 10, 2007, 7:28 PM ETBy David Grening | Daily Racing Form
OZONE PARK, N.Y. -- All's well that ends well indeed for the New York-bred Dave in Saturday's $150,000 Red Smith Handicap at Aqueduct.
Despite being by the New York-based sire Ends Well, Dave was ineligible for Sunday's $75,000 Cormorant division of the New York Stallion Stakes because a previous owner did not make sustaining payments.
Instead, trainer Barclay Tagg decided to take a shot in Saturday's Grade 2 Red Smith Handicap, and under a patient Joe Bravo, Dave unleashed a solid ...
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The question of whether Harman was under investigation arose last April after reports emerged that the U.S. had eavesdropped on the Democrat's phone conversation with a supporter.
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Downtown Eugene's filling up. Empty storefronts are giving way to bars, restaurants and stores. What else does it need? We vote on more food cars for Kesey Square …
Mayor Kitty Piercy upon hearing the trespass citations would keep people from being able to attend City Council meetings (see today's story about the recent free speech arrests) tells EW:
"You should know that it's important to me for that all our community members can come to a City Council meeting. While I respect the county's rights to make decisions regarding visitors to the county building, it's not okay with me for them to determine who may attend or speak at a council meeting. I have asked staff to work with the county to ensure that no one is blocked from our council meetings by the county."
Most awesome story of the week from the San Francisco Bay Guardian:
A Marin activist named Jonathan Frieman, who runs a small nonprofit corporation (the JoMiJo Foundation) was driving in the carpool lane on highway 101 in Marin when he was stopped by a cop and given a $478 ticket. Ah, but Frieman insists he wasn't driving alone; beside him in the car were the articles of incorporation and other relevant corporate paperwork for his foundation — and in the United States, corporations are considered people. In fact, the California Vehicle Code refers to "natural persons or corporations."
So Frieman is challening his ticket in traffic court, and is willing to spend his own money to appeal the case as far as he can. He wants to force the courts to decide: If a corporation is a person, then it gets to ride with a driver in the carpool lane, and his ticket has to be dismissed. If it's not a person, then maybe it can't make political contributions.In fact, if a corporation isn't a person, a whole lot of evil stuff might come to an end.
The story says Friedman's traffic court hearing was today.
And then there's domestic violence, Portlandia style from KOIN in Portland:
A man is facing assault charges, accused of choking his girlfriend using his dreadlocks in Southeast Portland.
Domestic violence is awful and never funny; I hope the woman is OK. And I have to wonder: How did this not happen in Eugene?
SLEEPS (Safe Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep) is challenging the curfew at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaze tonight. Here is the live stream via Ustream. About 75-80 people appeared to be there around 11 pm at "Reclaim the Plaza: A Free Speech Celebration."
It's not yet clear what's happening on the UO campus this morning (beyond a rally scheduled for 11;30 am in regard to shake up in the diversity office) but UO emergency alerts are warning students to stay away from the Health Center and the latest alert says Agate is closed between 13th and 15the avenues. Another alert told students and faculty that there are intermittended power outages across campus. The Daily Emerald is reporting that "A University police spokesman said that explosions were heard near the Walton Complex. Smoke was reported to be coming from around the maintenance tunnels."
Updates to come.
Update: KVAL is on the scene (we don't come out til Thursday, by which time this will be old news, but exlosions are bread and butter for the TV folks): "Employees told KVAL News that they believe it was because of a pipe leak of some kind inside the building."
Update: The R-G writes, "The explosions and smoke are 'likely' a result of a malfunction in a maintenance tunnel near the health center and the Walton residence hall complex, UO police spokesman Kelly McIver said."
Update: The Daily Emerald is reporting it appears to be a transformer that blew. Accounts differ as to what parts of campus might have lost power in addition to some of the residence halls. The Em has some nice photos of firefighters and smoke.
And just in time for the first week of classes: No power in the dorms. Here's the latest update from the UO.
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Eugene, Ore. (Jan. 7, 2013) -- A power failure occurred today across the southwest section of the University of Oregon campus, the result of a series of malfunctions that were reported from the underground tunnels that deliver utility services through the 295-acre campus.
No one was injured in the incident, which resulted in visible smoke above ground and inside the University Health Center. The Health Center was evacuated and a two-block section of Agate Street – from 13th to 15th avenues – was closed for approximately two hours.
Campus Operations is working as quickly as possible to restore electricity to all affected buildings and repairs have already brought power back to many. However, several buildings are still without power, including many UO Housing residence and dining halls, including Carson Hall, Hamilton Hall, Bean Hall, Living Learning Center, Earl Hall and Walton Hall.
As a residential campus, more than 4,000 students live on campus and their safety is a top priority, said Michael Griffel, director of University Housing.
"Heat, fire systems and lighting are necessary for a safe living environment," he said. "As such, we are planning to provide lighting assistance and additional campus safety officer presence this evening for approximately 3,000 students impacted by this outage."
The location of the power transmission feeder failure was inspected by Eugene Fire Department and UO Campus Operations officials who described the failure as an overheating issue that caused the electrical circuits to ignite and melt.
Students, faculty and staff were notified via emergency notification channels about the incident and updates continue during the restoration of power. Latest information is posted at alerts.uoregon.edu.
"We are working as quickly as possible to safely restore all power to affected areas of campus," said George Hecht, associate vice president for Campus Operations. "Getting power back to the affected buildings, especially residence halls and research facilities, is a top priority to alleviate issues."
Additional student programming is planned on campus, including a BCS Championship Game watch party and activities at the Student Recreation Center and Erb Memorial Union.
One minute you're hearing former Eugenean Mat Kearney sing "Breath In, Breath Out" on Grey's Anatomy or it's "Nothing Left to Lose" while you're driving down Highway 58 (avoiding that ammo someone spilled this morning) and the next you're like, "Oh, shit, is that a song about Chip Kelly?"
"Chip don't go, don't go, don't you go to Philly, Cleveland or Buffalo. They don't have half the heart or the jerseys."
Every good starship captain ought to have a Twitter feed. If you still can't get your body beamed to other planets at least you can send 140 characters from space.
William Shatner (aka Captain James T. Kirk, aka @williamshatner) tweeted to Chris Hadfield, of the Canadian Space Agency "Are you tweeting from space?" Hadfield is the International Space Station's Flight Engineer for Expedition 34, so he is indeed tweeting from space.
