Wotan!

Who would have thought that this guy

 would look like the gent below

and be taken more seriously?

...well, me, to be honest. I always thought he'd be a cool bad guy if people could get past the bright red outfit. It looks like the folks behind Young Justice have done a nice job on him!

New Iron Man 3 villain revaled

News sources (including this one) report that Ashley Hamilton has been cast in "Iron Man 3" as the supervillain Firepower.

Based on this image, I suspect he'll be getting an upgrade for the movie.

I'd pay 12 cents for that!

Not sure who to credit this to (I found it here), but... wow.

Not dead yet...

...more like being in critical condition.

A little more than a year ago, my main hard drive crashed. I was able to retrieve most of my data, but I was faced with a bit of an existential crisis. "Why bother spending time on a goofy blog no one cares about anyway?"

I figured I'd just join the faceless masses and join Facebook. Content myself with playing Farmville and sharing pictures from George Takei...

Only I find that Facebook is a really weird place to get passionate about anything, whether it be family, hobbies, friends, whatever, because EVERYONE can see now. Even the casual acquaintances I meet at my kids' school, my old high school and college classmates, or past coworkers. Or even, GULP!, judgmental in-laws!

So, last night while undergoing a fitful night's sleep, the thought occurred: "Restart your blogs."

So here I am.

And I'm glad to be back.

Been playing around a bit...

...it might be easier to find me making an annoyance of myself at my Facebook page.

Still experimenting with this social networking stuff. I'm often on Facebook in my secret identity, but I like posting about current events without my comments being lost within a swarm of others. Perhaps once my sidekicks are back in school, I'll be able to concentrate better on my various blogs...

Feel free to join me there if you're already on Facebook. Maybe you'll even see something you like there!

Whoa!

Is this what the City of Heroes Spines powerset wishes it could grow up to look like?

Hector Hammond outed as GL movie villain

io9 reports that Tim Robbins has been added to the cast of the Green Lantern movie as the disapproving father of Hector Hammond. Details in the link as to how Hammond Senior and Junior figure into the plot. Let's just say it doesn't involve strange meteors with mutagenic powers.

Normally, I'd be glad to see Hammond get the big screen treatment. He has a classic sci-fi psionic villain look with his giant head and atrophied body. He's kind of like DC's MODOK, but less freakish and without the cool chair; Hammond also predates MODOK by about a decade or so. Hammond seemed to be severely under-utilized at DC for years, which always struck me as bizarre. Here was a natural diamond in the rough character, a character who could have been a serious threat but was instead stuck in a chair in prison for most of the 70s and 80s. Not the most visually dynamic character, I suppose. Still, I recall when the Superman animated series was in full swing, one of the writers (I think) said it was tough to get a decent rogues gallery for the Man of Steel. My first thought was that they should've borrowed Hector Hammond, and introduced him as a competitor of Lex Luthor who seemed to have a knack for developing tech which Luthor only had on his drawing boards. It would've been revealed later that he had a mutagenic meteor which gave him psychic powers which gave him an edge over Lex and Superman. Ah well. Maybe I'll use the idea as a story for some of my own characters...