Aren't "Brave" And "Bold" Synonyms, Anyway?

So, like any good nerd, I automatically dismissed the new Batman cartoon (Batman: The Brave & The Bold) out of hand becuase it weren't the show I grow'd up with, and therefore could not hope to be anything but inferior! Hearing Diedrich Bader's (the dumb friend from the Drew Carey Show) voice as Batman on the commercials didn't win me over. No West and/or Conroy - No Peace!

However, having learned that an episode would be featuring the Ted Kord Blue Beetle (voiced by TV's Will Wheaton, no less!) I had to give it a look.

The Beetle episode was pretty good actually (and they gave Ted a far better death than the comics did!) and the show as a whole is lightweight, but entertaining (You know, like comics used to be!) And, frankly, anything that raises Black Manta's Q Rating can't be all bad!

All that being said, I still hate Bader as the Bat, and last night's episode was the first I'd seen with Aquaman (John "Bite My Shiny Metal @$$" DiMaggio)

Sooooo... apparently, they're trying to go with some sort "Brian Blessed In His Crazy Vultan The Hawkman Prime" thing with Aquaman, but it comes across like he should be riding around in the short submarine.

Oh, and of course, there are toys; but as they're clearly designed for children, they suck.

In other news, I still like Swiss Cheese, but I do fancy a bit of Colby Jack now and then.

Blogging!

I Smurf Anything!

More of a Variation on the theme than an updating.

Mary Ellen Moffat... She Broke My Heart!

YES!

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead!
Which old Witch?
The Wicked Witch!

Eee! I'm All 'Ungry-Like!

I Say Yes, You Say No

He Rubbed Nachos On His Face To Simulate Realistic Battle Damange And Everything!

Well... Th' Lord Giveth, An' Th' Lord Taketh Away!

Amen

(If embracing Predaking is wrong, I hope never to be right!)

Whassyoo Gonna Put In Meesa Assimilate?

Original Version

Primus Hates Me!

So I made two New Year's Resolutions this year. The first was to be far more fiscally responsible than I've been in the last year and not spend what I don't have (what with Western Civilization collapsing like the house of cards that it apparently is!) and secondly to finally complete Predaking!

(I was also tempted to try mixing oil with water and teaching cats and dogs to live together, but why push it?)

So, cut to last night, when my resolve finally broke and I snapped up Rampage and Tantrum off of eBay. (And, hey, assuming I buy *nothing* else between now an the end of February, I can still make good on the first resolution!)

But the way I see it, if society *is* about to crumble, I'll be damned if I face it with an incomplete Predaking!

So, anyways, I could breathe a sigh of relief, content in the knowledge that I've finally got the last Transformers my collection needs.

Then today I learned that Weird Al Yankovic is the voice of Wreck Gar in the new cartoon.

And there's a toy.

And it even kind of looks like him.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

There Is No "I" In "Team" But It Is An Anagram Of "Me At!"

And Then The Guy Slipped Away Unnoticed! The End!

It's Back, Baby!

The Cake Is A Lie, Too!

Suck It, Peoria!

So at the start of today's inaugural parade, you may have noticed the above float, representing our new President's adopted home state of Illinois. It's shaped like the state, and only has two cities depicted on it: Chicago and Springfield. Because, of course, the rest of the state is a horrible, barren wasteland, spat upon by God! (And it's pretty clear the float was designed by a Springfieldian, or we wouldn't have made the cut, either!)

I get what the White Sox mascot is doing there, representing Chicago (Obama's a Sox fan? He really is an elitist!) but the hideous mutant Lincoln puzzles me.

We haven't had any problems with one of those since that tanker full of Trioxin wrecked near Oak Ridge Cemetery back in '82!

He's Practically A Humanitarian!

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