Wizard October 2008 highlights

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Shahryar

Wizard Magazine Issue#204 October 2008Now that my new November 2008 Wizard has arrived, it’s time to replace out my October 2008 Wizard. But before I let it go, I thought I’d quickly skim through it one last time and make some notes:

  1. Trolling Online – page 6
    1. comment from LORDD3R3K “I highly recommend going back and rereading Morrison’s run [on Batman] from the begining. Seriously dude, done in one sitting, the series has an amazing flow.
    2. “Man, what a great end for the first arc. Booster Gold is the bomb. It’s sad to see Geoff [Johns] and Jeff [Katz] leave, but the next arc seems fantastic.” – AJORTON
  2. “Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader?” by Neil Gaiman coming in January
  3. Kevin Smith’s 3-part Batman: Cacophony coming in November
  4. Geoff Johns and Ethan van Sciver’s Flash: Rebirth
  5. Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk finally received the final script from co-creator Damon Lindelof, putting an end to the series that started in December 2005.
  6. The Pull List – pg. 16 – Ghostbusters Manga Vol.1 (Tokyopop) – “A host of short stories starring your favorite Ghostbusters as they get slimed in true manga fashion.”
  7. Trade Show (pg. 86)
    1. Superman: Krytonite – Darwyn Cooke and Time Sale (Sept 10) – $24.99(though it should be worth noting there is one review so far on Amazon for this, and it’s an average rating.)
    2. Batman: The Black Glove – Grant Morrison – Sept 3
  8. Batman: Broken City – Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso.
  9. Cleburne seems a bit intriguing. “The riveting and controversial Graphic Novel based on a true story” comes out in November 2008. It’s by Murphy, Milgrom, and Brown. And it revolves around Confederate General Patrick Cleburne who wants to free the slaves so they can fight. More on rampartpress.com
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Silver Spring Stage's One-Act Festival

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Shahryar

silver spring stageI missed the 2008 Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival when it went down in August, but I’m hoping to try and participate in it next year. I just added it to our “To Participate in” page for good measure. 

I found about it through the Washington Post (in that same article, I found about about Improvapalooza also – which I recently twittered about here.)

Here’s a picture from one of the plays Tea Exercise. I found this over on another Washington Post article about the One-Act Festival.

This is the page on the 2008 One-Act Festival from the Silver Spring Stage’s website.

I’m not sure what it takes to submit a script.  I saw back in 2006 they had a call for submissions, but didn’t see anything like that recently.  I just shot them an e-mail.  Let’s see what they say – I would like to submit a one-act script for their 2009 One-Act Festival. 

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DC Shorts Film Festival 2008

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Shahryar

DC Shorts Film Festival Vote for Reel Expressions The Decision is Yours

Check out http://dcshorts.com/ for details. We recently added the DC Shorts Film Festival to our To Participate in page.

I checked this out with my wife Rida on Friday night, and we saw Showcase 5 and the best films on there were:

  1. Corner Delancey
  2. En Pos De Dios
  3. CU@ED’s
  4. Tough Crowd was good too and worth checking out.

The Washington Post had this article on the DC Shorts Film Festival 2008 on Thursday, September 11, 2008. Going through the article, “The List” seems pretty interesting described by the post as a “brief, brutal little story on interrogation.”



Rob Raffety’s Funniest Fed 2007 Documentary was also featured in this film festival (it was premiered at the DC Independent Film Festival – here’s its page on that site), but unfortunately, it had to be shortened and as a result, the stuff featuring me was removed. :-( .

Update: 9/15/2008:

  1. Rob Raffety’s Funniest Fed 2007 won the best local film award at the DC Shorts Film Festival, so congratulations to him
  2. Rob Raffety was also mentioned in the Washington Post here for his hilarious greeting (all filmmakers in the DC Shorts Film Festival have their own mailboxes which can be used to reach out to them)
  3. Nice little feature in the Washington Post on Jonn Gann, the founder of the DC Shorts Film Festival, DC Film Alliance, and DC Film Salon
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Source Festival

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Shahryar

Source

I just added the Source Festival to our (newly created) “To Participate in” page on the R1i blog.

I first heard about the Source Festival in the Our Picks section of the Washington Post’s Sunday Source on June 26, 2008. They have 24 hour plays and one act plays. I’ve written a one-act play already (The History Lesson – which can be seen here on Google Video). I have wanted to finish writing one more called The Contractor. The Source Festival could be a good reason to do so.

