My Boy Carl

Most of you probably notice the adultswim cartoons I post on here sometimes. Right? Well some of you do, that is all that matters. Anyways, there is a point to those. I usually check once a week to see if there is a new Carl on football. And without disappointing me, Carl delivered.

Girlfriend of the Week

In honor of this weekend's huge game, this week's GOTW goes out to all the sexy girls out there who are football fans. Especially to all the hot chicks who will be out in Pittsburgh dressed in their black and gold. Since the Steelers do not have cheerleaders, I decided to use these ones.

Lost: Episode 503

This episode picked up where last week left off,except that it narrowed it's focus just a bit. Instead of focusing on everyone, we have two stories (well maybe you could say three).

The Adventures of Desmond Hume
The episode begins with Desmond searching for a doctor at some crazy little Asian town. He finds one, and they return to the boat where Penny gives birth to a little boy, named Charlie. I wonder if Des will ever call him Brotha?

Back to the present, or whatever the present is on this show. Desmond tells Penny that he has to go to Oxford to find Daniel's mom. She says that it will be dangerous, especially if her father finds out that Desmond is alive and well.

At Oxford, there seems to be no record of Faraday. Desmond goes to his lab, and the janitor says that they covered up everything Daniel did after what he did to that girl. Later we see Desmond at the girl's place. Her sister tells Desmond that the girl sometimes thinks she is young, or that she is talking with their father. Obviously her mind is traveling through time, something Desmond is quite familiar with. The lady informs Desmond that Charles Widmore pays for everything, and he was the one funding Faraday's work.

Desmond storms into Widmore's office and demands to know where Faraday's mother is located. Charles tells Desmond to stay out of this because he does not want Penny to get hurt. He then gives Desmond an address in Los Angeles. Desmond returns to the boat, and lies to Penny. She pries the truth out of him, and she says they will go to L.A. together.

This does not bode well for Desmond, since he promised Penny he would not return to the island. I will bet money that he will find out that he needs to return with Jack and Ben...

The Time Traveling Islanders
Daniel and his little group get captured by Ellie. They are taken to Richard, and Daniel informs them that he can diffuse the bomb, which the American military brought to the island to test. Richard says he was forced to kill them.

Daniel checks the bomb, and tells Ellie to bury it and fill it with lead. He says that 50 years from now the island is still around, so the bomb must not have went off.

Sawyer, Juliet, and Locke interrogate their prisoners. It turns out the Others speak Latin. Juliet convinces the one to take them to their camp, but the other guy kills him. We find out that the other one is a very young Charles Widmore.

Locke walks right into the camp and demands to speak to Richard. He tells Richard that he is their leader and then says that Jacob sent him. He shows Richard the compass, then tells Richard to visit John after he is born in 1956 (it is currently 1954). Richard does not tell Locke how to make the jumping stop or how to get off the island.

Apparently the speculation is that Ellie recognized Daniel when she said "You just couldn't keep away." But I believe she meant the American military. However, I do believe that Juliet knows Ellie. Also, does anyone think that Ellie may be Charlotte's mom?

Here is another interesting tidbit. Before Charlie died, Desmond told him that he saw Claire getting onto the helicopter with Aaron, but only if Charlie died saving them. What happened to that?

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Yesterday I decided to check out the new Underworld movie. I enjoyed the first one, and the second one was not terrible, so I figured this one might be okay. Well I was wrong.

I cannot really sum up how bad the movie was, I guess the big problem comes from the fact that we already know the story and how it will end. The dude that plays Lucien (Michael Sheen) reminded me of Simon Pegg a little bit. Which made it hard for me to really concentrate on the movie.

Rhona Mitra is hot, but not nearly as hot as Kate Beckinsale. There is an awkward sex scene with Lucien and Sonja, no nudity, but it reminded me of the sex scene in 300, almost soft-core porn.


Anyways, I recommend seeing something else.

24: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

This episode was okay, not fantastic, but okay. Agent Walker does not die, apparently Tony and Jack sent Bill and Chloe to the location to rescue her. Does anyone know how they did that without Emerson noticing?

