MIA

A few weeks ago I had a pretty good blog post going, but when Firefox unexpectedly shut down I found I didn't have the energy to type it all again. That put a dent in the momentum of this thing, a momentum that I am hoping to reclaim by featuring some great (and some not so great) things found on the internet the last few days.

First up, if you are not on twitter you should be. No, not because Ashton Kutcher is on it or because everyone is doing it, but because it's genuinely an entertaining and informative service. For example, within 20 "tweets" i received the following information:

Mark Millar (twitter.com/mrmarkmillar) tweeted that he is currently writing the second issue of the new series of Kick Ass. But he didn't leave it at that, he also stated that in this new series Hit Girl will be training Kick Ass and Red Mist will possibly have a side-kick, whom will square off with hit girl in the series ending.

Sean Phillips (twitter.com/seanpphillilps) tweeted a link to his blog, where it featured the new cover for the next Incognito series, "Bad Influences"

Next up we have a few people who are just funny to follow. For those of you who aren't familiar with twitter, many people have fake twitter accounts which many times they are impersonating another person/character. I myself follow a few fake accounts, below are a sampling of those as wells as some recent tweets:

@God_Damn_Batman Finally destroyed Robin's iPod. It's impossible to brood when Justin Bieber is blasting in the upstairs guest room.
 @Mickey_Rourke I never actually auditioned for Genghis Khan. I just happened to be charging onto the studio lot swinging a battle axe at the time.
  Also a great combo to follow is @GaryJBusey & @Nick_Nolte, both of whom seem to constantly be at war between eachother. 

In sad news,  after an all too brief run, one of my favorite comic book series "AIR" is being canceled. The writer, G Willow Wilson, has assured fans that she had a lot of notice about it's cancellation and will be ending the series in a way she intended it to, albeit sooner than she intended. The third TPB is set to be released June 1st, and the series will be finished by the end of the year.
On the bright side, Wilson has stated she will not be leaving comics, so we can look forward to something new *fingers crossed* by next year.




TV news, if you haven't been watching Community this season, you really haven't been watching TV, have you? To give you a brief synopsis, the show revolves around a Spanish study group who are as diverse as the student body of the community college they attend. But if you were hoping this would help you with your spanish, you can forget it, since no studying ever actually takes place.

The cast includes Joel McHale (The Soup, Informant), Allison Brie (Mad Men), Chevy Chase, and a few other people who are pretty new to TV but with any luck will become more popular. If you're worried about where to start, don't. The show has almost no continuing story lines so any episode is a great staring point. Just in case though, here is a quick overview of the characters:

Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) The cool guy of the group. He is forced to go back to Community College after it is found out that his law degree is fake. He starts the group in a failed attempt to get Britta to go on a date with him.

Britta Perry (Gillian Jacobs) Jeff's love interest. She recently received her GED and now looking to extend her education. Reason for the GED instead of a diploma? She dropped out of high school to impress a rock band, then went on a stint working in...I want to say Greenpeace.

Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi) My favorite character of the show. Abed is the social commentator of the show. He is obsessed with movies & tv and in every episode you will see him making allusions to the similarity of the situation to something he's recently seen on film.

Annie Edison (Allison Brie) The high strung, young, cute girl of the group. She barely graduated high school after suffering from a mental breakdown and becoming addicted to pills. But you would never know it from looking at her.

Shirley Bennett (Yvette Brown) The mother hen of the group. She is going to school to get a business degree so she can run an online business selling brownies. Her and

Troy Barnes (Donald Glover) The jock, he lost out on a big football scholarship after he hurt his ankle doing a keg stand. Him and Abed are best friends and Annie is harboring a secret crush for him.

Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase) If Community was every guilty of having a "hook", he is it. Throwing his name on the credits certainly peaked my interest. He is the old, creepy guy of the group who it seems is desperately clinging to his long gone youth. Whether it's making racist comments to someone onscreen or making inappropriate advances on one of the castmembers, he's always good for a laugh.

So there it is, after re-reading my synopsis it's a wonder this works. Please, don't let me spoil it. Just watch it. (Get past the first episode) It's a great show and lord knows those are few and far between these days.

~Holden