In fine Trekkie form, he responded: "Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life on the surface."
And as @SarcasticRover points out, "If the
@WilliamShatner / @Cmdr_Hadfield interaction goes down like most Captain Kirk adventures, they'll be kissing soon."
Most of the journalists I know do sit around talking about the news. But we don't sit around talking like the news, even the NPR folks, which is too bad because I would love it if everyone walked around talking like All Things Considered or Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.
The Idle No More movement that has swept across Canada is taking root in Oregon as well, with a flashmob Dec. 23 at Portland's Pioneer Place mall and another round dance flashmob planned for 5 pm Dec. 29 at Eugene's Valley River Center. A Facebook page organizing the VRC flashmob says singers will begin at 5 pm in the middle of the mall and says for participants to gather round, dance and support when the singing begins and to part ways when it ends.
Idle No More is a campaign for indigenous rights, sovereignty and environmental justice that began in Canada in part as a response to Canada's omnibus bill C-45 that "amends the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canada Labour Code" according to Indian Country Today. The bill passed the Canadian Senate on Dec. 14. The Idle No More movement however is more than just that legislation, according to the INM website. The Idle No More manifesto says, in part:
The state of Canada has become one of the wealthiest countries in the world by using the land and resources. Canadian mining, logging, oil and fishing companies are the most powerful in the world due to land and resources. Some of the poorest First Nations communities (such as Attawapiskat) have mines or other developments on their land but do not get a share of the profit. The taking of resources has left many lands and waters poisoned – the animals and plants are dying in many areas in Canada. We cannot live without the land and water. We have laws older than this colonial government about how to live with the land.
Among the environmental concerns brought up by the new legislation are the tar sands, fossil fuel pipelines and other mining.
In addition to the rallies and flashmobs that have brought attention to the movement, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence began a hunger strike on Dec. 11, drinking only fish broth and medicinal tea. She has announced she will not eat until there is a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a representative of the queen of England to address the broken relationship with indigenous peoples and treaty rights.
Democracy Now featured an interview with Idle No More Spokeswoman Pamela Palmater Dec. 26.
Payback for DDT? Eagles cleaning up what the stork dropped in some sort of avian circle of life? This video (going viral in 3-2-1 already there) of a golden eagle baby snatching is going to horrify parents and make the rest of us giggle … and duck every time a bird of prey swoops overhead.
Has anyone tried to warn us of the impending giant fucking eagle menace? Is this merely the first warning shot? We must be vigilant, or else the giant fucking eagles of the world will make off with all of our children. BUT ONLY IF WE LET THEM.
The slow-motion portion set to music is really what makes the video
Some YouTube commenters are calling this a fake, but this is not the first time eagles have attacked small children or full grown humans for that matter. But it is perhaps the first time it was set to the theme music from Chariots of Fire.
Fakery confirmed, darn it.
If you missed punk rock Massachusetts-Irish band Dropkick Murphys at the McDonald Theatre last month then you missed the live performance of what is my favorite Christmas song this year: "The Season's Upon Us."
The Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza was ordered closed Dec. 11 by Lane County Administrator Liane Richardson after Occupy Eugene offshoot, Eugene SLEEPS (Safe Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep), which has been campaigning for safe places for the homeless to sleep, staged a protest there. Eugene SLEEPS is asking people to write letters in response to statements from Richardson that indicate her belief the homeless protesters created a need for the plaza to be "disinfected." In a recent press release, SLEEPS said: "Ms. Richardson grossly misled the public with her untrue allegations that SLEEPS campers had destroyed the lobby desk and bathrooms so that she could justify shutting down the plaza to protests."
SLEEPS is asking that Richardson apologize and the Free Speech Plaza reopened:
Ms. Richardson has stooped to a new low in perpetuating stereotypes and hate mongering toward the unhoused. Her allegations that SLEEPS damaged the lobby and bathrooms of the County Building and pooped in the planters are ridiculous and insulting and have been contradicted by county employees and SLEEPS date and time stamped photos.
These comments represent a phobic response to those who are unhoused, and the closure of the plaza has violated their (and everyone else in Lane County) constitutional right to gather and address their grievances at this landmark protest site.
Richardson made the statement about feces in planters to a gathering of protesters and news media on Dec. 13. The R-G reports "The plaza's surface did not appear to have been fouled or littered during the demonstration earlier this week."
Eugene activist Alley Valkyrie was among those who returned to the plaza after the closure and elected to be arrested to assert her First Amendment rights. According to SLEEPS, Valkyrie has twice sucessfully challenged the city in free speech and rights issues related to the unhoused. The group thanked Eugene police for their professionalism.
The emails from Richardson are below. For more information on Eugene SLEEPS go to http://eugenesleeps.org
Tuesday Dec. 11
Commissioners, I wanted to let you know what we are doing with the Free Speech Plaza and the campers who are present.EPD officers are sharing with the campers our Administrative rules, which prohibit camping or camping-like activities in the plaza, as well as the expectation that speech activities will not occur between 11pm and 6am. They are informing the campers and others present that they are in violation of our rules regarding the use of that area. The area has rules for usage so that all people are free to use the plaza, and to ensure the health and safety of all of our residents and guests. We are hoping that by informing the campers of these rules, they will voluntarily comply with our requests to cease and desist from prohibited behavior. We are in close contact with Eugene staff as well as our own staff, who have reported damage to the Volunteer booth downstairs, theft from and damage to our restrooms, and complaints from visitors to the courthouse and PSB that they do not feel safe. The sanitary conditions of the restrooms are of great concern, as we do not have the staff to keep up with the mess that is being created. I have begun the process of temporarily closing the plaza if health and safety concerns remain after these contacts and requests for voluntary compliance. I will keep you updated.
Wednesday, Dec. 12
At this time, all campers are gone from the Plaza. We have one individual sitting there with a sign saying he won't eat until there is housing for the homeless, but otherwise the Plaza is empty. We will be barricading off the lower area until we can get a cleanup crew in to clean and disinfect the area; most likely through the end of this week and possibly into the weekend.
The Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza has long been home to, well, free speech. But the R-G is reporting that Lane County Administrator Liane Richardson has signed an order putting the kibosh on free speech at the plaza for now in response to a protest.
