Ok, here's a chance to trash the 5 movies that wasted valuable time out of your life.

5. Star Wars:Attack of the Clones
4. Man-Thing
3. Total Recall (it's been HOW many years and I'm still trying to figure this one out!)
2.12 Monkeys (sorry, I just didn't get it!)
1. Vanilla Sky

Summation-I hate Tom Cruise.

nuff said.

Next!

What is it with Gambit? The guy can't catch a break anywhere. Yes, I still have the final issue of his newest short lived series laying on my table to read, but my question is this...

Why does Marvel ok these books when they know they are only going to last 12 issues or so? Not that I'm complaining, hell no. I'll take as much of Remy as I can get. But I think they do it just to tease the crap out of us with the idea that we are going to get a series knowing full well it won't sell like they think it should.

*sigh* so Gambit goes back into the freeze again...

Because I can share.


SuperGirl is growing up!
Isabelle
Part2
Part3
And the cute just keeps on coming!

Once again, I get to be the person with the official "Geek Obituary"

Saw this on Yahoo news this morning and was saddened. Never the biggest Star Trek fan, but he was always my favorite.

LOS ANGELES - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died Wednesday. He was 85.


Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said.


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This is my first ever story that I have writen. It is a small Robin story. it does not take place between any Batman comic books. It is Robin in his first solo adventure in Gotham city. I hope everyone enjoys it. If anyone wants to leave feed back feel free. I have other stories I want to post but will do this one first.
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Robin: Crisis on Campus.

He stood on the roof top over looking the streets of Gotham City. It was his job to keep it safe from those who would to harm to its citizens. His name was Dick Grayson better known to the world as Robin The Boy Wonder, teenage sidekick to The Batman. And although he had only been at it for a few months he felt that he was doing some real good with his masked mentor.
Robin took a deep breath letting the cool fall air into his lungs. He was in a great mood tonight. It was his first patrol in Gotham City with out Batman. Bruce Wayne had been called out of town on business and Robin was on his own tonight.
Batman had told Robin not to patrol on his own but he could not help it. This was his big chance to prove himself to Batman, a chance to prove he could handle himself.
“RIIIIIINNGGG!!!” The sound of an alarm broke Robin’s train of thought. It sounded like it was coming from the next block. With a running start Robin jumped the narrow ally way to the building next to the one he was on. Going to the edge of that building Robin looked down and saw a door to a warehouse has been broken open. There was a truck parked next to a loading door a few feet away. Robin heard police sirens off in the distance but it would take them over five minutes to get here. It was up to Robin. Robin reached into his utility belt and pulled out three small ninja stars and threw them at the truck hitting the back tires. He looked at the flattened tire,
“Now they can not get away.” He said to himself as he climbed down the ladder on the side of the building to the ground. The building he was on was only two stories high so he made it to the ground in no time. Running to the side of the truck Robin opened the driver’s side door and pulled him out. Robin was shocked at what he saw. The man in the truck was not a man like he expected to see but a teenage kind his age. No older than sixteen years old. In fact he was in one of Robin’s high school classes. The kid broke free of Robin’s grasp while he was lost in thought. The kid took a swing at Robin but Robin just ducked out of the way.
“I do not want to hurt you. Just give up now. There is no need to make this worse.” Robin tried to plead. The teenage kid did not seem to take notice of Robin’s words as he took another swing at the young hero. Robin ducked under hit and gave the teenager an uppercut to the chin knocking him out. Robin took out a pair of handcuffs from his belt and cuffed the kid to the truck. The police were still a couple of minutes away so he decided to go after the men inside.
Robin walked slowly inside the door and saw to more people in there looking though boxes taking out computer parts.
“DO NOT MOVE!” Robin yelled. But just like the teenager outside these two acted like they did not even hear him. Reaching into his belt Robin got out two small smoke pellets and threw them on the floor right behind the two crooks. The two men now noticed Robin as they turned from the boxes coughing and gasping for air. Robin jumped into the air and landed a kick on the first man’s face sending him down and out. Robin turned around just in time to be punched in the face by the other crook. Robin fell to the ground. Robin while on his back kicked the robber’s knee. He than jumped up and chopped the man in the back on the neck sending him to the ground. Robin felt a snapping when he connected with his chop. Bending down he saw a small electronic disk broken on the ground next to the man. He picked it up and put it in his belt, that must have been what he heard snap. He would look at it after he saw the man was ok. He turned the man onto his back and was once again shocked to see that he to was a teenager from his high school. Running over he looked and saw the other person was also a teenager.
“FREEZE!!!” Robin turned to the voice and saw two police there with guns drawn. “Oh it is you robin.” The first policeman said as he put his gun away. “What happened here?” He asked.
“This two and the one outside were robbing the place.”
“We will take it from here young man. Thanks for the help.” The second cop said as he cuffed the first teenager.
“No problem.” Robin said as he ran out of the building. Firing his grapple gun at the other building Robin went to the roof. He was troubled however, why were these three high schoolers robbing that place and what was that disk he took from the floor. He had no time to think about that however as he saw the Bat-Signal in the distance. Gordon needed The Batman. The mystery of those kids would have to wait for another time.