Here are some links on this Festival:

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Read comics for the iPhone/iPod Touch – and submit your own (if you're ready)

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Shahryar

I came across this article on viewing digital comics on an iPhone or iPod touch today over on comicbookresources.com.

The application is by iVerse Media and they are looking to have comics start for $.99. In addition to getting comic adaptions and new comics from professionals, they are also accepting submissions from new creators. The info on this can be found over here on iVerse Comics’s Submissions Page. They need more than just an idea and/or script (damnit) – they want some sample artwork, etc.

Sounds like a great opportunity for someone who wants to get a comic off the ground and has the means to at least get started.

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Our Justice League Season 1 on Blu-Ray should be arriving this coming Tuesday, August 19th – when is yours coming?

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Shahryar

I’ve been excited about Justice League Season 1 coming on Blu-ray for while now, ever since I accidentally stumbled across this post over on Blu-ray.com. I placed my pre-order via Slickdeals a few months back for the final price of $33ish. It’s finally almost here.

In anticipation, I thought I’d revisit that Blu-ray.com post and point out some of the comments that caught my eye. I can’t link to them specifically, but one, I wanted to point out Michael.Schinke’s believe that this season was the one that wasnt done in widescreeen. Quickly after, mongojr corrects him saying they did two versions – one full and one cropped to widescreen. I agree with JustinCredible_13′s enthusiasm for Justice Leaugue Unlimited, but will have to wait until I watch the regular Justice Leaugue to see what’s better (I’ve seen all the Justice Leaugue Unlimited episodes and they are great. And lastly, Lucy Diamond made me aware of the Star-crossed series from Season 2. I’ll have to look out for that once thats out on Blu.

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New Batman: Arkham Asylum Game coming & insightful Joystiq comments

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Shahryar

There’s a new Batman: Akham Asylum game coming according to Joystiq. What I found more interesting was in the discussion in the comments:

Update: 8/15/2008:

I saw a new post on the Batman Arkham Asylum game today on Joystiq and it had screens but those had to be pulled. I don’t see links to these removed screens in the comments section (as Joystiq’s hinting in their post), but I’m sure they’ll turn up.

Again, the comments are insightful on the subject of Batman, in particular, Vii’s comments on Killer Croc.

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The Microsoft Surface post on Engadget and the funny comments within

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Shahryar

There was a nice post on Engadget last night on Microsoft’s new Surface (their interactive table).

Here are the comments from within that made me laugh:

And thatrotierkid’s response to SuperSexyErik(^_^)
WixosTrix’s comment at Alber1690.
bureX’s comment at Alex.

This comment from barrington talks about a parody video to the first commercial.

For what it’s worth, I want this one day in wall form on every single wall in my house. The First room: my workout room where we can bring up all my clippings that I’ve taken out of Men’s Health over the past few years.

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Ali's subconscious dark and depressing doodling

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Shahryar

One day, I was on the phone with T-mobile trying to help set up a family plan for Ali and while I was doing this,  he was just doodling on the bill we were taking notes on. Above is what he drew.

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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the Worst movie of the year

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Shahryar

Now I’m not sure if this latest Mummy counts as Mummy 3 or if Scorpion King counts as Mummy 3, so we’ll stick to calling this movie by its title: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. And it’s important I clarify this title so that I can make the following statement with the necessary boldness:

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is the worst movie of 2008.

It is terrible. It was so bad, Raza, my cousin who was with me, fell asleep halfway through. It was so bad that the person behind me laid out over 4 seats and was snoring shortly after the movie started too. It was so bad, I wanted to leave but had too many people with me so I couldn’t. It was so bad I just started twittering about how bad it was (see my exhibits a, b, c).

I’m not going to even bother reviewing this. To talk about what they did wrong in this movie would take too long and to talk about what they did right would require me to think too hard. I myself had a feeling the movie was done for right after the opening
prologue. The opening fly fishing scene with Brendan Frasier was so
unfunny and painful to watch that I knew the movie couldn’t come back
from this.

The prologue actually was the only decent part of this movie. As a matter of fact, in the review from Jane Horowitz’s review in the Washington Post, her closing quote was: “Whatever. The prologue was the best part.”

So I know I’m not the only one.

There’s nothing more to say about the movie. For more good times, check out the comments on Blu-ray.com’s recent blog post on Rob Cohen saying this movie on BD will look and sound better than in the theater.

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