Iron Man: Hypervelocity

Iron Man: Hypervelocity (2007) - Written by Adam Warren (Dirty Pair, Empowered) art by Brian Denham (The X-Files, Nova)

Adam Warren and Brian Denham’s Hypervelocity is a prime example of using science in creative ways. Iron Man has a long history of shouting “redirect power” and “reboot system” at various levels of intensity, but Adam Warren takes the Iron Man tech to an entirely new level, using realistic scientific theory to back up the Iron Man armor upgrades. Well, as far as my high school level physics knowledge can vouch for. He shows his work at least once.

Layout Changes!

Since Blogger is a pain to work with when using white text, I'm changing to a grey background with black text. Unfortunately, this means that I have to go back through each of my previous posts and change the text to black. So there will be a few strange looking posts in my archives for a few days, and I'm sure I'll miss one or two of them.




Happy American Thanksgiving!

Comics You Should Read: Runners by Sean Wang

Sean Wang’s Runners Vol 1. Bad Goods

Runners (art and words by Sean Wang) is the sci-fi action/comedy chronicling adventures of the freighter Khoruysa Frimia and her crew of smugglers, former pirates and rascals. I think I’m the 72,329th Guy On The Internet(TM) to make the following comparison, but I do so because it is apt: Runners is as fun as Star Wars used to be. I’m talking Episode IV fun, nerds. There’s an excitement and velocity to the story that is hard to come by. Sure, smuggling has been done before, but Sean Wang’s story of smuggling is backed by a lush and full universe full of cool technology and believable galactic politics. The characters are developed and fascinating, the action is intense, and the dialogue is superb. In most science fiction I’ll settle for dialogue that is merely not painful, but Wang uses words as deftly as he does art. 

Evolution of the Modern Movie Poster

Dale from Marketing: Okay folks, we need to sell this movie! You know what we need? A kick-ass movie poster! Get me Simmons from the art department!

Simmons from the Art Department: You asked for me, sir?

Dale: Simmons, we need you to make a poster for a movie. It’s called “Unstoppable,” it’s inspired by true events, and it stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pine.

Simmons: Okay, what’s it about?

Dale: Hell if I know, Simmons. I think there’s a train involved.

Simmons: A train? What’s it doing?

Dale: I don’t know, but whatever it’s doing you can’t stop it. That sounds kind of boring, though. Maybe I could get the director to change it. Maybe instead of an unstoppable train it could be some sort of out-of-control robot with an angle grinder.

Simmons: Angle grinder?

Dale: It could be...I don’t know... grinding to the center of the earth, or something. Either way, make sure this poster clearly represents either an unstoppable train or an unstoppable angle grinder in case I can get Tony Scott to change it to an out-of-control robot with an angle grinder. Get on it, Simmons!

Problems with the feed

So I've had a few of my friends tell me that they've subscribed to my blog using RSS, but it always comes up blank because the text on the site is white. Well, I'm working on that. There's no way for me to know how much of my readership this is affecting, so sorry if there's been confusion. I'm working on changing the site design, and the new one will probably have black text in a white boxes, at the very least. 


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