Christmas has come and gone and I hope everyone had a merry one, but it’s still not too late for a little Christmas nugget of fun.
Every year AstroBase Go (Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer) produce a Venture Brothers related Christmas MP3. They’re always great and this year’s song is no exception. Visit QuickStopEntertainment.com to hear the Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend sing “Fairytale of New York” and check out the archived links of previous years tunes. The 2006 “Venture Aid” is still the best.
Based on the 1982 television movie, The Kid with the Broken Halo, the 1982 cartoon The Gary Coleman Show followed the adventures of Andy LeBeau. Another oddly entertaining show from Hanna-Barbera, I had not seen it since my childhood until Cartoon Network began airing it one year at around 4:30 a.m.
The menu on this set was a quickie using the image from the closing credits. This is a technique I’ve used on many Hanna-Barbera sets.
Andy – because of constant blunders in angel training – is placed on probation in Heaven and is sent to Earth to solve people’s problems. Episodes centered on his assignments, mistakes he made along the way, and attempts by the villain Hornswoggle to foil Andy’s efforts. Angelica the angel helps Andy work through and correct his mistakes and ultimately foil Hornswoggle.
I thought the first Hellboy movie was ok. The characters were good and the story was acceptable, but it just didn’t have that Hellboy feel to it. It wasn’t mystical or odd enough. Based on the trailer, I think the second film will deliver. I especially like how the trailer starts and doesn’t even show the title character until half-way through.
Very cool little preview for Cloverfield. Go ahead and “Grab This” on the preview to help me out in the contest. Only 43 grabs to get in the top 20 right now.
I previously posted the solicitation for the “ALL-NEW OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE A TO Z VOL. 1 PREMIERE HC” that’s being released in February 2008. Now, thanks to writer Sean McQuaid and his generous comments, I’ve run across all the details I wanted to know about the project.
What is the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A To Z Premiere Hardcover?
This is a series of 12 volumes, each monthly, that will take almost every Official Handbook since the book’s revival in 2004 and collect them into one complete series. The entire run will be re-shuffled into alphabetic format. Each book is 240 pages and the first runs from the beginning up through Blackwing.What is it comprised of?
It will be comprised of the following Handbooks:
-Avengers 2004
-Avengers 2005
-Fantastic Four 2005
-Hulk 2004
-Daredevil 2004
-Spider-Man 2004
-Spider-Man 2005
-Spider-Man: Back in Black 2007
-Wolverine 2004
-X-Men 2004
-X-Men 2005
-Alternate Universes 2005
-Book of the Dead 2004
-Golden Age 2004
-Horror 2005
-Marvel Knights 2005
-Teams 2005
-Women of Marvel 2005
-All-New OHOTMU 2006 #1-12
-All-New OHOTMU Update 2007 #1-4
-Mystic Arcana HB 2007
-WWH Gamma Files 2007
-Mighty Avengers Most Wanted HB 2007
-Marvel Zombies HB 2007
-X-Men Messiah Complex HB 2007It will also take selected entries from X-Men: Age of Apocalypse HB. The only OHOTMUs that will not be included will be the three Ultimate HB’s.
he good part: It will also take New Avengers Most Wanted Files, New X-Men: Academy X, and Annihilation Nova Files (including those found outside the ANF book), as well as the four Marvel Legacy Hbs, converting them all into standard (and current) HB format. Also, several special HB-style entries found in specials will be included.
Why not the other Files books like Monster/Bloodstone Files and Civil War Files?
Because those were written too different from the format.Will the entries be updated?
Yes. Updated, and where needed, expanded. Some are going from 1 page to 3. Others, from 2 to 4. And it won’t just be tacked-on info. Some are receiving full rewrites. If a character has had a name change, it will be reflected. Beak from Exiles, for instance, will be under Blackwing now. This also gives a chance to go back and expand earlier 2004-2005 entries as we didn’t have the space then. More images throughout as well. The Legacy profiles will now be up-to-date.Will there be any all-new profiles?
Yes, in a manner of speaking. Some (but not all) of the entries that dealt with multiple versions of a particular name/alias will be split up into individual entries. Others will be given their own entries out of necessity. For instance, originally there was a profile for Arsenic & Old Lace. It has since been deemed necessary to give both characters their own individual profile. There will be other surprises too. One team who only gets a one-paragraph mention in a similar team’s profile gets its own in Book 2.And Data Corrections?
We will be fixing them.So this is the only Handbook project we’ll see in 2008?
Never say never. We have at least one more planned, mapped out, even have the cover drawn for it. But whether or not it gets released in 2008, or if it has to wait until we’re done with this, we’ll see. The thing about it is, like I mentioned, this isn’t a simple reprint. In many ways, it’s like we’re working on an all-new book every month, and this time, instead of it being 48 or 64 pages long, it’s 240 pages. Every month, for twelve months. I’d venture to say that less than 5% of the entries will be exactly as they were when they were first released.
Excellent. Wish it included the Marvel Atlas and the Ultimate Handbooks, but you can’t have it all and those make the most sense to leave out. It’s great that they’re taking the time to expand and combine entries. As I stated before, February 2008 can’t get here soon enough. Cool.