Moving to blogger!

Well comrades, I’d like to inform you that we’ve moved every post over to our new site, which can be found at:

http://nerdragereport.blogspot.com

Enjoy.

Getting Up: DMZ #23

DMZ’s consistenly been one of my favourite series. I like Vertigo stuff as a whole, but this seems to be a departure from the normal future/fantasy/superhero stuff, which is good every once and awhile. For those who haven’t read, or even heard of the series before, it’s about a Journalist who has been stranded in the DMZ, the island of Manhattan which has been ravaged by a new Civil War. As he’s on the inside, Matty Roth must report on the people and goings-on of the DMZ without getting himself shot in the process.

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Maus is in the House!

Nice to see some awesome comic book writers in the mainstream.  Alan Moore is a tank.  Didn’t see the episode myself, but I probably will, soon.

Batman and the Outsiders: Screw you guys, I’m going home.

So, every once and awhile Batman gets pissed off and decides that the Justice League are too goody-goody to get what he wants done. Superman and the others won’t lie, cheat, steal, or generally bend the rules to achieve what needs to happen, so he leaves in a huff, adds another child into his stable of assassins, and if he’s feeling especially randy, creates a super-team of his own. This my friends, is the premise of The Outsiders.

 

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The Rat Review

I got around to seeing Ratatouille tonight, and I credit my French-Canadian roots for being able to spell the title correctly. While it’s kind of ironic that I’m doing a review on a movie that revolves around food and food criticism, I’ll do it anyway.

Pixar seems to be on a streak for the past decade; they really did another great job on this film.

The Conquest has Come

Finally, after much waiting and speculation, Annihilation: Conquest has started. After the first Annihilation mini was a source of much awesome, it’s good to see that they’re going to keep the trend going. I got to take a look at the first issue, and I wasn’t disappointed. I’m debating whether to go into details of the issue, just because of the sheer amount of jaw-dropping moments encapsulated within. Ah, what the hell. Spoilers after the jump.

Lame Saturday Comics: Round 2

I return again with another installment of Lame Saturday comics. I did some searching online this time, as the quality of the last post kinda blew. Anyways, on to the comics! This week we’ll be looking at Hagar the Horrible, Cathy, and Beetle Bailey. For those wondering when I’ll be tackling the Family Circus juggernaut, next week I’ll be covering the horror that is FC, and the many parodies that accompany it. For now, enjoy the cheese!

Random Review: Who ya gonna call?

For today’s random review, I’ve decided I’ll be writing about one of the 80’s hot properties: the Ghostbusters. For those who don’t know (and really, I couldn’t see why you wouldn’t, if you’re reading this blog) the film Ghostbusters came out in 1984. It was a quirky comedy starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis (hey, those last two rhymed) and Sigourney Weaver. It was a movie about well… ghost busting. Twenty years later in 2004, 88MPH studios produced a 4 issue series called Ghostbusters: Legion. I happened to get ahold of it, and being a fan of the movies and cartoon (the first one, really), I read it with enthusiasm. It’s actually not a bad read.

Rasterbation!

Things you do yourself are always awesome. Thanks to a little program called rasterbator, you too can take a picture, blow it up, and print out for poster-y goodness. My Optimus poster is 4X5 standard printer pages, and assembled with masking tape. Booyakasha.

Instead of wasting a crapload of ink on colour printouts, the program turns it into a lot of black dots, which saves on ink reserves a ton. Damn cartridge prices. Anyways, have a good evening all.

Lame Saturday Comics, Round 1

Well true believers, believe it or not, there are people who don’t read comic books. They get their paneled goodness from a little thing called the newspaper. In my city paper, amid the crappy celebrity gossip columns and vague horoscopes lies the comics page. I hate to rag on artists who do this as their career, but God Damnit, some of these are bad. This is the first in a weekly series of articles I’ll be doing on the just plain awful comics that show up in daily papers. Please forgive the bad scans.

This week: golf ball abuse, and the worst jokes in the world.