At the meeting place, Emerson figures something is up and takes Jack hostage, Tony shoots the other guy, then shoots Emerson in the shoulder and neck. Tony must have had feelings for Emerson because they had plenty of long adoring gazes into each others eyes...

Jack convinces the prime minister to be taken by Do-Bak-O (I am not even going to attempt to spell that one correctly). Chloe puts a tracer on his tooth and Nickles stops to make the exchange. Nickles has been ordered to kill Emerson and his team.

Tony explains that he killed everyone and wants the diamonds for himself. Nickles' men attempt to kill Tony, but a hidden Jack snipes one and Tony takes control of the situation. They make the exchange (Tony and Jack have the diamonds, I bet they give them back to the Sangalan prime minister...)

That is the basic gist of the episode. The other plot lines going, well they were pretty weak.

Carly Pope's character (Samantha?) is escorted by the Secret Service back to her place. Told to go up and get a few things so they can take her to a safe-house. She knows her life is in danger, yet leaves the key under the mat? Also, it does not seem weird to her that an agent would allow her to go up to her place unaccompanied? In fact, if her life was in danger, they would just take her to the safe-house, did she not want to ask a few questions? She is hot, but a knife in the back seems well deserved for stupidity.

Does our government really run this way? If a cabinet member disagrees they are forced to resign? That happens every season, and I always wonder what the point of having a cabinet if they are not allowed to voice dissent.

Also, when the President asks if her cabinet is assembled, did anyone notice the cute Asian girl? I bet she is the Secretary of Agriculture. It would be great if she would raise her hand and ask "I know this is a bit off topic, but what the hell is the point of me being here? I only know about crops and cattle." And then she gets angry and resigns...

So there we have it. Agent Walker did not die, we still do not have the CIP Device, Do-Bak-U crashes two planes over Washington DC, and a hot girl dies. Easy to sum up.

Girlfriend of the Week

In honor of Lost kicking ass, I decided that Kate should be my GOTW. Evangeline Lilly is so freakin' hot. I hope she dumps the hobbit and moves in next door to me, well after I kick the weird death metal neighbors out...

UPDATE
This is a picture I have posted before, but it gets the point across about Kate...

Lost: Episodes 501 & 502

The wait is finally over. The new season of Lost premiered last night, which I unfortunately missed because of work, but caught it online today. For those of you who have given up on this show, all I can say is: sucks to be you.

The season started off great. I guess this season they plan on doing something different instead of flashforwards or flashbacks. These first two episodes saw the island moving through time (or at least the people), that allows the writers to show us what is happening on the island, explain some of the unexplained, and also bounce around what happened during the three years since the Oceanic Six left the island.

Here is the gist of what is happening.

On The Island
Daniel tells everyone that the flashes are moving them through time, or the island is moving. They go to the hatch and kind of confirm that they are moving (because in the past the hatch is not blown up). Daniel then goes to Desmond (who is still in the hatch) and tells him to find his mother at Oxford when he gets rescued.

Later on the beach some hostiles attack and kill a good bit of the unimportant folks. Speaking of attacks, Sawyer and Juliet get captured by them and Locke comes and kills them.

Speaking of Locke, he gets a nice visit from Richard. He explains to Locke that he must return everyone to the island. And to do that, he must die? Who knows what that means. Also, Locke gets shot by Ethan. Weird...

Off The Island
Sayid rescues Hurley from the mental institution. They go to a safe-house and get attacked. Sayid kills the bad guys, but gets hit with a poison dart. Hurley takes him away, but not before everyone thinks Hurley killed the men. While on the run, Hurley gets pulled over by a cop and it turns out to be Ana Lucia, who is still very dead. She is a figment of his imagination. She gives him advice, then says "Libby says hi." She may be imaginary, or maybe the dead really visit Hurley...

Ben has Jack cleaned up and ready to head back to the island. Jack then saves Sayid from the poison dart, while Ben visits Hurley. Sayid gave Hurley the advice to never trust Ben. Hurley then turns himself into the police to escape Ben.

