The Escapist stopped being twits and finally released the end of There Will Be Brawl.

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For the like five people out there that haven't seen all the other episodes 80 bajillion times.. [link]

Oh yeah, Happy New Year to those of you that believe in the passage of time.. and a nice er.. day(?) for the the rest of you. Oh, and for those of you who go by the Chinese Calendar, you don't get to celebrate until February 14th this year..

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Hey.. Remember that time the Turtles all got high on opium and started singing Christmas carols with orphan kids in the sewers?

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Or that hit holiday classic known as the Wrap Rap?

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How about that time Splinter forgot to take his medication and started making up new lyrics for the 12 days of Christmas?

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The time Shredder turned the turtles Jamaican...?

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... Oh come on.. Now you're going to tell me you don't remember the time Michelangelo took up Opera in the middle of Times Square, becoming the most ineffective ninja in the history of ever..

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It was all over CNN at the time.. I swear..

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Heroes -



First I would like to say that the first season of Heroes, is some of the best network TV I’ve seen. It promised to be a live action super hero show that wasn’t Smallville and it delivered. I’ll even admit that season two would have been great if the writers' strike hadn’t forced them to resolve everything in 22 episodes. I’m even so generous to say that the first half of season three was pretty good. It wasn’t perfect, the stories didn’t make complete sense. However it did offer Kristen Bell, super people beating the shit out of each other, Kristen Bell, villains that weren’t Sylar, and Kristen Bell. The second half of season three didn’t. It was this jarring rip off of Marvel’s “Civil War,” which is a topic for another time.. because I’m here to talk about the flaming bag of poo that is season four.

In season four we’re treated to sub plots that revolve around.. Clair’s adventures at a sorority..? Noah eating cereal for two thirds of an episode..? Hiro entertaining children in a hospital instead of becoming a long haired kick ass samurai that fights dinosaurs..? Peter’s exploits with a girl whose power is that of Disney’s Fantasia..? Some random dude who they allude is this seasons villain, who apparently has a power set that includes being within walking distance of a carnival no matter where he is, the power to use adobe photo shop with his mind, geokinesis, and.. the ability to make Sylar-Nathan wear incredibly ugly hats...




The only real exciting thing that has been happening this season, is Sylar is apparently inside Matt Parkman’s head. Which resulted in a crazy drinking contest. Remember kids, alcoholic beverages defeat evil!


Stargate Universe -


You know why I liked Stargate SG-1? It was essentially a modernized Star Trek, with mythological undertones, and a “landing party” that consisted of.. A character who resembles a far more intelligent version of myself. A character who has watched Star Wars 9 times, reads tabloids, wears cowboy hats, and could easily snap me in half. The token female character. and.. The guy who played MacGyver.

Stargate Atlantis was essentially a retooling of the show, that changed the characters just enough that they no longer resembled their counterparts (Which fortunately resulted a stronger female character.). With the added awesome factor of them fighting space vampires instead of symbiotes.


Stargate Universe is apparently a show about random actors being told to try and emulate Battlestar Galactica as much as possible, only without any androids trying to kill them. So like.. Nothing really happens. In fact, the second episode of this series involved people exploring a desert planet where nothing happened but a bunch of camera pan outs of sand.



Battlestar Galactica: The Plan -

The new Battlestar Galactica is a series I generally consider to be the “Watchmen” of science fiction programs. “The Plan” however, was about as interesting as watching my cat eat dog food.. Which doesn’t cost me $19.99 to watch.



Imagine a bunch of deleted scenes from Battlestar Galactica being tailored together with reused footage and some added scenes of graphic violence and random nudity. That will give you an idea of how exciting “The Plan” is. I bought this with the hopes of seeing Grace Park or Tricia Helfer nude... but the nudity was a few seconds of random women in a shower scene as well as a bartender? I would say it was interesting that they fleshed out one of the Cylons that got little screen time, but then he committed suicide out of range of a Resurrection Ship... So none of that really mattered. There was also a lovely scene where one of the Number One’s knives a child to death...