I’ve stood by and watched this go on for far too long. When I returned to Victoria’s apartment, she was gone. But the book, it was still on the table where we had left it. Still laying there untouched.
I couldn’t help myself. Something, maybe my spider sense, told me to pick it up and start reading.
I must have sat there for an hour trying to figure it all out. The convoluted mess that was Mr. Sinister’s Diary.
The book lay silent on the table as daylight spilled into the tiny room. I sat there staring at the evil thing, wishing beyond all things that I’d never read it. But it was too late. I knew what was happening to Victoria, and if I was lucky, I may be able to help stop it.
Snatching it up off the table, I leapt off the balcony and swung through the city as dawn broke across New York. There were very few people who could help me or even understand all this. But I knew one who’d be up at this hour, he never slept.

Reed Richards sat with his head in his hands, sleeping as I perched on the glass of the top story of the Baxter Building. Reed never changed. Even as Franklin and I had grown up together, we would always find him in here, working away at something and falling asleep mid process.

“Uh, Dr. Richards...” I pushed the window open and climbed in as he sat upright, rubbed his eyes and shook off the fog of sleep.
“Peter...err..Spider-Man...”...he was one of the few people who knew who I really was. He looked at the skyline, then at his watch. “It’s early?”
“Yeah, but I had something I had to talk to you about.” I laid the journal on the table next to him. I knew his curiosity would get the better of him as he picked it up and opened the cover.
“Where...” he started, I finished
“Did I get this? Victoria and I went on a hunting expedition. Look...” I rubbed the back of my neck, almost anxious to say what I was going to say... “I know there’s been some bad feelings, but none of it was Victoria’s fault. Read...you’ll understand.”

Two hours later, Reed and Sue Richards closed the cover of Sinister’s journal and looked up at me. I know I had been pacing, I could feel my costume constricting on my feet from walking the same path over and over.
“We all knew it was never her fault. But after we lost Ben, to find out she was his daughter, it was all a little too much for Franklin.” Sue looked down at Reed who finally looked up at me.
“We have work to do. I’ll contact Dr. Strange. If we’re going to save her, we’ll need his help. I can deal with the scientific, he can deal with the magic...not my field, you know.”
“I don’t think that’s a worry, she’s handled it herself already.” I quickly filled them in on what Victoria was doing now, working for Dr. Strange’s secret society of reality hoppers and of all the things she had told me.
“She’s actually in love with an alternate reality version of The Beast. Can you believe that?” I tried to laugh, but Sue saw through that.
“Peter...you never gave up, did you?” she placed her hand on my shoulder and I smiled slightly behind the mask.
“Nope, you know me, Never give up, Never Surrender!” I let off a bit of a laugh, just as Valeria walked into the room.
“Mom, Dad...woah!” she saw me and her eyes got wide. Valeria was only a kid, she never knew my deep dark secret.
“Valeria, Spider-Man is working on something with me and mom, you’ll have to excuse us for a while.” Reed stood up, gave her a peck on her forehead and sent her off, but not before she called out “Get his autograph for me Dad!”


He saw me before I even landed on his window ledge.
“Come in Spider-Man.” Stephen Strange stood with his back to me, facing the fireplace in his study.
“I know why you’ve come and it’s all under control.” he spoke so assuredly, but I couldn’t help myself, this was Victoria’s life at stake.
“What’s going to happen to her Dr. Strange? I have to know.” I crouched on the windowsill and watched as he turned to look at me.
“She’ll fight him and she’ll lose. Victoria is, as I’ve found out, too strong willed to ask for help. She’ll learn to control it all in her own time, but we must be vigilant and not let her succumb to the darker side of her powers.”
“Can you fight him? Do we have any hope of keeping this N’asthir at bay?” He made it all sound so hopeless, and I couldn’t give up. Victoria’s life and sanity were at stake.
“We can try. But if he’s going to take her as his Goblin Queen, we’ll have battle on our hands. We can only hope he hasn’t already begun his seduction.” Dr. Strange turned back to the fireplace and I knew that was my cue to leave.

I swung through the city with that book under my arm. I kept going over everything in my mind. Everything Victoria had told me, all the things Reed and Sue had helped me prepare for, and Dr. Strange’s cryptic and foreboding messages.
Landing back on Victoria’s balcony, I let myself in. She had been gone for 3 weeks now and I had no idea when she’d return. I put the book back in it’s place and stripped out of my uniform and into my street clothes. Collapsing on the sofa, I felt my eyes get heavy and gave in. If she returned home anytime soon, I’d be here to help keep the monsters at bay.