Later Ben visits the lady who talked with Desmond that time (I cannot remember her name), she says that Ben only has 70 hours to get the group together, and if not "well God help us all." She seems to be a scientist, and something tells me she is Daniel's mommy.

Desmond wakes up and tells Penny that he had a dream about the island, but that it was not really a dream, it was a memory, and they begin to sail back to port...I am guessing he will visit Daniel's mom.

Some lawyers pay a visit to Kate and tell her they want a blood sample of her and Aaron. She refuses, and after they leave she packs some bags and leaves with her kid. Well, Claire's kid, but whatever. She tries to call Jack, but then gets a call from Sun.

They have a wonderful lunch, and then Sun (who already told Charles Widmore that she wants to kill Ben), basically informs Kate that she should do whatever it takes to protect Aaron (kill the lawyers).

Something tells me that Ben (or Sun) hired the lawyers. Ben would do it to scare Kate into running so that he could approach her and convince her to return to the island. Sun might do it to try and frame it on Ben, getting Kate angry enough to attempt to kill Ben. Just a thought.

Obviously I am leaving lots of stuff out. The episodes were awesome. My favorite line came from Hurley to Sayid: "Maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn't have to go around shooting people."

For those of you who watched it, please let me know what you thought. Any theories?

24: 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

I was very excited about this episode. Figured it would lead us to some cool stuff. Like maybe Jack killing or torturing someone. Boy, was I wrong.

Jack uses homemade gas to smoke the Prime Minister out of the panic room. Agent Walker tries to go in alone, but gets captured. Tony and Jack convince Emerson that they need to torture her to discover what else she learned from Tanner. Emerson agrees at first, but then his boss informs him that she nor the FBI know anything. Emerson orders Jack to kill her.

They go to an abandoned construction site where she berates Jack for being a traitor. Jack tells her to trust him and that she will live. He shoots her neck and puts her in a ditch. He and Tony then bury her alive in dirt. I am sure he dropped his cell phone in there or something. She will manage to get out and then call the FBI...or she will die and Jack will get a kill. Win-Win situation.

The Secret Service guy that protects the First Dude turns out to be the guy who killed Roger. He poisons the First Dude and plans to kill Roger's girl and make it look like a murder suicide. Does anyone really care about this story?

It turns out that the computer guy at the FBI with the bad attitude, does anyone remember his name? Well anyways, he just saved his wife's plane and then we learn that he is banging the cute blond in his office. And now that his wife is safe, he is back to checking the blond out. Good to see that everyone is focused during a crisis.

Should the President go through with the attack on Sangala? I say yes, never negotiate with terrorists.

More Button

Today is one of those days where I cannot motivate myself to get a shower and leave the house. Therefore I just spend the time watching stupid videos or reading different blogs, then forcing what I find on you.

Here is a video proving why The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was not mind blowing.

The Curious Case of Forrest Gump - watch more funny videos

Blue Monday

Thank Jeebus for Warren Ellis. Today is apparently Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year. Granted it sounds like a whole lot of made-up nonsense. However, that does not stop Ellis from having some fun with it. I would link to his individual posts, but he has at least two so far with a bunch of pictures of the people holding their signs to the world...just go check it out. I am going to lay on the couch and be happy, since I am off.

ShamWow

Being a person who stays up way too late at night and sees tons of infomercials, I must say that one of my favorite is the ShamWow. Today I discovered this site and they had a great post about how the guy from the commercial is going up against Scientology because they ruined his movie.

Does anyone remember this being advertised on Comedy Central all the time? I only remember it because of the two girls on the toilet...is that weird?

Some Movie Thoughts

Since I am bored today and do not feel like getting ready for work, I decided to share some of my thoughts on movie news.

-Apparently Cowboy Bebop is going to be made into a live-action film. Keanu Reeves will star as Spike.

Lots of people think this is a bad choice, since Reeves has no real emotional depth as an actor. It actually does not bother me all that much. Spike generally showed a disinterest in whatever they were doing. I think it could work. I am also pretty excited about the idea of them making this movie...

