Kick-Ass has been out in cinemas here in good old Blighty for a few weeks, but is only now just coming out in the USA. With the USA being the middle of the world, this means big important announcements and releases. First up is a trailer for the Kick-Ass game which is coming soon to PSN.
Reading comics takes far too much effort. You have to go to the shop – or wait for the postie to deliver, and then need to use your hands to turn the pages and worst of all move your eyes to each panel. Thankfully, we can save all this effort thanks to the Digital Comics application on the Sony PSP.
I am loving this news story…
An intruder received a taste of divine reckoning as he was chased from the Edinburgh flat he was breaking into by a man dressed as the Norse god Thor.
The housebreaker leapt from the first-floor window of the building to escape Torvald Alexander who was dressed-up for a New Year’s fancy dress party.
Mr Alexander, 39, said the man may have been intimidated by the costume he made of the god of thunder out of tin foil.
The intruder did not manage to take anything from the flat in Inverleith.
Mr Alexander, a builder, said he was inspired to dress as Thor by the Marvel comic series.
I like to imagine that the burgler was later struck by lightning.
LINK (BBC)
If, like me, you often feel a bit left out simply because you were born too late to fully appreciate ground-breaking stuff (Led Zeppelin, D-Day, Florida in the 80’s), every now and again something comes along to help you out.Of course you all know about Tank Girl – if I am assuming too much, please sort your life out. But for many of us, we were simply too young to make the oh-so-edgy purchase of Deadline magazine in which she first appeared. But now your patient consciences can be appeased. The Cream of Tank Girl has recently been released (are books released? Published then) in which you can pore over sketches, exclusive images and read about the creation and history of one of the greatest comic characters ever. It’s a sort of encyclopedia of Tank Girl knowledge written by the two creators Alan Martin (writer) and Jamie Hewlett (illustrator). So it’s also slightly autobiographical, but in a good way.
I’ve only managed to flip through a copy of it myself, but from what I see, this is something you’ll all appreciate if you are cool, cultured and know what’s good for you. It’s only a tenner on Amazon too.
LINK (Amazon)
Cutting edge fashion designers often go for unusual materials, and the Wonder Woman costume above is no exception-according to designer Dina Sadik:
“It’s a merciless element. It shows no mercy, it has no mercy. You have to have your timing, you have to have the temperature, you have to have the humidity right. Everything has to be right. You have one shot at it, one shot.”
So, what is this deadly new material? Steel? Barbed Wire? Kryptonite? Nope. The Wonder Woman suit above is crafted from pure…chocolate. Never heard chocs described as ‘mercyless’ before, but as pics from the 11th annual New York chocalate fashion awards show (Think about that for a bit..someone has made a living for 11 years from covering covergirls in chocolate…), it can be effective body armor as well as a tasty treat. Looking forward to this hitting the high street next season.