V -


The original V was intended to be a commentary on fascism uprising in America. It eventually got shifted to an allegory for Nazi Germany. The new V as so far been a thinly veiled fear mongering commentary on the Obama administration. Which I could tolerate if the pilot wasn’t so boring.. The scenes for the next episode looked exciting, but that’s probably a recipe for disappointment. The fact ABC is only airing the first four episodes and saving the rest of the season for after the Olympics shows a great bode of confidence as well.

I think what bothers me the most, is when the visitor’s don’t have different voices from humans. As well as adding the connotation that the V’s have been running around impersonating humans for years before first contact. They suddenly go from being creepy sexy aliens that eat live guinea pigs..



To being more like the aliens that Reed Richards managed convince were really cows...



Which later became, Skrull-Burgers, which is where I shall end, because all good journals should end with Skrull-Burgers.



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It was requested by (Who by the way, is one of my best friends on here, you should really check out her gallery.) that I post the results of some of my polls.

First, age:

114 deviants said they were under 18

98 deviants said they were 18-25

14 deviants said they were 26-35

1 deviant said they were 36-45

1 deviant said they were 46-55

3 deviants said they were over 55

Next, gender:

136 deviants said they were female

88 deviants said they were male

What does this mean? Well, nothing I didn't already know. My fan base has always consistently conformed to similar statistics. This was just kind of to get a feeling on how right I was.

The next order of business would be that, I am under 500 page views away from the 42,000 mark. If you get a screenshot of the precise moment I hit 42,000, you'll get a free request, with in reason. I have barely any time as it is, so don't expect anything super extravagant.

Which leads into my last subject. I started classes again. I have a pretty rough schedule, so it is unlikely I will be doing much of any fan art that isn't commissioned. I might squeeze something in here or there, but don't hold your breath.

Thanks for your continued support.

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Well, it’s official, the Siegel family will retain rights to Superman as he was when he was first created. [link]

This means that elements of the Superman mythos such as baby Kal-El being rocketed off of Krypton, Lois Lane, and the Clark Kent/Superman love triangle will revert to the Siegel's in the year 2013. They will NOT be gaining rights to things such as Lex Luthor, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, The Daily Planet,  Braniac, Bizarro, Krypto, Supergirl, Kryptonite, or even Superman’s ability to fly...

There is a part of me that thinks, “Great! DC screwed  Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster pretty bad..” Yet the more I think about it, as a fan, I can see many ways this could go all wrong.. Of course the Siegel family could always license Superman over to the Warner Brothers, which is perhaps the best way they could make money. I mean, a Superman who can’t fly and has no kryptonite, or Lex Luthor, is like retaining the rights to the first five words of all The Beatles songs..

I suppose most of you are thinking, so what? I don’t care about Superman. Well.. Any comic you read that was published by DC Comics (Hell, even some of the Vertigo titles), is pretty much no longer going to be printable or canon, period. Batman has such an ingrained history with Superman, that I would say at least half of his stories are going to be retconned out of existence. I don’t even want to think about what that would do to say, The Justice League, or even The Teen Titans..

If you aren’t a fan of DC Comics, this still may apply. Imagine if Ub Iwerks family were to now sue for the rights to Mickey Mouse as he was originally created. Suddenly, Mickey Mouse would no longer be able to talk, be friends with Donald or even Pluto. He would revert to his most basic design and never be seen at Disney World again.

Or, let’s say Jack Kirby’s family sues Marvel for the rights to.. well pretty much all of Marvel’s original character designs. Spider-man, Dare Devil, and Doctor Strange would be pretty much the only characters left in the Marvel Universe.. I suppose they could team up with the Sentry and some of Rob Liefield’s characters.....?

Another thing I find interesting about this whole situation is that there are several Supreme Court cases in that render this case invalid, as the Siegel family, “Sat on their case for too long.” Specifically a case involving the Skippy Peanut Butter company being sued for using the name “Skippy” when a popular comic strip character of that time was trademarked by the owner. [link]

Of coarse.. This all takes place in the year 2013.. The Ancient Mayan’s may have been right. Who knows Superman may have been the only one who could have saved us!

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