-Watchmen will be released March 6th. For those of you who do not know what the hell I am talking about, two studios had a battle over distribution rights. Anyways, the movie will be released and we shall all enjoy in the awesomeness.

-So late at night, I love to watch bad films. Recently I sat through Vampire's Kiss. This movie was terrible, but also extremely funny. I wish I could have had some robots here to make fun of it MST3K style. Also, it turns out that Cage ate two cockroaches for the movie. Just read the wikipedia plot description to envision how bad this movie was.

-This brings me to the movie I watched late last night: Cube. Gideon had me watch it a few years ago, and I must admit it was pretty good. As I read about it on wikipedia, I came across something that Vampire's Kiss had in common with it. Kafkaesque...

I have never read anything by Kafka, maybe I should. However, I feel like anytime someone wants to sound pseudo-intellectual, they start tossing the adjective around about any indie type film. In fact, IMDB has a list of the 41 best Kafkaesque films...After spending a few minutes reading about Kafka and what his work was about, I can say that I understand how Cube and Dark City fall into that category, but Vampire's Kiss? Absolutely not...

This is It Exactly

Watch this girl recap the Star Wars trilogy, even though she has not really seen all of it. Very funny.


Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW is the exquisite Camilla Belle. The star of the fantastic movie, 10,000 B.C....okay, that movie sucked, but at least Camilla was super hot in it.

Not only am I madly in love with her, but we have something in common. Well aside from sultry good looks. We share a birthday, October 2. Although she is six years younger than me.

So Camilla, if you ever want to spend 10/2 together and have a great time, just call me...

24: 8:00 a.m-12 p.m.

It is so exciting to finally have a new season of 24. The four hour premiere was pretty awesome. Obviously way too much happened for me to just recap everything, so let me break it down into things I liked and disliked.

The Good
-The Senate hearing with Jack was cool. His attitude was awesome. "Yes, I broke the Geneva Convention, screw you. I saved lives." Obviously I paraphrased, or did I?
-Agent Walker is hot. And she tortured a guy, that was great.
-Even though CTU is gone, Chloe and Tony are back. I was actually excited that Tony was the bad guy.
-The terrorist group that Jack is working with right now seems pretty badass, especially this Emerson guy, although for a guy who trained with British SAS, where is his accent? I look forward to the Jack vs. Emerson fight.

The Bad
-The plot so far seems like a mixture of Die Hard II and Live Free and Die Hard...please tell me that they retrieve this CFIP device (or whatever it is called) and we find out that there is an even larger threat. And please do not let it be the Chinese trying to steal that as well. Lets bring in a completely random group, like the French.
-The big thing was that they were getting rid of CTU and trying something different, but they did not do that. The FBI is basically CTU Lite. Plus, Chloe and the gang are still there. Do not get me wrong, I love Chloe, but I feel like we are not seeing anything new.
-Seriously, stop putting a mole in every agency or department. I mean, there was one in the Secret Service for Redemption. Now the FBI. I cannot get a job with the Postal Service because of a criminal record, yet people with terrorist ties can become Secret Service? Odd.
-Jack has yet to torture anyone. Really torture anyone. I miss that. I hated the stupid chemicals they started using at CTU, let Jack use the towel method again, or the wire from a lamp...does anyone else watch this show and just want to go out and catch a terrorist. Just to torture them? Only me? I am seriously messed up in the head.

Anyways, I will probably watch this over Heroes for awhile. I will TiVo Heroes in my room and watch it later or the next day. Let me hear what you thought of the premiere so far.

Poll Results/New Poll Day

So the results are decided that King Edmund will become the most famous Narnian of all. It was pretty much a landslide...okay not really. Anyways, my new poll has to deal with this subject: Which college football conference is the strongest?

Most of you that follow this sort of thing have heard all year long everyone talk about how great the Big 12 and SEC were and that the Big Ten and Pac-10 were not as strong as they usually were except for their top two teams. Well let us look at the results. Yes I sat around and figured out every conferences bowl game record, I was bored.

