Clint Eastwood is the Hero Gotham deserves

yeah yeah, it's another Super Bowl commercial. Sort of. Someone took the Clint Eastwood Chrysler commercial from the Super Bowl and mashed it up with the new Dark Knight Rises trailer. It's pretty awesome.

The Avengers Super Bowl Trailer

If you're anything like me when the new Avengers commercial aired during the Super Bowl, you couldn't hear it because of all the talking adults and screaming kids. Also if you're anything like me you have awesome hair, congrats.

Here's that Avengers commercial again, for the both of us.

Lollipop Chainsaw just got groovier

Ok, so we're all familiar with Lollipop Chainsaw, correct? Turns out if you pre-order it from, I don't know lets say Gamestop, you get 5 extra outfits. Who cares, right? Well when one of those outfits is inspired by Ash from the Evil dead movies, this guy cares.

Of course this guy cares too much, he cares so much he's actually kind of upset that the developers didn't actually give Lollipop (I assume that's her name) a chainsaw for a hand. Instead she's just holding an ordinary chainsaw. I mean what's the point, right?

Oh well, still looks better than Dead Island.

Lego Captain America

A lot of comic book fans got upset when the new/old Captain America, Bucky Barnes, added a gun to Cap's repitoire. Post WWII Cap had a pretty strict no killing policy, so it was certainly a departure for the character.

Of course Lego Captain America has always used a gun. And a knife... seriously, this video gets pretty gruesome pretty quick.

Hungy Hungry Links

New Hunger Games Trailer. I finished reading the Hunger Games last week, it was ok. I understand why it's popular with teenage girls but it never really clicked with me. It's sort of like Twilight except instead of sparkling the dreamy guy smells like bread.

The 5 most rediculously sexist superhero costumes. Good read, but how one earth can you leave off Bomb Queen? Is it because she's a super-villain or is it because she's super-awesome?

ComicsAlliance critiques the fashions of G.I. Joe. Looking back on it, most GI Joe costumes don't hold up very well. I guess flared pants and cod pieces peaked in the 80s.

It's a good day to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fan. These new TMNT toys look amazing. I can already tell Christmas 2012 is going to be full of hard decisions. I might have to sell some blood to get my hands on the sewer playset. For my son of course.

Chill out R2

Here's an ad for Star Wars The Phantom Menace in 3D. It's awful. I know it's aimed at kids, but it's still so awful. I don't like to throw around the phrase "worst than Hitler" but I'm pretty sure this is indeed worse than Hitler.

Obviously the advertising wizards that put this thing together have never actually met a kid. My kid is 2 and he thought it was condescending. Kids love things that look cool, they don't love some guy with a wacky effected accent telling them JUST HOW ZANY something is. It's freaking Star Wars, it sells itself.

I'll let Rob over at ToplessRobot point out the best part:

When the narrator says, "Hurry up, Qui-Gon, you don't want to be late for the celebration!" As you might recall, QUI-GON IS COMPLETELY DEAD AT THAT POINT IN THE MOVIE AND ALSO THEY SET HIS CORPSE ON FIRE. So he might be a touch tardy, kids.

GI Joe 2 looks good.. there I said it

Lets put it this way, if G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra had never been made you would be pumped and jacked for G.I. Joe: Retaliation.

Snake-Eyes shoots down Storm Shadow's throwing stars with an Uzi. Case closed.

Watchmen babies is a go

In a move that surprised no one other than the gnomes living in Alan Moore's beard, DC announced this morning a new series of Watchmen comics titled Before Watchmen. Here's the rundown on the titles and the writers and artists involved.

RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes
NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner

If you're nerdy like me you'll be pretty impressed with the creators they have lined up to work on this. If you're not, you probably stopped reading this a few minutes ago and just scrolled down to ogle Nicole Scherzinger's cleavage some more.

Of course this whole thing is a terrible idea. Watchmen doesn't need a sequel or a prequel or anything, it's perfect the way it is. DC should spend their time either getting better creative teams on their main books or letting their artists and writers work on more original properties. I get it, the 80s were a great decade for comics, instead of mining the past (crisis's for everyone!) why not try and make the 2010s another great decade for comics?



watchmen babies via kevinbolk