Eugene SLEEPS, an offshoot of Occupy Eugene, set up tents in the plaza Dec. 10 after the Eugene City Council did not move on modifying the city's camping ban. SLEEPS, which stands for Safe Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep, has been advocating to have the camping ban lifted before winter weather sets in. In 2008 a homeless veteran, Major Thomas Egan, froze to death on the street in Eugene during a cold spell.
The Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza is on indefinite closure, the R-G reports and it says:
There are rules about using the plaza in regard to health and safety," county spokeswoman Jennifer Inman said. "This is really about the issue of camping, rather than the free-speech aspect" of the protest.
Back in September the R-G reported that Richardson was advocating to ban smoking in the plaza, which in addition to being a frequent protest site, is also a popular weekend hangout during Saturday Market.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- One practice day won't help predict who will eventually emerge as the 2005 IRL IndyCar Series champion. But Friday's action at Homestead-Miami Speedway certainly provided some clues about what to look for in Sunday's Toyota 300 (2 p.m. ET, ESPN and ESPN2).
Buddy Rice's 2004 season proved that the pole position he earned for last year's season-opener at Homestead had been no fluke. And on Friday, Rice demonstrated that he is still the fastest man over the course of a single 1.5-mile lap around Homestead by topping the timing screens in Rahal Letterman Racing's Panoz-Honda.
The Phoenix native's best lap in the afternoon was timed at 213.514 mph, while Bryan Herta (Andretti Green Racing Dallara-Honda) and Tomas Scheckter (Panther Racing Dallara-Chevrolet) also topped 213 mph.
Rice's best lap was almost 4 mph slower than his '04 pole lap of 217.388 mph, which was achieved using a 3.5-liter engine. Despite the rapid pace of engine development led by Honda, it appears the IndyCar Series' efforts to keep speeds at a reasonable level are succeeding.
"Obviously it was a draft lap with everybody out there and I wouldn't read too much into it," Rice said. "But clearly our car is good."
Last year, Rice was Rahal Letterman's sole driver at Homestead, with a second car for Vitor Meira added two races later at Motegi, Japan. On Friday, Meira capably backed up Rice in the RLR stable, turning the fourth fastest lap at 212.332 mph. Danica Patrick was 18th at 210.369 mph on the day of her official IndyCar Series debut.
The solid effort from Bobby Rahal's team shows how far the organization has come in a year. Twelve months ago, the team was in a state of turmoil, still in the process of determining its driver lineups and even debating which series to race in. That's what made Rice's '04 pole so stunning.
"We shocked ourselves," Rice admitted. "We were terrible when we tested here and we only got a total of two days testing before the season. So when we got the pole here, it was probably a bigger shock to us than it was to anybody else. Bit it showed that Bobby made the change to the Panoz chassis at the right time and it got the ball rolling for us."
After securing pole position for his first race with the Rahal team, Rice finished seventh on the day that counted. He wasn't expected to contend for the 2004 title, but three race wins, including the Indianapolis 500, helped him do exactly that. It also means that he starts 2005 as one of the IndyCar championship favorites.
"We're only concerned with ourselves," Rice said. "Andretti Green will be strong, but there are a lot of teams up and down the paddock that can say the same thing. If we do our jobs, everything will fall into place."
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the day was the pace of Panther Racing's Dallara-Chevrolets. Scheckter's teammate, rookie Tomas Enge, cracked the top 10 in the only other Chevy-powered car in the field with a 211.775 mph lap good for ninth place.
There was relative parity among the League's three engine manufacturers, with all represented in the top six. Scott Dixon was the quickest Toyota runner at 212.194 mph.
"Chevrolet has put in a lot of hard work in the offseason and the early signs are very good," Scheckter said. "We ran full tanks and we seemed to be very good even at the end of a long run.
"Chevrolet has been given a really hard time and I take my hat off to them," he added. "A lot of heart and hard work from a company can overcome however much money is spent."
Last year was the first time that the IndyCars raced on Homestead's dual banking. Remodeled for the third time since 1996, the high banks worked like a charm because for the first time, the open-wheel cars were able to run two distinct grooves. The 2004 IndyCar race was easily the closest and most competitive open-wheel contest the South Florida track has hosted, capped by a thrilling last-lap pass for the win by Sam Hornish Jr.
If anything, this year should be even better.
"Some drivers have moved around to other teams with their sponsorships and other teams have added cars," Rice said. "It has compacted the group even more and I think that in qualifying only three or so tenths of a second will cover the field."
But Scheckter noted that the five first-year drivers in the IndyCar Series need to take care.
"I think this year is going to be crazy from start to finish," he predicted. "There was a bit of erratic driving in practice, a lot of swerving around. Maybe because it's the beginning of the season and there are some jitters.
"But a lot of them don't understand how close it's going to be in the race and they need to learn some oval etiquette, or some IRL etiquette. If you get some understeer, you have to lift. If you drift up the track into the path of another car, you can learn what happens pretty quickly."
NOTES: Marlboro Team Penske's Helio Castroneves and Sam Hornish Jr., who dominated the Homestead event in 2004, were seventh and 12th fastest Friday. That Homestead victory was two-time IndyCar Series champion Hornish's last race win...Marlboro announced Friday that it has resurrected the Marlboro Pole Award, last seen in CART from 1997-2001. The cigarette brand will award $10,000 to the polewinner at each IRL IndyCar Series race, with the exception of the Indianapolis 500. At Indy, Marlboro will write a check for $50,000 to the driver who leads the most laps.
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Our reviews of The League: The Complete Season One (Blu-ray) (published October 14th, 2010), The League: The Complete Season Four (published September 19th, 2013), The League: The Complete Season One (published September 20th, 2010), The League: The Complete Season Two (published November 2nd, 2011), and The League: The Complete Season Two (Blu-ray) (published October 24th, 2011) are also available.
The Charge
"What is with that outfit, Andre? You look like a Deadwood character at a Justin Bieber concert."
Opening Statement
For years, the divide in quality between network and cable TV shows was obvious. Freed from the limitations of censorship, cable channels turned out well-written, edgy series that put their safe network counterparts to shame. Recently, though, network shows have started to close that gap. Cable might still reign supreme when it comes to drama, but TV's best comedies are more evenly split between networks and extended cable. But there are still some things you can't do on broadcast television—and those things usually end up on FX's The League.
