Sadness, Thy Name Is The New Wonder Woman Costume

The good news, they're making a new Wonder Woman TV series that will be airing on NBC later this year.

The bad news, this is the costume that actress Adrianne Palicki will be donning in this new series.

Ugh. Really? This is the best they could do? She looks like a hooker in a cheap Halloween costume! What's that thing made out of, paper thin vinyl? How is that supposed to protect her when she goes into battle? Also, when did Wonder Woman get a really bad boob job? What's wrong with those things? Why are they so far apart?

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of the pants instead of her typical star spangled panties thing she usually wears. I've never really understood why the princess of the Amazons would basically wear part of the American Flag to cover her lady bits, seeing as how she's not American, but whatever. The pants are a good idea, but can we get them made out of leather or something more befitting a warrior princess? Please?

Also, honey, tone down the red lipstick a bit. Lipstick is fine and all, but slathering on five layers of it in a color that bright just makes you look like a prostitute. I'm sorry, but it's true.

To be honest, I already had my worries about this show after I had heard about how the new incarnation of Wonder Woman is a CEO who has a tendency to worry about the size of her boobs. Now, after seeing this pic, I am very worried indeed. Just how bad is this new live action series going to be?

As I always am, I'm still deep down optimistic that it won't end up being the horribly bad piece of crap that I fear it's going to be. Only time will tell though. In the mean time, I'm not exactly eagerly awaiting this show's premiere date.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Friday Happy Hour

It just so happens to be my birthday weekend, so here at Geek-tastic we are going to start this party off right by serving up a tasty cold cocktail guaranteed to be as cold (and maybe even as tasty) as the woman it is named after.

Emma Frost, The White Queen. Sometimes X-man, sometimes member of the Hellfire Club. You can never really tell where her loyalties lie, but one thing is always for certain. Whenever she's around, you can rest assured that Scott Summers (aka Cyclops) will be trailing along close behind her like the pussy-whipped little lap dog he is.

In fact, in honor of Scott's status as Emma's bitch boy, there is even an optional Scott-based alcoholic sidecar to go along with this drink. So, without further ado . . . . . I give you:

The Emma Frost

Ingredients:

• 1 part Vanilla Vodka
• 1 part Sprite
• 1 splash of Key Lime Juice
• 1 sliced Lemon

• OPTIONAL: 1 oz Cranberry Juice
• OPTIONAL: 1 oz Southern Comfort

Instructions:

Combine Vodka, Sprite and ice in a collins glass, then add the Key Lime Juice and stir. Garnish with the lemon (Emma is blonde, after all) and drink while making snide remarks about Kitty Pryde.

For a Scott and Emma, combine the Cranberry Juice and SoCo in a shot glass and serve as a sidecar to the Emma Frost.

(Via Comics Alliance)

The New Tron Cartoon Looks Surprisingly Amazing

Shortly before Tron: Legacy was released in theaters, Disney announced that they were making an animated series that would take place between the two live-action films, which would be called Tron: Uprising. When this first announcement was made, I was highly skeptical. Disney, as much as I love them, is not really known for making amazing movie tie-in shows. Upon hearing of Tron: Uprising, my head was filled with images of a badly written, badly animated series that I would try to pretend never existed in the years to come.

Then I saw the above trailer.

Holy crap, it looks god damned amazing. Ok, I'll be the first to admit when I'm wrong, and I may have very well been wrong in fearing that Tron: Uprising was going to suck horribly. Let's look at all of the trailer's high points, and it has many:

• The animation looks gorgeous.
• It features a great blend of classic hand-drawn animation and CG.
• It has light cycles that can turn at 90 degree angles.
• The music sounds great. Very Daft Punk-esque.
• Elijah Wood and Paul Reubens are featured in the voice cast.

And last, but certainly not least

• Bruce Boxleitner will be the voice of Tron.

Hells Yes! Ok, I'm officially excited about this series now. Yes, it could still just as easily suck horribly if the story is bad, but at the very least it will look pretty while sucking horribly. If nothing else, I can put it on in the background for pretty visuals while listening to music.

Somehow though, I get the feeling that this show may possibly end up being awesome. At least, that's what I'm hoping.

Random Awesomeness

I'd bet good money that Rorschach makes the best Soy Chai Lattes in town. He probably gets all creative and pours the drinks in such a way that he creates little ink blot tests in the foam.

I just feel sorry for the poor sap who comes to his shop and tries to order a non-fat hazelnut mocha with extra foam. I heard he broke the legs of the last person who ordered that while screaming, "We don't serve those kinds of drinks here you dirty hippy!!!"

