Update of the Media-y Kind

I haven't had any coffee today.

My brain actually hurts.

Still haven't watched: Battlestar Galactica, Gilmore Girls or Veronica Mars.

Have managed to watch: Heroes, Little Mosquoe on the Prairie and Friday Night Lights

Forgot I rented: Sophie Scholl and Half Nelson

Comics Read: Manhunter - still very good. So of course they're cancelling it.

Meta-y thoughts: am I the only getting a ( maybe spoilerful thought on Starbuck in season three )

Grad School Applications Will Drive Me Insane!!!

Why couldn't this be easy? Academic references? I haven't been a full-time member of the faculty since 1997! The only professor in the entire fucking faculty who could actually put a face to my name hasn't taught me since 1993!

Gah!

I hate you GradSchoolApplications, I hate you so very much.

ToyFair 2007 Geekery

It's ToyFair time again and there are many, many pictures of shiny new toys kicking around the web for geeks like me to perv stare at. As I'm really all about DC Comics' characters these days, might as well start there:

Fables is currently my favourite comic not about to end its run, and I would love to get my hands on this stature of Bigby and Snow from "March of the Toy Soldiers" - ( Spoiler )

- but not for $195 American.

It doesn't look like I tagged the original post, so I can't link to the original sculpt for the 13" Nightwing figure but they seem to have resculpted his face to give the figure a far less fugly effect.

But the real surprise was that they're releasing a 13" Barbara Gordon BATGIRL!!! I didn't even know this one was in the works - I'm hoping that they tweak the design a little before final version, particularly around the head. And I think Bab's eyes are green (wow, maximum fangirl moment there. Sorry).

Still, no matter how much I love Batgirl, I'm just not sure about this one - it makes me want to write "Bruce Wayne gets transformed into a girl and he and Superman totally do it" slash. And then I feel dirty inside (and just a little bit turned on *eek*).

And this one is just a little too... Madonna in her "Vogue" phase around the boobs.

I'm not much of a Captain Marvel fan - my memories of the character date mostly to a mid-70s Saturday morning show that featured Captain Marvel and Osiris (possibly live action) and for years I thought, like Frankenstein's monster, that the character's name was actually "Shazaam!" These are still pretty damn cool.

Speaking of Madonna, I can't help feeling that if someone with a vagina was involved anywhere in the development process, we could have avoided this. *shudder* Barda deserves better.

Okay, I don't care how big a fan you are, Battlestar Galactica minimates are lame (as are minimates in general - excluding the Batgirl one I own 'cause I bought it back when BG got no action figure love at all). But these are fucking cool and if I don't get a Starbuck figure to play with play with immediately there will be hell to pay. Hell. With double hockey sticks.

"Toy Most Likely to Find Its Way Under rubberneck's Tree".

I do not understand the attraction (unless Carter and Hewitt are going to go off and start their own race of freakishly intelligent superbeings - that would amuse me) but all y'all Stargate fans should really check this gallery out. Vala's "accessory" alone is worth the price of admission - yes, her action figure appears to come with its own dildo. So wrong and yet, so completely in-character. ;)

Meanwhile, Cam's hair has taken on a life of it's own.

Also? Superhero Zombies. And sadly non-superpowered but still awesome Zombie fighters.

Baby's first Batman?

The answers to questions I can't believe anyone really asked: Part One and Part Two.

Over at Hasbro, it's clear that George Lucas wants to own your soul. The joke Carrie Fisher made about paying Lucas a royalty every time she looks in the mirror? Yeah, I'm beginning to think that wasn't no joke.

POTC fen can get an idea of Jack, Elizabeth and Chow-Yun Fat's character designs in POTC 3 by taking a boo at the NECA figures. No Will Turner - interesting: normally every conceivable boy figure is released before the female characters.

And finally, I'm looking forward to 300 as much as anyone but You've got to be kidding me.