recovery

it's afternoons like this that you need a good ice tea. sweet and southern. Returned to work to too much work today, got most of it done with only an extra hour put in. not bad, so it will be a busy morning as rent is due as well. kinda tired. kinda dreaming about finding a ds lite on sale before the street date. naughty Target.

missing posts.

so i havent been writing this weekend because my brother is in town. it's been great to see him but my stomach is yelling stop. we've probably hit more restuarants and bars than anyone should in a week and my wallet says please use plastic way too much.
in other news the comic is at the printers
im saving up the funds for the disease/network of terror split 7"
and after that i think lucky creature will go on an advertsing scheme for the rest of the year to make space for our 2007 releases which will be very different than what you may expect from me.

So anyway starting tommorow with comic reviews i should be back to writing more regulary.

x-men 3 the last stand

X-3. Is well. It's o.k. By far not the worst superhero movie(Daredevil) it has moments that make you cringe as a comic fan, and as a movie fan. Certain choices in the script don't help either. It does have it's moments though and they mostly come from the quiet moments between members of the x-men, which there are far too few of in this movie. It's a lot of watch Storm fly here, watch Storm fly there? Who decided Halle needed more lines and screen time anyway. All in all id give it a B-. It ties up the series nicely, with a few surprises and if Fox has decided to leave the series like this I'm o.k. with it, I just have to wonder how much better this would have been with Bryan Singer at the helm. Mr. Rattner go make Rush Hour 3, stay away from my superheroes, and Fox go make Wolverine, make it R rated, and you will have a new franchise on your hands. Thankfully one without Halle Barry.

"oh my stars and garters" Really if this line sounded cheesy when Lee wrote it in the sixties. why would you use it now?

New Avengers # 19. I like how this book is setting up the civil war from the house of m. Art still sucks imo.

LOVELESS # 7 it's official this and Fell are the reasons im still buying comics. This book is the best. It's the most beautifully colored comic about the dirtiest time in United States history. BUY IT!

LOST season 2 wraps tonight. What's going to happen?

hisworld/herworld#6

production has begun on hisworld/herworld # 6. Jessica and myself as well have been too busy this spring, but now it's summer and the comic has gone to the printers so we can relax and tell you all more geek knowledge from both the male and female perspective. Plus the continuing adventures of Julie Jones inside. We started that story two issues ago and it will probably go for about, I would assume 30-40 issues. don't miss out. You can ask us anything about our free zine at hisworldherworld@gmail.com look for your copy free of charge at various Iowa City locales in about three weeks.

Da Vinci.

So I didn't read the book, so as just as a movie I've got to say. Heh. B+ maybe. The cast including Paul Bettany and Ian Mckellan are great. Tom Hanks. Heh. B-? The movie reminds me alot of the James Patterson adaptations like Kiss the GIrls and Along Came a Spider. Good but not great. Move from clue 1 to clue 2 to the conclusion. Some cheap tricks are used to get out of really filming any action sequences and the car chase looks like it was shot to add another few seconds of film not to really excite anyone. As far as summer movies go, this lacks the pop, or the firepower. As far as thrillers go, where's the thrill? One of Hanks most passionate line is "Get me to a library quickly!" A library? yeah their's a place for daring-do. Still it's well done, tight, and a mostly strong cast make it worth at least a rental, especially if you've never read the book and want to know the basics of the story. B+

hiya.

so the comic is at the printers. he ran into a few problems, so were correcting them on our end and getting the fixed pages back to him. Jessica has become fully incorporated into the lucky creature philosophy now. Meaning she's doing all the work and I'm taking the credit. Couldn't of done it without her. Oh well. On other fronts, Mark starts his tour this week. go see him on the east coast. And I have all the songs for the Disease/Network of Terror Split 7" and am working on the cover. How's everyone else?

COMIC day.

Big week for me with three titles. granted the guy in front of me got about thirty books, but hey I have way more geek passions than just four colored funny books.
ANyway it was a great week
Moon Knight # 2 Slowly bringing this characther back from what I guess can only be B-hero hell is a very enjoyable ride. I love David Finch's Artwork. It's superb.