Facts of the Case
The League: The Complete Season Three has 13 episodes on two discs:
Disc One
Disc Two
* Extended episodes
The Evidence
The League is ostensibly about a group of friends in Chicago who compete in a fantasy football league. After three seasons, two things are clear: this show's not really about football, and these guys are barely friends. Okay, maybe those are half-truths. Fantasy football might take a backseat to the episode-specific high jinks, but every season begins with the draft and ends with the championships; and while league members Pete (Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed), Kevin (Stephen Rannazzisi, For Your Consideration) and his wife Jenny (Katie Aselton, The Puffy Chair), Ruxin (Nick Kroll, Comedy Bang! Bang!), Andre (Paul Scheer, Human Giant), and Taco (internet-famous musician Jonathan Lajoie) aren't the sort of friends you'd want in real life, they're only slightly exaggerated versions of friends you probably had in college. Whatever grown up responsibilities these guys have at their jobs as lawyers and doctors—and entrepreneurs I suppose, in Taco's case—when it comes to winning the coveted "Shiva" trophy, they're like kids scrabbling on the playground.
Lucky for The League, watching grown-up kids scrabble is a lot of fun. The show's partly improvised structure mixes scheming, wacky ideas, and converging coincidence in a way that will be familiar to anyone who's seen Seinfeld. But the guilty pleasure of The League is watching these petty competitors ridicule and undermine each other at every turn, with devastating verbal and psychological assaults that would destroy normal relationships. So cruel. So emasculating. So funny.
Season Three begins in the aftermath of Ruxin's Shiva win at the end of Season Two. While he's riding high ordering custom championship jewelry and making a star-studded "Shiva Bowl Shuffle" video, "Sacko" loser Andre is eager to move on from an off-season of league-mandated humiliations. And that's just the beginning of a season filled with lies, conspiracies, cults, tainted beef, racial insensitivity, vultured dates, and a scandal that threatens to tear the league apart, forever. Or until next season.
The show's interpersonal relationships might be suspect, but the acting is rock-solid. The League's core cast continues to impress. Stephen Rannazzisi's Kevin and Katie Aselton's Jenny are the closest thing the show has to responsible adults. Since Jenny joined the league last season, they have found a way to balance competition and marriage, leaving plenty of free time to focus on other things, like accidentally buying cocaine, and accidentally cooking their daughter's class guinea pig for Thanksgiving. Mark Duplass's Pete remains free from familial responsibilities, spending his time this season recreationally ravaging Ruxin's Au Pair, planning new ways to irritate Andre, and declaring war on a traffic cop he dubs "Glovesie."
The trio's relative maturity is offset by the group oddballs. Nick Kroll's Ruxin is just as insufferable as a winner as he is a loser, especially once he becomes suspicious that the group screwed him in this year's draft. Paul Scheer plays league punching bag, Andre, a sad-sack plastic surgeon who gets way too excited about urban foraging and '20s-themed cocktail parties. Jonathan Lajoie's Taco, meanwhile, is a wild card for whom reality is more of a suggestion. His Season Three subplots revolve around the rise of "Taco Corp"—a non-legally binding collection of wacky schemes like "offline" social media and a tie-rental service called "Neckflix."
Season Two introduced Ruxin's lovable pervert brother-in-law, Rafi. He comes back in full creepy force for Season Three, with actor Jason Mantzoukas elevated to near-regular status. He's a great fit, stealing every creepy scene he's in. The season also features guest appearances by Seth Rogen, Will Forte, Brie Larson, Eliza Dushku, Ray Liotta, and the Thanksgiving episode team-up of Sarah Silverman, playing Andre's slutty sister, and Jeff Goldblum as Ruxin's dad.
The League: The Complete Season Three hits DVD with a 1.78:1 transfer that looks great even in standard-def. It's capable of handling everything from prank porno shoots to Andre's costume changes. Audio comes in a 5.1 Dolby Digital mix that delivers every jab and insult with clarity.
Bonus features are divided across both discs. In addition to extended versions of most of the episodes, there are about 12 minutes of deleted scenes, a gag reel, a 14-minute collection of alternate improvised takes called "Alt Nation," and "Taco Tones"—full length videos for the "Shiva Bowl Shuffle," Taco's "Bang Bang What's the Hang?" rap, a "Bobbum Man" jazz trio, Taco's winning "Yobogoya!" jingle, and a Taco/Ruxin a capella techno jam.
Closing Statement
The League: The Complete Season Three might be more of the same, but that's fine with me. The FX series is still funny, risque, and worth watching—even if three seasons in, I know less about fantasy football than I do Pete's preferred sexual positions.
The Verdict
Yobagoya! Not guilty!
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- by A Yahoo! User Nov 13, 2011 14:36 Flag
You can get these tshirts for £10 and Show that City are the Pride of Manchester.
- by A Yahoo! User Nov 5, 2011 16:47 Flag
If Blues changed their Kit Manufacterer, who would you want it to be and if you aren't too keen on Xtep who would you like it to be?
Puma Stay with Xtep.
Please pick from one of these.
Get a Statue in Rememberance of the Carling Cup 2011 Petition!by A Yahoo! User Oct 28, 2011 09:26 Flag
Aswell as the idea of a Trevor Francis Statue, there is a petition about Stephan Carr holding the CC Trophy in one had and having his other hand chelenched in the air ststue in rememberanceof the CC Win in 2011.
For more info look at the front page explanation of this and please sign it and spread the word to other Bluenoses.
Get BCFC to get a statue of Trevor Francis at St Andrewsby A Yahoo! User Oct 26, 2011 12:07 Flag
Plese sign this petition for Birmingham City to get a statue of BCFC Legend Trevor Francis at St Andrews in the Kop Car Park Area.
Blues should pay their respects to this Blues great and thank him for all he's done for our mighty club.
Sign this petition and spread the word about it on Facebook and Twitter and tell your friends and family that are Bluenoses to sign it aswell.
Get Tickets for the Big Club Brugge Match!!!by A Yahoo! User Oct 25, 2011 09:05 Flag
Get tickets for one of the biggest matches in Blues History. We've won the 1st leg but cn we win the 2nd leg at St Andrews on November 3rd 2011?
