We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
Part 2 of The Thing review and discussion. Join us this episode as we look at 1982’s John Carpenter’s The Thing, starring Kurt Russell and directed by John Carpenter, and 2011’s The Thing, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and directed by Matthiji van Heijiningen Jr. We also have E-mails! One from Charlene, about the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination Exhibit and then a really cool one from Jeffrey Eddy, President of SofaWolf Press, Inc.
These two titles are ones that your library will want to place on order for your video game collection: Pokemon Black Version 2 and Pokemon: White Version 2. The Pokemon YouTube channel has posted an animated short as a game trailer to introduce the titles to the English market. The games will be released in North America October 7, Australia on October 11 and Europe on October 12. They have already been released in Japan. Thanks to the Pokemon channel and YouTube for the following trailer:
Took a short vacation, but I am back and ready to start again. Getting things done in the office and know to catch up on the blog.
This weeks AMV Spotlight is on YouTuber xthehuntressx. Xthehuntressx takes the song “Fighter” performed by Christina Aguilera and edits it around scenes from Justice League. These cut scenes are very clean and crisp, which makes the AMV so much nicer to view. At one point I began to wonder if xthehuntressx used Black Canary to emulate Ms. Aguilera, when Black Canary is using her sonic scream I just pictured Aguilera hit her high notes. The one fault I have for the AMV is that it has side borders. If the video image would have fit the YouTube screen it would have been more attractive. One of the great things about this video is that you get to see a verity of DC heroes. Some you will know and others that are less known unless you read DC Comics. Great job xthehuntressx. Thanks to YouTube for the video and you can find it on their site or check it out below:
Here’s the latest trailer for Season 7 of Doctor Who. Thanks to BBC America, through YouTube, as YouTuber BBCAmericaTV for the trailer:
Charlaine Harris latest Sookie Stackhouse novel is entitled Deadlocked and will be on most if not all library shelves. Thanks to YouTube and YouTuber GollanczBooks:
A new ghost story for your library collections, Black Isle by new author Sandi Tan. Thanks to YouTube and YouTuber HachetteBookGroup:
1. Who Goes There, John W. Campbell, 2009, Rocket Ride Books. ISBN: 978-0982332207, $15.95.
2. The Thing From Another World, Director Christian Nyby, 2003, Turner Home Entertainment. ASIN: B0009NHC0, between $6.00 – $14.00.
3. Podcast Intro and Outro – Andrew Lubman’s, “Train of Thought”.
Other things mentioned were: Larry Niven; William Gibson; Robert Heinlein; Jules Verne; Leonardo da Vinci; James Arness; Jo; Wendy; Friends of Kansas Libraries; Kansas Library Conference; John Campbell Jr.; Kim Jong-il; Matt Dillion; Topeka; Korea; iPad; Firefox; Explorer; 501st; Boogie Man; World War I; Thought Experiment; “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”; Wright Brothers; Ebay; Classic Science Fiction; Classic Horror; Being Human; Day the Earth Stood Still; Protector; Stranger In a Strange Land; Gulliver’s Travels; Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Gunsmoke; Planet of the Apes; Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Sly Cooper; Neromancer; Strictly Science Fiction: A Guide to Reading Interests; and Father of Modern Science Fiction.
Episode 10, Neuromancer review: http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-10-of-comicpop-library/
Episode 15, Protector review: http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-15-of-comicpop-library-its-a-plucked-big-bird/
Episode 16.5, Kansas Library Conference Interviews: http://comicpoplibrary.com/news/episode-16-5-2012-kansas-library-association-conference-interviews/
Why they ever replaced Thomas Jane as the Punisher I will never know. I always thought he was the best person to portray the character and I wish they would do another movie with him. We get the next best thing from Thomas Jane himself. He has made a short fan film were he reprises his role. This is awesome (can you tell I’m a Punisher fan) get Jane a new movie. It is up on YouTube under “#DIRTYLAUNDRY” put up by YouTuber AdiShankaBrand and it already has over 2 million hits. If you like the Punisher you need to check this out on YouTube. Be warned it has sexual content and extreme violence.
This story is one for everyone that you don’t ever know what will inspire someone, so don’t ever discount any work of art or artist. Kohei Uchimura, World Champion Gymnast, just won Gold for the Men’s All-Around event for gymnastics at the 2012 London Olympics. He stated that one of his inspirations for entering the sport and his work ethic in his training came from the manga Ganba! Fly High, that is centered around the sport of gymnastics. The manga was co-created by Shinji Morisue, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Gold Medalist for the Horizontal Bar, help create the manga for just this reason to inspire young individuals to enter the sport of gymnastics.