Please Marvel, Not NOW!

5 reasons Marvel NOW! is a terrible idea.

Reason number 6. It's made me not want to collect comics anymore. If you haven't heard already, Marvel NOW! is some ponzi scheme of Marvel's to attract new readers by doing a soft reboot of some of their core titles.

I'm old and I'm poor and I just can't afford to pick up 20-25 comics a month anymore. Marvel has all these events every year and too many of their story lines are tied together with other books. You can't just pick up a comic and read it anymore, you have to get like 5 other titles just to know what's happening. This new launch is also supposed to tie in with their digital line, which I didn't even know was a real thing. I just can't do it anymore. Next trip to the shop I'm going to cut my list to 5-7 books and wash my hands of all this nonsense. I'll still pick up a couple books I really enjoy like Scalped and Batman and Amazing Spider-Man, but I'm done with the multiple Avengers titles and X-Men teams A-F.

Of course It's not all bad news, I have about 4,000 comics sitting in a closet that would really like to be read a second time.

The Jack Reacher Conundrum

The Trailer for Jack Reacher hit the web a couple days ago and it presents us all with a bit of a dilemma. Can we overlook how Tom Cruise Crazy Tom Cruise has become enough to enjoy the first movie directed by Christopher McQuarrie since The Way of the Gun?

How did this even happen? How much cocaine had to go around the room before they decided that Tom Cruise's next movie should be written and directed by the guy that wrote the epic line "Shut that cunts mouth or I'll come over there and fuckstart her head"?

I'm guessing a lot. A lot of cocaine.

AKA the six million dollar honky

Not much happened in the nerd world yesterday so here's the latest Zac Brown Band video. Sure country music and nerdery rarely go hand in hand, but it's not everyday that Mike Judge directs an animated country music video. Enjoy.

4th of the Links

50 patriotic women in stars and stripes. Two things here. First off, hooray America. I'm spending the 4th with my wife and kid just chillaxin. Vacationing with the whole family was oddly stressful and I think we just need a day off. Second, what happened to Britney Spears? Seriously, what happened?

Halo 4’s Multiplayer Requires At Least 8 GBs of Space. 8 gigs? Looks like I'm going to need a bigger hard drive. I installed the latest Battlefield 3 patch last night and I'm down to my last free gig. Seriously, at what point does it stop being a patch?

Star Wars Figures Recreate Famous Photos. These are great. If i didn't have a real job or a family or whatever I could see myself just sitting around the house playing with action figures like this.... that sounded weirder than it did in my head.

A Brief History of the Batmobile. About 15 years ago I knew this guy that went to my church that drove an old black ford Galaxie 500 he called the Batmobile. He had a vanity Batman plate and would play the old 60s TV theme while cruising around. What a nerd..

There's a Starship Troopers Cartoon?

Have I already posted something about the Starship Troopers Cartoon? Well here it is in all it's CGI glory. I don't know, I mean I'm ready to worship at the shrine of all things Starship Troopers this just feels like a reach to me. Just make Starship Troopers 4 a straight to Cable movie on Syfy and be done with it. Johnny Rico can fight a shark with 8 legs or something.

Trader Joe's gets the 4th of July

Artist and uber-nerd Jesse Draper put together this amazing 4th of July display at the Trader Joe’s in San Rafael, CA. It's really impressive, although I think there was room for a Stalin or King George as Loki or Kang.

via unicornucopia

Return of the Mack Links

Anime Expo 2012 Cosplay Pics. As you might expect an event called Anime Expo had a lot of really good cosplay. I'm thinking of putting on my Han Solo costume when I go to see Spider-Man this weekend... Or maybe for casual Friday at work, who says you can only cosplay at conventions.

Marvel Studios Targets "Guardians Of The Galaxy" Movie. They had better be talking about the current Guardians of the Galaxy and not the boring team from the 70s and 80s. Rocket Racoon FTW!

11 Imagination-Jarring Tips From Creative Geniuses. I'm not sure I'm ready to sit in a pool and almost drown just to kick my artists block, but I think I can give the not sleeping thing a try. I just downloaded the update for Battlefield 3 and probably won't be sleeping anyway.

There Were Three Amazing Snake Plissken Projects That Were Canceled. Why on earth is there no Escape from New York video game? I can forgive Hollywood for passing on a Snake Plissken TV show, but a video game? That's just a license to print money.

Looper does whatever a Looper can

I'm back baby, I'm back!

It was tough but I survived 10 days of beach, family and sunshine in Carmel CA. I didn't see any reality TV stars but I did see a guy in a Ferrari 250GT and a dog in a funny sweater.

Here's a trailer for new Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis movie Looper. In in JGL plays a hit man hired to kill himself. I'm a sucker for a good time travel movie and I might have a bit of a man crush on Levitt, so I'm really looking forward to this one.