Find out and cheer on the Boys In Royal Blue.
Keep Right On!
Tickets On Sale for Leeds and Brighton Match!by A Yahoo! User Oct 24, 2011 22:10 Flag
You can get tickets for the Leeds United match on Wendsday 26th October 2011 to get behind the Blues.
Get tickets for the Brighton and Hove Albion match on Saturday 29th October 2011 and get behind Blues.
Justice for the 96 Petition! Please Sign!by A Yahoo! User Oct 17, 2011 18:55 Flag
Sign the petition to make the government and police confess to their lies andtheir lack of control.
Justice for the 96 Petition! Please Sign!by A Yahoo! User Oct 17, 2011 18:54 Flag
Sign the petition to make the government and police confess to their lies andtheir lack of control.
Justice for the 96 Petition! Please Sign!by A Yahoo! User Oct 17, 2011 18:51 Flag
Sign the petition to make the government and police confess to their lies andtheir lack of control.
Justice for the 96 Petition! Please Sign!by A Yahoo! User Oct 17, 2011 18:49 Flag
Sign the petition to make the government and police confess to their lies andtheir lack of control.
- A Yahoo! User Oct 15, 2011 16:23 Flag
Make sure you belt out 'One Harry Mosely' during that minute silence.
Great kid. Real shame.
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Anti Sectarianism Billby A Yahoo! User Oct 11, 2011 20:34A Yahoo! User Oct 11, 2011 20:35 Flag
This is a link to where you can sign the petition.
- by A Yahoo! User Oct 11, 2011 20:34 Flag
Hello. I'm a Celtic Fan.
Celtic fans are against a New law which says that fans are not allowed to sing songs that some may find offensive or make comments on the Internet that some may find offensive and can get Jailed for 5 years because of it.
You can find more info by reading the Bog by follwoing this link.
If you that this is extreme and fans should be able to sing and talk about what they want to sing and talk about, then sign a petition here and try and overthrow this crazy rule.
- A Yahoo! User Oct 9, 2011 13:24 Flag
R.I.P Harry.
Keep Right On the Moseley family.
A brave, inspirational young man.
- A Yahoo! User Oct 8, 2011 20:02 Flag
I know Nige.
I was a Blues before Villa and now I'm back.
Anyway,please spread the word about this idea aout Poor Harry to other Blues fans and KRO.
- A Yahoo! User Oct 7, 2011 18:39 Flag
I'll take that as a complement Tilton.
Some fans are taking and wearing his bracelet aswell.
- by A Yahoo! User Oct 6, 2011 20:26 Flag
He is a 11 year old boy from Birmingham who has cancer and unfortunately I think nothing can be done about it.
He is a very good,brilliantly brave young lad and he gave away his Make A Wish to another kid who had cancer.
Brilliant kid.
So Blues fans are planning on singing 'One Harry Moseley,theres only one Harry Moseley' during the game and also maybe a minutes silence so I ask all Birmingham City fans going to Leicster City at St Andrews to please pay your tributes to this wonderful boy.
Keep Right On Harry.
Applause in the 23rd minute at Brugge awayby A Yahoo! User Oct 4, 2011 18:48 Flag
To all Brummies who will be there on the 20 October, I would like to ask a favour in showing respect in what's been one of the darkest pages in FC Bruges history.
On the 8 of May 2008 our center forward striker Francois Sterchele lost his life in a tragic carcrash, he was only 26 years old and playing Bruges for only 8 months.
He was one of the biggest Belgian talents at that time, and made it to the Belgian squad as well.
He was the most popular player at that time in Bruges, although he was only there less then one season, he stole all Bruges fans' hearts by being his friendly modest self.
His shirtnumber at that time was 23 and in every game Bruges have played since we show our respect by applauding the 23'th minute.
My question now to all Brummies who will be there in the Stadium, it would be wonderful and a huge sign of respect if you guys participate by clapping in the 23'th minute.
Not every visiting club is aware of that habbit so that's why I want to let you guys know, I do know that fairplay and showing respect is still a big issue to UK footballteams and all credits to that, you're an example for other countries on that point of vieuw.
It rarely happens that the visiting teams participate, but when it happens it's almost a magic moment.
- by A Yahoo! User Sep 25, 2011 20:35 Flag
Birmingham City play Leicster City at St Andrews on October 16th 2011 and you can be there singing your heart out and getting behind the Blues.
Buy tickets for Blues vs Leicster and KRO!
- by A Yahoo! User Sep 22, 2011 17:05 Flag
Get down to St Andrews to support the Blues and sing your heart out for Birmingham City.
Buy tickets for the Barnsley match and KRO!!


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PHOENIX -- Canadian billionaire James Balsillie has proposed having the Phoenix Coyotes begin the season in Arizona, then move to Hamilton, Ontario, as quickly as possible.
Balsillie's attorney, Jeff Kessler, made the suggestion Wednesday after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Redfield T. Baum said it was "reasonably probable" that he could not resolve the many outstanding issues in the messy Coyotes fight by a Sept. 14 deadline set by the Canadian.
The statements came during a hearing on whether the judge should overrule the NHL board of governors' 26-0 vote rejecting Balsillie as a potential owner and clear the way to move the franchise to Hamilton.
"We may have to move during the season," Kessler said.
After the hearing, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said that proposals by Balsillie's company, PSE, to move the team either before or during the coming season "shows a lack of respect for the game."
The NHL vehemently opposes Balsillie's plan to buy the team and wants the judge to rule that the Coyotes will play the coming season in Arizona regardless of the outcome of the bankruptcy case. Such a ruling would kill Balsillie's bid, his attorney said.
The league, which has made its own bid, says moving the team at this late date across the continent to Hamilton would create enormous difficulty for the other teams and players, not to mention everyone involved with the Phoenix franchise. Each day of uncertainty does more damage to the franchise, NHL attorneys said.
"I think the arguments by PSE [the company Balsillie formed to pursue the Coyotes] on moving the club treats rather frivolously the issues that all sports leagues have," Bettman said. "I think it disrespects the game and it disrespects the players and what they have to go through night in and night out to do the great things they do on the ice."
Speaking outside the courthouse after the day-long hearing, Bettman said, "Of all the things that were argued, and they were important, that one strikes a chord that showed a lack of respect for the game."