Fell# 5. The best 1.99 any Law and Order or cop show fan could spend. EVER. I said this last issue but Warren Ellis hasn't written dialouge this tight in a long time.

And NOVA Annhiliation #2 Yeah. It's space, DRAX is funny? And then Quasar shows up? Quasar? Hopefully they don't try to make every Marvel space hero cool in this book. Some, like Quasar, just can't be cool. Not possible.

New Super Mario Bros Review.

First Up I need to admit I was seven years old the christmas my father brought home the Nintendo Entertainment System for me and my younger brother. It was the complete set, the one with ROB the robot, Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. And as you can see my life was changed forever right then. So yes this review may have nostalgia on it's side and that may be influencing me even though I don't believe that's the case. Here's my argument for that.

NEW Super Mario Bros. may very well be the best game on the DS. It's the best game I've played all year. The colors are crisp, the action quick and the pace steady. There are multiple ways to go through the game, and trust me you will want to unlock everything. Mario has never looked better and the game shows what could have been for the sidescroller if not the rush to 3d in the early 90's caused by Mario 64. Everything from the series is here. Every Villain you remember, every mushroom and power up and plenty of new ones as well. And it's great. Now your probably wondering how I can say this isn't clouded by my nostalgia for that christmas some twenty years ago? Here's how.
I was a Sonic boy. When that blue hedgehog blurred the screen, I went Sega and never looked back,. The gameplay just felt better, fresher. I truly believed that, and now I'm left wondering after enjoying NSMB all night and this morning, if maybe, just maybe I was wrong. This gameplay stands up today. And although Sonic Rush for the DS(which is the closest to real Sonic, we have gotten in along time) is good, it is by no means great. So I'm left with one explanation. Mario, as simple as he is, is still one of the greatest game creations in the history of VideoGames. And I'm glad we can still take a journey in the hazy 3-d world we live in, across a beautifully colored lush and vibrant 2-d platformer, that only makes you smile.

Thank You For Laughing.

Saw Thank you for Smoking the other day and it is quite funny, if you remember to drop all the political correctness and your personal views for and hour and a half. I would like to hear how the smokers out there took this movie. I thought it was funny and Aaron Eckhart is really above himself as an actor and does a marvelous job playing the main not quite morally centered star. Very Enjoyable flick and if your town is lucky enough to get a print, go enjoy it. A great directorial debut for Jason Reitman.

I know i've been posting way too much video game consumption lately but this is too funny. This video taken By Kotaku Online is of a stampede to get to the Nintendo booth on Friday's E3, and its quite a stampede. The funniest bit comes at the end when they show the employees in the nearly empty Sony booth next door shaking there heads in disbelief. Believe it people, Nintendo is back, and if the E3 crowd is any indication, we will all be fighting to play the Wii.

introducing the lucky creature mascot.

most likely this guy is the lucky creature monster that you have heard about on the eleven oclock news. does he scare you?

ebay. buy stuff. support the lucky creature

so im planning on writing the printing press a pretty large check tommorow to get our comic published so i've thrown a bunch of stuff on ebay under the seller name thepapercutstore , to help with that and also because i want a lot of gadgets and stuff. If you see anything that interests you make sure you bid and if you win mention your my friend and ill throw in something for ya.thanks I think you can see my items here but if that doesnt work just search by seller for thepapercutstore thanks an good luck bidding. I will add 27 graphic novels(mostly superhero but not all) over the weekend so look again!
scott
www.luckycreature.com

Wii Dreaming.

The wonderful folks over at joystiq have posted the most wonderful news. Smash Brothers is indeed coming to the Wii and it will work with the traditional gamecube controller which is just perfect for the game. Oh Wii hurry up and get here. I want to play with my Wii soooo bad. Hahaha. Shut Up U.

E3 quick notes.

O.k so the pre conference press conferences are over. What did I learn? Well for one I won't be getting a PS3 anytime soon. I consider myself a gaming geek, but if Sony thinks I'm shelling out half a grand for a system and thats before buying any games or extra controllers, then they are crazy. Most of the games will be available for the Xbox 360 which by that time may see a price drop anyway. Sorry Sony, Im not sacrificing my savings to touch your new shiny machine.

