How Prince Will and Kate Middleton Met

Rarely do people in London ever seem to gather for something nice, so it made a nice change for all the people to get together to celebrate Prince Will's and Kate Middleton's big day.

Congrats to the pair of them, I say.

From Comics Alliance,

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/28/prince-william-kate-middleton-wedding-comic/

Casstoons: the History of Cass - Part 3

CT: the History of Cass - pt 3 by ~EspanolBot on deviantART

Immortals Trailer

In the wake of 300 and the recent Clash of the Titans movie, here is the Mickey Rourke pic 'Immortals', the plot of which, according to the Wikiped, is:

"Years after the Titanomachy, the Titan Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) declares war on humanity. He searches for the Epirus Bow, a legendary weapon created by the war god Ares, which will allow him to free the rest of the Titans from Tartarus and take revenge on the Olympians who brought about their downfall. In accordance with ancient laws, the gods are unable to take a side in the war between Hyperion and humanity. It is left to a peasant named Theseus (Henry Cavill), chosen by Zeus (Luke Evans) and accompanied by the priestess Phaedra (Freida Pinto) and a slave (Stephen Dorff), to protect his homeland and save the gods."

Wait, I thought that Theseus was a prince of Athens or something? Eh. Not the first time a movie based on Greek myths has gotten the content wrong, and I doubt that it'll be the last.

Psychopathic Stage Production 'Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark' inspires Law & Order episode

Yup, the show that hungers for the flesh of those who perform in it has gone on to inspire an episode of the long running crime show, much like that case where Michael Jackson dangled his kid over a balcony, or that girl who was made to strip in a MacDonalds because a man on the phone told her too.

From Comics Alliance,
"In what is thought to be the final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Detectives Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) will investigate the suspicious death of someone associated with a Broadway musical called "Icarus" that is obviously based on the Spider-Man production. TV Line reports that ejected Turn Off the Dark director Julie Taymor's fictional counterpart is depicted as flamboyant, "high-strung" and a "born-again drunk," and that Bono -- who with his U2 bandmate The Edge composed the music for the Spidey show -- will be reflected as "Arno," who's described as "a secretly bisexual rock-star composer who's cheating on the missus with a colleague."

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/25/spider-man-musical-law-and-order-criminal-intent/#ixzz1KeqQ5Iw2"

Sithgirl Returns!

And the adorable girl who sided immediately with Vader in that stage show returns!

John Constantine to return to the DCU!

It has been reported that chainsmoking, Liverpudlian magician John Constatine will be returning to the regular DCU after a twenty or so year absence from the superheroy side of things.

This is mostly likely to do with fellow DC/Vertigo character Swamp Thing making a return in a major role in the series Brightest Day, as the pair have had a long history in the comics together. John debuted in Swamp Thing's comic back in the Alan Moore years, for instance.

http://io9.com/#!5795151/chain+smoking-mage-john-constantine-to-return-to-the-official-dc-universe

Casstoons: the History of Cass - Part 2

CT: the History of Cass - pt 2 by ~EspanolBot on deviantART

Batman: Year One Movie News, plus JL: Doom!

It appears that the next comic being adapted into the DC Universe line of movies will be an version of Frank Miller's classic 'Batman: Year One'. A comic that established a lot of the current tone of the character, as well as starting as a basis for the Christopher Nolan movies. It was written before Frank descended into self-parody though, so you don't have to worry about that.

The movie will feature Ben McKenzie is Bruce Wayne/Batman, Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston as Captain James Gordon, Katee Sackhoff is Detective Sarah Essen (Gordon's love interest) and Eliza Dushku as Selina Kyle/Catwoman.

Looks like it could be neat, and who am I to say no to more Batman and Catwoman cartoons?
http://uk.io9.com/5794134/bryan-cranston-and-eliza-dushku-join-batman-year-one-as-gordon-and-catwoman

The next DC Universe movie, to be released some time in Spring 2012, will be 'Justice League: Doom', which will be based loosely upon the JLA storyline 'Tower of Babel'. That storyline involved the supervillain Ra's al Ghul stealing Batman's plans for taking down the rest of the JLA in the event that they go rogue due to being brainwashed, mindcontrolled, impersonated by White Martians etc.

A lot of people seemed to think, both the comics and in real life, that Batman was a dick for coming up with plans to "neutralise" his superfriends in horrifically painful but unlethal ways. But considering they had a storyline later in the DCU where Superman was mindcontrolled into nearly killing Batman and Wonder Woman... yeah, suddenly not so dumb.
http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=1001

Want You Gone - Jonathan Coulton's end theme to Portal 2

Does it measure up to Still Alive? Well, I'll let you decide for yourselves, enjoy!


And as an extra, the end song for the co-op mode Robots WTF!

George Takei starts campaign against the whitewashed Akira movie

The Star Trek star has been making some comments on his Twitter account and in an interview with 'the Advocate' about the decision by Warner Bros to only cast caucasian characters in its adaption of the mega popular anime and manga, 'Akira'.

Really, at this point, is it even worth pointing out that their decision to cast white actors in Asian roles comes across as ever so more than slightly racist? They tried to get around that in the 'Last Airbender' movie by saying that since it's in a fantasy universe the characters didn't have a set race, but that didn't fly then and it doesn't fly now.

They seem to have co-opted pieces of 80s and 90s cyberpunk imagery into the movie that... COULD work, I guess. There was a heavy feature at the time was the impresson that Japanese corperate culture was going to spread to the rest of the world, leading to a heavy use of Asian marketing and signage in the background and backstory. This can be seen in 'Bladerunner', 'Neuromancer', 'Robocop', heck, even 'Batman Beyond', which itself was both largely influenced by the original'Akira' movie, BB's Jokerz gang was a reference to the clown motorcycle gang from the movie for example, as well as having some of the same production staff.

The idea that they originally seemed to be pedelling for the American 'Akira' movie was that after some future financial collapse, somehow New York was bought by the Japanese government. ...Not entirely sure how that'd work, but we'll let that slide. This would go towards explaining the reuse of Japanese imagery and names from the original comics/movie, AND would justify having a large cast of Asian American, if not Japanese American actors involved in the project.

But nope, they have a couple of white guys in the role of two 15 year old motorbike gang members called Kaneda and Tetuso... Whoops, I mean, two two guys playing two 30 year old white guys, one of whom is a doctor called Kaneda for some reason, and the other is a drug addict called Travis.

Eck, I mean come on. It's 2011 guys! Seeing Asian folk in tv shows and movies isn't exactly a novelty or scary experience like it might have been in the past! I feel like a bit of a prat for having to pointing out the obvious, but they're people just like everyone else, just give then leading roles instead of defaulting to white folk, jeez.

But hey, maybe Warner Bros are right. Maybe Film audiences are actually racist? I mean, 'the Prince and the Frog' didn't do that well for Disney, did it? Despite it being a well put together movie with an African American lead it didn't really do that great financially did it?

But that logic doesn't work either, as 'the Last Airbender', a project that the Indian American M. Night Shyamalan agree to because, according to an interview in one of the DVD extras for the cartoon show, his daughter was also a fan because Katara "looked like her" (tough break kid, Katara now looks like every other fantasy heroine now!), bombed in a spectacular fashion.

Blech, this is dumb. Humanity is dumb. I am irritated. Here is an overly cynical view of the Akira movie done some time back by talented internet animator, Harry Partridge,

http://uk.io9.com/5794934/george-takei-to-warner-bros-dont-whitewash-akira