Points of Interest – 12/30/07
InFormers: Robots in the News
- Video: A video review of Animated Cybertron Mode Optimus Prime has been posted on YouTube, courtesy of someone from TFW2005 who got a packaging sample of the toy.
- Review: And BWTF.com brings us another, more standard review as well, this time of Movie toy Camshaft, an Autobot redeco of the Decepticon Swindle toy.
Assorted Mushrooms
- Video: Apparently, South Park‘s Mrs. Garrison has an interesting, NSFW view on how the theory of evolution works.
- Video: A neat video here of a chemical plant explosion. Nothing TOO horrible, it seems, but it did make quite a mess and shake some people up.
- Pic: For those who want their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures to be 100% true to the original comics– none of this “color” crap, red or otherwise– NECA is putting together this little beaut for you.
- Video: Here we have Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (as introduced by Johnny Carson) doing an old comedy routine.
- Linkage: I was disappointed when I saw that the LiveJournal community “Improved Archie” disappeared, along with its founder, Mighty Godking, who has created some awesome Marvel comics parodies in the past. Fortunately, amidst all this “One More Day” hub-bub, someone posted a link to his new site/blog, which I’ll be keeping an eye on now.
- Interview: Speaking of “One More Day,” Comic Book Resources has managed a spoiler-ridden five-part interview with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada about the whole thing, the first part of which you’ll find here.
Response to this hasn’t been especially cheery, either.
- Reviews: I don’t usually look at or even think about comic book reviews, except maybe if it’s a graphic novel or something, rather than an individual issue. But when I saw IGN’s sole feature update yesterday as being comic book reviews, and with the latest in Spider-man, well, I simply could not resist.
Hell, I’ll even throw in IGN’s own excerpt from the review:
“My Christmas is ruined, and I blame it all on the team behind One More Day. I’ve had more than a few comics make me angry over the years. Until recently, Countdown to Final Crisis did it on a near-weekly basis. However, I never actually ripped a comic to pieces out of sheer frustration until I read Amazing Spider-Man #545 today. This comic is infuriating and downright disrespectful to anyone who has come to love Spider-Man comics over the years. It’s undoubtedly the worst comic Marvel published in 2007. The funny thing is, though, it’s not actually that badly crafted.” – Jesse
- Video: Action 9 News brings the latest regarding Loading.Ready.Run’s opposition to the WGA strike.
Video Power
- Blogging: The Mumbling Kitsune talks a little about her feelings on these new Castlevania movies that are in the pipeline.
- Review: Figures.com has a new review available for the first wave of Castlevania figures by NECA.
And I’ll be frank: I could give a damn about the Succubus, removable top or not. I’d have much rather seen Maria or Charlotte, among others, make it into the first wave. But the rest look excellent, though I wish Simon’s flail held the length used in the games.
- Video: Just in case I hadn’t mentioned it before, a word of advice: Don’t piss off Sonic the Hedgehog.
You might not be lucky enough to have Eggman there to save your ass.
- Article: Press the Buttons has found a neat piece which discusses the relation between Donkey Kong and Cranky Kong.
Myself, I’m of the camp that thinks that the DK we use today is the same DK we used back in DK Jr.
And speaking of the necktie, I’d love one like that, except with the “K” replaced with the star-centered “O” from the Donkey Kong logo.
- Article: Racketboy’s Retro Gaming finishes out the year strong with the best retro games of 2007.
I myself can personally vouch for Contra 4 and Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles. What little I’ve played of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass was fun, and I still want to try out Metal Slug on the Wii and Pac-Man Championship Edition.
- eBay Merch: Show someone you care by giving them a plasma grenade, direct from Halo.
- Pic: Now here is a loving artistic tribute to video game controllers from the past.
- Analysis: Wow, I think the cost of game production is getting just a little bit out of control.
- Article: Next Generation has a look into why the video game industry has “fallen in love with the Wii.”
- Articles: GameDaily brings in a pair of Top lists: the 10 best new Smash Bros. features, and the biggest f-ups of 2007.
- Article: Games Radar looks at what they believe are 50 ways fandom hits rock bottom.
14, 18, 22? (need to count), almost 25, 33, 34 (well, once upon a time… who didn’t when the SNES came out?), and 42, those are me.
- Comics: I regret not posting this sooner, but N-Europe has a rather amusing sprite comic starring Wario and the Nintendo crew for Christmas.
- Pic: Apparently, Energizer recommends using their rechargable batteries in your Wii remote.
I forget just what we got ours for (that very kind, I believe), but the damn thing didn’t work well at all.
- Article: CVG takes a look at their best and worst in box art for 2007.
- Video: Go Nintnedo has brought back their Saturday morning cartoon posts, starting with Earthworm Jim.
- Pics: A custom Clerks Wii, made for Kevin Smith? Pretty damn slick. The Wii remotes look good in black, but do the lights still work?
So long as RMC is asking, I wonder what a PMO Wii would look like…
- Article: Here, we have some of the most overlooked DS games of 2007. I have Hotel Dusk, it’s quite cool; the rest of these, I wouldn’t mind trying, either, especially Custom Robo Arena.
- Blogging: Over at Game|Life, Chris Kohler shares his Christmas gaming experience he had with his family.
- Pics: Kotaku looks back at the many Arcade Flyer Art Saturday entries made over the past year, as well as news of a new format for the coming year.
- Pics: …er, wow. Just what I always wanted.
To shoot at enemies onscreen in Wii games by jerking off a shark. Gee, Pega, how can I ever thank you?
- Video: And to conclude, we’ve got Kotaku’s Worst of Street Fighter, the cartoon.
Really, though, the show wasn’t THAT bad. It certainly had its quirky moments, as seen here, but given what they had to work with at the time overall, they pulled off a decent cartoon for its day.
But seriously, of all the parts seen there, this was the greatest. How can anyone NOT love that?!
–LBD “Nytetrayn”