Heroes Pop Quiz #2
Time for another thrilltastic edition of the Heroes Pop Quiz! Will this happen every week or just until Sarah finally deletes the show from her TiVo? You’ll see! It’s like all those season 1 cliffhangers!
SPOILERS within.
The 50 Things That No Great Comics Collection Needs To Have
Inspired by Tom Spurgeon, my own public service.
1. Lady Death
2. Chuck Austen
3. Brute Force
4. Milo Ventimiglia
5. Water damage
6. Psycho Pirate getting his eyes poked out
7. Three copies of Watchmen
8. CGC
9. The cast of Guiding Light
10. Polybags
11. Alan Moore’s WildCATS
12. Shitty minicomics
13. Power Girl’s rack
14. Alf
15. Film adaptations
16. Film adaptations of movies based on comic books
17. Mold
18. Liefeld
19. James Robinson’s WildCATS
20. The death of Justice League Europe
21. Nancy Reagan
22. Male superheroes becoming females briefly
23. The Beyonder’s hair circa Secret Wars II
24. Dust mites
25. Silverblade
26. Collectible trading cards
27. Ed Benes
28. Magical marriage retcons
29. Ass shots (see #27)
30. Henry Kissinger
31. A collection of webcomics printed off your computer on a dot-matrix
32. Nicholas Cage
33. Archie
34. Jason Todd…alive
35. Grant Morrison’s WildCATS
36. Anybody’s WildCATS (okay, maybe Joe Casey’s)
37. Mara Jade
38. Foil covers
39. Wonder Dog eating Marvin
40. Postcard inserts inviting you to get more information about the Navy
41. Danity Kane
42. Bloodwynd
43. Sagas involving clones
44. Harley Quinn
45. Freddy Krueger
46. Al Bundy
47. Cockroaches
48. Simon Cowell
49. Anything co-written by William Shatner
50. A blog
Well, that's just about perfect
Steeped in the hip hop of the 80s, me and rap have slowly parted ways over the years, only occasionally agreeing on a track. And while I can appreciate a Young Jeezy track, I consider guys like this home. The video is fun, but the kicker starts at 2:10
Losing Faith In Medical Science
So, Grey’s Anatomy had its fifth season premiere last night, and it further confirmed my desire to never be hospitalized for any reason.
Now, don’t get me wrong – I love every poorly-lit juke and jink in Meredith Grey’s tortured, self-obsessed psyche, and the sassy TV banter that’s the closest I can come to wit on basic cable now that Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars have had their genius transmuted into ephemera.
What struck me during this two hour festival of emotional tragedy in which affairs are revealed, people are impaled with icicles and the phrase “You’re my person” or some variation of it is uttered something like 80 times, is mostly the sheer idiocy of every single one of the characters. Except for Dr. Journeyman, who is apparently only around for this episode, if IMDB is to be believed.
GA used to have a cast of relatively normal people that provided a stark contrast to Meredith Grey’s angry, frustrated megalomaniac depression. Over time, though, every character on the show has become so tainted by her contagious insanity that none of them are capable of behaving like adults any longer. The Chief, the brilliant surgeons, the nursing staff, the interns, the residents – all of them are idiots. Of course Seattle Grace isn’t a top-tier hospital any longer – the best heart surgeon in the country quit because of a bad break-up, one of their interns murdered a patient, and the nurses are too busy having sex to remember to pass meds on a good day. And the Chief is right, it’s all Meredith’s fault.
God, do I love this show.
Extra! Extra! Alert Nerdian for May-June '08!
Download: Alert Nerdian broadside PDF – May-June 2008
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Like Sargent Rock, we refuse to go down! But, there will be much whining – it will sound a lot like, “Maaan, these broadsides are haaard.” They are not, in fact, hard, but they do take some amount of time and time has been tight of late – but they’re still here! We can take no credit for the concept – this is Warren Ellis’ brainchild and if his madness and alcohol consumption (it’s not slander if someone Twitters about it all the time, is it?) doesn’t interfere with his prolific production of prose, then py polly pe’ll peep paking these proadsides. Sleep be damned.
Nonsense alliteration is awesome.
Here is the fifth issue of the Alert Nerdian broadside, representing May and June of 2008. Expect another for July and August, and then we’ll be back to singles (and a Halloween issue! Fun!) As always, we encourage you to print a copy or two (or ten) out and share with the world. Leave them in the pooper or someplace equally cool. It’s up to you!
The plan will be to formally publish a year’s bushel of broadsides along with our upcoming Alert Nerd quarterly ‘zine – which is looking for clever people, it should be said.
Until next month… LOOK OUT! NERDS!
