Comic Geek Ranting

This rant fueled by my fever and the fact that I get really annoyed when people say "They OWE us!"

Okay, so Beyonce Knowles is being slated for the role of Lois Lane in the next Superman movie. This alone doesn't phase me as much as it should. After all, the precident has already been set Michael Clark Duncan played the Kingpin in the Ben Asslick raping of the Daredevil series and farther back Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Batman (- Oddly enough they decided that he wasn't star enough to play the character once he became Two Face. SO the acid bath not only turned Harvey Dent into Two Face but also turned black Billy Dee Williams into white Tommy Lee Jones -).

What cheeses me off is the asshats writing in letters to SciFi claiming that there's no reason not to have Beyonce play the role "if she can hone her acting abilities" and that it's time to give roles to "up and coming african american actresses" that are traditionally given to white actresses ...

HELLO! The reason the role is given to white actresses is because the fucking character is white!!!

You know these same fucksticks would be up in arms if say Louie Anderson was going to play Fat Albert. Or say Keannu Reeves being cast as Black Lightning. Or even better, Ashton Kutcher as the Black Panther.

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Ganked from ruhiel...

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly
discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero
gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a
decade and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero
gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass
and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300
C.

The Russians used a pencil.

Enjoy paying your taxes--they're due again.

Good early morning brain starter.

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Because of course no one READS!

Damn, shit like that pisses me off. Decorating Cents on HGTV just did their "trash to treasure" segment which focused on what to do with those 'worthless' hardcover books you've got hanging around.

GAHHH

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Admittedly I haven't picked up a DC comic in almost a decade so I don't know if they changed Etrigan's character in their latest universe cleansweep.

Etrigan (the Demon) has always been one of my favorite DC universe characters. The only time I've seen him animated until tonight was in the Batman animated series a few years ago. But this Justice League cartoon is really ticking me off. It's not RIGHT having Etrigan speaking in normal patterns. He's supposed to speak in doggerel rhyme!!!