The New Geek Force Five
Editor’s Note: In case the reference to April 1 didn’t make it clear, this article was part of GF5’s April Fool’s Day Joke for 2008.
This is it, folks. This is the moment that you’ve all been waiting for. Starting tomorrow, April 1, 2008, I am going to finally come clean and be honest with all of you. Starting tomorrow, I’m abandoning all pretense, and I’m going to write about the five things that I really geek out about the most: Hannah Montana, Heidi Montag, Ryan Seacrest, Grey’s Anatomy, and Tyra Banks.
The time to get real is now, folks. It’s right fucking now. If you’re reading this via RSS, please do make sure to stop by the site to see the changes we’ve made. I think you’ll really appreciate the refreshing display of honesty on display.
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Geek Force FiveCast 006 (Video)
After a two-week hiatus, I’ve brought the Geek Force FiveCast back to life. I’m going to tweak the format a bit. Instead of “five stories, in five minutes or less, five times a week”, I am going to promise a more reasonable “five minutes of geeky content per week.” That’s something that I think I can stick to, something that would have been even easier to stick to tonight, had iMovie cooperated and imported the first version of this show that I recorded earlier today.
In today’s FiveCast, I bring you up to speed on the format change and then talk about my organization system in iTunes. I don’t think it’s nearly as boring as that sentence makes it out to be.
If you’d like, you can subscribe to the show as a podcast via PodShow.com.
Live Action Simpsons Movie
Big ups to my pal Sara for pointing me in the direction of Filmonic’s casting ideas for a live-action Simpsons film. I’m particularly fond of the decision to cast William H. Macy as Ned Flanders and Ian McDiarmid as Mr. Burns.
Last Time on Lost: Meet Kevin Johnson
Teasing tonight’s episode for Entertainment Weekly’s Doc Jensen, Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof says… oh, waitaminute, one of our Geek Force interns just came in to deliver some terrible, terrible news. He tells me, not only is this not a Thursday (the night Lost airs here in the U.S.), but that there will be no new episodes of Lost until April 24, and therefore no weekly teases from Damon Lindelof. Oh, man! What the hell am I going to do with myself?
Rewatch the episodes that have already aired, apparently. Here, below the fold, are some of my thoughts on the last episode of Lost that aired here in the United States, “Meet Kevin Johnson.” These should have been up last week, but I stuffed so many envelopes last week that it sapped my will to blog.
Secret Invasion: “The Marvel Universe will not be the same.”
Entertainment Weekly has “an exclusive early peek” at Secret Invasion #1, the first issue in a summer mini-series from Marvel Comics. The series, which will run for eight issues, three of which might actually come out on time, is set to depict the payoff to a storyline that writer Brian Michael Bendis has been spinning for years. The Skrulls, a race of extraterrestrial shape-shifting bad-asses who have been kicking around the Marvel Universe since 1962’s Fantastic Four #2, have apparently infiltrated every corner of the Earth’s infrastructure and, now that they’ve been found out by the super-team the Avengers, they’re ready to announce their intentions to the world.
In an interview with EW’s Nisha Gopalan, Bendis promises that, when Secret Invasion ends, “[t]he Marvel Universe will not be the same.” Gopalan counters, “That’s what everyone says about an event comic!” To which Bendis replies:
Well, we’ve proven over time that House of M, Civil War, Secret War — none of these did leave the universe the way it was. The criticism going into Civil War is that it’s going to be a draw: Captain America’s dead and Tony Stark is running the world. That wasn’t the way it was when we started. These are big things for the characters. So on that note, we can only stand by our track record.
And y’know what? Their track record lately has been good, despite what the peanut gallery over on the Newsarama forums would have you believe. In the past few years, when Marvel has promised big change, they have delivered (for better or worse). Cap is dead, Iron Man is ruling the world, the mutant population is down to a little bit less than 200 worldwide, and Spider-Man isn’t married anymore (but he isn’t divorced, and he isn’t a widower; his marriage just never happened, thanks to Mephisto).
This is one comic that I won’t be missing, because I can’t wait to see if Marvel has the balls to keep shaking things up. And you, even if you’re a casual comics fan, should not miss it either. Marvel makes nearly every mini-series it puts out a self-contained affair (they’re always looking to pull in new readers, of course, plus they’re trying to think ahead to the eventual trade paperback release), so you should be able to jump on board even if you haven’t read anything in a while.