ACC: 4-6. No noteworthy victories except VA Tech beating Cincinnati.
MWC: 3-2. Obviously Utah beating Alabama (ranked number one for a good chunk of the season, and a dominant team in the SEC), but also TCU ending Boise State's undefeated run.
WAC: 1-4. Not a good showing from the WAC...
C-USA: 4-2. Record looks good in the bowls, but mostly against the other small conferences, East Carolina got beat by Kentucky (SEC team who was 2-6 in their conference).
Big East: 4-2. One of those wins was UConn over Buffalo and Rutgers over North Carolina State (who finished with a 6-7 record...)
PAC-10: 5-0. Only undefeated conference. USC beats PSU, Oregon State crushes Pitt (3-0), Oregon over Oklahoma State, but there was no match up with the SEC...a shame.
Sun Belt: 1-1. Haha, seriously, why is this a conference?
MAC: 0-5. Oh, I guess it was so the Sun Belt conference could get that lonely win, but why did the MAC get five teams invited?
Big Ten: 1-5. Umm, wow, I knew we were a bad conference, but really that bad? Although, OSU almost beat Texas.
Big 12: 3-3. Lost in the championship game to the SEC, the big guns all got beat except for Texas. They were also 0-2 against the SEC.
SEC: 6-2. Obviously won the national title. Pretty much beat up on every conference. The big loss was Alabama. Their only other loss was against the Big 10, but come on, it was Iowa against South Carolina who was 4-4 in conference.

Obviously this kind of thing does not really mean too much since any team could win against any other team, well okay maybe not. But I would like to go on the record as apologizing to the SEC for saying how overrated those teams were. All except Alabama, I do think that PSU would beat them. Anyways, please vote on your right.

Please discuss your reasoning and thoughts in the comments, where I will let you know how I voted.

Just A Little Cartoony Fun

I was sitting around watching Robot Chicken clips and decided to share not one, but two with you folks. Keep scrolling down for GOTW...

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW is Erin Esurance from all those awesome commercials. I will not lie to you, I probably get my car insurance through them because of her. Pink hair, great body, and a cartoon...what more can a pervert like me ask for?

I found this great picture that someone else did here.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

As I said in the previous post, I would be reviewing this film very shortly, and I was not lying.

First off, I am a fan of David Fincher's work. This film has his unique touch, such as the flashbacks being made to look like different era films. For example, the old guy that says he was struck by lightning seven times, every time they flashback, the clip is in the silent film era.

I thought that Brad Pitt was pretty awesome, going from an old man, to a young boy. And this movie will probably win best make-up.

There were plenty of unbelievable moments throughout the movie, but you really should just ignore them. The movie is about love and loss.

Unfortunately, I cannot ignore those kind of things. I liked the film, but there were things that bothered me. Daisy was in her 40s when she had her kid, which can happen, but was very dangerous for women back in the 60s. Also, if you noticed, the timing of Benjamin Button seems to be weird. There seemed to be no pace of how quickly his age was happening. If he was born like he was 80, did that mean every year he went one year backward? I know these things are trivial, but it seemed like it took forever for him to stop looking really old, but then he went quickly from a 40 year old man back to a 20 year old...

Anyways, it was a good movie, well directed. Probably will win some awards, but it was nothing that blew my mind.

Fantastic Weekend

You ever have a really good weekend? This is the part where you say, "Sure Josh, did you have a good weekend?" And the answer my little friends is yes, I had a great weekend. Would you like me to tell you about it? No? Well screw you guys, I am telling you anyways.

Friday
Let me just say that I definitely bounced out of work as soon as possible. I hopped in my car and drove to State College as fast I could. At the Brookville exit, I called Kacie and lied to her. I told her that I had just left work and would not be home for awhile. She said she was thinking of stopping at Champs for a beer.

It did not take me much longer to reach State College, so I called Kacie again and this time told her I was bored and just felt like talking. She said she was just pulling into Champs and if I got there before 2, that I should stop for a beer. Needless to say, I was already pulling into the parking lot. So I go into the bar and she is not there. I send her a text and she says she changed her mind and went downtown.

