December 2010
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dmpodcast:
D:M:43 - The Truth is Out There.
Our...
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TCP Reviews: Batman Inc. #2.
Today’s review comes from @JonesyLovesBeer. You can also find him on his poorly updated website: jonesylovesbeer.com.
I really like the idea of Batman Inc. In fact, I’ll quote the MackleHenley: ‘Grant Morrison is a genius.’ He might be one of the greatest writers to mold the character since Miller or Loeb, and is surely the most daring when it comes to be doing...
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TCP Reviews: Batman Inc. #2.
Today’s review comes from @JonesyLovesBeer. You can also find him on his poorly updated website: jonesylovesbeer.com.
I really like the idea of Batman Inc. In fact, I’ll quote the MackleHenley: ‘Grant Morrison is a genius.’ He might be one of the greatest writers to mold the character since Miller or Loeb, and is surely the most daring when it comes to be doing...
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Skype iOS App Adds Video Calling Over WiFi/3G. →
Kind of a big deal.
My mom has a first gen iPhone and a Windows laptop. She just became a grandmother. Seems like a huge win to me.
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TCP Reviews: Black Panther: The Man Without Fear...
Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #513 by David Liss & Francesco Francavilla An @farringtonsays review.
Fresh off the events of Shadowland and Doomwar, Matt Murdock and T’Challa (Daredevil and Black Panther respectively) find themselves at a crossroads. Both are mired in loss and regrets and looking for direction after there recent events. While Murdock is recuperating from his ...
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$4 Digital Comics & Your Face.
So, this happened yesterday.
Marvel is going Day-And-Date digital with The Death Of Spider-Man. It’s a storyline running across Ultimate Spider-Man and also a new limited written by Mark Millar. They’ll be joining the other Ultimate Comics digital releases with Thor and Captain America. Great news, right?
Not really; the books will be $4 each.
Yep, the digital books will cost...
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TCP Reviews: Ultimate Doom #1
With the indefinate downtime for the The Comics Podcast, we’ll be have some reviews in printed form on the site. Today’s review comes from @JonesyLovesBeer. You can also find him on his poorly updated website: jonesylovesbeer.com.
Wow, I am out of touch with the Ultimate Marvel Universe (or 610 if you’re using that Marvel Numbering System). Apparently Reed Richards is evil,...
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“Apple knows how to sell. Google knows how to give away.”
– Craig Hockenberry.
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“The way I’ve always seen it, comics are such a direct form of communication —...”
– Joe Casey (via Robot 6)
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Microsoft Kinect And Your Face.
“We should get a Kinect.”
“OK, we can make it our Christmas present to each other.”
“Well, hey. There’s a GameStop..”
And that’s pretty much how the whole purchase went down. I came into possession of a super cool gift card and we walked right by a shop that sells Kinects. It was kismet. Or was it serendipitous? I can never tell.
Anywho, the...
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Microsoft Kinect And Your Face.
“We should get a Kinect.”
“OK, we can make it our Christmas present to each other.”
“Well, hey. There’s a GameStop..”
And that’s pretty much how the whole purchase went down. I came into possession of a super cool gift card and we walked right by a shop that sells Kinects. It was kismet. Or was it serendipitous? I can never tell.
Anywho, the...
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AT&T Buys FLO TV Spectrum. →
Located in the lower 700MHz range, this bit of wireless space is said to cover more than 300 million people nationwide and AT&T expects it to play an important role in its future 4G network rollout and development.
I knew FLO TV would be good for something.
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TCP.21 from 12.19.10 ( Download | iTunes | Books...
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“There is a possibility that user data stored at Ain’t It Cool has been...”
– Question: Was any of my data compromised?
Ooof.
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“There is a possibility that user data stored at Ain’t It Cool has been...”
– Question: Was any of my data compromised?
Ooof.
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If Marty Ran The Universe...The DC Universe. →
My new best frenemy, Kenneth and I were discussing the various strengths and weaknesses of the Big Two comic companies. Particularly, how was it that our shared favorite, DC, has managed to increasingly mishandle the greatest, most recognizable icons of all time over the past decade?
And by icons I don’t mean Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman, all of which have had great stories told about...
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If Marty Ran The Universe...The DC Universe. →
My new best frenemy, Kenneth and I were discussing the various strengths and weaknesses of the Big Two comic companies. Particularly, how was it that our shared favorite, DC, has managed to increasingly mishandle the greatest, most recognizable icons of all time over the past decade?
And by icons I don’t mean Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman, all of which have had great stories told about...
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Download | iTunes | Site
New Month! New...
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http://boycott-thor.com →
It well known that Marvel is a company that advocates for left-wing ideologies and causes. Marvel front man Stan “Lee” Lieber boasts of being a major financier of left-wing political candidates. Marvel has viciously attacked the TEA Party movement, conservatives, and European heritage. Now they have taken it one further, casting a black man as a Norse deity in their new movie Thor....
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Why Gail Simone Might Be Upset. →
Former DC President Paul Levitz:
I’m not sure that young women are as interested in reading about superheroes. The fundamental dynamic of the superhero story has historically been more appealing to boys than to girls. There are any number of very successful superhero comics over the years that have had a better gender balance than others, but the genre as a whole has been a more male genre.
