Variant Edition: Week of 8/19

This week: Kirkman, McLovin, Dark Knight, Captain America, and Spider-man.

TWISTED TOYFARE THEATRE: STAR TREK

A red shirted crew member of the USS Enterprise travels the galaxy and solves problems with Hostees Fruit Pies!

WWC 2008 - Twisted ToyFare Theatre: Star Trek @ Yahoo! Video

The Stack: Heavy Metal And Ninja Turtles with Kevin Eastman

In this special episode of The Stack Pete talks with his hero Kevin Eastman. Eastman talks about his experiences creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the recent movie, and how it's helped him at Heavy Metal Magazine.

The Spirit #1 (1940)

So there's this Frank Miller movie coming out this year called "The Spirit" that looks very much like the "Sin City" movie. But most people don't know who the Spirit is because he began as a comic strip hero in the newspapers back in the 1940s. I can happily say that the original adventures of the Spirit will be posted here on a weekly basis. Let's start off with the first 7 page story of the Spirit originally printed in newspapers back on June 2nd, 1940. It's titled "The Origin of the Spirit." DC Comics has recently revived the character in a comic book series, but let's see how it all began with the master Will Eisner in control. Enjoy!
The Spirit #1 (1940)

Eagle Eye Movie Trailer

Eagle Eye is due out in theaters in late September. This is what Shia LaBeouf does between Transformers and Indiana Jones movies. Could be interesting. It always helps to be best buds with Steven Spielberg. If Spielberg isn't directing LeBeaouf, he's producing his next movie.

Netflix Customer Service Stinks

Has Netflix gotten too big to care anymore? Everyone has probably heard about the Netflix mailing glitch last week. It took them an extra couple days to ship out dvds in the US last week to customers. But tell me why they started shipping me dvds that they already shipped me earlier that week. They messed up my queue and relisted 3 more dvds in my queue that I already had in my possession. If I hadn't quickly deleted the next 3 choices, they would have sent me more dvds that they had previously mailed me. Thank you Netflix for wasting my time and my picks. Netflix doesn't believe in using e-mail for customer service. They want you to call them if you have any problems. Well that didn't work. When I called their number last weekend, I was given a message to hang up and call another number to pay $5.49 to talk to customer service. What the hell? I've used Netflix's customer service in the past, but leaving a message like that at their number is inexcusable. Netflix is a mostly reliable service, but things like this make me flip over to Blockbuster because I can always contact them through at least e-mail if there is an issue. Netflix will refund customers 15% of their next month's subscription because of the mailing glitch. But why the hell do I want to renew with them anytime soon after this mess? Blockbuster.com has practically the same service and you can even return dvds to the store in exchange for free rentals. I think I'll take my business there until Netflix wakes up. Iron Man will be released on dvd on September 30th. I'll be buying that one and not waiting for any service to ship it to me. Nuff' said.

Marvel Weekly Watcher: August 8, 2008

Alexa Mendez talks about Secret Invasion #5, THE STAND comic book video trailer and sketchbook, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, her comic book picks of the week and more!
The Weekly Watcher: August 8, 2008

The Stack: Cloak & Dagger Return and Topical Issues with Marc Andreyko

In this special episode of The Stack Alex talks with Valerie D'Orazio and Marc Andreyko. First Valerie talks about bringing the cult favorite characters Cloak and Dagger back in their own title. Next, Marc Andreyko talks about his mission to talk about real world issues using Manhunter. Then Marc talks about his new Wildstorm comic book Ferryman.

The Dark Knight

More footage from "The Dark Knight." It's over 9 minutes.

The Spirit Movie Trailer

Looks like Sin City. Feels like Sin City. It's from Frank Miller, but it's "The Spirit." A longer look at the upcoming movie for this December.

Babylon A.D. Movie Trailer

I haven't heard much about this movie coming out in late August, but at least the special effects looks cool. These are probably the best parts of the movie anyway. Maybe Hollywood should consider making movie trailers and then asking people if they should spend anymore money completing a film.

The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins - Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy sings for a 60s music video?! This is too funny. With all the times that the crew of the Enterprise has traveled back in time, you would think that Mr. Spock would purposely destroy any evidence of this song or video existing. Leonard Nimoy sings about Biblo Baggins, the Hobbit in this music video. One of the few song's from Nimoy's short-lived singing career. At least all the women in the video think Nimoy is "groovy." Now imagine if they played this song during the first Lord of the Rings movie.