MODOK Month: Hooray For Gooba Sings a Love Song

 

 

With two posts in two days about the right honorable George Tarleton, I have unilaterally declared it to be M.O.D.O.K. Month, rolling on through with today’s look (and listen) at Hooray for Gooba and their love song about MODOK.

As long-time ISB readers might supect, HFG are–or rather, is–one of you, and he’s made a great little song that I promise you’ll be humming on the way to work tomorrow. Now if I could just get him on a bill with the GI Joe Killaz…

Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki Preview

 

 

Today at ComicsAlliance, we’ve teamed up with Udon Studios to bring you an exclusive preview of this week’s Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki #1, along with an interview with writer Jim Zubkavich!

I was really excited to get the chance to do this one. As I’ve said before, as bad a rep as a lot of video game comics get (and as deserved as most of that rep is), Udon’s Street Fighter comics are pure fun, especially the last two Legends books, Sakura and Chun-Li, largely because they contained the inimitable Dan Hibiki.

Plus, I finally got to ask the question I’ve been wondering since Street Fighter III: What the hell is up with Ibuki’s pants?

Awesome Hospital: Diagnosis, Page 3

 

 

This is what it’s all about.

March MODOK Madness!

 

 

Today at ComicsAlliance, I’ve thrown the spotlight onto the third-most wonderful time of the year, March MODOK Madness!

I’ve put a few of my favorites up at CA–and obviously you should all go read them and comment about how insightful the captions are–but if you want to skip right to the star of the show, head over to the March MODOK Madness blog and check out what they’ve got, including actual comic pages of the story posted above.

Mug Shots: The Punisher’s Weirdest Villains

 

 

Today at ComicsAlliance, I’m preparing for the bone-crushing finale of Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon’s first arc on PunisherMax with a look at the weirdest Punisher villains ever created!

Yes, from babysitters trained in the art of lucha libre (or as I call them, luchaupairs) on down to Garth Ennis’s human tanks, I’ve once again proved that reading 300 Punisher comics in two weeks is probably my most marketable job skill.

War Rocket Ajax #21: Megashark and Octopus with Grek Pak and Fred Van Lente!

 

 

War Rocket Ajax is back with an all-new two-hour episode, as Euge and I sit down for a two-on-two tag-team interview with Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente! It’s a long one, but believe me, once you hear those guys start talking about their work on Planet Hulk, Wolverine First Class, Incredible Hercules, improv comedy, sound effects, and Bill Mantlo, you’ll be glad we left it all in. And that’s before you get Fred Van Lente’s singing voice.

Also, Euge and I discuss the trials and tribulations of a Costco membership, review Black Dynamite, Wolverine: Weapon X, and Girl Comics, debate which movies should and shouldn’t get remakes, and offer a special salute to this week’s Hater. Plus, we reveal the winner of our Hater Contest, and while we don’t mention it on the show, we also welcome former guest and wunderkind cartoonist Max Huffman on board as our new regular show artist!

Head over to WarRocketAjax.com to listen or download now, or catch the iTunes feed when it updates later tonight!

The Worst of Netflix: Tuesday Never Comes

 

 

I know I say this every week, but for real this time…

I’ve been watching movies for 27 years, and never in my life have I seen one as incomprehensibly terrible as Tuesday Never Comes.

Coming from the same vague, desperate, post-CHiPs, pre-SeaLab 2021 period that also saw him cropping up in Twisted Justice, this week’s cinematic atrocity is ostensibly built around Erik Estrada, who not only has character’s name misspelled in the movie itself, but also has his own name spelled wrong on the DVD cover. In reality, though, it’s a vehicle for writer/director/star Jason Holt, who really wanted to see what would happen if you tried to remake Scarface without any talent, pulling off the rarely-seen Reverse Pacino by casting Estrada as an Italian gangster called Micelli. And just to give you an idea of the kind of movie we’re dealing with here, they don’t just say the title in the film, they say it twice.

And one of those times is in an original song.

The Worst of Netflix on Heavy.com: Good ’til the last drop!