(Via Sci-Fi Wire)

In Which A Sad Banker Does Something Drastic

A few weeks back, my very good friend (and occasional Geek-tastic contributor) Mike Noyes approached me with a concept for a short film he wanted to make. The general idea was to make something really simple, that we could shoot in a day and which would only require the two of us to make.

The result is what you see above. We hope you like it. Filming it was definitely an . . . . interesting experience for me. Just watch it and you'll understand.

This is actually the first of a series of unrelated short films we'd like to make. I'll be sure to post more of them here as they get released.

Retro Star Wars Posters Make Me Happy

I absolutely adore these delightfully retro-styled Star Wars posters by artist Szoki. You can see larger versions of these posters HERE as well as three other posters featuring Greedo, Hammerhead, and one of the Bith musicians from the Mos Eisley Cantina.

On a totally unrelated side notw, to this day it still amuses me that according to official Star Wars cannon, the cantina band members are referred to as Jizz-wailers. This is because the style of music they play is called a jizz.

Yes, I am only 8 years old.

Welcome To Geek-Tastic.com 3.0

Hey there,

Well, it's about that time again. It's time for another Geek-Tastic site update. We are now on version 3.0 of the site. For those of you who recall, version 2.0 involved the site jumping from being hosted privately by my good friend Josh Lander to being hosted by the online community called Squarespace.

The move to Squarespace was good at the time because it offered a number of things that private hosting through Josh couldn't. First and foremost, it freed up my poor Josh from having to work on the site all the time for no pay. Thanks for all of that work Josh. I really do appreciate everything you've done for the site. :)

The move also allowed me to take more control of the look of the site. Squarespace is great with some of their templates and tools to design things. The site suddenly looked a bit more professional, and I was also able to have more direct access to site controls and was better able to monitor site usage. However, there were a number of things about the move that I didn't like.

The biggest detractor to Squarespace was the price. It cost $100 to sign up for one year, and that yearly price just jumped up to $150 a year. I'll be honest here, I like having this site, but it's really just meant to be a creative outlet and hobby where I share cool news that I find and try to stretch my writing muscles a bit. I can't really afford to spend $150 a year to keep the site going (that's not even counting URL registry fees and the cost of a Flickr pro account) on a site that I haven't really been posting to regularly anyways for the past year. I needed to find an alternative, and preferably a free one if I could.

I had used Google's Blogger site before, but this was years ago and I didn't care for it at the time. It seemed too restricted for what I wanted. Recently though, my friend Robert Magness asked me to design a new site for the Matt and Wes vs. The Zombie Apocalypse web series using the Blogger tools and that experience was a bit of a revelation for me. I'll freely admit that I'm not the most tech savvy guy in the world, but even I was able to hop into Blogger's tools and figure out how to make a decent looking site in only an hour or two.

I was so happy with this experience, I decided right then and there to move Geek-tastic over to blogger. The options it now offers are exactly what I wanted. It's easy to use and set up, I was able to import over all of my other content from Squarespace, and best of all . . . it's free.

As an added bonus, I am able once again to set up contributor accounts for others who write things for the site. This was something that Squarespace didn't offer unless I wanted to shell out even more money. You have no idea how happy this makes me. I felt really bad when suddenly I was the only person who could access the site once I moved from Josh's hosting to Squarespace. Thankfully, that isn't a problem any more.

There are some small downsides to moving to Blogger though, but they're minor. First, all of the pictures that were hosted on my previous Squarespace site will be lost once that site gets shut down in a month or two. To combat this, I've updated the last year or so worth of posts so that the images in the articles are hosted elsewhere. That means that if you go looking through the site's archives, you will probably notice that a little over a year out, a lot of posts will be missing photos. I'm sorry about that, but there's just too many posts to update (0ver 1,300) and I couldn't get to them all. Besides, most people aren't going to be looking up a lot of dated news from over a year ago anyways. Hopefully, you'll forgive me for some bad, older posts.

Also, I can't seem to figure out how to make the Web Comic button in the main navigation bar become a link that takes you directly to the separate Geek-Tastic Web Comic site. The best I can do for now is to provide a link on that page to the Web Comic site. I apologize for the requirement of a second click-through. If anyone knows how I can fix that, please by all means feel free to let me know in the comments, or email me at geek.tastic@yahoo.com.

Ok, enough rambling on my part. I hope you like the new layout of the site. I've made some changes to the navigation bar on the right, as you can see. I will most likely continue to make tweaks and fixes to the format going forward too. Let me know what you guys think of it.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled Nerd Blog.