The first preseason game is Sept. 15. The Coyotes open the regular season Oct. 3 at Los Angeles.
For the first time since Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes took the team into bankruptcy, Balsillie was in the courtroom.
Just when a ruling will come on any of the issues will come is unknown. The judge may well wait until the Sept. 10 auction.
"Whatever he rules, whenever he rules it I'm going to respect his ruling," Balsillie said. "That being said, obviously I still think that our bid is by far the best for creditors, for fans and for the long-term viability of the team. All I wanted from the beginning was a chance for a level playing field, a court-supervised auction where we can participate."
Thomas Salerno, attorney for the debtors headed by Moyes, said the team would lose "$30-$40-$50 million" if it plays the entire season in Glendale, money lost to the team's creditors.
Bettman defended the huge financial commitment the NHL is willing to make and vowed a court fight to the finish.
"There's nothing more important to any sports league than who owns its franchises, where its franchises are located and the application and enforceability of its rules and procedures," he said, "and if you're in this business you've got to do whatever it takes to enforce your rules in that regard."
Kessler told the judge that Balsillie was willing to play a season in Glendale if the NHL would split the anticipated losses, not tie up the case in appeals and act on the request to relocate the franchise to Hamilton.
"It's not a suggestion that has much appeal to us," Bettman said.
Baum succinctly summed up the issue before him regarding Balsillie and his representatives.
"Either they have the ability to force themselves into the league, in a simple sense, or they don't," the judge said. "If they don't, then game over."
He noted that a ruling Balsillie's favor would be unprecedented.
Kessler argued that the NHL rejection of Balsillie was a "thin pretext" conjured up by lawyers when the league's real concern is a potential legal battle with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The contention is largely based on a November 2006 letter from the Maple Leafs' counsel that cites the franchise's position that any relocation of a franchise must be approved by a unanimous vote.
Bettman says he has made it clear to all owners that relocation would be decided by a majority vote.
League attorney Shep Goldfein called the allegations "just made up" and "something from `The Twilight Zone."
The judge put aside for now assertions by Balsillie's attorneys that the NHL had a serious conflict of interest because it was a bidder. The league filed a $140 million offer to buy the team last week when a group headed by Jerry Reinsdorf pulled out.
On Wednesday, the NHL said it had changed its offer and, if it is awarded the team, the league will give any net profit on the resale of the club to the creditors. The initial bid offered 20 percent of the profit. However, the league has said in court documents that a net profit on the sale is unlikely.
Balsillie's attorney, Susan Freeman, said the NHL was considering making a bid at the time of the league vote against the Canadian as an owner. That put the league owners in a position of rejecting a competitive bid.
As if the nearly 900 documents filed in the case weren't enough for him to read, Baum asked for the full transcripts of all depositions in the case. Each of those is 250 to 300 pages long.
Balsillie is offering $212.5 million, contingent on immediately moving the franchise to Hamilton. Under that bid, Moyes would get $104 million of the $300 million he says he loaned the Coyotes.
Another bidder is Ice Edge, a group of investors who say they will pay up to $150 million and would keep the team in Glendale. However, five regular-season games would be played in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Moyes would get next to nothing under the NHL and Ice Edge bids.


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we may well be glowing slightly.
And we'll start with some rocking tunes from 1959! Juke Box Jury opens on TV, Harold MacMillan wins the General Election and travelling from Watford to Rugby got even more exciting with the opening of the first stretch of the M1. And a book was published which my dad had on his shelves and I was never allowed to see-'The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'. Much later, I discovered it was full of the sort of rhymes he would rather I didn't know but which I would quite liked to have known. I wouldn't have recited them in front of granny, honest. There's nothing over 2'20" so choose away...


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My professional opinion: Twitter is useless and dumb. The end.
My professional opinion: What the hell is Twitter? Is it inside my computer, and if so, how to I get rid of it?
I'd use twitter if you could look at the aggregation of twits... "Fourteen twitterers at Joe's Bar. Avoid. Avoid."
who has time for all this shit? There's a new Web 2.0 Activity Treat TM every month it seems.
Twitter?! I barely know 'er!
I've looked at Twitter's site repeatedly and never signed up, because apparently it's only useful if other people you know use Twitter and monitor it constantly to see what you're doing. I don't get how it's more useful than just texting, calling or emailing people. I'm having trouble telling if it's popular by its own usefulness or just the inexplicable hype over it.
Dang - you caught me! I'm a Facebook Status junkie ...
Yeah, twitter scares me. Also my day is really boring. What am I going to say?
Arduous is on the train.
Arduous is at her desk.
Arduous is in the bathroom. Oh wait, now she's back at her desk.
Arduous. Still at her desk.
Arduous is going to bed.
Who wants to read that?
This doesn't surprise me in the least. Blogging, or Twitter for that matter, like all "new media" applications has its uses - up to a point. But, they're activities that require constant active participation on the part of the user in order to be, well, useful, unlike say Google, which requires only occasional viewing by an end-user to be of some measurable benefit to them.
So, a lot of people get caught up in the lastest "you MUST text/IM/blog/MyFace/Twitter/Fanpop/Second Life et al" craze, but after a while simply either find the interfaces and plethora of otherwise useless add-ons too burdensome ("Oooh, look. My seventeentrillionth vampire bite. Yay.") or get annoyed with the email spam generated by these same (primarily) data-mining apps, or simply become bored when the Next Big Thing comes along to replace it, creating the electronic equivalent of Sargasso Seas full of abandoned, forgotten, and presumably eternally cached sites, profiles and whatnot.
It's just that, unlike other fads and flavor-of-the-month crazes, these thing never really end up in any sort of Internet equivalent of a dusty box in the attic, or a landfill, which is where previous incarnations of these kinds of short-lived pop-culture phenomena have traditionally been relegated once their limited life-spans have run their course.
Well, hopefully they'd be interested in the last one, arduous.
What freaks me out is the UW Tower has RFID chips that spy on you in the bathrooms.
Had two blogs up through last year, one a "personal" blog kept, I thought, exclusively for friends and long distance family, the other a semi-"professional" blog I was invited to keep on a site dedicated to nerdy subject matter. Both were under my own actual name.
I ended both after a weird stalker found me and my family on the web and I realized how insane it was to leave traces of myself online of any kind.
