Morsels

Man I'm running out of clever titles for these entries. Time to break out the thesaurus!

Cary's new column is up in which he makes mention of several recommended sites related to comics to visit. Among them he mentions Scryptic Studios and Comic Avalanche, to which I am thankful and grateful. He also mentions Creatorfuze, which is a new daily haunt of mine. It's a great column and you should all check it out!

Speaking of Comic Avalanche, the new home page is finally up, and I love how it turned out. It's much more crisp and organized I think. It's fun and everything's really easy to get to. Go check it out if just to see that!

In the coming days the new Staff page will go up as well, which has some killer fun cartoon style caricatures of the staff illustrated by Wanabez artist Scott D.M Simmons (check out the artist links in the sidebar for more of his work). Scott is a champ and did an excellent job. Just like with WBZ, it was like he was connected to my brain and produced exactly what I had envisioned in my mind! I'll post here when it's up so you can all check it out!

Scryptic Studios may also being going through some changes in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for news of that. I can tell you that we are focusing more on comic writing than anything else, though we will still have articles and resources for the general writer. More to come.

Midnight Studio Comics is also in the process of getting a brand new web design. News on that as it nears completion.


American Idol began tonight. I only watched the first half as I taped the rest so I could watch Supernatural (which was not a great episode...). What I have seen so far showed a lot of great talent though. They actually even had a twin act that both could sing really well on their own.

And all they had shown that I saw were people who auditioned in Chicago, which is the city I was going to audition in had I been able to. I would have been up against some killer talent, so maybe it was a blessing I didn't go, I don't know.

They also had their share of rejects. One guy I swear I thought was a girl. He was a young guy, mid teens and his mother and grandmother had deeper voices than him. He tried to sing a Daniel Beddingfield song and it was painful to endure.

Another guy, a policeman from Virginia, was equally painful to listen to. If I were him I would have quit the force and moved far away before the show aired. There's no way he's not getting laughed out of the precinct. The most amusing thing is the way he walked in. You know how policeman have that cocky swagger that's kind of slow and deliberate? Well that's how this tall, slightly hefty bald man walked in. Then all of a sudden he starts to sing and he looks like a completely different person. He placed his hands, one on top of the other on his upper abdomen and began to clumsily sway as his head was stretched back and he kept singing over and over again one single line, "I shot the sherriff, but I didn't shoot the deputy". Seriously, he sang that one line like 7 or 8 times, only pausing once or twice in between! It was horrid, but hilarious.



I mentioned Supernatural not being a great episode, and it's because of one solitary thing. It was about a supposed faith healer who wasn't really a faith healer. Turns out his wife had made a deal with the devil through some necromancy and everytime one of the sick were healed a reaper killed someone chosen by the wife that she deemed immoral.

The reason this bothered me is because of its portrayal of the church. Granted there are a lot of supposed faith healers that are fakes and only after the money. However, I do believe in miraculous healing and have seen it and have been healed in that manner before, so it bothers me that the wrong message is being sent out.

In the show's defense, they did end it with a girl who didn't get healed who didn't lose her faith realizing that you have to keep faith even when the miracles don't come. So props for that.


The next installment of Indy-Pendant is coming up this weekend. I implore you (or beg you, whichever works) to read the last two editions and email me appropriately if you are interested in what I requested. I have not gotten one single email and I'm afraid maybe I've lost some readers who haven't checked back since the column went on hiatus for the holidays. Won't make that mistake again. Columns written in advance all the way!


Got a chance to watch the latest WWE and TNA pay-per-views thanks to a friend. Both were really good offerings for the most part, but both had their downsides. I've discussed them in detail with others on the DW wrestling forum if you're interested. Here I'm just going to hit a few highlights.

SPOILERS

First off, WWE's New Years Revolution main event wasn't that great. The Elimination Chamber is a great match, but John Cena, who I love, just didn't do anything. He got beat down the entire match. Kurt Angle was the first eliminated, so that was disappointing. Next to go was HBK, then Kane, which left Carlito, Masters and Cena, three new bloods. It's great they are giving the young guys a push, but I'm not sure they were ready for it just yet.

Anyway, Cena pulled it off only to be ambushed by Edge who cashed in his money in the bank contract and after two spears won the title.

Now I may have mentioned this in a previous post. I know I didn't talk about what happened next though. On Raw the next night Edge and Lita were supposed to do a live sex scene at the end of the show. As it started I switched the channel. How low can they sink? Turns out Lita was topless for a bit, but supposedly covered. I think Cena broke it up.

But this past Monday Ric Flair fought Edge for the title in a TLC match, which was the first match a ladder was involved with Flair in his career, so that was cool. He nearly won the belt until Lita interefered. It was a great match, and it was cool to see Flair go outside the box for once. It's been a long time since the I Quit match with Terry Funk, or the Halloween Havoc tag match with Sting against Funk and Muta in the Terror Dome or whatever it was called.

Speaking of Sting, he made his return to wrestling at TNA's Final Resolution this past Sunday. Early into his match the fans started chanting "You Still Got It!", and he does. It's going to take a little bit for him to find his pace in the more fast paced TNA, but he still did a great job. I'm a big Sting mark, so it was great to see him back.

In the finish Jarrett was about to nail Christian with the guitar and Sting came in and tore the guitar apart with the baseball bat, then proceeded to Scorpion Death Drop (Reverse DDT) Jarrett for the win. Afterwards, Sting stood in the middle of the ring, bat in hand, showered by the spotlight with the house lights dimmed, and stared out into the approving crowd. It was his moment and a great moment it was.



And with that I bring this post of meaty morsels to a close.

B-Out