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APE IN A CAPE: Girls Do TOO Read Comics, Goddammit →
gailsimone:
There’s a huge wasteland of people who choose to be either uninformed or in denial. It’s time to wake them up. Make your voice heard. Comment. Write letters. Say what you support and what you don’t. Blog, tweet, tumblr, it all fights the tide. It’s not just for us. It’s not just for you. It’s for the next generation of little girls who might very much like to see Batgirl kicking...
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The Comics Podcast | Sunday →
Nerds, assemble! The next episode of The Comics Podcast will feature the return of our only female co-host, @marysaile. Stunning as it may be, she has chosen a non-zombie book for us to read. We’ll be reading the classic The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke.
Snap, we’ll be recording this Sunday most likely around 4ish. Tune in and stuff.
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Mac App Store Launching January 6th. →
“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”
Steve’s usage of the word “PC” really hammers home, I think, the type of user this Mac App Store is really for....
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ComiXology Releases Android Beta →
New York, NY – Due to overwhelming demand, the holidays have come early for millions of comic book fans everywhere with the release of the Comics by comiXology Android™ app (beta) powered by comiXology, the leading digital comics platform provider for all iOS devices, the Web and now Android.
Snap. Interestingly, I don’t see Marvel mentioned in the press release regarding the beta app.
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Proxlet = Twitter Timeline Sanity →
If you use Google Chrome, Proxlet will let you hide FourSquare, GetGlue, Formspring, Raptr, and just about any other app you can think of from your Timeline. You can also hide users for short periods of time if they’re live-tweeting something. Sweet, sweet victory.
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“Google Buzz 1.0 is better than Facebook after six or seven years.”
– Jason Calacanis on Google Buzz from February.
Always worth a chuckle.
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Jason Calacanis : What I Learned From Zuckerberg's... →
minusmanhattan:
For someone who purportedly knows a lot about tech, Calacanis really doesn’t know what he’s talking about here.
Wait, you mean Jason, “Facebook is going to see their traffic get cut in half by Google Buzz”, Calacanis? Never trust anyone that follows 40K people on Twitter.
Joshua Kors buys iMac, writes article, sets off... →
nikf:
Excellent piece by Craig Grannell about Joshua Kors, a Huffington Post “Investigative Reporter” who decided to return his iMac. Pure linkbait on the Huffington Posts’ part.
And we all fell for it.
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“It will take the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark four...”
– Robot 6.
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“Prediction: ChromeOS will be killed next year (or “merged” with Android).”
– Gmail creator, Paul Buchheit on Chrome OS. (via TechCrunch)
..he said from FriendFeed. Still, I agree.
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TweetDeck's Chrome Web App And Your Face.
I generally despise the overall busy look and feel of Tweetdeck, but I decided to give it their web app a go since Chrome is my main browser.
The few web apps I tried when the store was first launched had their URL be something static, like npr.org/webapp. They seem to be just HTML/Flash versions of their iPad counterpart. But with TweetDeck it even seems exclusive to Chrome itself. There is no...
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Ultimate Mortal Kombat On iPhone? →
As a huge fan of the 2D Mortal Kombat games, I would be immediately skeptical of controlling such a game with a touch screen, but the video shows a virtual stick and button setup that seems to perform pretty well, and the game is running at a decent speed
Those on-screen controls make me want to punch my own face.
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Comics Of The Weak: Batman Odyssey →
If there’s any comic that can get away with mis-cutting the pages in such a fashion that four of them have the word balloons sliced neatly in half, thus resulting in a loss of text, it’s this one. Sure, you’ll miss some of the “jokes” as well as portions of the “plot”, but truthfully speaking, the pleasures of Batman Odyssey aren’t tangled up in...
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“I already have a better implementation than the Google TV + Apps, it’s using an...”
– A Bit Eclectic: Google TV Is A Turd.
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100 People I Hate on Facebook →
Facebook is made up of those dinner party guests who just won’t leave even though it’s late and everyone else left two hours ago. After a while, everything anyone does on Facebook becomes irritating.
With that in mind, here are a hundred people I hate on Facebook (edited down from my original list of 500 million).
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Ridiculous Polish Movie Posters For American... →
The Alien poster disturbs me. (via Ben Markowitz)
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Kevin Smith On Comic Book Reviewers. →
The two people that review comics online anymore shit all over it – “Oh, this is terrible! This is ridiculous!” So when we were done with the three issues, I was like, “Jesus, man. Thank God we liked it, because nobody else did!” But then when we released it in hardcover, it was a New York Times Bestseller for like three weeks straight. It dropped off and then came back...
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Kevin Smith On The Batman Bladder Scene. →
So when some people went apeshit – and literally, it’s just some people, like two websites who are buddies. So when those dudes started picking on me, going, “He made Batman wet his pants! How dare he?!?!” I was just like, “Even a fireman – a fireman who is a trained professional with explosives and works in the hottest flames and all kind of heat – told me,...
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Kevin Smith On The Batman Bladder Scene. →
So when some people went apeshit – and literally, it’s just some people, like two websites who are buddies. So when those dudes started picking on me, going, “He made Batman wet his pants! How dare he?!?!” I was just like, “Even a fireman – a fireman who is a trained professional with explosives and works in the hottest flames and all kind of heat – told me,...