I then inform her that I am at Champs. She comes back and is quite I annoyed that I tricked her. See what I get for trying to surprise someone? Anyways, now that she is there, we go downstairs and drink a few beers and a couple shots of Petron.

Saturday
I head out to the mall to buy work shoes. Mine fell apart and I ended up throwing them away on Friday. Kacie came out and forced me to watch her clothes shop for awhile, which made me want to gouge out my eyes.

That afternoon we met my brother at the movie theater and watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which will have a review up in a little bit. After the movie, the three of us went to Garfields for a little dinner. We ate, had some fun conversation, then parted company. I went back to Kacie's place and finished reading a comic that I bought at B.Dalton, which is going out of business and had a huge sale. Anyways, the comic was Spider-Man: One More Day which was pretty bad, but I got the hardcover for fairly cheap, and I had to see what all the fuss was about.

That night Kacie and I went back to champs and drank for a bit, then decided to get a cab and head downtown to Pickles. Once there she saw like 30234235323 people she knew and I found a few comic book people, and we discussed some of the movies that were out. Ah yes, I can find my people anywhere.

Later I went outside to have a smoke, and there was a kid doing a beatbox, and I made a joke that he sounded like he was having a seizure. Apparently he and his friend did not have a sense of humor. The one kid tried to make fun of me by asking me why I was wearing a pea-coat. I informed him that it was not a pea-coat and that he was idiot for mistaking it as one.

This did not make them happy and they continued to try and piss me off. I told them to piss off. They then noticed my Penguins shirt and asked if I was a Steelers fan, I said of course and they were then okay with me insulting them. I actually wanted to hit one of them, they seemed like such pussies. Oh well.

Once back in side, Kacie tells me that everyone is going to the Phyrst. We walk over there, and it is packed and annoyingly loud. For some reason I really hate going there. We have one drink and then they start getting people out of there, we call a cab and head back home.

We get my car from Champs and swing through McDonald's drive-through for some double cheeseburgers. I get a bunch of pickles on the side for Kacie because I despise the nasty things and will have no part of them near my sandwich.

At her place we munch them down and I pop in Dark Knight. Kacie falls asleep within 2 minutes and snores through most of the movie. I finally get her to go to bed and she goes in and passes out on the bed, right in the center, arms spread, legs spread. She looked like a very drunk, very female version of Jesus Christ.

I fall asleep around 6 a.m. and wake up around 2 p.m. I then pack up my stuff and head on back to Pittsburgh where I read for a bit, wrote the previous post, then went to bed. It does not seem like such a great weekend, but I was not at work, and I was out and about with Kacie. Therefore it was fantastic.

Another Super Long Batch of Comic Reviews

I recently finished most of the comics I received for Christmas, with the exception for a few comics that I will read later. Here are a few short reviews on a random selection (okay, not that random).

Batman R.I.P.
Honestly, I have no clue what to think about the conclusion to this story. Turns out that Batman had prepared for even this kind of mental attack and was able to defeat the bad guys. Then in order to tie the book in with Final Crisis, they show Batman being held by Darkseid's goons who are trying to make an army of mindless batmen.

Now, Detective Comics was actually okay. Aside from the whole Hush removing Selina's heart out, the story was decent. I never know how to feel about the character of Tommy Elliot, but the ending of him being completely destroyed by Selina was pretty sweet. I just can never believe that Hush is a match for Nightwing, let alone Batman, it seems really silly. Fortunately Dini can make the story work.

Secret Invasion
The big complaint was that nothing really happened in the end. That is quite true, there was a great build up, then no one died, no one turned out to be a Skrull, the people who were replaced came back.

The only cool thing that happened as a result of all this was the Tony Stark being fired as head of SHIELD and then Norman Osborne taking over for him. Seems like they could have some fun with this.

Without really saying everything Jason said over at his site, I will just say that I stuck through it. It was definitely not the best event comic ever, but as of right now, unless Final Crisis comes up big, it still has that one beat.