Wonderful Nintendo just keep walking to the beat of a different drummer. The Wii, will be the most unique thing gaming has every seen. I will buy one on day 1, i just wish Nintendo had set a release date, other than fall 2006. It will be neat to hear what the media says about the controller once they get there hands on it tommorow.

Xbox 360. I think Sony just upped you in my book. If you do drop your price on or around the PS3's launch I may have to give your evil empire some money. Plus you have Star Trek Legacy, and I might not be able to resist blowing up Romulans.

Iowa Renaissance Festival

We attended the Iowa Renaissance Festival yesterday in Middle Amana, and the weather was beautiful. According to the program this was a soft Renaissance Fest which for noobies like us that was just fine. Many of the vendors were selling unique products they made themselves and others unfortunately were hawking flea market style knives and swords.
The festival itself was well organized with many events going on at once but with multiple viewing oppurtunites so you had many chances to see everything. I especially enjoyed the Jade Tiger Dojo's Samurai demonstration and the Pirate Comedy Show, which at times was very raunchy as pirates should be. The jousting event was neat and very Busch Gardens, but for the price of the fest you got more than your moneys worth. I'd recommend the festival to all families looking for something to do next year. Very enjoyable, very friendly, very good time.

m-i-3 bring on the villians.

Mission Impossible 3, What a wonderful way to start the summer movie season. Big Bangs, and the best villian in Phillip Seymour Hoffman, that Hollywood has had in a while. He's really just too cool, to be so utterly evil. The movie doesn't slow down long enough for you to go hey wait what's happening and it works by keeping it fresh, and just a little hollywood lightness at the end is the only negative I can see in it. After the crap that was M-I-2 I had no desire to see this movie, but I am glad that I did. JJ Abrams uses all the right pieces from the television show, the team dynamic, the spy theme, and the MUSIC! I can't wait to see what Abrams does with Star Trek. Here's to the summer blockbusters. They just started with a bang.

Summer Movie Season is Here! May,

O.k, So the summer movie doldrums kick off tommorow with Mission Impossible 3. It's funny about a month ago I thought I wouldn't touch this film with a ten foot pole but now with the JJ Abrams star trek anouncement, my need for a good action flick and all the praise Phillip Seymour Hoffman is receiving as the villian, I think I will go see this matinee style. Let the summer begin!

The next weeks winner may not pass Mission Impossible 3, and may not even break the box offices top 5. Poisedon comes out May 12th and looks to be the last movie for all involved. Kurt Russell should probably just hang it up. This is like a collection of B-list actors symbolizing the ship their sinking on isn't this movie, it's their agents job. Stay Away!

On May 19th is the Da Vinci Code. Millions will go, Millions will complain how the book was better, which really just takes all the fun out of it. Since I didn't read the book I'll just make fun of Tom Hanks haircut and stare at Audrey Tatou.


One week Later it's time for the X-men. I still cringe that everything that was great about the first two movies has been missed here by Fox in an effort to beat Superman to the theatres. I hope to god Im wrong. In the past I could be so excited for this movie, now Im just scared.

and my May pick for movie that will be good but noone will see is
Art School Confidential. Terry Zwigoff(Ghost World) adapts another comic by Daniel CLowes (Ghost World). It has the right people in place, question is can Zwigoff breathe a full movie into a very small strip.

Wow. What movie's are you excited about this summer?

civil war. r.i.p. new warriors.

It's funny DC turned me off completely on their books with Infinite Crisis. In fact I'm not even interested in the whole one year later thing. The way i see it, they don't know where the story is going. Civil War on the other hand i think resonates because it's the marvel U, it feels more real, deals with more real topics. I think I may be the only New Warriors fan left on the planet, because my team is gone now, and I think I'm the only one who cares. Oh well, 1 issue down 6 to go, and if they are all this good we will have a mighty fine Marvel event on our hands.

Now Reading, The Tropic of Hockey, Now playing Bust a Move Ds, Brain Age Ds, Chaos FIeld(cube), Shadows of the Empire 64
now in my stereo. Joan of Arc, So much Staying alive.

araby fans unite!

for those of you who have seen punk bands, ate pot lucks, and been bitten by her, she's still kicking. Here she is waiting for the mailman. he has no clue what's coming.