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Bugs Bunny and his pals are shown updated for the future. The characters' descendants, Buzz Bunny and the like, will be superhero action figures for a cartoon set in the year 2772. So, uh, when did Bugs Bunny cease to be entertaining to children? Kids these days, no taste at all.

Another X-Men cast member? And this one's a biggie.

The Pet Professional It's a new comic by a friend of Scott Kurtz' (th guy who writes PvP) and it's pretty funny. Don't read it if you're an animal activist with no sense of humor. You'll probably flame me for posting this and harass the author of the comic until he ends the strip.

Okay, I just got back from the screening, and let me say, if airport security was 1/2 as tight as security was there, terrorism would not be a problem. Anyway, I liked it. Not a classic, but it was good. Reeves actually turns in one of the better performances of the film, and while Reeves isn't a good enough actor to carry the film, he doesn't detract from it, either. Shia LeBouf (I have no idea if that's how you spell his name) and the guy who plays Midnite turn in the scene stealing performances, but their roles are relatively small. If the movie has one major weakness, it's that most of the supporting cast are just too dry and unemotional. It's hard to explain why its such a distraction while refraining from spoilers, so I won't elaborate on it anymore than that. So, if you're not a fan of Hellblazer, I'd actually reccomend you go see it. I think it's worth the $6-7 price of admission. I think it was worth the hour wait in the cold. If you are, I'm not really sure what to say. I read "Hunger" and flipped through the rest of the Original Sins TPB, and read a bit of "Newcastle" in B&N tuesday, but really it wasn't enough for me to become a fan or even get familiar enough with the story to judge the movie as being based on the book. I'm pretty sure fans of the book won't be satisfied with Reeves if for no other reason than he's not a blonde Brit. If you think you could turn off your inner geek and actually sit back and just watch it, you might enjoy it. If you can't, I'm not sure.

IGN Filmforce's movies page. Official French Site The French trailer is cooler than anything on IGN. Basically it's a Thai martial arts movie. It's supposed to be opening in America sometime this month, but I don't know when. Tony Jaa is being hailed as the next Bruce Lee, and if the trailers and preview clips are any indication, that's true. Just watch the videos, cuz :OMG: :twitch: .

I am going to see this tomorrow night. Expect some kind of review then. I haven't read Hellblazer though, so at this point any failures to stick to the source material won't really bother me. I am trying to get a hold of a copy, if only to familiarize myself with the story.

Some Screenies: Yep. It's gonna be a Mafia clone.

They're kicking Marsden off of the cast? I hope not. I actually kinda liked him. That doesn't make any sense. Superman Returns begins filming March 3rd. Even if it took 3 months to film, none of the X-Men cast would miss any time, because filming of X-Men 3 isn't scheduled to begin filming until June. And it's not like Marsden has a huge role in Superman either.

$250, with no game. Wow. The headphones and Spider-Man 2 are nice, but the headphones are probably crap and there's no way the industry even bothers to adopt this UMD standard. None of those titles is a killer app, either (except for MAYBE Metal Gear Acid, people love card games for whatever reason). Right now, I'd rather get an N-Gage QD than this. It's sad when it's cheaper to import.

I'm scared by how right he, an outsider in the industry, is about some things and might be about others.

It depends on what you want in your anime. I've never been really big on comedy anime. It's not that it's bad, it's just often too weird for me. So for comedy anime, listen to other people, though I should probably mention FLCL, since none of them have, and its generally well loved. Anyway, good stuff that's worth getting your hands on: Cowboy Bebop Trigun Rurouni Kenshin Neon Genesis Evangelion Akira Vandread Hellsing Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Macross and Macross Plus

Monday's Penny Arcade:

Well, not 100%. But here's where I got the Mario numbers from. Yeah, I realize that expansion packs are merely new content. However, a person buying the expansion pack has already bought the game, and therefore the purchase of an expansion pack does not really indicate a new customer, merely a loyal one. The sale of expansion pack doesn't represent more market saturation or bring new players into the community. What bothers me even more about counting the expansion packs is that the expansion packs sold more copies than the original game did.

The Sims sold a lot more than that. The third expansion pack broke the 13 million point, but I don't think thats the right way of doing things, buying an expansion pack is not buying the game. I'd estimate that the original Sims probably sold about 8 million units itself (a fantastic number on the PC and certainly the best selling game on that platform, ironically the gaming platform with the largest market saturation). SMB3 sold 17.28 million units worldwide and appears to be the best-selling game of all time not bundled with the release of a console (a.e. SMB, SML and SMW). If you count games that were bundled with consoles, the original SMB sold over 40 million units. But its not fair to say that since most NES' sold came with one.

You need to beat the first twice. Once as light, once as dark. Believe me, you're missing a ton if you don't go through as both. Anyway, I'll probably get this around my birthday for the PC, seeing as how I don't have an XBox.

Soul Calibur 2 did. In fact in the first 6 months of its release it out sold the XBox and PS2 versions. The PS2 version later passed it, but I'm still pretty sure it outsold the XBox all together. EDIT: Actually, as of its price drop in the middle of last year the GC version had sold over 550,000 units in the States alone. And Namco had sold over 2 million copies of the game on all platforms (worldwide). So I might be wrong on that.

It's rated: R. So, there you go.

Would a Mafia clone be a bad thing? Not necessarily. But it's (Mafia) over 3 years old now, and it would need some serious graphics enhancement, even on the consoles. Plus, I don't really appreciate EA ripping off GOD games, whether they're defunct or not.

I have a bad feeling this is just gonna be a Mafia clone. I really don't think it would lend itself to a video game anyway, but I'm probably alone in that.

Wolverine is short and ripped. Not like a bodybuilder, but like a shoot fighter. Spidey's leaner, but he's taller. When drawn together they are about the same overall size. He shouldn't look like a midget next to Logan.

Um...I still get Batman Begins with my link... Weird.

I don't mind a bodybuilder playing Thor. I can accept that one plays Captain America, but I don't have to like it. That they actually got a bodybuilder to play Wolverine pisses me off to no end. Fucking idiots. That guy doesn't look like Wolverine at all. Spidey's gonna look like a shrimp.

Batman Begins Toy Listing (click on more results too, there are a couple more pages) :OMG:

http://www.detnews.com/pix/2005/01/10/auto...icane-0105y.jpg The Jeep Hurricane concept unveiled Sunday is Chrysler's answer to critics who say the rugged brand has gone soft. Photo by Daniel Mears / The Detroit News :twitch: :~ :twitch: EDIT: Important stuff is now bolded.

Superman. He's much faster and more agile, giving him a huge advantage over Cain. Plus, Supes could just fly into space and grab that gem thing and turn himself into the Juggernaut. Which would be extremely hilarious.