Art - Jose Holder & Dan McDaid

CBR is doing their annual talent search for artists again this year called Comic Book Idol. You can check out this years entries and see who's winning HERE. Out of the 10 they picked I found 2 guys I really liked, Jose Holder & Dan McDaid.

Jose Holder

Jose Holder has a Barry-Winser Smith + Walt Simionson + Larry Stroman thing going on. You can check out his blog HERE.

Dan McDaid

Dan McDaid is a mix of Bruce Tim & Dwayne Cook. You can check out some of his art HERE.

Toys - DC Direct - SHOWCASE PRESENTS SERIES 1

DC Direct is putting out a new series of figures based on their Showcase line.

Four DC characters are presented here as they were portrayed by some of their top artists! This inaugural series includes Superman by Curt Swan, Batgirl by Carmine Infantino, Hawkman by Joe Kubert, and Jonah Hex by Tony DeZuniga. Each figure features multiple points of articulation and a base.

JONAH HEX
HAWKMAN
SUPERMAN
BATGIRL

THE BEST PART IS THAT THE SUPERMAN FIGURE INCLUDES ALTERNATE RED KRYPTONITE HEADS.

That red kryptonite is some messed up shit. I mean look at this:

Art - The War In Iraq: A Soldiers Perspective

I came across this animation today thru an email chain at work. It was created by U.S. Army Specialist Colby Buzzell and details the events of a battle in Iraq. It's pretty cool. The art and storytelling is pretty amazing. I watched it with the sound off at 1st and was surprised how good it was visually. I give it a

4 out of 4 Ass Money

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TV - Moonlight

From our friends at TV.com.
Moonlight follows Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin), an immortal vampire and private investigator and his struggle to exist after he was bitten 60 years ago by his vampire bride on their wedding night. It also follows his internal torment as he falls in love with one he should not, one who is mortal named Beth (Sophia Myles), a news reporter, as well as his dealings with the woman who made him a vampire, his sire Coraline (Shannyn Sossamon).

WOW!!! is this bad. I'm mean it's Alias season 3 bad. It's like a 4th grader wrote this crap. It opens with a voice-over exposition of the lead character Private Eye Mick St. John talking about being a 60 year old vampire and how cool it is. I mean really, is this necessary? Really, come on. This whole show is so cliché, it's like a joke but no one is laughing. The story meanders on as Mick St. John (god, I love that name) solves this episodes big "who done it". Along the way we discover some of Mick's back story and it revolves around a little girl he saved back in the 80's. We'll it turns out it's twenty years later and she grew up to be a internet news reporter named Beth and is smoking hot. ( go figure) Mick is of course falling in love with her, but alas she is the forbidden fruit as he saved her as a child and it would be creepy if they "did it"...Or would it?

The show is made for fans of the "Gilmore Girls" and the "Princess Diaries", who as you can imagine are mostly women. The only saving grace is a few of the minor background characters. They have Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars) as Josef Konstantin, a centuries old vampire, and St. John's mentor. He is horribly miss-cast, but fun to see on the screen again. Also Kevin Weisman (Marshall Flinkman from Alias) plays a super small role as Beth's cameraman, although he is not on the cast list for future episodes I hope he shows up again.

I might turn in for episode 02 as I like to give even bad tv a few episodes. Heck as most of you know I stuck with Alias till the bitter end. But for now I give this show

1 of 4 Ass Monkey.

Toys - Review of Gylos System Series

Julius Marx over on his website, AFI has posted the next toy review Spy Magician and I did. You can check it out HERE.

We're thinking about doing more of these so if you liked it or hated it let me know so we can try to make it better next time.

Toys - Weeping Angels

Character Options has just released images of their latest wave of figures. I'm happy to report that they are doing a Weeping Angel figure. The Weeping Angels are from one of my favorite episodes of the new Who series titled "Blink". Also included in the line up are The Professor, Laszlo and The Master.

If you haven't seen it you can watch it HERE. Scroll down to Season 3 - Tudou - #10 and clink "blink" for part 01. Part 2 is also there as well.

Happy Whoing.

Art - Dan Christensen's Art Blog

Thought I'd do an art update today.

Dan Christensen

I discovered Dan's art by doing a google search for some images of the Black Terror believe it or not. Dan is from Arizona but lives and works in France. He's draws a few comics over there, most of which are not published in English. He hopes one day, as do I, to get get his books published over here. The main issue he has run into is that the formatting for comics in France is not the same as here in the states, therefore most publishers here are not interested in changing their formating in fear that stuff won't sell. Stupid. Why does everyone fear change? Anyway, check out Dan's art site and let him know what you think of his art.

p.s. My laptop is about to be in the shop for who knows how long, so I might not be blogging as much this week.