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[Robot voice] HoverBun 2000™: lift-off

HoverBun 2000™: floor buffing complete

HoverBun 2000™: has detected foreign matter

HoverBun 2000™: requests more eyeliner

Kristin M., does this model provide neck noms?

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"Do I have anything in my hair?  I've got something in my hair, don't I?  I can't see it -- can you maybe, like, point to it or something?  Wait, are you pointing now?  Because I can't see you.  Well, shoot, this isn't working out."

I have one word for you, Katherine S. -- Supercuts.

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Police are looking for a man who went missing from his ritzy Toronto neighbourhood. Police fear for his safety since prior to his disappearance he made a habit of slashing his neighbours' tires when the park on the street, making him very unpopular. Police urge citizens, for their own well-being to refrain from engaging in this sort of Michelante justice.

I used to really like Foxtrot (by Bill Amend) - in particular, he used to do some good techie comics via his character of 'Jason'. About a year or two ago Amend went to Sunday comics only, and I feel the quality went down.

This week's, however, was pretty good. In part because of the XCKD reference, which I know a lot of you will get.

http://www.uclick.com/client/can/ft/2008/07/13/

Anytime when the sun isn't out. ...because the sun isn't out.

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The trailer for The Watchmen has hit the 'net, and Doc Manhattan certainly looks like the omnipotent being he becomes. Readers of the book might find some scenes akin to showing the explosion of the Death Star during a "Star Wars" trailer, but hey, it's not like they haven't sold a few copies, right?

As for the book itself, I did enjoy it as one of the first "deconstructing superheroes" stories I read, soon to be followed by comics like "Top 10," "Astro City," "Planetary," and other graphic presentations of superheroes with a dash more "real life" than had been seen before. I think the film has the potential to be more dark than even The Dark Knight currently is (and the word "dark" appears more times in the collected reviews for the Batman film than it probably does in the database of player names in "City of Heroes"), and I do wonder how much of that they're going to let show through in the end. And will this let other comic book movies go a bit more towards the shady side of things? With Marvel putting out an "Avengres" film soon, will they take, say, the disfunctional relationship of the Pyms from "The Ultimates?" Perhaps give Tony Stark that brain tumor?

But my biggest question about these films is... will there be permits issued for Doc Manhattan cosplayers? This could be REALLY important.

Has B5 gone beyond the rim for good? JMS seems to think it has, and I kind of agree with his premise; further installations should add to Babylon-5, rather than detract from it. And if Warner Bros isn't willing to cough up more than $2 million per DvD feature, and that's not enough to do something worthwhile, then it's probably best not to go ahead. Not that I wouldn't mind an honest-to-Valen theatrical movie, but that would probably take a lot of persuasion for most studios. I say that because things seem to go south for Straczynski when studios begin to cut back or meddle.

But more importanly, the final chapter of Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog is up for download, and it goes on to iTunes (where you have to pay) after Sunday, so what are you waiting for? Stop filling out that to be his sidekick and watch, already!

- Some point-n-click adventure fun with Escape From Octlien. I managed to "win" without getting the full score. Be sure to click on all of the wall panels.
- From the "real places that would make awesome D&D adventure settings" comes the underground town of Kariz, Iran.
- Star Rebellion is a turret defense game with some resource gathering tossed in just to make everything more strategic.
- Habanera, as performed by the Swedish Chef, Beaker, and Animal.
- Ever wanted a blog where you can find celebrites and oddball match-ups that they Totally Look Like? I never knew Fred Thompson looked so much like Vigo...
- There's a new (warning for the young'uns, as there's mutant head-shots in store) Fallout 3 trailer that includes some pretty sweet-looking gameplay footage.
- Lastly, from the "I wish I'd thought of that for a t-shirt" file, comes the worlds nerdiest cross-stitch.

http://www.bunny-comic.com/index.php?id=1196

Notes :
Something that has become obvious over the last three days is a queue system is only any good if you have the time to fill it up with comics before heading off to a place with no internet access.

Or time.

I've been in Hull for the last three days attending my girlfriend's graduation ceremony, which was rather fun.

What I didn't realise was how much running around was involved before and during, hence the unusual amount of radio silence.

Today's (?) comic is a poster design I was working on but abandoned in favour of something that was a touch simpler.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=SwNoTKJ5KVo

Current release date is August 1st, though this is just to be safe-- hopefully it'll be ready to ship even sooner than that!

PRE-ORDER HERE:
http://www.cdfreedom.com/artists/lemondemon/catalog/viewmonster

Includes 16 full-on songs, 16 special transition tracks, 16 bonus songs, lyrics, trivia, and high fructose corn syrup.

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Hallô Cherie.

Eet has been a while seence I haf done zees accent. You meessed eet. You meessed moi, I can tell by zuh look in those infinite pools you call eyes. You must join moi in zuh sunbeam for a chew. We chew zuh toy togezère.

Your noms, zey are so petite!

Your muzzlepowshe she ees reflected in zuh blue plastique!

Your companie, eet ees like a fiery Gauloise cigarette, making me dizzy wis love!

And now, just let me kees [puts paw over your mouth in 'ssssh!' position]

Holy Charm-a-thon, Tammy!