Can anyone tell me what's been happening in Meridian lately? I read the first four to five graphic novels at my library a bit ago, and got hooked. Since then, the librarian hasn't seen fit to aquire any more, and neither of my local bookstores carry the title. I'd have to go to the comic book store (It's kinda complicated, but it's harder to go there than to Boarders or B&N) and get individual issues to continue my reading. So I wanna know: which issues should I be looking for? :?

Nope, it's not the Fantastic Four that he is currently doing. I believe just about everyone knows about that. It's not his new series "Dream Police" which I read #1 of, and it's not bad. What I'm talking about is this:

On the site JMSNews Amazing Spider-Man writer J. Michael Straczynski revealed he is working on a Silver Surfer mini-series for Marvel.

He writes, “I was recently in NYC for a big retreat/conference with Marvel about upcoming projects, and while there are several I can't talk about yet, one thing I can mention is that I'll be doing a Silver Surfer miniseries that should shake people up a bit.”

According to the site, it is slated for a 2006 release.

Anyone else interested in seeing this?

Now I'll be the first one to admit, I'm so sick of Tom Cruise I could poke his eyes out with a spork and feed them to the nearest dog... however they are remaking (sort of) an old classic and he IS involved, so I'll just have to suffer.

(My hatred for Tom Cruise comes from wasting 3 hours of my life I'll never get back on Vanilla Sky. And his behavior of late!)


Anyway, all of the trailers I've seen for WOTW look great. Visually...now lets just see how back they screw it all up.

From Newsday.com
June 15, 2005


Lane Smith, the actor who portrayed President Nixon in the 1989 docudrama "The Final Days" and apoplectic Daily Planet editor Perry White in the 1990s television series "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," has died. He was 69.

Smith died Monday at his Los Angeles home of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease, his family said.

A veteran stage actor with scores of character parts in film and television, Smith achieved instant fame when he took on the role of Nixon in the production based on the book "The Final Days" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Smith's performance earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

Although he had been acting for three decades when he was cast as Nixon, Smith told Newsday when the show aired that he considered the role "a tremendous career break."

"It's an actor's dream to play something like this," he said. "I consider this my masterwork."

The program itself generated controversy with Nixon supporters labeling it a "smear," and Nixon critics saying it was too sympathetic to the fallen leader. But Smith won critical praise for capturing the physical gestures, mannerisms and what he considered the Greek tragedy of the only U.S. president forced to resign in disgrace.

Newsweek called Smith's portrayal "a towering performance" and said: "This docudrama is a one-man show, and perhaps the most incandescent ever to ignite the tube."

And Newsday said Smith "is such a good Nixon that his despair and sorrow at his predicament become simply overwhelming."

"The Final Days" greatly enhanced Smith's reputation.

"Playing Nixon gave me tremendous recognition," Smith told United Press International a year after the docudrama aired. "I'd long been known in the business, but it pulled everything together. Finally people could put the name Lane Smith with my face."

In 1991, he landed regular roles in two short-lived television series, as cable television mogul R.J. Rappaport in "Good Sports" starring Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, and as suitor for star Teri Garr's mother in "Good and Evil."

In short order, he also played a hockey coach in the highly popular "The Mighty Ducks," a politician in Eddie Murphy's "The Distinguished Gentleman" and a lawyer in "My Cousin Vinny," all released in 1992.

And then along came Superman.

Smith had been a regular on other series, including the title character's mentor in the 1986 medical drama "Kay O'Brien" and a corrupt industrialist aiding menacing aliens in the 1985 sci-fi series "V." But "Lois and Clark," which starred Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher and ran on ABC from 1993 to 1997, would be his most enduring employer.

In the updated take on the caped crusader from Krypton, White's favorite expression changed from "Great Caesar's ghost!" to "Great shades of Elvis!" and the editor spewed Elvis trivia.

Smith was born in Memphis, Tenn., on April 29, 1936, and grew up wanting to act.

He studied drama for two years at what is now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh before dropping out for a two-year Army hitch. He later moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio.

Smith made his off-Broadway debut in 1959 and acted in several plays on and off Broadway.

Notwithstanding the Nixon role, his real career break came in the late 1960s when he played Randle Patrick McMurphy for 650 off-Broadway performances of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

Better roles followed, and he went on to play characters as diverse as artist Modigliani, writer Jack Kerouac and dictator Adolf Hitler.

Smith earned a Drama Desk Award for his role in David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross" in 1984.

The actor made his motion picture debut in 1970 in Norman Mailer's "Maidstone," and in 1978, he moved to Los Angeles to concentrate on film and television work.

His first motion picture starring role came in 1988 when he played the warden in "Prison" with Viggo Mortensen.

Smith is survived by his wife of four years, Debbie, and his son from a previous marriage, Robertson.

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I loved Lane Smith. He found a way to imbue every role he played with a little bit of greatness. Other than Lois and Clark, I will always remember him as 'Becca's dad in the Pauly Shore comedy, Son-In-Law. He was a great talent, and he will be missed.

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