I closed down my blogs, took my personal web site offline, scrubbed my posts off various message boards I'd frequented, cancelled my account on that creepy LinkedIn site and so far I've managed to avoid social networking sites and so on for long enough that my name no longer comes up with any hits on Google, even in advanced searches.
COMTE @ #9 sums it up well.
i'm still bitter over my Friendster account.
I was going to write some bitter, pithy comment about how no one reads personal blogs, often no even family and friends, unless you're already important.
But then I realized no one would read the comment.
Twignorance rears its head in the trollish trenches of yet another comment thread.
That rhymes and rules.
...because you can set Twitter to update your Facebook status for you, of course. It would be redundant to do both. =)
Personally, I like it. I have 4 or 5 people on there - a couple friends that I like getting their 1-5 comments a day, and the Rifftrax blog because I like their articles. It could drive you crazy if you put too many people on, but with restraint it's really nice.
I read your comment, K. Your existence has been validated.
i find twitter genuinely useful. i think the wired article "How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense" does a reasonably good job at explaining why. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/15-07/st_thompson
i do find whrrl more useful though (local service where you check in from a location and it tells friends where you are.)
I like Twitter, because it's a repository for the random thoughts that pop into my head that I have to tell someone, but don't want to burden my friends with random texts that they may or may not want to read.
It's different than your Facebook status because you don't have to include your name at the beginning. It's a mini-blog that you can update from your phone.
Must stop posting - feeling Facebook withdrawal bad.
I follow Joe Trippi and Barack Obama on Twitter. Joe gives relevant political insight and news before the major news sources get it.
And like @16 says, you can have your tweets as your Facebook status message, allowing you to not have to log into facebook all the damn time, and you can use it via the web or from your phone. It's like a texting mailing list.
As Warren Ellis put it once, Twitter is a global non-sequiter delivery service. And I find that entertaining, if not always useful.
Oh, and I disagree with Kim @18. I think Whrrl sucks for the same reason COMTE @9 doesn't like a lot of the new Web2.0 services: You have to babysit it. I checked in at Moe Bar once on Whrrl and got notices about happenings there for 10 days afterwards, even though I was only there for an hour or so.
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Legal | Game company SNK Playmore has dropped its charges against manga publisher Square Enix and will allow the manga Hi Score Girl to use its characters without penalty. Last year, SNK filed a criminal complaint against Square Enix, charging that the manga, a comedy about gamers, included more than 100 instances of unauthorized use of SNK Playmore's characters. As a result, serialization of the manga was suspended while police pursued charges against 16 of the people involved in its publication. Today, Square Enix announced that the two companies have reached an agreement: SNK Playmore has dropped its claim, and the two companies will work together with regard to sharing their characters. [Anime News Network]
Graphic novels | Once again, Roz Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? leads the BookScan list of the top-selling graphic novels in bookstores. Volumes one and two of March also did well on the February chart, placing third and fourth, respectively. All four volumes of Saga made the list, along with three volumes of The Walking Dead and, shockingly, just one of Attack on Titan. [ICv2]
Creators | Jeff Lemire began getting calls from Hollywood even before the first issue of his new series Descender, a collaboration with artist Dustin Nguyen, came out. But while they sold the film rights to Sony Pictures, Lemire is determined the comic will come first: "I think one of the biggest things that went into us choosing Sony [was], we made it very clear — and they were very receptive — that we were going to tell the comic book the way we wanted to tell the comic. Meaning, if in the comic we wanted to veer left and they wanted to go right with the movie, we could do that." [Comic Riffs]
Collectible toy company Kotobukiya has revealed a new set of DC Comics mini figures based on Li'l Gotham by Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs.
Measuring less than 2 inches tall, the figures — Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman, The Joker, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy — come in randomly selected two-packs and in six colors. No price is given, but they'll be available in June.
Nguyen's designs for a pint-sized Gotham City are proving to be popular in the collectibles market: Last year DC Collectibles unveiled a line of Lil'l Gotham action figures.
Readers and, especially, retailers may have plenty of reasons to be annoyed by Superman Unchained, the now-complete series available this week in a fancy-schmancy 350-page, slightly oversized hardcover "Deluxe Edition."
DC Comics announced the awkwardly titled series — please note, there are no literal or metaphorical chains either going on or coming off in the story — as an ongoing, promoted with seemingly countless variant covers (more on these later). In theory, it sounded like a can't-miss comic, featuring as it did the work of Scott Snyder, one of (if not the) most popular writers in the direct market and Jim Lee, one of (if not the) most popular artists in the direct market, working on DC's flagship (and second-most popular) character.
In reality, the book turned out to just an nine-issue miniseries, rather important information a retailer would have taken into consideration when ordering. Whether or not it was always intended to be a miniseries, I don't know; it reads as a complete story with a beginning, middle and end, and it fits into the New 52 continuity, but loosely enough that one need not have any idea what's going on in any other book to follow it easily (Snyder really pulled off some great line-straddling here, as this reads equally well as part of the New 52 and as a standalone book for a new or lapsed Superman fan). The plan might have originally been for it to be ongoing, until the reality of a Lee drawing a monthly series set in.
Even at just nine issues, Superman Unchained was plagued with delays that made reading it serially something of a chump's game. It took 15 months to publish those nine issues. That averages out to a bimonthly-ish schedule, but the delays were random and erratic: Issues 4 and 5 shipped in consecutive months, for example, and then there was a two-month delay before Issue 6, and a three-month delay before Issue 7. If there's a more perfect argument for waiting for the trade than Superman Unchained, I've yet to hear it (you even get all 58 covers in this collection, some process stuff and no ads, and at $29.99 it's cheaper than the buying all nine single issues at $3.99).
So, yes, if you're in the business of trying to sell comics to people, you may have some ill will toward this book. And if you tried reading it "monthly," you may also not feel great about it. I can't defend DC's production or marketing of the book, but I would argue in favor of forgiving Superman Unchained. Because the thing is, it's actually a pretty great Superman story.
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Hitting shelves today, Captain Midnight #16 is a special Halloween-themed issue by writer Joshua Williamson, artist Fernando Dagnino and colorist Javier Mena. To mark its release, editor Jim Gibbons provided ROBOT 6 with a glimpse into Dustin Nguyen's cover process, as well as the evolution of some of the interior pages.
