Bane Will Be In Batman: Arkham Asylum

 

 

And he looks really pissed off.

 

Just mark this up as reason number 147 on an ever growing list of things that have me drooling over the upcoming video game Batman: Arkham Asylum.  As this clip shows, Bane (who you may remember as the dude who broke Batman's back) will be appearing in the game, and it looks like he's being used by the Joker as a tool to beat good ol' Bats down.

 

God damn this game looks good.  I swear, every new clip I see makes the game look better and better.  And I know I've said this before about a million times now, but having Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill voicing Batman and The Joker (respectively) in the game just ads that extra amount of awesome that has me wetting my pants in anticipation of this game.  Everytime Batman says anything, even something simple like "Get behind me" like he does in this clip, I get this nerdy little shiver of joy that goes up my spine.  If they had cast anyone else as Batman for this game, it would have been a crime.  Thank god the developers knew better.

 

The game comes out on June 23rd, which can't possibly get here soon enough.  You can preorder it on Amazon for the Xbox 360 and the PS3.  Oh, and the cover art looks like this:

 

Retro Sci-Fi Pin Up Girl Art Is Super Awesome

 

The above image was created by artist Andrew Bawidamann, who specializes in drawing retro 50's pin up girls.  You can see his galleries of amazing work over at his website. 

 

Most of the work is of Military women, but there are also a goodly number of sci-fi pin up girls as well.  All of his pieces are done with a very retro, almost rockabilly vibe to them that I really love.  The style is very simple and isn't overdone with detail.  It leaves the image very clean, stylized and pretty looking.

 

Be sure to check out his Old School pin up gallery for some of my favorite pieces including a sexy Bride of Frankenstein, a super hot Witch on a broomstick and of course my personal favorite . . . the Pirate Wench.

 

(Via IO9)

Moon Looks More And More Amazing With Every Clip I See

 

Moon looks to be an incredible Science Fiction film.  Please note there that I said Science Fiction, and not Sci-fi.  This isn't going to be your standard sci-fi action/adventure shoot 'em up with Aliens.  No, Moon looks to be a hell of a lot more in the style of 2001: A Space Odyssey.  It's a character driven story about a miner on the moon, played by Sam Rockwell, who is forced to deal with extreme isolation for an extended period of time as he does his job.  His only companion is the station's AI which is voiced by Kevin Spacey.

 

Of course, things on the station aren't exactly what they seem, and strange events start to unfold.  And to make matters worse, the AI may or may not be lying to the main character. 

 

The film looks to have elements of many other great Science Fiction films before it.  Aside from the aforementioned 2001 and it's obvious references to HAL, I also get a feeling of the isolation that was delivered so excellently in the original Alien film as well as a bit of a Blade Runner vibe as well.

 

The film is directed by Duncan Jones, who happens to be the son of David Bowie.  It's been getting rave reviews at the film festivals it has screened at, and is set for a limited release in the US in June.

Today Is A Really Crappy Day For Spider-Man

 

Yeah, I know that most days are usually pretty crappy for Spider-man.  That is, afterall, sort of his thing.  But today's news even goes above the normal level of suckyness that is Peter Parker's life.  J. Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle and all around Spider-man hater, has just been elected as the Mayor of New York City in the Marvel Universe.

 

Now I know that when I usually post some bit of comic book news here on Geek-tastic, I generally do it so I can mock what a stupid thing the news item is.  I use it to point out that this is why I stopped reading comics, and I say something along the lines of "Comic writing has gotten so bad lately, it's painful to even read about anymore."

 

However, I'm not going to do that with this particular bit of news.  In fact, I'm going to praise this as an incredibly funny and potentially awesome story development in the Spider-man books.

 

The idea of "Jolly" Jonah Jameson as the Mayor of NYC is really funny in my opinion.  It's a great concept, and I can't wait to find out how he totally abuses his power to make Spider-man's life even more miserable than it already is.  What will Jameson do with his newfound power?  Will he ban masked vigilantism in the city, thus making Spidey a criminal who's on the run from the law?  Will he have special NYPD forces trained in the art of capturing superheroes just so they can hunt the webhead down?  Will he use taxpayer money to build some giant machine that negates Spider-man's wall crawling abilities?  Will he start charging him fines for every window he breaks or every building or city block that is destroyed during his battles?

 

The possibilities are endless.  I only hope that the writers get really creative with this and have a lot of fun with the idea of Jameson using his position to torture Spider-man.  This is just as good as when Lex Luthor was voted in as President of the US and Superman had to do what he said.  I love it when stuff like this happens. 

