* Topless Robot’s Rob Bricken, who I like to think is the Topless Robot, notes two momentous releases today. First up is the DVD premiere of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel pilot/movie. I’m obviously going to watch this and am looking forward to doing so, though I may hold off on purchasing it until they release a complete first season DVD set, given how they previously duped me into double-dipping on the original BSG miniseries and Razor and will likely attempt to do so again with The Plan.
* Next up is the RiffTrax for Twilight, the latest film to be mocked by the MST3K crew of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett. The Missus is a major, though self-aware, Twilight fan–I believe the preferred term for such people is “Twatlighter,” to give you some idea of how they view themselves. And she’s also a big big fan of RiffTrax–we listened to the Road House RiffTrax for like the fourth time this weekend and did The Two Towers the weekend before that. So we’ve been looking forward to this from the moment the DVD was announced and we realized a RiffTrax was virtually guaranteed. It should be a hoot.
* Also from Topless Robot, The 12 Coolest Masters of the Universe Action Features. Holy smokes I remember these all so vividly. What’s great about the list is that it doesn’t just stop at “Hey, remember Ram-Man? He was awesome, right?”–it actually unpacks each feature it discusses in terms of how and why it clicked with kids.
* Frank Miller’s The Spirit: the movie so nice Jog reviewed it twice! Also, Mike Sterling liked it, and given Jog’s distaste for the likes of 300, Sin City, and Watchmen, all of which I enjoyed a great deal and to all of which he favorably compares The Spirit even if he can’t quite bring himself to say the latter is actually good, this is very much starting to sound like the sort of thing I’ll like a lot. And every time I catch myself kicking myself for buying the hype and not making a point of seeing this in the theater, I remind myself that I didn’t buy the hype and did make a point of seeing it in the theater, but the projection was so shitty that I left and demanded a refund, and by the time my next chance to see it rolled around the movie had disappeared.
* Tom Spurgeon on superhero-sexism cheesecake kerfuffles:
I can’t get too worked up about it, because these kinds of efforts from these kinds of companies don’t really mean as much as people who have burrowed into that world tend to think.
Brian K. Vaughan had a great line about doing Y: The Last Man because he thought there was a more productive way to address feminism in comics than debating the size of Catwoman’s tits.
* Also via Spurge, the sad life and lovely art of Anne Cleveland.
* Over at the Partyka site, Matt Wiegle is drawing Ghostbusters, while special guest star Joey Weiser is drawing kaiju, and lots of ’em. That’s Mothra (as Snoopy) below–click the link for Godzilla, Ghidorah, Gamera, King Kong and more.
* Jaime Hernandez promo art for Wendy & Lisa? Sure, I’ll eat it.
* Monster Brains highlights models and art from a deleted stop-motion animation sequence in Clive Barker’s Nightbreed. Much more at Revelations. Sigh. What that movie could have been! Still pretty great as-is, though.
* Finally, my friend Matthew Perpetua, The Man Who Murdered the Music Industry, is offering T-shirts for sale to fund Fluxblog and his various other enterprises, and as a veteran T-shirt buyer I can tell you they’re priced to sell. Won’t you please purchase one?
In re: the Spirit –
Once it’s on DVD, you should come over to Chez Brombelolan, and watch it on the projector. We didn’t see it either (for lack of opportunity, not interest). You bring the movie, I’ll get the pizza!
Correction: “notes *three* momentous releases today.” The third being Freakazoid: Season 2.
That fluxblog comic shirt is pretty cute. I need money first. Or a job. Maybe both?