September marches on, Wednesday by Wednesday, which means so too does DC Comics' theme month. This year the publisher has suspended publication of its New 52 titles, replaced them with Futures End one-shots, and slapped new and improved (i.e. smaller) lenticular 3D covers on them, each bearing a "#1."
One could certainly question the logic in tying all of the New 52 books, even the extremely popular ones like Batman, to a middling weekly series set in a possible future that will never come to pass and that seems to be a fairly reliable mid-list seller. But this week's crop of one-shots demonstrates that, despite the fact that each book has the words "Futures End" in the title, many of them have somewhere between nothing and very little to do with the actual plot of the event series.
In the previous two installments of our weekly look at these specials, I recapped the basic plot of Futures End. But this time, I see I need not even bother. DC shipped 11 of the books this week, but I only read five — and the only thing those issues shared in common is that they're set five years in the future (not that they had much of anything at all to do with Futures End).
Dustin Nguyen has revealed a T-shirt design that undoubtedly will be a must-buy for fans of the artist and of the classic Wonder Woman: "Wonder Woman: Transform," capturing the character's fast-spinning change from Diana Prince to the Amazing Amazon. See the full image below.
The shirt will be available "soon" from Graphitti Designs.
The big news from DC Collectibles ahead of this weekend's Toy Fair 2014 is, of course, the new collector's line of 6-inch action figures based on Bruce Timm's designs from Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, debuting in November. There are also figures from the direct-to-video animated films Son of Batman and Infinite Crisis, and Superman, Wonder Woman and Zatanna statues, among others.
However, for my money, it's tough to beat the announcement of a line of action figures based on Li'l Gotham, the digital-first series by Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs, beginning with Batman, Robin, The Joker and Harley Quinn. Nguyen has posted his designs for the figures, which are just as adorable as you'd expect.
Political cartoonists | Michael Cavna looks into a report by the Cartoonists Rights Network International that Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan was executed in July. Raslan was arrested last year by Syrian security forces and, together with a group of journalists, artists and other "intellectuals," sentenced to life imprisonment. "Somehow, along the way to prison young 28-year-old Akram Raslan (and possibly others) was peeled off, taken out and executed," the post said. "He is reported to be in a mass grave somewhere near Damascus." However, CRNI's Robert Russell told Cavna they have been unable to confirm the report, which came from a "reliable source" close to Raslan's family. [Comic Riffs]
Conventions | Heidi MacDonald and Calvin Reid file a comprehensive con report on New York Comic Con, including a conversation with ReedPOP Global Vice President Lance Fensterman and a look at the panels and booths. [Publishers Weekly Comics World]
BOOM! Studios and its imprints KaBOOM! and Archaia Entertainment have announced their exclusive comics and prints for New York Comic Con, held Oct. 10-13 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. All of the convention exclusives will be available for sale at the BOOM! booth (#1344), where a number of creators also will be signing.
…I strongly believe you should start out with a great influence, learn from them, mimic them if you have to, its all healthy for the creative learning process. But at some point, once you start getting paid for your work and considered a professional in a certain field, you have to realize that it's sort of lazy to mimic another artist's style for your own profit. It's insulting to the artist you consider a hero or inspiration, and also insulting to yourself as a creative individual in a sense. We ALL have done this, myself guilty, but you have to know where to draw the line for yourself. If clients wanted, say a … Travis [Charest], or Joe Mad, or Adam Hughes, those guys are still alive, they can hire them.
– Dustin Nguyen, on the development of artistic style.
Every artist I've ever talked to about influences — and this includes writers, too — has shared this same story of mimicking someone else's style until developing his or her own. As Nguyen says, the trick is knowing when to get out and be your own thing.
Dustin Nguyen may be best known for his Batman work, but he's more than that. Aside from the astounding breadth he's shown doing great dark stories with Paul Dini on Detective Comics all the way to his kid-sized capers in the digital-first Lil' Gotham, Nguyen has an imagination that stretches far beyond Gotham City… all the way to the Land of Ooo.
In this week's Adventure Time Annual #1 from BOOM! Studios, Nguyen has done a great two-page Adventure Time comic in which Finn and Jake are held back from a party with a strict "no dogs allowed" policy. Written by Bryce Carlson, the strip is Nguyen's first non-DC interior work. Also included in Adventure Time Annual #1 is a story written by Nguyen's longtime collaborator Derek Fridolfs. Here's the two-page story Nguyen drew:
I imagine that Dustin Nguyen's cute, chibi-style drawings of the Batman cast in Batman: Li'l Gotham will weed out the segment of comics readers who truly don't care for that kind of art. For those who like the style, though – or those who, like me, don't have strong feelings one way or the other about it – the first issue of Li'l Gotham kicks off what promises to be a great all-ages series.
There's a scarcity of DC and Marvel comics that are appropriate for kids, so I'm all for whatever new thing those companies want to try. Nguyen's character designs for Li'l Gotham are so adorable though that when I first saw them, I expected a super-sweet tone that I wasn't sure I'd respond to. I want comics that kids can enjoy, but I don't want them to be slight or to change the characters' personalities beyond all recognition. If Li'l Gotham was just going to be Batman's Precious Moments, I wouldn't be able to stay interested. But that's not at all what it is.
Despite his shortened body and enlarged head, Li'l Gotham's Batman is my Batman: overly serious and unswervingly dedicated to fighting crime. But his rogues gallery isn't as homicidal or destructive as the current, canonized versions of those villains, so Batman's able to be a little more relaxed about how he takes them down. They're still lawbreakers, just not especially deadly ones. For example, Nguyen and co-writer Derek Fridolfs are able to get them together at an Italian restaurant for Halloween without murdering each other.
Rather than continue Batman Incorporated following Grant Morrison's announced departure, DC Comics will end the series with July's Issue 13.
The news, revealed in IGN.com's preview of the Batman solicitations, comes as little surprise, as the title was a vehicle for Morrison and artist Chris Burnham to tell the story of Bruce Wayne's global team of heroes the writer began in 2010. The first arc volume ended in December 2011, following DC's New 52 relaunch, with the second volume debuting in May 2012.
Everyone should start contributing to my secret island base and henchman pension fund, because as soon as I take over the world we're getting a Victorian Batman series by Jeremy Bastian, in addition to Cursed Pirate Girl.


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