Arts-&-Literature

Ah, rugged, deadly, sensitive, pretty, fuzzy. Sounds like someone we all know and love, right, Interested Cat? No, seriously, I’m talking about me. Can’t you see it? Stop laughing.

I’m going to step out on a really wide, solid limb here, and say that the first season of Veronica Mars was the best show on television that year. (Yeah, that includes Lost.) The second season almost measured up to that standard. Then the CW decided to start messing with it, and then they canceled it. Thanks, CW, for saving us from quality television. :( In the meantime, pick up Veronica Mars - The Complete First Season. You will enjoy it. ...

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Seriously, Hawkman, no one wants to see what’s under that mask. Those things have weirded me out ever since I was a kid. A giant bird is bad enough; a giant bird with an expressionless human-shaped mask is a lot worse. Thanks, DC! :| That being said, Showcase Presents: Hawkman, Vol. 1, is out, featuring the Silver Age Hawkman, Katar Hol. While I like the Golden Age Carter Hall version better, you can’t go wrong with a hero whose automatic response to danger is to pick up a mace and start whaling on it. Twenty-foot-tall dinosaur attacking? Mace. White-collar criminal absconding with the pension funds? Mace. Roaches? Turn on the light, watch them scatter, and then it’s mace time. :) ...

I got nothing, so how about some Wikipedia? Cat, a domestic feline, Felis silvestris catus .cat, a top-level domain cat (Unix), the concatenate program in the Unix operating system Cat (Red Dwarf), a character in the TV show Red Dwarf Cat (role-playing game), an indie role-playing game about cats Cat (kingdom), a Dark Ages Pictish kingdom Note the Coat, Legs, Claws, Face, Fangs and Tail attribute system in the role-playing game. Nice. “I have a strong, healthy coat!” :) ...

There are creeps everywhere, man! They don’t even attack…they just keep taking punishment, and they just keep moving, like they don’t even feel it! :) For me, the sign of a good game is that hours after I play it, I’m sitting there thinking about better ways to play it. By that measure, Desktop Tower Defense is a good game. It looks easy at first, but then you start to realize the enemy (creeps) is getting a little farther each time, and those backup towers are starting to come into action, and you realize you aren’t going to make it another ten levels, and another hour has passed in defeat. ...

…you probably don’t really want to know. Courtesy of What Were They Thinking?

…hit it with a tiger. Courtesy of The Absorbascon.

The Buck Rogers pilot was released in theaters before its TV debut, and X-Ray Spex has the movie’s far different take on the opening credits. While it would be hard to complain about Erin Gray in a silver suit, I wonder why Buck appears to be making out with Tootsie? (Those are some huge glasses/goggles/whatever.) :)

Yes, it has come to this. I have reached the conclusion that Marvel’s last two big events – House of M and Civil War -- have actually served their purpose, despite less-than-stellar plotting and shaky characterizations. Their purpose was to get me excited about this summer’s event, World War Hulk, by making me hate the Marvel Universe so much I’ll enjoy seeing Hulk taking his revenge on it. I also find it interesting that after the eight-issue House of M, and the delays in shipping the seven-issue Civil War, World War Hulk is only set for five issues. C’mon, there’s more smashing to do than that. Hulk Smash Earth-616!!! :) ...