Final Crisis
I read issues 4 and 5, and a bunch of the tie-ins. First off, the tie-ins need to say which order they should be read. I ended up reading stuff out of order and stuff never really made any sense. That being said, after reading them in the right order, stuff still did not make sense.

Only two issues to go and then the good guys will be done forever. Darkseid will rule our world. Which Grant Morrison did before in JLA: Rock of Ages, I think that was the storyline. Anyone remember how the heroes rose up and killed Darkseid? Green Arrow fired an arrow with the Atom riding on the tip, Atom was able to pass through Darkseid's forcefield because he rode in with some photons. Went inside big D's brain and killed him...if Final Crisis ends the same way, I will probably laugh a good bit.

Dark Reign #1
This was actually a good story. Bendis and Maleev back, even if for just one issue makes me very happy. This story focused on a new Illuminati forming together. Osborne calls a meeting between Namor, Dr. Doom, Emma Frost, Loki (who is in a very large breasted female form), and the Red Hood.

Norman suggests that they work together. He will leave them alone, but they kind of work for him. Instead of being like Fury and Stark and constantly attacking them, he will help them get what they want. Norman also reveals to them that he has some big time help to back him up, which frightens the others. Who could it be?

At the end, Doom and Namor stick around and discuss what to do. Doom says they wait until Norman implodes and they can clean up the pieces.

Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3
The last two USM Annuals were based on relationship stuff, like Peter and Kitty Pryde going on a date. This one was no different, but like the others extremely fun to read.

The story introduces the Ultimate Mysterio, and the story gives Spider-Man a chance to establish a relationship with the police, who actually want his help on this case. Again, this is not what made the book so good.

It starts with MJ telling Peter that she is ready to "do it." But then, later at school she avoids Peter and at her news club meeting, the Ultimate Jessica Jones deduces that Spider-Man goes to their school and they should figure out who it is. MJ tries to tell Peter, but all he wants to do is talk about why she is avoiding him.

The dialogue is completely hilarious, there is a moment in the police station where a lady dressed as Spider-Woman is screaming "Embrace Change!" Or when MJ is telling Peter about the news team working on his identity:
MJ: She has the entire news department working on Spider-Man!
Peter: Wow. All four of you?
He pretty much uses that joke a few more times when she says the news department. Anyways, the art is really cool, David Lafuente gives it a very cartoony look and also a few anime touches.

Crossed #2
Ever wonder what a Zombie story would be like if the zombies were actually somewhat smart? Well Garth Ennis delivers that in Crossed. There has been no explanation as to what happened, but we are seeing our main characters chased and tortured in the only way Ennis knows how. Seriously, this book has some very fucked up moments.

For example, the crossed jerk off onto a bunch of bullets and then use them to shoot at the survivors, knowing that will change them into crossed as well.

Ex Machina #40
This issue was a nice little stand alone after the storyline about the crazy chick ended. We all see the problems that Kremlin is creating, and it is only a matter of time before Hundred is no longer the mayor, so this was just a nice break from all that.

Tony Harris and Brian K. Vaughn are in the comic as a writer and artist auditioning for the job of doing the mayors biography in a comic book form. BKV writes plenty of little jokes in there, such as being confused as Bendis or not wanting to do the whole metaphysical stories like Grant Morrison.

BKV tells the mayor why he stayed in NYC after 9/11 and how much he loves the city. Hundred then tells him to go to L.A. and be with his girlfriend, that the city will be okay without him. As BKV leaves the meeting, Harris asks how it went and he says it went well.

The last two pages are from those memoirs and the last page shows the beginning of the new series, with the joke being that it is written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Jim Lee. Very fun little jab there from BKV. If you read his blog, you know he enjoys a little self-deprication.

Alright, that does it for this round. Maybe I will do a review of all the different Warren Ellis comics I just finished.

Girlfriend of the Week

This week's GOTW goes to Jenna Haze, the pornstar. She is sexy, and has a very fine ass. I really do no think anything else needs to be said about her.