 

Kudos Marvel.  This is an excellent idea.  But that bit at the bottom of the pic about Aunt May's lovelife has me a little creeped out.  Ok, make that a lot creeped out.  I'm feeling nauseous now. 

 

And just how in the hell is the Vulture going to "debut" in the next issue?  The vulture, as both a character and a man, are ancient.  They've been around forever.  You can't have something "debut" that has been in your books for the last 30 or 40 years already.  It makes no sense.

 

(Via Topless Robot)

Great Geek Apparel That Could Save Your Life

 

If you're a geek like me, at some point in your life you've contemplated what it would be like to travel back through time.  You've pondered what it would be like to suddenly find yourself stranded out in the middle ages, or maybe in ancient Greece or Rome.  What would you do in that time?  Would you adapt and live like the people of the time, or would you use your knowledge of the future and of science to change the world and forever make yourself an important historical figure?

 

How would you do this though?  Unlike Ash from Army of Darkness, most of us probably won't be lucky enough to get transported back in time with a car's trunk full of science and math books.  How will you possibly carry the knowledge of the present back in time with you to change the past?

 

Why not wear it?

 

This new shirt, which you can purchase here, has all of the essentials that you might need if you were to suddenly find yourself stuck somewhere in the past.  Need to know how to pasteurize milk?  It's on the shirt.  Need to know how to build an airplane?  It's on the shirt.  Suddenly find yourself with an infection and need to know how to make penicillin?  It's on the shirt too.

 

The shirt has everything you may find yourself needing were you to ever, oh let's say, find yourself trapped in London in 1324.  Everything from magnets to electricity, compases to chemistry, building radios to treating diabetes, it can all be found on the shirt.

 

If you're planning to ever travel through time, or fear that you may one day become an unwilling traveller of time, then this shirt is definitely for you.  It has pretty much everything you'll ever need to make the most of your new life in the past.  Use it well.

 

Want to see a close up of the shirt so you can read it?  Check it out.

 



 

(Via GeekDad)

Geek Item Of The Week - 04/15/09

 

Star Trek Bottle Opener

 

There's nothing in this world that I love better than something that can merge two things I love into one super awesome thing.  It's like making dreams come true when that happens, and this bottle opener achieves that level of greatness. 

 

Blending together two things that I love, Star Trek and Booze, this little bottle opener is a treasure that I must own.  Shaped to look like a miniature starship enterprise, the saucer section of the ship can be used to open bottles of whichever tasty alcoholic beverage your heart desires.

 

Of course, it also goes great with Romulan Ale.

 

People Sure Do Scream "Nooooooooooooooo!" A Lot

 

Out of random curiosity (and a goodly bit of boredom) I decided on a whim to go to youtube and type the word "Nooooooooo" into the search bar.  I did this thinking someone must have posted that hilarious clip of Darth Vader screaming it at the end of Episode III.  What I found though was so much better. 

 

Someone has put together an awesome compilation of characters screaming some variation of "Nooooo!" from all sorts of different TV shows and movies.  I hadn't really thought about it until I watched the clip, but people tend to shout "Noooooo!" a lot in movies and on TV.  I don't know what it is, but it seems to be the "go to" word when something tragic is happening.

 

And yes, I did find the Darth Vader clip included amongst the many Nooooo's, but for the record, my favorite three Nooooooo's from the compilation are as follows:

 

3rd Place:  Starscream from the Transformers cartoon - It's all about the echo effects of his Nooooooooo as he floats off into space.  It just sort of trails off as he flies away, almost as if he was still screaming it but he's now too far away for us to hear it.

 

2nd Place: Captain Picard from the movie Star Trek: First Contact - Aside from the fact that Patrick Stewart can make anything sound cooler just because his voice is so awesome, his Noooooo here is a solid double Noooooo.  It starts off small and then builds to a higher level.  And if you can smash a conveniently located glass display to help you make your point, then that just adds to the strength of the Noooooo.

 

1st Place:  Luke Skywalker from The Empire Strikes Back - As awesome as Vader's Noooooooo was at the end of Episode Three, it pales in comparison to the Noooooooo his son belts out at the end of Episode Five.  But that's Luke for you, always trying to one up his dad.  Luke's delivery of the Nooooooo is amazing.  His face gets all scrunched up and he looks like a pissed off five year old kid who was just told that his favorite toy has been broken.  To heighten his anguish, Luke screams Nooooo multiple times and adds a tone of ragged inflection into his voice, almost like the Noooooo was so hard that it hurt his vocal chords to produce it.  Congrats Luke, you have the greatest movie Noooooooo of all time!