TroyHickman

Anything by the Upper Crust, one of the BEST BANDS EVER.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20t4gBf_1d4s

Lord Bendover, the Duc D'istortion, Count Basie, and Jackie Kickassis, four men dressed like noblemen whose songs are all about the hardships of being the idle rich. The music and lyrics are tongue in cheek double entendre stuff, and are reminiscent at times of Bon Scott-era AC/DC. I never leave the house without the Crust and their rocque & roll on my iPod.

Ladies and gentlemen, if I may paraphrase Jon Landau's comments about the young Bruce Springsteen, "I have seen SyFy's future, and it is Sharktopus."

If there's no sequel, I will weep like a widder woman.

I think, btw, that we need a Sharktopus drinking game, where you have to down a beer every time Eric Roberts puts on or takes off his sunglasses...

I scripted a Hulk story once (ACTOR Comics Presents benefit book), and I have to say, it was really difficult to do. Because of the Hulk's limited vocabulary and emotional range, it's like trying to put words in the mouth of a very small child. So maybe what you're responding to is the feeling that he's not a fully developed character because, well, because kids aren't fully developed yet. I mean, we might like reading an adventure with the six year old Franklin Richards, but I'm not sure if we'd want to follow it on a monthly basis. It might be why I've always preferred the Hulk in team books like the Defenders, where everything doesn't rest on him. Or maybe he should be mainly the catalyst in his stories, like Steve Gerber's Man-Thing stuff.

Just throwing out a theory.

9pm EST tonight on SyFy.

By all that's holy, be there!

It's because comic books are evil.

Excuse me, I have to go sacrifice a goat...

Hey, a request for all you movie-philes. I need some suggestions (as many as you can give) for a movie to show one of my classes so they can write a review. It needs to meet this criteria:

(1) Nothing more than PG-13, as I've got a mixed demographic of students (so House of 1000 Corpses is out, as is Two Girls and...well, you get the point).

(2) Nothing depressing. It's not my style.

(3) I would prefer something that they may not have seen before (actually not that tough, given that many of them list their favorite movie as something made within the last six months). This one is not essential, though, so feel free to list well-known, popular stuff, too.

(4) It should probably be between 90-110 minutes long to fit the parameters of the class.

Thank you for your assistance. There won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So you've got that going for you, which is nice.

(peers over shoulder)

I didn't know that!

But then, I had my computer for THREE YEARS before I realized you could cut and paste, so...

Phht. This is an easy one.

The Devs.

Every single time I've faceplanted it has been because of them.

Quit plugging my stuff in Lycanus' plug threads. We shameless self-promoters have a code of ethics too, y'know...

Ninja Run is one of my favorite power additions to the game. I find myself using for a huge number of my characters (especially those for whom Superleap or Super-Speed were just a BIT too much). And I really dig the animations.

Thanks again to the folks in charge.

Sorry, but I didn't click the link because I'm too busy preparing to be amazed.

I feel like I have a mouthful of bloody Chiklis!

Lycanus, I say plug away! The worst that can happen is that it will be "disappeared." But I think if we can run threads here that are appropriate to the section (which this is) and which can help our CoH brethren, more power to 'em. And if I can help with the plugging, let me know.

P.S. I have no agent, unfortunately, and probably 90% of the "advertising" I get is what I myself create by being a ubiquitous and probably quite annoying figure on the internet.

I'm glad I don't read a lot of comics these days...

I'm watching Monday Night Raw, and during the commercial, a local ad came on for the con I'm doing Saturday, and they showed my picture and mentioned my name! Unfortunately, they also referred to me as the "creator of Witchblade"...

Rodney Dangerfield, I'm coming to join ya...

I'm not going to complain about any sameness to the wonderful Dexter when I used to watch the Hulk TV show and knew that on EVERY episode "David" Banner would hulk out at exactly 20 minutes and 50 minutes into the show...

I think to some extent your appreciation of the show depends on your politics, so I'm not a fan generally, but I do enjoy the Colbert Report, which I tend to find more wacky and less obnoxious (and I've never heard anyone say in all seriousness "I get all my news from the Colbert Report!").

Regarding the awards, I thought they were OK. A few good humor pieces. I do feel compelled to watch Modern Family when it hits syndication now. And I really need to pick up Dexter Season Four and get caught up (Lea and I wait until the new DVDs come out and watch a whole season in pretty much one sitting, or more accurately one session of lying in bed; we're like a serial killer-loving version of John and Yoko).

In case any of you are in the area, or just have nowhere else to go this weekend, I'll be making a couple of appearances.

First, on Friday, Sept. 3, I'll be part of a round table of comic creators at the Graphic Engagement conference at Purdue University. Here's a link.

And on Saturday, Sept. 4, I'll be guesting at the Lafayette Pop Culture Expo at the Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds (I hope it does well, as it's the first convention in this area for probably fifteen years now).

If you can make it, check 'em out. And for the love of Zod, bring me a Gatorade, as I'll be parched...

Maybe he CAN'T be a villain by virtue of the fact that he's clinically insane.

Hence the phrase "Reaper Madness."

I thought the original post was going to say "Baba Booey."