Mine Life: another accurate view

Breakfast Granola for 4/4/11

Wondercon was good for something, according to io9; Thundercats are back:

Breakfast Granola for 3/21/11

We knew this was going to happen eventually: Adrianne Palicki in a Wonder Woman costume.

She's tall and pretty, but now I guess I'd have to see her moving because this looks like a pause in a Comicon hallway before the cosplay competition.

Which she'd likely win, but I digress...

There's still the NBC TV show to air, and I still have my doubts.

Found on Hollywood Tuna.

Breakfast Granola for 2/21/11

It's Presidents Day, but I still have to mine granola. Ugh, FML.

Anyway, here's more that might be strange to digest: David E. Kelly is going to be producing a Wonder Woman television series with Adrianne Palicki as the titular heroine; Wikipedia says:

The plot is described as "a reinvention of the iconic D.C. comic in which Wonder Woman -- aka Diana Prince -- is a vigilante crime fighter in L.A. but also a successful corporate executive and a modern woman trying to balance all of the elements of her extraordinary life."

Not at all awe-inspiring storywise, but AP is a blue-eyed brunette, 5' 11", and both a trackstar AND almost-homecoming queen in high school. Good physical creds; let's see how it pans out.

Learned via F-listed; image from the Ore Archives.

Frank Cho studies Death

Frank Cho is more than just a cheesecake/pinup artist.

He also deals DEATH with PENS made from pure AWESOME and WIN.

Found on his blog, Apes & Babes.

Breakfast Granola for 12/2/10

I never did like Family Circus, and especially not Jeffy's spastic, wandering ass. Get 'em, Pedobear!

Photoshoopery by yours truly.

Breakfast Granola for 7/28/10

To clarify, Adrianne Curry did indeed cosplay Slave Leia at Comic Con. And it was good.

She who may be the world's hottest nerd was found on Hollywood Tuna.

Breakfast Granola for 7/27/10

I miss you, Comic Con. Literally. I keep forgetting that it happens every year in late July; for some reason, I think it must happen in mid July, the weekend after the 4th.

And Olivia Munn was there. So sad.

Found via F-listed on Don Chavez.

Breakfast Granola for 7/22/10

Comic Con starts today in lovely San Diego, and I'm unfortunately nowhere near it. Movies and TV shows do sneak previews and related junkets, and their stars do panels and sign autographs. Out on the main floor, comic, cartoon, anime, and toy companies will have their promo booths going, usually with free and sometimes interesting schwag to collect and merchandise to purchase.

Plus, there's the fanatic fandom, sometimes in costume. Often attempted, but not often accomplished: Powergirl.

Found with more Comic Con cleavage on Coed.

Breakfast Granola for 5/28/10

This is how LOST should have ended.

Found via io9 on Nedroid's Twitpics.

Remix it, don't re-fix it

Big-ups to J. Scott Campbell and his fine appreciation of the female form to the benefit of Disney Princesses. They're all good, but the exemplar is Tinkerbell under the gaze of Captain Hook because I think she's showing the most leg.

Found on io9.

Snow is evil

Found with some NSFW old Italian comic book covers on io9.

R.I.P. Frank Frazetta

Now gone to be with his wife, Ellie, master artist Frank Frazetta passed yesterday, age 82.

The storyboard artist for the scifi and fantasy fantasies of my youth, his late, real life seemed -- unfortunately -- the stuff of nightmares:

The Pocono Record newspaper reported that by December of [the year his wife died, 2009], Frazetta was "suffering from dementia".

On December 9, 2009, Frazetta's son, Alfonso Frank Frazetta, 52, known as Frank Jr., was arrested for attempting to steal approximately 90 paintings from the Frazetta museum. He was accompanied by Frank Bush, 49, and Kevin Clement, 54. His wife, Lori Frazetta, told state police that Frank Jr. and Ellie had run the family business until Ellie's death, when infighting over the paintings began. The son maintains he was trying to prevent the paintings from being sold, per the wishes of his father, whom he says had given him power of attorney over his estate. After siblings Billy Frazetta, Holly Frazetta Taylor, and Heidi Grabin filed a lawsuit against Frank Jr. in March 2010, claiming misappropriation of their father's work, which they said the artist had transferred to a company controlled by those three, the family issued a statement on April 23, 2010, that said, "all of the litigation surrounding his family and his art has been resolved. All of Frank's children will now be working together as a team to promote his ... collection of images...." The Monroe County district attorney later that day said he would drop theft and burglary charges against Frazetta Jr. at the request of family members.

I'm not sure who to treat as the villain in this, though I want to assume it was Lil Frank. Claiming power of attorney AND grabbing 90 paintings? Seems suspiciously like a dick-move.

Here's to hoping Big Frank's wishes -- that his museum paintings be preserved in situ, distributed to family and/or friends, selectively liquidated, or otherwise -- will be fully honored.

Found on io9 and Wikipedia.

Mostly harmless

Smokey the Smoke Monster looks way less intimidating in cartoon form. Michael Blaine Myers, Jr. speculates on the Saturday morning/afterschool afternoon incarnations of the LOST cast.

Found on io9.

Breakfast Granola for 4/22/10

"Soldiers vs. Cthulhu?" Tell me more:

[30 Days of Night artist Ben Templesmith says] "So far, all I can say is sort of Band of Brothers...but with SQUID. (Well, Cthulhu-ish ideas and my love of all things tentacular.) Yes, it's a war comic. Want to get all emotional and down and dirty with it. Not exactly comedy in the vein of Wormwood.... It's post-apocalyptic. I deals with a small group of soldiers, as the human race is reduced to relatively low tech solutions to claw back their planet, the new religion that drives them on to this goal in the face of hopelessness...and all the stuff that comes from such things. Many horrific and hopefully, some touching "tales from the front" in many ways. And of course, they'll end up being players in a major event that may define the now generations long conflict."

Found on io9.

Breakfast Granola for 4/19/10

I never did like Family Circus, especially the dumbshit kid(s) who wanders around the neighborhood. Oh, how I wished for kidnappers or runaway cement mixers...

Well, along comes Robert Sinclair to say what I'm really thinking. That's right, you little asshole, go and find that poorly-covered well!

Found on Boing Boing.

Breakfast Granola for 4/13/10

And now for something completely different: art, this time by Ryan Kinnaird. I was first acquainted with his work on the covers of Playstation Magazine, and a few comic covers. Apparently, he also does character designs for Sodapop Miniatures.

Stumbled upon Fiametta via Deviantart.

The truth in website design

FMD Crankmonkey unearths...

Something undead this way comes

From io9:

Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption has been given the go-ahead from AMC to adapt the astounding zombie comic The Walking Dead for television. Time to get excited, and prepare your anti-zombie shelter.

The Walking Dead is based on the comic series written by Robert Kirkman. It was previously announced that AMC was in talks to bring the undead back to life. It's now being reported in the trades that AMC has stopped talking, and is ready to bring Darabont's pilot adaptation to undead life. Plus he's going to sign on to direct.

Hell is full

I follow Joe Wight on Deviantart, and this came through the New pile.

Some teaser art from the upcoming comic series "The Last Zombie" written by horror novelist Brian Keene.